Name: 不要再說 "很好 "和 "很壞 "了。8種表達方式可以代替 (Stop saying 'very good' and 'very bad': 8 expressions to use instead)
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Hi, I'm Rebecca from www.engvid.com . Do you sometimes feel that you're stuck at a certain

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level when you're trying to speak at a meeting or at an interview or with a client?

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Well, that can happen for many reasons and one of the reasons is that, lots of times,

people have a lot of nouns in their vocabulary, okay, like success or opportunity, but you

don't necessarily have strong adjectives.

So, in this lesson, I'm going to focus on some strong business collocations, or business

expressions that you can learn and use so that you can sound much more advanced and

professional in a business context, okay?

So, this is one of our continuing lessons in the "Speak like a Manager" series.

So, whether you're already a manager or you aspire to be a manager, you would like to

be a manager, these expressions can help you to sound much more effective, okay?

So, let's see what they are, and they're really quite easy.

They're easy because I've divided them into two categories.

The ones at the top all refer to something which is very good or very big, and the ones

down here all refer to something very bad but also very big, okay?

So, this is something bad and big, and this is something good and big, so all of these

adjectives that you're going to learn refer to those points, okay?

Now, along with understanding the meaning, I want you to try to say it after me, okay,

so that your pronunciation is also accurate and correct and understandable in a business

Alright, so suppose you want to say that something is a success, okay?

You know the word success, you could say it's a very big success, or it was a very good

success, okay, you wouldn't say that - it was a big success.

But what can you say instead of saying "a big success"?

Repeat after me: it was a resounding success.

Resounding means very big, gigantic, enormous, okay?

But this an expression that is used together.

When two words are used together like that, it's called a collocation in English.

It means that people expect to hear these two words together, okay?

And it makes sense to them when you use that expression.

Right away, they get it, they understand, and they also understand that your English

So, a resounding success means a big success.

Now, let's say you're talking about an opportunity, and again, you want to say it was a very good

opportunity, but instead of just saying "very good" or "very big", you can say it was a

So again, golden, you can understand, it means like beautiful, fantastic, amazing, beautiful,

Now, suppose you're talking about a choice that somebody made, okay.

They made a choice, they made a decision, alright, and you can say - you want to say

it was a very good choice or a very good decision.

So, instead of saying "very good", you can say you made a wise choice.

"Wise" meaning very smart, very intelligent, okay?

It's a little bit more than just saying "very good", so you're also communicating better

ideas, higher level ideas, deeper ideas, okay?

Next, so suppose you want to say that somebody gave you really good advice.

So, instead of saying "very good advice" or "really good advice", you can say "My parents

always gave me sound advice.", okay, or my manager gave me sound advice.

Now, that might sound a little strange to you because sound - isn't that about things

Yes, that's a very common meaning of the word "sound", but sound can also mean very strong,

And therefore, instead of saying "very good advice", you can say they gave me sound advice.

My professor in university gave me sound advice about how to develop my career, okay?

Or the campaign was a resounding success.

Getting this job was a golden opportunity, okay?

He made a wise choice to continue his education.

Again, all of those are positive words and all of these expressions are positive, meaning

Now, let's look at some negative expressions, okay?

Because sometimes that happens too in life.

Okay, so again here, all of these refer to something that's either very bad or very big,

So, instead of just saying it was a really big failure, you could use the higher-level

Another one: you want to say there was a very big loss.

The company made a mistake and they experienced a very big loss.

Instead of saying very big or very bad, you can say a huge loss.

And not just - don't just repeat it for the pronunciation, you can also repeat it to learn

intonation, because we express certain ideas in certain ways, right?

No, because there's no emotion there, and this is an emotional kind of subject, right?

So, you want to put some emotion and intonation into it.

Here, now suppose you said that somebody was in big trouble.

So, instead of saying "big trouble", you could say they were in deep trouble, alright?

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不要再說 "很好 "和 "很壞 "了。8種表達方式可以代替 (Stop saying 'very good' and 'very bad': 8 expressions to use instead)

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