Hello English learners(学习者), welcome back to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erika. And today we're going to be talking about a really common situation with parents. Yeah, when you're a teenager you always need to ask your parents for money, ask your parents for the car or ask your parents if you can do something. Exactly(确切地), and that's what we're going to be looking at is how you can ask for permission(允许) for the car, for money.
Right, and these phrases are not only for your parents, right? No, you could use them in your office with your boss(老板) or for any situation where you need to ask politely(有礼貌地). Yeah. Okay(好), so let's take a look(看) at vocabulary(词汇) preview. Vocabulary preview(预演). We have one word for you today.
Concerts. Concerts. Concerts. A concert. A concert is an event, right? Yeah.
Where people play music. Right. So you have different types of concerts, like a rock(岩石) concert. They play rock music. Or a pop(流行音乐) concert. Yeah, a pop music, or even a classical(古典的) music concert.
Exactly, where you have people playing violins(小提琴) and pianos. Yeah. Okay, concert. So concerts are always for music. Yeah, exactly. They're always for music.
Well, with that, let's go into our dialogue. Marco, what happens here? Well, basically(基本上) we have a teenage(十几岁的) girl who needs to go to a concert and is asking her dad for something. All( 全部) right, let's listen. Hey, daddy. You look great today.
I like your tie(领带). By the way, I was wondering(想知道), can I? No. I haven't even told you what it is yet( 到目前为止). Okay, okay. What do you want?
Do you think I could borrow(借) the car? I'm going to a concert tonight. Um, I don't think so. I need the car tonight to pick( 拾起) up your mother. Oh, I told you about it last week. Smelly(有臭味的) toes(脚趾) is playing and Eric asked if I would go with him.
Who is this Eric guy(家伙)? He's like the hottest and most popular guy at school. Come on, dad, please. No, can do. Sorry. Fine then.
Would you mind(介意) giving me 100 bucks(<美口> 元)? No way. That's so unfair( 不公平的). Teenagers, huh? Yeah, they're always asking for something. Yeah, this brings back memories(记忆), but I'll tell you about that later.
Why don't we take a look at the vocabulary in language takeaway(外卖食品)? Language takeaway. All right, we've got a few interesting words here. Um, the first one, hottest, hottest, hottest. So this is the superlative(最高级) of hot, right? So the hottest guy in school is the most handsome(英俊的).
Yeah, the most sexy(性感的) guy(家伙) in school. Exactly. So if somebody is hot, they are really attractive(有吸引力的), really good looking, really good looking. Um, and so Marco, is this a word that is only used for men? No, it's, you can also use it for women. Um, and what about things?
You know, recently(最近) with Paris(巴黎(法国首都)) Hilton, it's more popular with things like, wow(哇), I got a new car. Wow, that's hot. Right. Um, but I guess we maybe should tell our listeners(听者) to be careful(仔细的) with this word. Yeah, you don't really want to tell somebody you're hot. No, it's not very polite(有礼貌的).
But with your friends, you can use this word. Exactly. If I'm talking with my friends and I see a girl like, wow, she's hot. Okay. Yeah, but just don't tell her. Yeah, don't go up to her and say, wow, you're hot.
Okay. Our next word, most popular. Most popular. Most popular. Most popular. Another superlative.
Exactly. And popular means(平均值)? Means having a lot of friends. Exactly. Having a lot of friends or being well known(已知的). Or well liked.
Well liked.