2020-02-04
6 分钟Hi, this is Harry, and welcome back to the podcast where I try to help you with your understanding of the english language, where we look in particular at some english grammar structures, use of expressions, phrasal verbs, idioms, and all sorts of other aspects to do with the english language.
So let's begin.
What do I have for you this week?
Well, the first podcast is in relation to phrasal verbs and these particular phrasal verbs.
Today we're talking about phrasal verbs connected with health.
Health, okay, get that pronunciation, health.
Okay, so here we go.
To get over something.
So, if you have a flu and you begin to recover, you get over it.
Okay, so I'm fine now.
I think I finally got over my sickness, my illness, my flu.
To get over something, to recover, to come down with something.
So when you're not feeling so well and you're not quite sure what it is, you might tell somebody, oh, I'm not feeling so good today.
I think I have come down with something, a tummy bug or a virus or the flu.
To come down with means to begin to feel poorly, to begin to feel a little ill or unwell.
To come down with something, to pick something up.
Well, literally, we can pick something up off the floor, but when we're talking about health, to pick something up means you caught a cold or a flu or a virus, perhaps, when you were traveling?
Oh, I was flying for the last few weeks, back and forward.
So I think I've picked something up in the airport, or I picked something up, something up in the airplane, or I picked something up in the hotel.
There were a lot of people coughing and sneezing.