Hello, English learners（学习者）. Welcome back（在后） to English Pod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erika. And today we're bringing you another great lesson about appointments（任命）. That's right.

  We've got an elementary（基本的） lesson about canceling（取消） an appointment（任命）. That's a really common situation sometimes. You have an appointment at the doctors or something. Or at work. And you have to cancel it. Yes, so we're gonna learn some great language to help you cancel appointments today.

  Let's go straight（ 直的） to the dialogue then. We're going to be listening as（当…的时候） Samantha and Angela have a phone conversation and Angela is trying to cancel（取消） an appointment（任命）. And it's gonna be a little bit（一点） fast in the beginning, but when we come back, we will explain all the great vocabulary（词汇）. Hello, Samantha speaking. Hi, Samantha. This is Angela calling.

  Oh, hi, Angela. What's up? I'm just calling about our meeting today. I wonder（ 奇迹） is it possible to reschedule our appointment（任命） in the afternoon? I have a bit of an emergency（紧急情况） that I need to take care（小心） of. Let me see.

  It shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm really sorry. I hope it doesn't inconvenience you too much. It's just this thing came up and... Angela, you know what? I can't make it to our meeting either（也(不)）.

  Why don't we postpone（延迟） it tomorrow afternoon at the same time? Sounds great. See you tomorrow. Angela? Angela, look up. See that lady（女士） over there who's trying on a red leather（皮革） jacket?

  Isn't that Samantha? What? No wonder she told me she couldn't make it to the meeting. Oh, no, I think she saw me. Okay（好）, we have some really interesting words that you probably listened to in this dialogue. So let's start with language takeaway（外卖食品）.

  Language takeaway. Today on language takeaway, we're bringing you three words. Erica, what's the first one? The first word is reschedule. Reschedule. Reschedule.

  Reschedule. When you reschedule an appointment, you change it for another day or time. Exactly（确切地）. Great. The second word that we have is inconvenience. Inconvenience.

  Inconvenience. So to inconvenience someone is to... To make things not convenient（方便的） for that person. So to make things a little bit difficult, or to make things a little bit... Uncomfortable（ 不舒服的）. Uncomfortable.

  Inconvenience. And our third word is... Postpone. Postpone. Postpone. Postpone.

  We have some examples of the word postpone that will help you to understand its meaning a little bit better. Let's listen. Example one. Since（因为） Robert is late again, we have to postpone the meeting. Example two. I'm sorry Simon, but your vacation has been postponed until next month.

  Example three.