2025-09-30
19 分钟Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native Podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 37,
day two of your English Fiver Day, the second season.
I'm here as your English fluency guide to help you step by step, build your vocabulary,
improve your listening skills, and most importantly,
start to feel more like yourself when you communicate in English.
So let's begin today's episode as we always do with a snapshot of what's to come.
After the pest problem destroyed half his crops,
James decided to stockpile a new pesticide that promised amazing results even
though the substance seemed questionable because it wasn't officially approved.
His desperate actions would go far beyond simple rule-breaking when neighbors began finding dead wildlife near his fields.
The toxic substance he had been using turned out to be far more dangerous than any normal pesticide should be.
Okay, let's dive deep into that vocabulary starting with the verb stockpile.
To stockpile, we spell this S-T-O-C-K-P-I-L-E stockpile.
To stockpile is to collect and keep a large supply of something for future use.
Now when I first read out this word I instantly thought about chocolate and how I stockpile chocolate in my drawer here in my office so that I can have a cheeky little nibble whenever I fancy.
If I leave it in the kitchen where it would normally live then the others would descend and take away the chocolate and I would not have any when I wanted it.
So instead I stockpile the chocolate and that means I always have this stash that I can pick at.
Now another thing that came to mind when I thought about stockpiling was lockdown and how people started stockpiling toilet roll.
and then flour and pasta.