2020-01-29
7 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to our podcast where I try to help you with your understanding of the english language, some phrasal, verbs, some expressions, idioms, whatever it takes to help you to communicate in a slightly better way or understand what you're listening to or what you are reading.
So this next podcast contains some collocations and some expressions to do with health.
So some collocations are fixed.
The words stay fixed and you can't change them.
So the first few here I'm going to give you do not change, don't change the order of the words battered and bruised.
Battered and bruised means how somebody feels after they've had very difficult time.
It might be actual where they've had a car accident or fallen off the bicycle or horse, whatever it might be, and somebody asked them how you're feeling.
Oh, I'm battered and bruised, meaning I'm sore everywhere.
So we don't say bruised and battered.
Battered and bruised.
But it's not always physical.
You can have this feeling after you've been sitting down with your boss for couple of hours at your personal review and you come out of it feeling, God, I'm battered and bruised after listening to all his complaints or criticisms.
So battered and bruised, aches and pains.
So not pains and aches, aches and pains.
So you wake up in the morning, you've got a touch of a fever, maybe a little temperature, and you, you ring in to say, I can't come into work today, I've got aches and pains everywhere.
So everywhere I touch my back, my arms, my neck, my throat, my legs, aches and pains everywhere.
So not pains and aches, always aches and pains.
Next one, cuts and bruises again, where something physical has happened.
You are running in a field training and you slip over and you fall into a hedge or fall down a small little hill and you end up with a few cuts and bruises.
So somebody asks you, well, how are you after your little accent?