Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 58, Day 3 of Your English Fiber Day.
This is the series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can start to feel more confident when communicating in English.
So let's begin with the verb capture, capture.
We spell this C-A-P-T-U-R-E capture, capture.
Two capture is to succeed in accurately expressing a feeling,
an atmosphere or something similar when creating a picture or a piece of writing or a film.
So if you were to paint a picture of a party so it's a 40th birthday party and you are a painter so you paint a picture of the celebration.
And then afterwards everyone who attended the party looks at this painting and says wow I can really get the sense of the excitement and the joy that we all felt during that evening.
You've really captured the night, you've really captured the joy that we all felt.
So you have succeeded in accurately expressing the atmosphere of that party in your painting or perhaps you decide to write a book about a famous person,
someone who's alive and kicking today.
And you write
that book and the famous person reads the book after it's been published and they approach you and they say I am very impressed with the book that you wrote.
You've managed to really capture the essence of me in that book.
I really resonate with everything that you've written.
I don't disagree with a word.
Everything is correct and accurate.
You have accurately expressed who I am, how I feel and how I came to be where I am in life.