Dan: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Dan. 大家好，歡迎收聽地道英語節目。我是丹。

Feifei: 大家好，我是馮菲菲。Dan have you arranged everything for the office party tomorrow? 明天辦公室聚會的一切事宜你都安排妥當了吧？

Dan: The party? Oh absolutely. 聚會呀？沒問題。

Feifei: You remembered to book the restaurant? 你沒忘了訂酒店吧？

Dan: Uh-huh. 嗯。

Feifei: Because it's really important that it's been reserved. 你可千萬要記住訂一個桌子，否則明天晚上的晚餐聚會就沒戲了， 這個非常重要。

Dan: Really important. Gotcha. 很重要，Gotcha.

Feifei: Gotcha? Gotcha 什么意思？

Dan: Gotcha. It means I understand. It's short for I've got you. Gotcha意思就是“我明白了”，是I've got you的簡短說法。

Feifei: Ah gotcha. Gotcha 的意思就是懂了，明白了。So if you understand something you can say gotcha. Is it rude? 那么一件事情你懂了的話就可以說gotcha。會不會不太禮貌？

Dan: Well, it's very informal. You wouldn't hear it in a very polite conversation. Let's hear some examples of people using the phrase gotcha. 這是一種非正式的說法，不會出現在很禮貌的談話中。我們來看幾個例子。

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Example

A: Don't forget to post those letters – they're really important.
別忘了把這些信寄出去，這可是很重要的。

B: Gotcha; I'll do that right now.
明白。我馬上去辦。

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Dan: So gotcha there means I understand. But it can also be used to show you've just played a joke on someone. 因此gotcha意思就是我明白了，也可以用來表示你只是在跟某人開玩笑。

Feifei: 我們和某人開玩笑，那個人當真了，這時我們就可以說 gotcha.

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Examples

A: Hey did you know that they're adding Brad Pitt's face to Mount Rushmore? 你知道嗎？布拉德皮特的頭像被雕刻到拉什莫爾山上了。

B: No way! That's incredible! 不會吧！怎么可能！

A: Ahh gotcha! They're not really! 哈！是假的。

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A: Hey these tickets are really cheap! 嘿！這票很便宜啊。

B: Yeah, but the gotcha is that the flights are really early. 是啊，不過比賽開始的太早了。

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Dan: In that last example gotcha wasn't being used to show that he was playing a joke, but instead that there was a catch or a hitch. Although the tickets were cheap, the gotcha was that the flights were really early. 在第二個例子中gotcha并不表示開玩笑，而是隱藏的問題、困難、圈套。這句的意思是雖然門票便宜，但問題是比賽開始的太早了。

Feifei: So gotcha 也有隱情，圈套的意思。

Dan: Right, I better go now Feifei. I've got to book the table for tomorrow. 菲菲，我要走了。我得去酒店訂一張桌子。

Feifei: What? You said you'd booked it already! 什么？你不是說已經訂好了嗎？

Dan: Ahh gotcha! Of course I have. 騙你的！我當然早就訂好了。

Feifei: Ugh. Don't forget to check out more Authentic Real English on our website bbcukchina.com. 請大家更多的關注我們的節目。

Dan: Bye! 再見！

Feifei: Bye! 再見！