Name: 提高詞彙量：停止說 "漂亮 "和 "美麗"！ (Improve your Vocabulary: Stop saying NICE & BEAUTIFUL!)
Uploaded: 2025-07-23T18:08:38.000Z
Duration: 41 min 58 s

I am, but not the way you think, and by the time I've done this lesson, you'll understand why this isn't correct, what he's saying.

我是，但不是你想的那樣，等我上完這一課，你就會明白為什麼他說的不對了。

Although the shirt is stunning, I like it, and maybe you do, too.

雖然這件襯衫很驚豔，但我喜歡，也許你也喜歡。

I did a video on very, so if you want to see that after this, it'll be helpful.

我做了一個關於非常的視頻，如果你想看完之後再看，會對你有幫助。

It will explain to you how people use the same word too many times, and it leads to a boring conversation.

它將向你解釋，人們使用同一個詞的次數過多，會導致對話變得枯燥乏味。

We call it redundant, where you say the same thing again and again.

我們稱之為 "冗餘"，即重複說同樣的話。

But more to the point, or to be clearer, it loses accuracy.

但更重要的是，或者說得更清楚一點，它失去了準確性。

When the words I have on the board are said by native speakers one to another, it gives a picture.

當我在黑板上板書的單詞由母語人士一個個說出來時，會給人一種畫面感。

I'm going to give you an example in a second, and if I know if I asked a native person this and that, they would have a very different picture in their head.

我馬上給你舉個例子，我知道如果我問一個本地人這個問題和那個問題，他們腦子裡會有一幅截然不同的圖景。

And if you want to become like a native...

But if you want to understand native speakers a lot better, and you want to be clearer in your speech, what you want to do is start taking some of these words that most of you will use the words beautiful, cute, nice...

但是，如果你想更好地理解母語人士的意思，想讓自己的語言表達更清晰，你要做的就是開始使用這些單詞，你們中的大多數人都會使用美麗、可愛、漂亮......這些單詞。

I'm going to give you at least 15, and just for the heck of it, I'll give you three more for a bonus.

我至少會給你 15 個，為了方便起見，我還會再給你 3 個作為獎勵。

And be careful and watch, because you'll notice some of these words are going to be repeated in different categories.

注意觀察，因為你會發現有些詞會在不同的類別中重複出現。

The categories I've outlined here are place, personality, conversation, a person's physical appearance, but not in a...

我在這裡概述的類別包括地點、個性、談話、一個人的外貌，但不包括...

So, the first thing I want to talk about in place is this word, cute.

所以，我首先要談的就是 "可愛 "這個詞。

I know I just made fun of it and said, you know, people who don't...

我知道我只是取笑它，並說，你知道，人們誰不...

Or English isn't their first language, let's say.

或者說，英語不是他們的母語。

I was going to say don't speak English, but if you're watching this video, you clearly understand some English.

我本來想說不要說英語，但如果你在看這段視頻，顯然你能聽懂一些英語。

But I said cute was one of the words they go to.

但我說，"可愛 "是他們喜歡用的一個詞。

That's because they think everything's cute, but we do have a meaning in English, and this is funny.

這是因為他們認為一切都很可愛，但我們的英語確實有其含義，這很有趣。

If you hear someone say cute, and they're talking about your house, they usually think it's small.

如果你聽到有人說 "可愛"，而他們說的是你的房子，那麼他們通常會認為你的房子很小。

If I go, oh, you know what, Mr. E's got a really cute place.

如果我走了，哦，你知道嗎，E先生有一個非常可愛的地方。

We talk about it for homes and condos, but we say it's usually small, on the small side, and it's nice.

我們說的是住宅和公寓，但我們說的通常是小戶型，偏小，而且很不錯。

It's, you know, you can go there and think it's nice, but you'll notice how small it is.

你知道，你可以去那裡，覺得那裡很不錯，但你會發現它有多小。

And that's why I put up condos and homes.

這就是我建造公寓和住宅的原因。

The rest of these are for homes, and they could be for galleries or museums or cities, right?

其餘的這些都是為家庭準備的，它們也可以是為畫廊、博物館或城市準備的，對嗎？

But when it comes down to it, you use cute for homes and condos.

但歸根結底，住宅和公寓都是用可愛來形容的。

If you said it about a city, you'd be saying it's not really a city, it's small.

如果你說的是一座城市，你就會說這不是一座真正的城市，它很小。

So, some people who come from London, England, or New York City, or Paris, or Cologne, they come to Toronto and go, Toronto is a very cute city, it's very cute.

是以，一些來自英國倫敦、紐約、巴黎或科隆的人來到多倫多後會說："多倫多是個非常可愛的城市，非常可愛。

Because it's like a city, but not really.

因為它就像一座城市，但又不完全是。

And remember I said cute, nice, good looking.

記住，我說的是可愛、漂亮、好看。

When someone talks about a place being charming, it means it has character.

有人說一個地方有魅力，那就意味著它有特色。

It's not just nice, it's got its own kind of flavor.

它不僅好看，還有自己的味道。

For instance, you go into some homes and they have gloss everywhere, and metal everywhere, and white everywhere, and that's modern.

例如，你走進一些住宅，它們到處都是光面，到處都是金屬，到處都是白色，這就是現代風格。

You probably wouldn't say it's got character.  Because it's modern.

你可能不會說它有個性。  因為它很現代。

Yeah, I know, it's funny, because you think that's special.

是的，我知道，這很有趣，因為你覺得這很特別。

But if you go to a house and it's got a nice wood-burning fireplace, it's got bricks on the walls, you know, the wall's got bricks, and it's got a wooden floor, and it's got, you know, brass going up the stairs, you'd go, the place was really charming.

但是，如果你去一棟房子，它有一個漂亮的燃木壁爐，牆壁上有磚塊，你知道，牆壁上有磚塊，它有木地板，你知道，樓梯上有黃銅，你就會覺得，這個地方真的很迷人。

It had this character to it, it's like from another time.

它很有特色，就像來自另一個時代。

So, we talk about places that are charming as having character.

是以，我們說有魅力的地方就是有特色的地方。

They could also just be something that has a lot of a cultural influence.

它們也可能只是一種具有很大文化影響力的東西。

Like, I went to a Colombian restaurant two or three years ago, and they decorated it as if it were out of Colombia, and outside it was Toronto.

比如，兩三年前我去一家哥倫比亞餐廳吃飯，他們把餐廳裝修得像是從哥倫比亞開出來的，而外面卻是多倫多。

So, I stepped inside, whoa, I'm in a different country, and I thought it was really charming because it felt authentic, and authentic means real.

於是，我走進去，哇，我來到了一個不同的國家，我覺得它真的很迷人，因為它給人一種真實的感覺，而真實就意味著真實。

So, it made me enjoy the meal more because I felt like I was having this real meal in a real place that wasn't really there, okay?

所以，這讓我更享受這頓飯，因為我覺得我是在一個真實的地方吃這頓真正的飯，而這個地方並不真實，好嗎？

Elegant is sophisticated, it's stylish, you know, it's this elegant.

優雅是精緻，是時尚，你知道，就是這種優雅。

Well, this isn't quite elegant, but you get the point.

好吧，這並不優雅，但你明白了。

So, when something's elegant, this might be a gold and black, a gold watch with black leather band or something.

是以，當一些東西很優雅時，這可能是金色和黑色的搭配，金錶配黑色皮錶帶之類的。

It's stylish, sophisticated, it has taste and cloths.

它時尚、精緻、有品位、有布料。

So, if someone has an elegant home, you know there is probably leather chairs in there and a wooden floor.

是以，如果有人的家很優雅，你就會知道里面可能有皮椅和木地板。

這是一個有趣的詞，富麗堂皇。

Most North Americans won't think of this word when they describe a house because when I think of a house like this, I think of the biggest house imaginable.

大多數北美人在描述房子時都不會想到這個詞，因為我一想到這樣的房子，就會想到能想象到的最大的房子。

Inside, they have columns, like Roman columns.

They will have ceilings that are 20 feet tall.

Extremely wealthy people have opulent houses, and this is because the things there are expensive and they're luxurious, right?

極富 有的人擁有富麗堂皇的房子，這是因為那裡的東西昂貴而奢華，不是嗎？

Their couches are not coming from Sears or Walmart.

他們的沙發不是來自西爾斯百貨或沃爾瑪。

They're coming from Ralph Lauren couches.

So, I'm going to give you a few more words because this is for places, right?

所以，我要再給你說幾句話，因為這是為地方準備的，對嗎？

If you're visiting someone's house, you might use some of these words.

如果您去別人家做客，可能會用到這些詞語。

And even though we said sophisticated and stylish, for instance, for elegant, I didn't say it has to be just for wealthy people.

儘管我們說精緻和時尚，比如說優雅，但我並沒有說它必須只適合有錢人。

You can have an elegant home and not be wealthy.

你可以擁有一個優雅的家，但不一定富有。

It just means you've picked really good things and made the place look really good.

這隻意味著你挑選了非常好的東西，讓這個地方看起來非常好。

But when it's opulent, you can smell the money, literally, right?

但當它富麗堂皇時，你就能聞到錢的味道，真的，對嗎？

I smell rich Corinthian leather as I walk through the passages, or from the oak and the pine stairways, right?

當我穿過走廊，或者從橡木和松木樓梯上走過時，我聞到了濃郁的科林斯皮革的味道，對嗎？

And the dust from the marble comes into my nostrils.

大理石上的灰塵鑽進我的鼻孔。

Now, these ways we can also talk about people's places, but usually, once again, I put them down here because this has to do more with a nice, wealthy, or affluent home.

現在，我們也可以通過這些方式來談論人們的住處，但通常情況下，我還是把它們放在這裡，因為這更多地與漂亮、富有或富裕的家有關。

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提高詞彙量：停止說 "漂亮 "和 "美麗"！ (Improve your Vocabulary: Stop saying NICE & BEAUTIFUL!)

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