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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 145. The Verb Phrase today is either to

  • lean toward or lean towards. You might hear either one of those. Let's continue.

  • If someone is leaning toward or towards something , he or she is tending to be in

  • favor of a particular opinion, decision, or support for someone or something. .

  • That's what they say. They're leaning towards there. They're moving in that

  • direction and the second meaning is the more literal meaning. Which is probably

  • where we get the first meaning from. The second meaning is to bend or tilt or

  • move one's body towards something. So you say you lean. So you can literally mean like

  • somebody could get a lien against the wall. They can put all their body weight

  • against the wall. So you can lean towards something. So again if you're leaning, it

  • means you're moving in that direction. So the same thing with. You know , making a

  • decision or an opinion about something. Maybe you haven't 100% firmly decided or

  • have made up your mind but you're kind of moving in that direction. You're

  • leaning that way. Okay. So let's look at several examples. We've got four examples

  • of how we use this today. Number one. I have not decided who I'm going to vote

  • for , but I am leaning toward the libertarian candidate.

  • Yeah. We hear this at election time all the time. A lot of people said they

  • didn't make up their mind yet. Probably they didn't really pay attention. I think

  • most people don't really start paying attention to the candidates until

  • probably like the last three months. Usually once the you know, the candidates

  • are chosen for each party. And so most people get serious and then they might

  • start listening to some debates and that could sway them either this way or that

  • way. But you know , they may be leaning one way or another. That's what they always

  • say though that you might hear that. Some people say they didn't make up their

  • mind at all. But some people say I mean I didn't make up my mind, but I think I

  • think I might go that way. I'm that way. Okay. Yeah. So Libertarian

  • candidate of course remember the main ones in the US are the Republicans and

  • the Democrats. Libertarian is really like the third sort of party in line. Usually

  • it ends up being more of like a protest vote. If they don't like the other two,

  • but I don't know some people might vote for that party anyway. Let's continue.

  • Number two . Here I am planning an overseas vacation and I have not decided

  • where I'm going to go. So they know they want to go on vacation. They know they

  • want to be overseas but they may be this so obviously they didn't probably buy

  • the tickets yet. It's not confirmed yet. However, I am leaning towards going to

  • Italy you know, maybe that was one of the places that they had in mind and they if

  • they you know, wherever he's going with if they don't decide another way for

  • another reason that's probably where they are going to go. Okay. Let's look at number

  • three. He leaned his body toward the Tower of Pisa, so he could pretend he was

  • holding it up for a photo. Yeah. Of course, this is the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You

  • know, the famous one that always looks like it's on a tilt. And if you've ever

  • gone there you know that a lot of people always pretend like they're holding it

  • up. They're always making a photo like this. And they lean towards that way and

  • from a distance actually the photos don't look too bad. You see a lot of

  • people do this. Most people when they go there this is one of them. I guess it'd sort

  • of a funny photo that they will do. Almost everybody thinks of it. Most

  • people do it and to be honest it doesn't look that bad. I've seen it. I've taken

  • photos that way and it actually looks pretty good. Okay . Let's look at

  • number four here. Even though he is a Republican he tends to lean left on some

  • issues. So maybe he's a Republican maybe most of the time he votes Republican,

  • but there's a few issues where maybe he might go the other way. So he might throw

  • his support the other way. Then we say they might lean

  • the other way. Okay. Anyway, I hope it's clear. I hope you got it. Thank you for your

  • time. bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 145. The Verb Phrase today is either to

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英語導師Nick P動詞短語(145) Lean Toward or Lean Towards (145)。 (English Tutor Nick P Verb Phrase (145) Lean Toward or Lean Towards)

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