Name: 2367 - 英語是否像字母湯？ (2367 - Does English Feel Like Alphabet Soup?)
Uploaded: 2025-03-05T01:05:03.000Z
Duration: 15 min 26 s

So do you tend to organize things in alphabetical order?

那麼，你是否傾向於按字母順序整理東西？

Do you go and organize your cereal boxes according to the alphabet?

你會按照字母表去整理你的麥片盒嗎？

I do not have time for alphabetical order.

I suppose maybe one day, but I'm not that particular about ordering things.

我想也許會有那麼一天，但我對訂餐並不那麼挑剔。

Now, if for something at work, I was filing things or really needed to be in alphabetical order, that's different, but certainly not in my personal life.

現在，如果是工作上的事情，我需要把東西歸檔，或者真的需要按字母順序排列，那就另當別論了，但在我的個人生活中肯定不行。

No, nothing in my life is in alphabetical order.

不，我的生活中沒有一件事是按字母順序排列的。

It is too much work, Michelle, and I don't have the time.  Yeah.

太麻煩了 米歇爾 我沒時間  有時間

So today we are going to answer a question from a listener.

今天，我們將回答一位聽眾的問題。

Yes, I'll go ahead and read the question.

So the listener says, what an interesting topic.

聽眾說，這真是個有趣的話題。

I was wondering what the difference is between alphabet and number.

我想知道字母和數字之間有什麼區別。

Okay, so it's kind of a broad question, right?

好吧，這個問題有點寬泛，對嗎？

So we're gonna answer it, and then we're gonna go into, we're gonna dive a little bit deeper, and we're gonna give you some expressions with the word alphabet and with the word number.

所以，我們要回答這個問題，然後再深入一點，給你一些字母表和數字表的表達。

So that's the direction that we're gonna take this question in today.

這就是我們今天要討論的問題。

Yeah, we get a lot of great questions on YouTube.

是的，我們在 YouTube 上收到了很多很棒的問題。

So guys, don't forget that our show is very much on YouTube.

所以各位，別忘了我們的節目在 YouTube 上非常受歡迎。

So if you go over to, yeah, very much so.

所以，如果你去看看，是的，非常喜歡。

If you go over to YouTube and type in All Ears English Podcast, we will come up.

如果你在 YouTube 上輸入 All Ears English Podcast，我們就會出現。

You can ask your question inside the comments.

We do have a team member that goes in to get your questions, and that will end up, your question will end up in our list, all right?

我們確實有一名團隊成員負責收集你們的問題，最終，你們的問題會出現在我們的列表中，好嗎？

All right, so Lindsay, what's the difference between alphabet and number?

好了，林賽，字母和數字有什麼區別？

Okay, so alphabet is the product of all the letters known as the ABCs, right?

好了，字母表是所有字母的乘積，也就是所謂的 ABC，對嗎？

And number is just one, two, three, 67, 12, 114.

So interestingly enough, this was one thing I hadn't, I guess I hadn't thought about before.

有趣的是，這是我以前沒有想過的一件事。

Alphabet really encompasses all of the letters, but is there a word that encompasses all of the numbers?

字母表確實包含了所有的字母，但有沒有一個單詞包含了所有的數字呢？

A word that, just the numerical system, I guess, right?

一個詞，只是數字系統，我猜，對嗎？

Right, exactly, but we don't really say that.

I guess it's because there are only 26 letters and there are infinite numbers.

我想這是因為只有 26 個字母，而數字是無限的。

Yeah, no, we don't have, no, we don't have any kind of word that would say.

是的，不，我們沒有，不，我們沒有任何字眼可以說。

So, but we're gonna talk about that more.

所以，但我們要多談談這個問題。

But alphabet, think ABCs, numbers, think one, two, three.

但是，字母要想 ABC，數字要想 1、2、3。

And one thing you should do right now is hit follow wherever you're listening to the All Ears English podcast so you never miss anything from us.

您現在應該做的一件事是，無論您在哪裡收聽 All Ears English 播客，都點擊 "關注"，這樣您就不會錯過我們的任何內容。

Yeah, guys, hit that follow button wherever you are.

是的，夥計們，無論你在哪裡，都按下 "關注 "按鈕吧。

Make sure you are fully following us so you get every episode, all right?

確保你完全關注我們，這樣你就能看到每一集，好嗎？

那麼，我們今天要研究什麼呢？

How are we going to answer this question?

Well, we are gonna get more into it because I realized there are a lot of useful expressions that go along with the words alphabet and the word number.

好吧，我們會更深入地瞭解它，因為我發現有很多有用的表達方式都與字母表和數字單詞有關。

And so I thought this was a really good opportunity to teach some of those.

是以，我認為這是一個很好的機會來教授其中的一些知識。

So the first one is, we already went over it.

第一個問題，我們已經討論過了。

I asked you at the top of the show, do you alphabetize?

我在節目開頭問你，你會按字母順序排列嗎？

順便說一句，這是一個很棒的動詞。

Alphabetize, do you alphabetize your cereal boxes?

按字母順序排列，你會按字母順序排列麥片盒嗎？

And you laughed and said, no way, who does that, right?

你笑著說，不可能，誰會這麼做，對吧？

And here's another example, alphabetical order.

這裡還有一個按字母順序排列的例子。

Her last name is Zane and the class had to line up in alphabetical order so she was last, okay.  Yeah, I always wondered what that was like, right?

她姓贊恩 全班要按字母順序排隊 所以她是最後一個 好吧  是啊，我一直想知道那是什麼感覺，對吧？

Because I feel like in school, kids often got called on for different things according to their last name.

因為我覺得在學校裡，孩子們經常會因為姓氏不同而被叫到不同的地方。

Yeah, it seemed to happen a lot for some reason.

是的，出於某種原因，這種情況似乎經常發生。

And I was always in the middle and you too, I guess, right?

我總是在中間，你也是，我想，對嗎？

And so that was kind of nice because you're not caught off guard.

這樣很好，因為你不會措手不及。

You're not, I don't know, volunteered for something all of a sudden that you don't know what's going on.

你不是，我不知道，突然就自願去做一些你不知道是怎麼回事的事情。

That's true, you're kind of cozied in to the rest of it.

沒錯，你和其他部分有點親密無間。

You have time to figure out what's happening and how to respond, yeah.

你有時間弄清楚發生了什麼事，以及如何應對，是的。

But yeah, alphabetical order, so the order in which the alphabet goes and a lot of times that does happen in school.

但是，是的，字母順序，所以字母表的順序，很多時候確實發生在學校裡。

還有什麼，米歇爾，還有什麼？

So alphabet soup, it's like something that doesn't make sense.

所以字母湯，就像是沒有意義的東西。

It's too much information maybe and it just, everything is kind of all bleh, right?

也許是資訊太多了，一切都很糟糕，對嗎？

What is a scenario when you might use this to say something is alphabet soup?

在什麼情況下，您可以用這句話來形容某件事情是 "字母湯"？

I would say when you're being given directions for something, maybe that just doesn't make sense or you're saying that sounds like alphabet or maybe, oh, maybe someone's trying to give you some sort of explanation as to why something happened but you're just thinking that sounds like alphabet soup.

我想說的是，當有人給你指點迷津時，也許你會覺得這根本說不通，或者你會說這聽起來像字母表，又或者，哦，也許有人想給你某種解釋，告訴你為什麼會發生這樣的事情，但你卻覺得這聽起來像字母湯。

It's kind of, it just doesn't, it doesn't add up, it doesn't work, there's too much, it's all jumbled, right?

這有點，就是不對，加起來不對，行不通，太多了，雜亂無章，對嗎？

Interesting, yeah, and so the sample sentence is just alphabet soup.

有趣的是，這個例句就是字母湯。

And this is a good high-level bonus word for our listeners today, nonsensical.

對於聽眾來說，這是一個很好的高級獎勵詞--"無稽之談"。

Nonsensical, instead of saying it doesn't make sense, you can say it's nonsensical.

無意義，與其說它沒有意義，不如說它是無意義的。

Oh, no, I was just thinking, it's this idea, I think it comes from this idea of, did you ever have alphabet soup, Lindsay?

哦，不，我只是在想，這是一個想法，我認為它來自這個想法，你有沒有字母湯，林賽？

Yeah, sure, it's the can of soup that has all the ABC, all the letters of the alphabet as instead of SpaghettiOs, right?

是的，當然，這是一罐有所有 ABC 字母的湯，而不是意大利麵，對嗎？

Well, yeah, I mean, no, it's exactly what Lindsay said.

嗯，是的，我的意思是，不，這正是林賽說的。

It's just you have all the letters in a soup.

只是你把所有的字母都放在了湯裡。