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Hey guys, I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking
嗨大家好,我是Alex。感謝你們點進這部影片。
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and welcome to this lesson on "adjective and preposition combinations."
然後歡迎來上今日的課程「形容詞與介係詞組合」。
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Okay. So first of all, we have to understand what an adjective is.
好,首先,我們必須了解什麼是形容詞。
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As a reminder, an adjective is a word that describes something.
提醒大家,形容詞就是用來描述某事。
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They can describe a noun. So when you look at these adjectives or these sentences ,
它們可以用來描述一個名詞。所以當你們看到這些形容詞,或是句子時,
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I want you to just tell me if you can identify the adjectives.
我要你們告訴我你們是否可以認出形容詞來。
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What are the adjectives in these sentences?
在這些句子中的形容詞是哪些字?
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So he's not interested
好所以 He's not interested
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___ writing. Okay, the adjective
___ writing. 好,這邊的形容詞
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is "interested."
是「感興趣的」。
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Okay, so interested describes this person's state.
好,所以感興趣的形容這個人的狀態。
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He is not interested something writing.
He is not interested ______ writing.
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Okay. The other one, I am excited
好。另一個,I am excited
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___ your birthday. "Excited"
___ your birthday. 「感到興奮」
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Okay. I think you're starting to see the pattern, right?
好。我想你們應該開始抓到這個脈絡了吧?
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So Joanna is "afraid."
所以 Joanna 很害怕。
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I think she's "tired." He is "worried."
我認為她覺得很厭煩。 他很擔心。
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Mark is "good."
Mark很擅長。
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Okay, so these are adjectives, adjectives, adjectives,
好,所以這些都是形容詞,形容詞,形容詞
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and more adjectives. I'll...now in English we often have adjectives combined with prepositions
還有更多的形容詞。我現在要來...在英文裡我們常常會將形容詞搭配介係詞
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to create an expression or a small phrase, and we can follow these
來表達或是使用短語,然後在這些介係詞的後面
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prepositions with either a gerund, which is an "ING,"
不是加上動名詞,也就是字尾是 ING 的字,
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a noun, or a verb acting like a noun
名詞或是當名詞用的動詞
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or just a noun in general. So you notice
或是通常就是一個名詞。所以你會發現以下這些字
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writing, your birthday, failing,
writing, your birthday, failing
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trying, his test, cooking
trying, his test, cooking 都是這樣子。
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Okay, so we have some gerunds and we have some nouns.
好,所以這邊可以看到有動名詞也有名詞。
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Now before this we have to understand which prepositions
現在我們要先來了解,哪些介係詞
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are commonly put with these adjectives. So in the first sentence he's not
通常會和這些形容詞搭配。所以第一句,He's not
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interested
interested
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___ writing. So think of as many prepositions as you can. You have "at, on, in."
___ writing. 來想過一遍所有你知道的介係詞。有 at, on, in。
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"You have "about, around, by, with"
還有 about, around, by, with。
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Tons and tons and tons of possibilities.
有非常非常多的可能性。
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So what you have to know is okay which preposition always goes with this adjective.
所以你必須要知道的是,哪些介係詞總是跟著哪些形容詞。
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So the first one maybe you know this: He's not interested
所以來看第一句:He's not interested
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"in" writing. I'm not interested in doing something.
"in" writing. 我對做某事不感興趣。
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The second one: I am excited ___
第二句:I am excited ___
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your birthday. Hey you're excited "about" something usually.
your birthday. 你對某事感到很興奮。(通常會用 about)
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I'm excited about your birthday.
我對妳生日的到來感到興奮。
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You can also say I am excited
你也可以說:I am excited
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" for" your birthday. But the most common preposition here after excited is,
"for" your birthday. 不過在 excited 之後最常用的介係詞
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you are usually excited "about" something.
還是 "about"。
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So you can be excited about a person's birthday.
所以你可以對某人的生日感到興奮。
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you can be excited about your vacation.
你可以對你的假期感到興奮。
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you can be excited about doing something this weekend with your friends.
你也可以因為周末要跟朋友出去玩而感到興奮。
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Okay, next one: Joanna is afraid
好,下一個:Joanna is afraid
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___ failing. Afraid is commonly followed by
___ failing. Afraid 通常都是搭配
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"of"
"of"
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She is afraid "of" failing. She does not want to fail.
她很害怕失敗。她不想要失敗。
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It's similar to saying scared "of" and so Joanna is scared of failing,
這個說法跟 scared "of" 很像。也可以說 Joanna is scared of failing.
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afraid of failing. She does not want to fail. The next one:
afraid of failing. 她不想要失敗。下一個:
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I think she's tired ___ trying. So she has been trying and trying and trying
I think she's tired ___ trying. 所以她一直不斷的嘗試嘗試再嘗試。
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again and again.
一而再再而三。
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And now she has grown tired "of" it.
然後現在她已經對此感到厭煩。(介係詞:"of")
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So far we have "in, about
目前為止我們有 in, about,
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of, of." Let's do another one:
of, of. 再來做一題:
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He's worried ___ his test.
He's worried ___ his test.
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Now if I say, he's worried
現在如果我說,he's worried
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"for" his test. What do you think the meaning of that is?
"for" his test. 你覺得這會是什麼意思?
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It's possible to say he's worried "for," but
是可以說 He's worried "for" 沒錯,但
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in this situation, if you say he's worried "for" his test,
在這個情境裡,如果你說 He's worried "for" his test,
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it means that,you know, his... his test is like
表示,你懂吧,就是好像他的考試
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a person kinda thing. His test has feelings
是一個人之類的。他的考試有知覺
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and maybe his test is depressed, so he's worried
然後也許他的考試覺得很沮喪,所以他很擔心
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for his test that his test is gonna cry or something.
他的考試,怕他的考試會哭出來還怎樣的。
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So here, he is worried "about," alright?
所以在這裡,He is worried "about" 才對吧?
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He's worried "about" his test, about his score. And the last one:
他很擔心他的考試,擔心他的成績。然後最後一題:
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Mark is good ___ cooking. Mark is good
Mark is good ___ cooking. Mark is good
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"at"
"at"
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Okay, this is a really really common expression.
好,這是一個超常見的說法。
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It means you have ability in something okay
表示你在某件事上很有能力。
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so if you have good ability, you are good "at" something.
所以如果你有好的能力,表示你在某事上做的很棒。
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So Mark is good at cooking. Mark is great
所以 Mark 很會煮飯。也可以說 Mark is great
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at cooking, excellent at cooking.
at cooking, excellent at cooking.
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If you want to do the opposite, you can say
如果你想要表達相反的概念,你可以說
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a person is "bad at" something, or "terrible
a person is "bad at" something, or "terrible
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at" something, "awful at" something,
at" something, "awful at" something,
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horrible at something. Okay so
horrible at something. 好所以
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guys these expressions are really really important and
各位,這些用法超級重要,然後呢
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the prepositions, please please please please
這些介係詞,拜託大家
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remember the correct prepositions that you have to use after these adjectives.
一定要記住在什麼樣的形容詞後面該用什麼介係詞。
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Because if you use a different preposition, it will not make sense.
因為如果你介係詞用錯的話,整句話就是錯的。
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Okay so if you want to test your understanding of
所以如果你想要測試一下自己是否了解
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these expressions, these adjective preposition combinations,
這些用法,這些形容詞與介係詞的組合,
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just check out the quiz on engVid.com. Good luck guys. Take care.
就到我們網站 engVid.com 做個測驗。祝你們好運囉!再見。