2025-09-24
14 分钟Hi there,
this is Harry and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of English through conversation,
business English and also aspects where we look at grammar,
phrasal verbs and expressions to help you communicate in a much better way.
So what do I have for you in this particular podcast?
Well, in this particular podcast, we're going to take a look.
at some verbs and in this situation we're going to look at verbs related to consequences.
So something happens and then we have to use a verb to describe what has happened or what will happen.
So as always I'll give you the verb, I'll give you the meaning and I'll give you an example.
Let's start with the first one is compound to compound something to compound something means to make it worse okay you have compounded the problem by ringing the customer you have compounded it meaning you have made it worse you have intensified the problem you have focused attention on it when we didn't want to focus attention on it so you have made matters worse you have.
in some ways added to the problem you have complicated matters more so all of those words would or even magnify to magnify to make greater so when we compound the situation we magnify it we increase the focus on it we intensify the focus on it we focus attention on it but it's.
seen in a negative way to compound the problem, to compound the problem.
A compound fracture of the leg is a very, very bad fracture of a leg.
So you fracture or break your leg, it may be simple, a compound fracture is much more difficult.
Okay,
so to compound something is to make it more difficult to make it more focused so it has negative connotations.
The next verb I have is trigger.
To trigger.
something.
A trigger as a noun is something you pull, like to fire a gun is the trigger.