2020-01-22
8 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to understand the english language.
Some grammar points, some construction of some sentences and some idioms, phrasal verbs, other expressions that will be useful when you're trying to communicate with other people through English.
So in this particular podcast, we're again going to look at some phrasal verbs, and in particular a themed phrasal verbs.
And in this particular podcast, it's going to be those connected with natural disasters.
And I'm currently thinking about all the problems that are there in Australia with these bush fires and forest fires that have caused havoc to the poor people in that country and continent.
So I thought we might use some phrasal verbs connected with that.
Okay, so these you could of course, use in connection with any type of natural disaster, floods or volcano eruptions, earthquakes, whatever it might be.
These are connected in some way to all types of disasters.
So when some natural disaster happens, we can use the phrasal verb to sweep through or to sweep over.
So, for example, the heavy rains and the floods swept through the valley.
So they came very fast, very heavy, and took everything in its path.
They swept through, or indeed the fires in the bush and the forests of Australia.
The flames swept through the dry forest, the trees, and the ground exceptionally dry because of a drought where there's been no rain for several months.
So it swept through very quickly, burning everything in its way.
Okay, so to sweep through, or indeed to sweep over the forests, the, the valleys, the different parts of the areas and farmlands around Australia, sweep through.
Sweep over.
So the same verb, to sweep, and then different preposition, meaning the same thing through and over.
Okay, so to sweep means to be coming very, very quickly.
Okay, we can also use a similar type of phrasal verb, to rip.
Rip.