Nick: Hi everyone this is nick welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English." 大家好,我是Nick.
Brad:大家好,我是Brad
Nick:那今天還是請(qǐng)到我們這個(gè)特別好的老朋友Brad來(lái)跟我們大家一起分享Sweet在今天的場(chǎng)景的用法。那Sweet在中文中可以表達(dá)很多意思,比如說(shuō)最常見(jiàn)的"食物是很甜的"。那大家也都知道還可以表達(dá)這個(gè)"something is amazing" 有些事非常awesome, cool, 你可以用比如說(shuō)牛逼、很厲害有些東西可以用Sweet來(lái)表達(dá),比如說(shuō)你看到有人跳舞,這個(gè)舞蹈編排的非常好"The dance is pretty sweet, it's dope"待會(huì)我們會(huì)詳細(xì)的解釋去怎么用,當(dāng)然了還有一個(gè)常見(jiàn)的就是你可以形容一個(gè)人非常Sweet,就是說(shuō)他非常討人喜歡,討人喜愛(ài)。You are so sweet, so it describes the personality, right?
Brad: right
Nick: So like what I said before, I texted with a couple of my friends, and they replied me like "you are so sweet", what does that really mean?
Brad: Oh first that's a very a cute compliment to give someone. When you are being called sweet, you are desirable
Nick: Oh really?
Brad: Yeah, I mean, if you are being called sweet, it's definitely high compliment to be given and means they love your personality. You make them happy.
Nick: So am I like delightful? Pleasant?
Brad: Yeah delightful and pleasant would be the words that could be almost replaced to sweet. Sweet is just more common in the English language.
Nick: that's pretty awesome. Do you know Chinese Lantern Festival, which was a couple of days ago?
Brad: Oh yeah of course
Nick: We lit off the firecrackers. They are always awesome. So can I say sweet when I see the firecrackers?
Brad: Yeah. It depends. Uh, in the scenario, since we were discussing it, we would say that the large firecrackers are awesome. Because they make more light, they make more sound. They are much more awesome. But the smaller ones, yeah they are cool. They are not as good as the big ones but they are pretty sweet. That's an example when you would use sweet.
Nick: It's like the small firecrackers, or I can say specifically like the sparklers. They are sweet instead of awesome or cool.
Brad: they are not overwhelming you with the motions of how cool this is.
Nick: they don't blow your mind
Brad: Correct
Nick: awesome, thank you!那Brad剛剛就是說(shuō)在這個(gè)personality這個(gè)部分,就是你如果非常討人喜歡,比如說(shuō)發(fā)信息,別人會(huì)跟你說(shuō)You are so sweet,就是這個(gè)High compliment非常高的一個(gè)評(píng)價(jià),說(shuō)你很討人喜歡,很delightful或者是pleasant.那在另一個(gè)場(chǎng)景的用法呢就是說(shuō)某個(gè)東西很厲害,它是比awesome 低一點(diǎn)的級(jí)別,就是說(shuō)它一些大的煙花,就是我們?cè)?jié)經(jīng)常放的煙花,那種特別大的禮炮,飛的非常非常高,那種就可以叫Awesome. 因?yàn)槌潭仁遣灰粯拥?,你?huì)覺(jué)得非常非常牛逼,非常厲害,非???但是呢如果是那種小一點(diǎn)的,像那種竄天猴,仙女棒這種小小的,非??蓯?ài),非常好看,觀賞性非常強(qiáng),這種就叫Sweet.It's pretty sweet.你不能說(shuō)這種東西Awesome因?yàn)樗@個(gè)level還達(dá)不到那種特別大的煙花那種震撼人心的效果,所以說(shuō)一般這樣的會(huì)叫做叫做Sweet. 那同樣的如果你看到一個(gè)舞蹈,你覺(jué)得觀賞性會(huì)很強(qiáng),你看的很開心,你可以叫做"Oh, the dance is sweet" 這個(gè)就是一個(gè)Sweet的用法。那最后一個(gè)就是剛剛說(shuō)的食物有糖"The food sweet"這種就不需要多闡述,大家都知道. So this is pretty much for today.
Brad:再見(jiàn)!
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