2020-01-17
6 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry.
And welcome back to the podcast where we try to help you understand and make better use of the english language.
And today I have some collocations dealing with plan or plans, either single or plural.
Okay, so we've got a number of words which go together with plan or plans, and I'll try and explain them to you.
So we can have bold plans or a bold plan.
We can have audacious plans or an audacious plan.
We can have daring plans or a daring plan and an ingenious plan.
Okay, so bold, daring, audacious and ingenious basically have the same meaning.
Means something really exciting, something that somebody else might not try.
There's a bold plan to develop the 4g or 5g network throughout the country so that every house can have 4g or 5g in fast Internet connection.
A bold plan, because there are millions of houses that have to be upgraded.
We can have a daring plan to rescue people that are have been kidnapped by some terrorist organization.
A daring plan which involves counter espionage and certain soldiers who work in a covert operations.
So they operate in secrecy.
So they're going to try and rescue these people who have been kidnapped or held to ransom.
We can have an audacious plan.
Audacious means something really nobody else would have thought about.
For example, an audacious plan to overthrow the government by refusing to vote or to demonstrate outside the parliament buildings and bring pressure on the government.
Something that other political groups had not considered.