Hello everyone and welcome back（在后） to another great lesson with EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erika. Erika, today we have a great intermediate（中间的） lesson. That's right. We've got a lesson about love.

  About love. And about apologizing（道歉）. Okay（好）. Love and apologizing. They go together. Yes, they do.

  Especially（特别） if you have a girlfriend or boyfriend, right? That's true. Okay, so why don't we start by looking at our vocabulary（词汇） preview（预演）. Vocabulary preview. In today's vocabulary preview, we will learn two important words from our dialogue. What's the first word?

  Knock（ 敲） over. Knock over. Knock over. Knock over. So that's a really simple（ 简单的） one. When you knock something over, you make it fall down.

  Make it fall down. Yep. Speaking of knocking things over, this morning, I knocked over my coffee cup all（ 全部） over my desk. Yeah, I saw that. You almost（几乎） ruined（毁灭） our lesson plan for today. Yes, I did.

  It was all over the place. Okay, let's look at our second word. Explode（爆炸）. Explode. Explode. Explode.

  So when something explodes, this is what happens. Alright（ 好）, that's pretty clear（清晰的）. That's more than clear, I think. So now we've looked at our two vocabulary preview words for this dialogue, and we are ready to listen to it for the first time. Whoa, what's going on? Watch out!

  Hey, watch where you're going. Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Are you all right? Oh, I don't know. I feel terrible. I really didn't mean to knock you over.

  My tire（疲劳） just exploded（爆炸） and I lost control（控制） of my bike. Really, it was an accident（意外的）. Please accept（接受） my apologies（(为某种思想）. Just let me try to stand up. Oh, wait a second. You seem（ 似乎） really familiar（熟悉的）.

  I think I know you're from somewhere（ 在某处）. Yeah, that's right. I think we've met somewhere before（以前）. We met at Aaron's place last weekend. What a coincidence（一致）. But anyway（ 不管怎样）, I'm glad（高兴的） to see you're not badly（坏） hurt, and I should probably get going.

  I've got a nine o'clock meeting. But here's my number. Call me and we'll exchange（交换） insurance（保险） information. Ouch（哎哟（突然疼痛时发出的声音））. My ankle（[解]踝）. I think it's broken.

  You can't just leave me like this. Are you calling an ambulance（[车辆][医] 救护车）? Nope. I'm canceling（取消） my appointment（任命） so that... I love happy endings（结尾）. Such a romantic（浪漫的） dialogue.

  Yeah, this guy（家伙）. Oh, my God（神）. He is amazing. I would love to meet a guy like that. Like that? Like crashing（碰撞） into you?

  Maybe not like that. Okay. Well, I think it's time to look at some of the language in this dialogue. Let's start with our language takeaway（外卖食品）. Language takeaway. Today, we have three important words from our dialogue that we will learn for our language takeaway.

  The first word is familiar. Familiar. Familiar. Familiar. This one, I think, is a little bit（一点） hard to explain. Yeah, so let's listen to some examples on how we use familiar.

  Example one. Norman（法国诺曼第人(的)） Clark. That name sounds familiar. Where have I heard it before? Example two. Do you know where we are?

  I have no idea. Nothing looks familiar. I think we're lost. Example three. You look really familiar. Did we go to high school together?

  So when something's familiar, you think you know it, but you're not exactly（确切地） sure. Exactly. Familiar. Okay. Our next word is place. Place.

  Place. Aaron's place. Exactly. So when we refer（参考） to place, we refer to house. Right. So I can say, "Hey, Marco, come over to my place for dinner tonight."

  Or I could say, "We're having a party at my place tonight at eight." You might（可以〔用于礼貌地提出建议〕） ask someone, "How's your new place?" Right. How's your new apartment? Exactly. That's a good one. So place.

  It's a house. Right. Our final word today is coincidence. Coincidence. Coincidence. Coincidence.

  So again, we have some great examples for you to understand how we use coincidence. Example one. I'm going to New York this weekend. What a coincidence. I am too. Example two.

  By coincidence, everyone in the room was named Alex. Example three. We met by pure（纯粹的） coincidence（一致）. One day we ran into each other on our bikes and we've been together ever since（后来）. A coincidence is something that happens by chance（机会）, right? Right.

  You didn't plan it. It just happened. Yeah. These funny little things happen all the time. I love it when these coincidences happen. Yeah, they're great.

  So Erica, why don't you tell us about a coincidence that's happened to you? Well, the other night I was having dinner in a restaurant and I looked up and I saw my old professor（ 教授） from university. It was such a coincidence because here we are in Shanghai and I see my professor from Canada having dinner at the table next to me. It was such a coincidence. Yeah. Or has it ever happened to you that you're thinking of someone and that person calls you?

  That happens all the time. That's a coincidence. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So now that we have learned these three language takeaway words, we can listen to our dialogue a second time, but this time it's going to be slower.

  Hey, watch where you're going. Oh, no. I'm so sorry. Are you all right? Oh, I don't know. I feel terrible.

  I didn't mean to knock you over. My tire just exploded and I lost control of my bike. Really, it was an accident. Please accept my apologies. I'll try to stand up. Oh, wait a second.

  You seem really familiar. I think I know you from somewhere. Yeah. I think we have met somewhere before. That's right. We met at Aaron's place last weekend.

  What a coincidence. But anyway, I'm glad to see that you're not badly hurt（使受伤） and I should probably get going. I have a nine o'clock meeting, but here's my number. Call me and we'll exchange insurance information. Ouch. My ankle.

  I think it's broken. You can't just leave me like this. Are you calling an ambulance? No. I'm canceling my appointment so that I can stay here with you. Well, that was much clearer, wasn't it?

  Yes, that was clear. And this brings us to Fluency（流利） Builder（建筑者）. In today's Fluency Builder, we're going to show you different ways of apologizing. It's so important to be able（有能力的） to apologize（道歉） well and fluently（流利地）. Exactly. And you also want to say something different from I'm sorry.

  Right. So that's what we're going to show you today. Great expressions（表现） for I'm sorry in the dialogue. Let's listen now. I'm so sorry. I feel terrible.

  Please accept my apologies. I'm so sorry. I feel terrible. Please accept my apologies. Yeah, I feel terrible. I say this one all the time.

  Yeah, it's a great way of saying I'm sorry. Now, also, if you want to say I'm sorry, you also want to tell the person that you made a mistake, right? That's true. And we did hear some wonderful expressions for I made a mistake in this dialogue. I didn't mean to knock you over. It was an accident.

  I didn't mean to knock you over. It was an accident. Well, I didn't mean to knock my coffee cup over this morning. Exactly. It was an accident. It was.

  Not on purpose（目的）, right? Or so you think. Okay. So all of these phrases are really useful and great for apologizing and telling someone you made a mistake. Well, it's time for us to listen to our dialogue a third time. This time, it'll be at its normal（正常的） speed（速度）.

  And I think you'll be able to understand a little bit better. Whoa, what's going on? Watch out! Hey, watch where you're going. Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Are you all right?

  Oh, I don't know. I feel terrible. I really didn't mean to knock you over. My tires exploded and I lost control of my bike. Really, it was an accident. Please accept my apologies.

  Just let me try to stand up. You seem really familiar. I think I know you from somewhere. Yeah, that's right. I think we've met somewhere before. We met at Aaron's place last weekend.

  What a coincidence. But anyway, I'm glad to see you're not badly hurt. And I should probably get going. I've got an 9 o'clock meeting. But here's my number. Call me and we'll exchange insurance information.

  Ouch. My ankle. I think it's broken. You can't just leave me like this. Are you calling an ambulance? Nope, I'm canceling my appointment.

  Great dialogue and great music, right? Wonderful music. Who picked（ 拾起） that, Marco? Of course, me. I'm a romantic type. I love romantic music.

  Really? Yes. Well, speaking of a romantic type, do you believe in love at first sight（景象）? I kind（种类） of do. Really? I'd like to believe it.

  Yeah, well, that surprises（使（某人）吃惊） me. Well, I think the first time that you see someone, it impresses（给…深刻印象） you some way and you feel attracted（吸引） to that person. Really? Yeah. At least（最少的） it's the first feeling that you get that makes you want to talk to that person or get to know that person. I am the exact（准确的） opposite.

  Really? When I see somebody for the first time, my first impression（印象） is always wrong. So if I see someone and I like them at the beginning, in three weeks, I'll hate them. And if I see someone and I don't like them when I first meet them, I'll be their best friend. Yeah. So love at first sight doesn't work for me.

  I'm sure that our listeners（听者） have some stories that love at first sight（景象）. Maybe they've met their wives or their boyfriends in this way. I'd like to hear about it. Me too. And if anybody（任何人） knows the name of the songs we used, also be sure to post it on the discussion（讨论） board（板）. And that's our challenge（挑战） for this week.

  Our challenge for this lesson. Yeah. So that's all for today, everyone.