2023-08-22
11 分钟Welcome to the A to Z English podcast, where Jack and Sochil take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the english language.
Our podcast is designed for non native speakers who are looking to improve their english skills in a fun and interactive way.
Each episode covers a wide range of topics, from grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture, to help you navigate the english speaking world with ease.
Welcome to the ages of English podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm one of the hosts of this podcast, and my partner Sochil is not here today.
So this is a solo episode, and I'm going to talk about interesting phrasal verbs, expressions, things that we say that sound similar in meaning but actually have very different meanings.
So, for example, in English, if you are a lumberjack, a lumberjack is a person who cuts down trees or chops down trees.
In English, we say to chop down a tree, which makes sense, right?
You take an axe and you chop and chop and chop and chop at the trunk until the tree falls down.
Once the tree is down, what do we do with the trunk?
We chop it up.
And chop it up means to chop the tree trunk up into smaller pieces so that we can make wood, and wood can build furniture and houses and tables and things like that.
And it sounds very strange in English because if you chop something down and then you chop it up, wouldn't that, doesn't it sound like you're putting it back up how it was before?
But that's not what it means.
So we chop a tree down, and then we chop it up, as in chop it up into pieces.
So our first one is chop something down, chop a tree down, and then we chop a tree up.
So you can remember those different meanings.
We could also chop up a piece of meat, right?
You chop it up into pieces.
Or you can chop up some vegetables, right?