2020-03-11
7 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to our podcast where I try to help you to understand the english language a little better so that you can enjoy conversations with people in a business sense or in a personal capacity.
So what do I have for you this time?
Okay, so what we're going to look at is some miscellaneous phrases and expressions.
When I'm teaching these to my students, I take it for granted that people know what they are, but they often have heard of them and don't really know how to apply them.
So let's see if we can put that right.
Okay, so the first one, it's bound to.
It is bound to.
So we use this in the sense to mean it is going to or it is definitely going to.
Okay.
So when we use it is bound to, it means that something is really going to happen.
For example, it's bound to upset you when you hear bad news.
So if you hear bad news, you usually get upset.
So we use this expression, it's bound to b o u n d.
It's bound to upset you when you hear bad news.
It's bound to be a disappointment when you don't get offered the job.
So you go for a job, you go for a few interview stages, but finally you don't get selected.
So it's bound to be upsetting.
It's bound to annoy you.
You're bound to be disappointed.