2019-11-13
7 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to the podcast.
So, straight into the second podcast, and here again, we're using some expressions.
I'm going to give you three particular expressions, give you some examples, and hopefully you'll understand how they work.
So the first expression, to clear something up, or to clear up something, you can use it in both ways.
So when we want to clear something up, it means you want to clarify something.
Okay, so there's some misunderstanding.
Somebody doesn't understand what you said, or you feel they didn't understand what you said.
You might say, well, okay, look, let me just clear that up for you.
So you give a more detailed explanation, or you give another explanation, or you give some examples and the hope that somebody will understand it a little better.
Or somebody might ask you, could you please clear up something for me?
I'm not quite sure what you said the other day.
It just doesn't seem to make sense to me and I'm trying to understand it.
So you try to give a more detailed explanation in which you will clear up any misunderstanding.
So you might be out with friends and you said something, and somebody takes a little bit of different opinion, and they take exception to what you have said, and he says, oh, no, no, please let me clear up what I meant to say, and then you explain what you meant in a different way, and the person says, oh, okay, now I understand.
So there's no misunderstanding, no confusion over ideas.
So you clear it up.
We can also use clear up when we talk about the weather.
So I'm looking out my window today, and it's cloudy, it's gray, it's dismal, and it's probably going to rain.
But later on the weather may clear up, meaning the skies may become blue or partially blue, and the temperature may rise.
So you might say, oh, the weather cleared up towards the end of the day.