AEE 2596：计划泡汤了？如何用英语沟通此事

这是《All Ears English》播客第2596期。

This is an All Ears English Podcast episode twenty five ninety six.

计划被打乱了，如何用英语谈论这件事。

Derailed plans, how to connect about it in English.

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你是否觉得自己在英语学习上遇到了瓶颈？

Are you feeling stuck with your English?

我们将教你如何通过注重交流而非完美，变得自信而流利。本节目由美国主持人奥布里·卡特（IELTS专家）和英语冒险家琳赛·麦卡锡联袂呈现，来自美国亚利桑那州和科罗拉多州。

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

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你喜欢旅行吗？

Do you love to travel?

你知道，当你以为自己制定了完美的行程时，总会有意外发生，但这没关系。

You know that when you think you have the perfect itinerary, something always goes wrong, but that's okay.

如果你知道如何描述这段经历，它就能成为一个精彩的故事。

If you know how to talk about the experience, it can make a great story.

今天就来了解更多吧。

Learn more today.

在你的母语中，你是什么样的人？

Who are you in your native language?

自信的吗？

Confident?

幽默的吗？

Funny?

有主见的吗？

Opinionated?

那么在英语中，你又是怎样的人呢？

Now who are you in English?

如果你觉得自己在英语中变得更渺小、更安静或更不善于表达，那并不是因为你英语不好。

If you feel smaller, quieter, or less expressive, that's not because you're bad at English.

这是因为流利度与自我认同紧密相关。

It's because fluency is tied to identity.

当你不确定时，你会有所保留。

When you're unsure, you hold back.

而当你有所保留时，别人就看不到真实的你。

And when you hold back, people don't see the real you.

你不需要完美的语法。

You don't need perfect grammar.

你需要清楚是什么在拖慢你的进步。

You need clarity about what is holding you back.

只需两分钟，你就可以免费了解自己的英语水平以及阻碍你进步的原因。

In just two minutes, you can discover your English level and what's slowing your progress for free.

前往 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

Go to allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

就是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

That's allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

嘿，奥布里。

Hey there, Aubrey.

今天一切都好吗？

How's everything going today?

我很好，林赛。

I'm great, Lindsay.

你呢？

How are you?

不错。

Good.

我有个关于制定计划的问题。

So I have a question about plans, making plans.

你觉得有时候你的计划会偏离轨道吗？

Do you feel like sometimes your plans get derailed?

是的。

Yes.

最近这经常发生，因为我哥哥这个冬天来城里了。

This happens to me a lot lately because my brother is in town for the winter.

他在这里办艺术展。

He does an art show here.

好的。

Okay.

我们会制定计划，但我总是得保持灵活，因为通常到了晚上，他会遇到对某幅画感兴趣的人，需要去对方家里展示，看看他们是否想购买，如果发生这种情况，这就会优先于我们的计划。

And we'll make plans but I always have to stay flexible because often at the end of the day he'll have someone interested in a painting he'll need to do a home show to go and like show it in their home to see if they want to buy it and if that's happening, that takes priority over our plans.

所以我会发短信说：开玩笑的。

So text and say, just kidding.

我们需要改期。

We need to reschedule.

所以我知道，根据他的安排，计划经常会被打乱。

So I know it's always often plans are going to get derailed depending on his schedule.

哦，天哪。

Oh, no.

是的

Yeah.

这种情况确实会发生。

That can happen.

哎呀。

Uh-oh.

这不太好。

That's not good.

不过这是好消息，对吧？

It's good news though, right?

这意味着他可能有一笔大单。

That it's like potentially a big sale for him.

所以我得明白，没关系。

So I just have to know like, no problem.

告诉我一声。

Let me know.

很好，很好。

Nice, nice.

是的，我的意思是，这是生活的一部分，对吧？

Yeah, I mean, this is part of life, right?

尤其是当你面临很多因素时，比如家庭、工作，你知道的，社交生活，可能还有交通拥堵，交通压力很大。

Especially when you have a lot of factors going on family, work, you know, social life, maybe there's traffic going on, a lot of traffic

生病时，也许有人会传染给你，谁也不知道会发生什么。

in Sickness, your somebody maybe gets You sick, never know what's gonna come up.

是的。

Yeah.

所以这是两部分系列的第二部分。

So this is part two of a two part series.

第一部分是什么？

What was part one?

是的。

Yeah.

请看到最后，获取详细信息。

Stay to the end for details.

今天我们讨论的第一个词在第一部分中已经提到过，就是‘append’。

First word we're talking about today was highlighted in part one, which is append.

是的。

Yes.

结尾。

End.

它曾在某一集中被提及。

It came up in an episode.

这是一个有趣的动词。

It's an interesting verb.

所以我们今天要讲解这个词，以及其他关于计划改变、被打乱的表达方式。

So we're gonna cover that one and other ways that we talk about plans getting changed, thrown off.

是的。

Yes.

这就是为什么我觉得当这种情况发生时，你会对一个人有更多了解。

And this is why I feel like you learn a lot about someone when this happens.

尤其是当你遇到这种情况时，你会怎么应对？

Especially How when you do you handle it?

是的。

Yes.

当你旅行的时候。

When you travel.

因为旅行时确实是个很好的例子。

Because that's a good point when we're traveling.

比如，事情并不总是按计划进行。

Like, things don't always go according to the plan.

必须保持灵活，有些人比其他人更能应对这种情况。

Have to stay flexible and some people handle that better than others.

所以我觉得在结婚前，一定要和对方去一个他们完全不会说英语的国家旅行，连任何一种英语都不行。

That's why I feel like before you marry someone, must travel internationally in a country where they don't speak any English, like any version of English.

绝对能看出他们如何对待别人，保持多大的耐心。

Absolutely see how they treat people, how patient they stay.

他们是否真的能够做到。

Are they able to absolutely.

这是个很好的建议。

That's great advice.

这确实是不错的建议。

That's good advice for sure.

好的。

All right.

所以我们今天要深入探讨的是，当这种情况发生时，你该如何表达，你会怎么做，你是如何应对的，或者你过去什么时候遇到过这种情况？

So we'll talk today all about how you can articulate this when this happens, what do you do, how do you act, or when did it happen to you in the past?

这就是我们今天要讨论的内容。

Is what we're getting into.

一个有趣的关联，对吧？

A fun connection connect about, right?

这种情况发生时，人们都想谈论它。

This happens, people want to talk about it.

当计划发生变化时，你可能会感到措手不及。

When plans You get can take it can be some

可能会冒出一些精彩的故事，对吧？

great stories that can come up, right?

这取决于发生了什么。

Depending on what happens.

那么，今天我们就先聊到这里，奥布里。

So, us off today, Aubrey.

好的，首先我们来谈谈动词‘upend’，它的字面意思是翻转过来，但通常我们用它来比喻彻底破坏。

Alright, so first we're talking about this verb upend, which means to turn upside down literally, or we often use it figuratively when it means ruin.

比如，这场风暴打乱了我们的假期。

So for example, the storm upended our vacation.

这是一个相当戏剧性、很重的词。

Kind of a dramatic big word to use.

这只是意味着被毁了。

It just means ruined.

让它发生吧。

Make it happen.

我的意思是，在东海岸，我们这里会遭遇这些恶劣的飓风。

I mean, the East Coast, we get these nasty hurricanes over here.

对吧？

Right?

或者，虽然我不再那儿了，但在东海岸，尤其是北卡罗来纳、南卡罗来纳和佛罗里达，他们会遭遇疯狂的飓风。

Or, well, I'm not there anymore, but on the East Coast, especially like North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, they get crazy hurricanes.

完全可以把一栋房子、整个社区都掀翻。

Can literally upend a house, a whole community.

这绝对会打乱计划，

It's definitely upending plans,

字面意义上是这样，那可能有点双关了，对吧？

both literally and That could have been a little bit of a pun there, right?

是的，我们确实经历过一些破坏性极大的飓风。

Yes, We've had some really devastating ones for sure.

或者你可以说，你是在故意破坏我的计划吗？

Or you could say, are you trying to upend my plan?

现在这句话是在问对方，是否看起来他们有意破坏你正在做的事情。

Now this is asking someone if it seems like they're trying to sabotage what you're trying to do.

这很有趣，因为这个词在英语中确实不那么常见。

And this is interesting because this word is less common in English for sure.

你更可能听到的是，你是在想毁掉我的计划吗？

You're more likely to hear like, are you trying to ruin my plan or my plans?

所以，如果有人用了‘upend’这个词，他们很可能词汇量不错，但也可能是为了强调计划被破坏而故意用得俏皮一些。

So if someone is to use upend, they probably have a pretty good vocabulary but they might be also doing it sort of playfully to emphasize the ruining of the plan.

对吧？

Right?

你是在想破坏我的计划吗？

Are you trying to upend my plan?

他们使用这个词可能有某种原因。

There might be like a reason they're using this vocab.

是的，没错。

Yeah, for sure.

这很有趣。

That's fun.

或者用 derail。

Or derail.

当我们想到 derail 这个词时，通常会想到什么？

Now typically when we think about the word derail, what do we think of?

对。

Yeah.

字面上，它指的是火车脱轨

It's literally, it's about like a train coming off

离开轨道。

of its rails.

火车可能会脱轨。

A train can derail.

是的。

Yes.

但我们也会用它来比喻。

But we also use it figuratively.

它只是意味着停止进展，或者再次造成破坏。

It just means to like stop progress or again, ruin.

是的。

Yeah.

没错。

Exactly.

预算削减会导致项目失败。

So budget cuts derail the project.

我的意思是，商业世界中，

I mean, the business world,

是的，我们经常用这个表达。

Yeah, what we use that a lot.

或者当我生病的时候，我们的计划完全被打乱了。

Or when I got sick, our plans got totally derailed.

对吧？

Right?

它只是意味着被毁了。

It just means they were ruined.

它们不得不被改变。

They had to be changed.

是的，当然。

Yes, for sure.

有时候你可能在度假时生病。

Sometimes you might get sick on vacation.

对吧？

Right?

这真的太让人沮丧了。

And that's really a bummer.

这会彻底打乱整个行程。

That derails the whole trip.

天啊，真倒霉。

Gosh, what a bummer.

如果你要去的是那种一生只有一次的事情呢？

And what if you're going to something that's like a once in a lifetime thing?

是的，如果你有

Yeah, it's tough if you have

错过那种事情确实会发生，对吧？

And to miss that does happen, right?

我记得我有个朋友去看百老汇的《俄克拉荷马》，但我想不起他叫什么了。

I remember a friend of mine went to see Oklahoma on Broadway it I was can't think of his name.

那家伙叫什么来着？

That was what's his name?

他还在《X战警》里演过金刚狼。

He was also on X Men as like Wolverine.

哦，我不清楚。

Oh, I don't know.

他很有实力。

He has like the big chops.

不管怎样，他还是个歌手。

Anyway, he's also a singer.

好吧。

Okay.

他要上百老汇是一件大事。

And it was a big deal that he was going to be on Broadway.

他们去了，花了钱，去了纽约。

They went, they paid, they went to New York.

我不确定他是不是生病了，那天他们去的时候有替补演员。

And I don't know if he was sick, there was an understudy the day they were there.

他们非常沮丧。

They were devastated.

休·杰克曼。

Hugh Jackman.

他会来找我。

He would come to me.

我们的听众在家时都在大喊：休·杰克曼。

Know our listeners at home were like yelling, Hugh Jackman.

他们他们

They They

他们是iPod用户。

were iPod players.

他们知道。

They knew.

但不管怎样，完全搞砸了。

But anyway, like totally derailed.

这真的毁了他们整个行程，因为他们去那里的唯一目的就是看休·杰克曼出演的《俄克拉荷马》。

It really ruined their whole because that was the whole reason they went was to see Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma.

是的。

Yeah.

去纽约看百老汇演出、住酒店，这些花销可不便宜。

And it's not cheap to go to New York and get Broadway tickets, get a hotel, and all that stuff.

哇。

Wow.

这可不太妙。

That's not good.

这种事情时有发生。

It happens.

它

It

会发生。

happens.

有时候我们可以用‘鱼雷’这个词。

Sometimes we can use the word torpedo.

现在这种情况比较少见，但真的很有趣。

Now this is more rare but really fun.

确实有趣。

It is fun.

这明显是夸张，对吧？

It's definitely exaggerating, right?

当然，我们有一个字面意义上的鱼雷，就像会爆炸的火箭。

So of course we have a literal torpedo which is like a rocket that would explode.

我们把它用作动词，意思是破坏，通常是故意的。

We use this as a verb and it means to ruin, often intentionally.

对吧？

Right?

所以举个例子，这段关系没成功。

So for example, this relationship isn't working out.

我觉得我已经准备好毁掉这段关系了。

I think I'm ready to torpedo it.

这意味着我要把它彻底炸毁。

That would mean I'm going to like blow it up.

我会做些事情来终结它。

I'm going to do something that's going to end it.

是的，不太好。

Yeah, not good.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

也许去接受心理咨询吧。

Maybe go to therapy.

对啊，没错。

Yeah, right.

没错。

Right.

听起来像是个非常戏剧化的人。

Sounds very just a very dramatic person.

要毁掉他们的关系。

Going to torpedo their relationship.

女王

Queen

或者国王。

or king.

当然。

For sure.

或者当谈判陷入僵局时，他们毁掉了这笔交易。

Or when negotiations stalled, they torpedoed the deal.

是的，我们在商业中也常听到这种情况，对吧？

Yeah, we hear this in business too, right?

这仅仅意味着他们终止了交易，取消了合同。

It just means they ended the deal, they canceled the contract.

我们会说，他们确实如此。

We'll say this, they Yes.

破坏了

Torpedoed the

我最喜欢这最后一个。

And I love this last one.

这个是我最喜欢的，因为是‘给……使绊子’。

This one is my favorite because it is throw a wrench into.

因为作为人类，我们总是认为这是我们的致命弱点。

Because we always think as human beings, that's our fatal flaw.

就好像我们认为自己能掌控一切。

It's like we think we can control things.

就像我们为旅行制定了行程计划。

Like we have an itinerary for a trip.

但事情从来不会按照我们设想的行程发展。

It never goes as we think our itinerary will go.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Exactly.

对。

Right.

总会有意料之外的事情发生。

A wrench always gets thrown in.

会发生一些打乱计划的事情。

Something happens that throws things off.

比如她迟到了，这打乱了我们的计划，因为所有其他事情都安排在她准时到达的基础上。

Like she was late, which threw a wrench into our plans because all these other things were scheduled to happen based on her arriving on time.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Exactly.

对。

Right.

也许你会误了航班。

Maybe you miss a flight.

谁知道如果有人迟到会发生什么？

Who knows what could happen if someone's late?

这确实会搞砸一切。

That can definitely throw a wrench in.

我一直很好奇那里会发生什么。

Well, I've always kind of wondered what happens there.

比如说，我记得我们去柬埔寨的时候，从洛杉矶飞往上海。

Let's say you have like because I remember when we went to Cambodia, we had a flight from LA to Shanghai.

我想中间有三个航段。

I think there were three legs.

好像是波士顿到洛杉矶，洛杉矶到上海，然后上海到金边之类的。

It was like Boston to LA, LA to Shanghai, Shanghai to Phnom Penh or something like that.

我当时在想，如果我们错过了第一段航班会怎样？

And I was thinking, what happens if we miss the first one?

这会彻底打乱整个旅行计划。

It throws a huge wrench into the whole travel plan.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

我有个朋友去波多黎各，她迟到了，错过了回亚利桑那的转机，当天没有其他航班了。

I had a friend who went to Puerto Rico and they were late so she missed her connection back to Arizona and there were no other flights that day.

我记得他们得给她安排酒店，或者她可能在机场过夜，我记不清了。

They think they had to put her up in a hotel or maybe she stayed in the airport, I can't remember.

但这打乱了所有安排。

But threw a wrench into everything.

她最终迟到了才回到家。

She ended up late getting back.

我是我

I'm I

我的意思是，重点是早点到机场。

mean, the point here is go to the airport early.

早点到。

Be there early.

但如果你已经在飞机上了，对吧？如果飞机晚点了，那错过转机航班也不是你的错。

But then if you're on the plane, right, if the plane's late, it's not your fault that you miss the connection flight.

这最糟糕了。

That's the worst.

我一直在想，谁来支付改签的费用呢？

That's what I wonder about Like, what pays for the rebooking.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Right.

所以不管怎样。

So anyways.

或者这么说吧

Or here's

另一个例子。

another example.

我们的护照一直没有到，这打乱了我们的计划。

It threw a wrench into our plans when our passports never arrived.

那太糟糕了。

Would be terrible.

我以前等过护照好去旅行，那种担心护照能不能及时到手的感觉真的压力很大。

Been waiting on passports to be able to go on a trip before and it's so stressful hoping that they'll get there in time.

这真的让人压力很大。

That's really stressful.

没有护照是不能过边境的，对吧？

Can't cross a border without a passport, right?

在美国，护照的审批和寄送需要很长时间。

And it takes a long time in The States for passports to be approved and sent.

必须提前很久申请。

Have to apply for them well in advance.

当然。

For sure.

好的，奥布里，我们来做一个角色扮演。

Okay, Aubrey, let's break into a role play here.

我们在谈论旅行，因为这真的和旅行密切相关。

We're talking about travel because this really fits with travel.

再次强调，这是我们人类常犯的致命错误——以为一切都安排得完美无缺。

Again, it's the fatal mistake we make as human beings thinking we have everything perfectly planned.

事实从来都不是这样。

It never is.

我正在问我的朋友林赛关于她最近的一次旅行。

I'm asking my friend Lindsay about a recent trip she was on.

准备好了吗？

Ready?

好的。

All right.

你的假期怎么样？

How was your vacation?

其实我们没去成。

We didn't end up going, actually.

那场风暴彻底打乱了一切。

That storm totally upended the whole thing.

我们在机场等了几个小时，然后航班最终被取消了。

We waited at the airport for hours, and then our flight was finally canceled.

哦，天哪。

Oh, no.

听到这个我很难过。

I'm sorry to hear it.

然后我们重新订了票，但我前一天生病了。

Then we rebooked, but I got sick the day before.

我们本来要出发的，结果计划又彻底被打乱了。

We were supposed to fly out, and our plans got totally derailed again.

哦，天哪。

Oh, man.

命运真是给你的旅行添了不少麻烦。

Fate really threw a wrench into your trip.

说实话，我还挺高兴的。

Honestly, I was kinda glad.

我其实根本不想去，当初订票时我就想方设法想搞砸它。

I didn't really wanna go, and I tried to torpedo it when we first booked.

事情太多了，你知道的？

Just too much going on, you know?

哦，真不错。

Oh, what a good.

你这态度还挺乐观的。

That's a glass half full kind of attitude there.

是的，没错。

Yeah, yeah.

我在想，这真的属实吗？

I wonder if that's really true.

我觉得我以前有过一些朋友，遇到事情不顺时，不会太沮丧。

I've I think I've had friends that are like that when things go wrong instead of being so upset about it.

他们会说：我本来就不想去。

They're like I didn't want to go anyway.

我太忙了。

I'm too busy.

是的，生活确实会安排得太满，因为我身边就有人现在这样。

Yeah, there is such a thing as overbooking your life because I have someone in my life that does that now.

那个人现在在柏林，而丹佛这边现在也有很多事情要处理。

That person's in Berlin and there's a lot of things to do right now in Denver.

事情发生了，然后你回来时会感到精疲力尽。

It happens and then you're like going to come back and be exhausted.

需要度假来从度假中恢复过来。

Need a vacation to recover from your vacation.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

当你有这种心态时，还挺不错的。

So it's kind of cool when you have that mentality.

你能找到积极的一面。

You can find the good side.

这让生活没那么有压力，对吧？

It makes life a little less stressful, right?

确实如此。

That's very true.

对，我喜欢这一点。

Yeah, love that.

我们来过一遍这些词汇。

Let's go through this vocab.

你第一次用了‘upended’这个词。

You first used that upended.

那场风暴彻底打乱了一切。

That storm totally upended the whole thing.

意思是它毁了一切，把所有东西都搞得天翻地覆。

Meaning it like ruined it, turned everything topsy-turvy.

嗯。

Mhmm.

这是个不错的词，而且也是一个比较少见的词汇。

That's a good and that's a more rare vocabulary word too.

所以时不时用一下这些罕见的词很有趣，因为这样你本质上会变得更有意思。

So it's fun to drop in these rare ones because you'll just be a more interesting person in a sense when agree.

你在说

You're speaking

更好的词汇。

Better vocabulary.

这很有趣。

It's interesting.

是的，这个是描述性的，意思是‘脱轨’。下一个词，我们重新订了票，但就在我们准备出发的前一天我生病了，我们的计划再次完全脱轨了。

Yeah, and this one is descriptive, derailed, So next one, then we rebooked, but I got sick the day before we were supposed to fly out and our plans got totally derailed again.

对。

Yes.

是的，如果你仔细看这段对话，所有这些事情都发生了，我会很感兴趣。

Yeah, and it's interesting if you look at this conversation, all of these things happened and I would be interested.

我想知道所有这些细节，但你需要用不同的动词。

I would want to know all these details, but you would need a different verb.

你不能一直用同一个词来说‘然后这个发生了，然后那个发生了’。

You can't use the same one to share and then this happened, then this happened.

你需要这些不同的表达方式。

You need these different ways to say it.

是的。

Yes.

百分之百。

100%.

然后是那个扳手的，这又是我最喜欢的。

And then the wrench one, which again is my favorite.

是的。

Yes.

这是一种很有趣的说法，表示命运真的给你的旅行添了麻烦。

And this is a fun way to say it, to say fate really threw a wrench into your trip.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yes.

因为这样我们就不会责怪任何人。

Because then we're not blaming anyone.

就是你运气不好而已。

Like, you just had bad luck.

这种事情总会发生的。

It just happens.

这是宇宙的安排。

It's the universe.

它迟早会这样对你。

It's inevitably going to do that to you.

我其实并不想去了，当初订票时我就想方设法想搞砸它。

I didn't really want to go and I had tried to torpedo it when we first booked.

这可能更有点儿……我想这大概更有意为之，对吧？

This is a little bit more, I guess this is probably a little bit more intentional, right?

是的。

Yes.

‘搞砸’通常是指故意破坏某事。

Torpedo is often about intentionally ruining something.

对吧？

Right?

你大概不会在一开始就说，风暴毁了我们的旅行。

You probably wouldn't say at the beginning like the storm torpedoed our trip.

你可以这么说，但它通常与某人故意所做的事情搭配使用。

You could, but it usually is collocated with something that was done intentionally by someone.

被毁了。

Was torpedoed.

是被故意破坏的。

It was intentionally ruined.

当然。

For sure.

哇。

Wow.

这集很不错，因为我们的许多听众都是世界旅行者。

This is a good episode because, well, a lot of our listeners are world travelers.

我们知道你们喜欢旅行。

We know you guys love to travel.

你们有很多故事，但我们也知道你们有一些遇到意外的故事。

You have stories, but we know you have stories where there were mishaps.

是的。

Yes.

事情出错的时候。

Where things went wrong.

对吧，奥布里？

Right, Aubrey?

没错。

Exactly.

我们最近做了一项调查，80%的听众表示他们有过糟糕的酒店住宿经历。

We recently did a poll and it was 80% of our listeners said like they've had bad hotel stays.

旅行中这种事情很常见，对吧？

This happens during travel, right?