AEE 2614：不要忽视天气作为绝佳的交流话题

这是《All Ears English》播客第2614期。

This is an All Ears English Podcast episode twenty six fourteen.

别小看天气，它可是聊天破冰的绝佳话题。

Don't turn your back on the weather as a great connection topic.

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Are you feeling stuck with your English?

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阴天和多云有什么区别？潮湿和闷热又该怎么分？

What is the difference between cloudy and overcast or humid and muggy?

今天，我们把天气话题升级，深入聊聊为什么它总能帮你更自然地融入英语对话。

Today, we go next level on the weather topic and explore why this topic still gets you deeper into connection in English.

很多学英语的人特别关注语法规则。

Many English learners focus on grammar.

他们希望自己的句子完全正确。

They want their sentences to be correct.

但流利度不只是关于对错。

But fluency isn't just about correctness.

而是要听起来自然，选对表达方式，快速回应，不用在脑子里把每个想法都翻译一遍。

It's about sounding natural, choosing the right phrase, responding quickly without translating every thought in your head.

所以，有人虽然懂很多语法，说话时还是觉得不自在。

That's why someone can know a lot of grammar rules and still feel uncomfortable in conversations.

真正的流利来自于掌握语言模式、语调和地道表达。

Real fluency comes from understanding patterns, tone, and natural expressions.

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Our free two minute fluency quiz helps you discover your level and what skills will move you forward.

去 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore 试试吧。

Go to allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

就是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

That's allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

嗨，米歇尔。

Hey, Michelle.

你今天怎么样？

How are you today?

最近还好吗？

How's it going?

我还行。

I'm good.

琳达，你呢？

How are you, Lindsay?

我也还好。

Good.

米歇尔，你那边东海岸今天天气怎么样？

Michelle, what's the weather like where you are today on the East Coast?

是冷，阴天，还是多云，或者晴天？

Is it cold, cloudy, overcast, sunny?

现在天气怎么样？

What's it like?

挺冷的，我觉得今天是阴天。

It's cold, and I would say it's overcast today.

明白了。

Okay.

外面不算好看。

It's not not beautiful outside.

不好看。

Not beautiful.

还行吧，但谈不上让人心情愉悦。

Not the worst, but certainly not inspiring.

你那边呢？

What about you?

今天倒是晴天。

Well, it is sunny today.

科罗拉多这边晴天挺多的。

It's sunny a lot in Colorado.

昨天嘛，就下了一点点小雨，像滴了几个水珠似的。

It yesterday, it sort of rained like a tiny droplet.

是啊。

Yeah.

我还问了同事，说昨天下雨了吗？

And then I asked my partners, like, did it rain yesterday?

但我也不太确定。

And just I don't know.

这儿平时根本下不了什么雨，大部分时候都是阳光充足、蓝天一片。

It it doesn't really rain out here, and it we do we get a lot of sunshine, a lot of blue sky.

当地人管这叫‘科罗拉多蓝’，好多天都是那种特别纯净的蓝色。

They call it the Colorado blue, where it's just this pure blue a lot of the days.

哦，那挺好的。

Oh, that's nice.

所以这儿皮肤癌的发病率挺高的。

Means we have high rates of skin cancer out here.

哦，那可不妙。

Oh, that's not good.

是的。

Yeah.

但我还是挺喜欢的。

But I do like it.

我喜欢。

I like it.

挺舒服的。

It's nice.

对。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

嗯，琳赛，聊天气其实我们这节目里已经聊过很多次了。

Well, Lindsay, talking about the weather is actually I mean, we've talked about the weather a lot on this show.

对。

Yeah.

这种能力对建立联系挺重要的，总有人说聊天气是无聊的寒暄。

It's an important skill for connection, and it is always this joke that this is, like, boring small talk.

是的。

Yeah.

但有时候我们确实需要这种能力，因为人们真的会聊天气。

But sometimes, we need to have that skill, and people do talk about the weather.

我的意思是，他们真的、真的会聊。

I mean, they really, really do.

所以这是用英语开启对话的绝佳方式，天气这个话题人人都能共鸣。

So it's a great way to ease your way into a conversation, in English, and the weather is relatable.

就拿我住的地方来说，最近经历了严重的风暴，天气冷得要命。

I mean, we here where I live, it we had terrible storms, and we had it was it's been freezing.

所以说，还有什么比天气更合适的呢？每个人都会经历。

So, I mean, what better I mean, everybody experiences it.

所以这确实是个好话题。

So it's a Yeah.

这是个特别容易拉近距离的话题。

It's a great connection topic.

每个人都会亲身经历，也都会听说，尤其是在国内或世界各地的不同地区。

Everybody experiences it, and everybody hears about it, especially in different parts of the country and the world.

你知道吗，我们一听说哪里发生了地震——呃，

You know, we hear when there are, like, earthquake well, I

严格来说地震不算天气，但像欧洲某些地方发生大风暴，我们都会听说。

guess earthquakes isn't technically weather, but, like, we hear when there are big storms in certain places in Europe.

是的。

Yeah.

可能还有洪水。

Flooding maybe.

我知道东海岸发生了大风暴。

And I know that there were big storms on the East Coast.

就在今天，《纽约时报》还报道了这件事。

Like, I that was just in the New York Times today.

对吧？

Right?

如果有一阵子没见你，我就会问你这些大风暴的情况。

So I would bring that up to you if I hadn't seen you in a while.

那些大风暴怎么样了？

You know, how are those big storms?

对吧？

Right?

是的

Yep.

对

Yep.

确实如此，我知道听起来挺平常的。

It is I know it seems mundane.

看起来挺基础的，我们这档节目经常聊些更有趣的话题，但作为人，我们还是会关心这些事。

It seems kind of basic, and we we talk a lot about more interesting things on this show, but we still talk about it as human beings.

当然。

Definitely.

如果我们不跟你们讲这些，哪怕它们看起来很普通，那才是真的不负责任。

It would if it would we would be doing a disservice if we didn't teach you guys about this even though it seems mundane.

对吧？

Right?

所以今天，我们要聊聊描述天气的各种说法，虽然以前也提过，但有位听众问了个特别好的问题，我们正好来回答一下。

So today, we're going to talk about different ways to describe the weather, which we definitely have touched on about this on this show before, but we're gonna somebody asked us a great listener question that we're gonna answer.

所以当有人问你天气怎么样时，不一定非得每次都用同样的说法。

So someone when somebody asks you how's the weather, you don't always have to say the same exact thing.

你可以表达得更准确一些。

You can be more precise.

也可以说得更生动一点。

You can be more interesting.

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Yeah, guys.

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我们就是想让你们在聊天气的时候，听起来更有意思。

So, yeah, we wanna make you sound more interesting when you do talk about the weather.

所以今天我们要从一位听众的问题说起。

So we're gonna pull from a listener question today.

米歇尔，我来念一下这个问题好吗？

Michelle, shall I go ahead and read the question?

请念吧。

Please do.

好的。

Alright.

这个问题来自YouTube。

So the question comes from YouTube.

别忘了，各位，我们有个完整的YouTube频道。

And don't forget, guys, we have an entire YouTube channel.

去那边点个订阅吧。

Go and hit subscribe over there.

这是来自Ardalon Buchart的提问，24岁。

This is from Ardalon Buchart twenty four.

你能讲讲多云和阴天有什么区别吗？

Can you talk about the differences between cloudy weather and overcast?

这个问题问得好，Michelle，因为确实挺微妙的。

Now this is a good question, Michelle, because it's quite nuanced.

是的。

Yeah.

这两个词其实很相似。

These terms are really similar.

对。

And Yeah.

不管是哪种情况，天上肯定都是有云的。

With both, I mean, there are definitely clouds.

没错。

Mhmm.

唯一能确定的就是天上会有云。

That's the one thing we can count on is clouds.

有云。

Clouds.

那我们先说说阴天吧。

So let's start with cloudy weather.

阴天的时候，天空大部分被云覆盖，但也会有一些缝隙。

So when it's cloudy, there are mostly clouds, but there are some breaks.

所以一整天里，你偶尔能看到几块天空露出来。

So you might see patches of sky here and there throughout the day.

对的。

Mhmm.

所以说，也不是完全被云遮住的。

And so you do there there it's not just all clouds.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Right.

没错。

Right.

云虽然多，

The cloud but

但云层是有间隙的，云当然会移动。

the breaks, the the clouds do move, of course.

对吧？

Right?

所以你会看到云层散开。

And so you see them break up.

有时候片刻之间天空会放晴，可没多久又变阴了。

Maybe for a moment, you do have clear skies, and then it's cloudy again.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

但完全阴天的情况又不太一样。

But then overcast is a little bit different.

对吧？

Right?

云层更厚一些。

It's a bit of a deeper deeper coverage of clouds.

是的。

Right.

你觉得呢？

Don't you think?

对。

Right.

是的。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

所以我想到的就像一层灰蒙蒙的覆盖，或者像盖了层毯子。

So I would think of, like, a gray cover or a blanket.

所以总的来说，灰色更多，云也更厚。

So basically, there's more gray and more clouds.

我是说，今天我往外一看，就觉得天完全阴着，就是一片灰蒙蒙的。

I mean, you had today, I'm looking outside right now, and I and I said, I think it's overcast because it's just it's just blah.

对吧？

Right?

根本看不到一点云缝。

It's not don't see any break in the blah.

就像天上盖着一大片云似的。

Like, there's it looks like one big cloud.

这你明白吧？

It's it doesn't you know?

所以我说的其实就是这个意思。

So that's that's what I yeah.

我觉得这基本就是区别所在。

I would say that that's pretty much the difference.

但我觉得，在日常对话中，如果我对邻居说‘今天外面真阴天’，她不会回我‘你在说什么’。

But I don't think that in typical conversations, if if I said, oh, it's so cloudy outside today to my neighbor, I don't think she would say, what are you talking about?

就是阴天嘛。

It's overcast.

对吧？

Right?

怎么可能。

No way.

绝对不可能。

No way.

我们这是在深入探讨一些细微差别，好让听众说话更准确，但没人会在这儿纠正你。

This is really getting into the nuances so that our listeners can speak more precisely, but no one's gonna correct you here, guys.

我们只是给你提供几种不同的说法。

We're just giving you a variety of options.

好的。

Okay.

没错。

Exactly.

那我们来演示一下这听起来会是什么样。

So let's show how this might sound.

米歇尔，美国哪些城市经常阴天？

What cities in The US usually have cloudy weather weather, Michelle?

波特兰或者西雅图经常阴天。

Oh, Portland or Seattle often have cloudy weather.

是的。

Yeah.

我得说，说到阴天，我们待会儿再细聊，有个全球性的城市。

I have to say well, I would say in terms of overcast, I mean, we're gonna talk about this in a minute, a global city.

不过几年前夏天我去过密歇根，和朋友一起去吃早餐。

But I was in Michigan a couple of summers ago, and I went out for breakfast with a friend.

我从那家早餐店出来的时候。

And I came out of that breakfast.

我从来没见过这么厚的阴天。

I have never seen such a heavy overcast sky.

那种阴天跟平时不太一样，米歇尔。

It was another another kind of overcast, Michelle.

等一下。

Wait.

你刚才说是在哪儿？

Where was this, you said?

就是在密歇根。

This is Michigan.

哦，密歇根。

Oh, Michigan.

密歇根。

Michigan.

真的吗？

Oh, really?

那感觉就是，唉，说不出的压抑。

It was so, like, oh, blah.

是的。

Yeah.

那就是

That's the

这个词。

word.

有时候真的会让人特别低落。

It really can kinda get you down sometimes.

对。

Yeah.

到处都是厚重浓密的灰蒙蒙一片，像盖了层毯子。

It was just such a heavy thick blanket of pure gray everywhere.

简直不可思议。

It was incredible.

是的。

Yeah.

再来一个小情景演练。

Here's another little role play.

哪里的天气经常阴天？

Where is the weather often overcast?

伦敦。

London.

经常是灰蒙蒙的天空。

Lots of gray skies.

是的。

Yeah.

伦敦就以这个出名。

London is famous for that.

伦敦确实出名，但我去的时候，天气都特别好。

Oh, London's famous, but the times I've been in London, it's been beautiful.

所以我也说不准。

So I don't know.

是的。

Yeah.

你不是在那里念过书吗？

Well, you studied there.

我的意思是

I mean

我确实待过。

I did.

对。

Yeah.

虽然经常下雨，但天气好的时候也特别美。

There's a lot of rain, but there's a, you know, there's also a lot of beautiful weather.

所以嘛，是这样。

So Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

不过现在我们要来聊一些描述相反情况的词。

So but now we're gonna go into some words that could describe the opposite.

因为天气这方面有很多细微差别的词。

And we're gonna because there are a lot of words that are nuance like this with the weather.

是的。

Yeah.

所以我们想一起看看几个类似的词，让你明白它们之间的区别。

So we wanna go over some similar ones so you know the difference.

对。

Yes.

第一个词，天气晴朗又明亮。

So this first one, so it's sunny and bright.

对。

Mhmm.

好的。

Okay.

晴天就是太阳出来了，你能看得见。

So sunny means the sun is out and you can see it.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Mhmm.

但明亮指的是光线很强，即使你看不见太阳。

But bright means there's a lot of light even if you can't see the sun.

天一亮，我就得戴墨镜。

It's like, I need my sunglasses when it's bright.

太阳可能还在那儿。

There could be the sun.

对。

Right.

但可能你刚从一场下午的电影里出来。

But it could just be, like, maybe you just came in from an, afternoon movie.

你平时会去看日场电影吗？

Do ever go to a daytime movie?

然后一走出去。

And then you walk out.

天啊，光线好刺眼。

It's like, oh, it's so bright.

我的天。

Oh my gosh.

我的眼睛。

My eyes.

哦，或者当你的眼睛被散瞳的时候呢？

Oh, or what about when you get your eyes dilated?

哦，对啊。

Oh, yeah.

就是啊，你得戴墨镜。

That's Or, like, you gotta wear the sunglasses.

是的。

Yeah.

一般来说，这两件事总是配套的。

I mean, usually, they go hand in hand.

阳光明媚的

It's a bright, sunny

日子。

day.

没错。

Exactly.

晴朗的日子。

Sunny day.

但它们的意思还是有点不一样。

But but they do mean slightly different things.

确实有点差别。

Very slightly.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

嗯哼。

Mhmm.

夏威夷的天气怎么样？

How's the weather in Hawaii?

今天阳光明媚。

It's bright and sunny today.

是的

Yeah.

对

Yeah.

这和西海岸很像，奥布里住的地方，还有我住的科罗拉多。

And and that's similar to the the the West here where Aubrey lives and where I live in Colorado.

我经常遇到这种阳光明媚的天气。

I would get a lot of this bright and sunny.

坐飞机的时候，降落前机长通常会通过广播告诉你当地天气情况。

And often when you fly, you'll hear the captain will come on the radio as you're just landing and and let you know what the weather is in in that place.

所以我特别喜欢飞往洛杉矶。

And that's why I love flying into LA.

每次都是阳光灿烂，气温在七十几度。

Every time, bright sunny day, mid seventies.

没错。

Right.

不管怎样，实际上

No matter what, actually,

这儿就是这样。

here it is.

夏威夷的例子挺有意思，我朋友刚去过夏威夷，大家都问他们，天哪。

The Hawaii example is funny because I have, my friends actually just went to Hawaii, and everybody's asking them, oh my gosh.

怎么样啊？

How was it?

羡慕得不行。

You know, all jealous.

哎呀，你们去夏威夷了。

Oh, you went to Hawaii.

他们说那儿大部分时间都在下雨。

They say it rained most of the time.

没有这回事。

No.

是的

Yeah.

他们说，感觉挺别扭的，因为别人总问他们玩得怎么样，可他们又不想说其实没那么好，不想抱怨。

And they said, you know, they feel weird, you know, because people ask them how they it it it was, and they don't wanna say, oh, it wasn't, you know, they don't wanna complain.

但那地方的天气，真没达到他们的期待。

But they it just wasn't what you hope for, you know, be with the weather.

唉。

Ugh.

这太让人难过了。

That's so sad.

真替他们感到惋惜。

I'm so sorry for them.

是的

Yeah.

我们在挪威也遇到过类似情况，不过那儿本来我就没抱太大期望。

I mean, that happened to us in Norway, but I would expect that in Norway.

没错。

Right.

你知道的，九月，可不是在夏威夷。

You know, in September, not in Hawaii.

你明白吧？

You know?

没错。

Right.

是的。

Yeah.

就是这样。

Exactly.

但有趣的是，有时候虽然多云或阴天，但光线依然很亮。

So but what's interesting is sometimes it can be cloudy or overcast, but still bright.

对吧？

Right?

所以有些阴天，你也得戴墨镜。

So there are cloudy days where you need sunglasses.

对。

Mhmm.

完全没错。

A 100%.

完全没错。

A 100%.

这种情况确实会发生。

That can happen.

所以我很喜欢，今天我们真的开始深入探讨这些词的微妙之处了。

So I love that today, we really are getting into some interesting nuances of these words.

对吧？

Right?

其实没那么简单。

It's actually not that simple.

英语里总还能再深挖一层，各位。

You can always go a level deeper with English, guys.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

That's right.

是的。

Yeah.

好的。

Alright.

再来几个意思相近的天气词汇。

So more weather words that are kinda similar to each other.

比如阴沉和灰暗。

So gloomy and gray.

阴沉和灰暗。

Gloomy and gray.

那这些呢，米歇尔？

So what about these, Michelle?

对。

Yeah.

这两种说法都形容阴暗沉闷的天气。

Well, both of these describe dark and dull weather.

‘gloomy’更侧重那种情绪，让人觉得忧郁低落，而‘gray’则是直接描述天空的颜色。

So gloomy is kinda that focus on the feeling, sad and moody, whereas gray is focusing on the literal color of the sky.

对吧？

Right?

所以天气可以又灰又阴沉。

So it could be gray and gloomy.

所以说，晴朗明亮，和灰暗阴沉，这两组词常常是成对出现的。

So, again, sunny and bright, gray and gloomy, they often go hand in hand.

对。

So Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

如果外面是灰蒙蒙的，你大概也会有点儿郁闷的感觉。

If if it's gray outside, you're probably getting a little bit of that gloomy feeling.

顺便说一下，我们这档节目有时候会教你们，词序很重要。

And and by the way, sometimes we teach you guys on this show chunks that matter what word comes first.

但这次我觉得无所谓。

But in this case, I would say it doesn't matter.

你可以说：天气怎么样？

You could say, how's the weather?

哦，外面又阴又灰。

Oh, it's gloomy and gray outside.

也可以说：又灰又阴。

It's gray and gloomy.

对。

Right.

怎么说都行

There's no wrong way to

没错

say that.

对吧？

Right?

当然，也不用非得把它们连在一起说

You don't have to say them together, of course.

不过

But

不用

No.

确实不用

You don't have to.

真的不用

You don't have to.

是的。

Mhmm.

那边天气怎么样？

So how's the weather there?

灰蒙蒙的，挺阴沉的。

It's really gray and kinda gloomy.

让人只想待在家里。

Makes me wanna stay inside.

你会因为天气变化有这种感觉吗？

Do you get affected by the weather like that?

遇到那种特别糟糕的日子，你会不想出门，只想窝着吗？

Do you feel like when it's those just not so great days, do you just wanna cuddle up?

说实话，我觉得大家都这样。

I think we all do, to be honest.

我认识一些住在太平洋西北地区的人，比如波特兰或者华盛顿州的。

I think I I know people that live in the Pacific Northwest like Portland or, Washington.

我认识一个住在这儿的人，她从小在华盛顿州长大，她说每当下着大太阳的时候，她反而觉得内疚，因为觉得自己应该出去活动才对。

I know someone who lives here that grew up in Washington state, and she said she feels guilty when she doesn't like that it's sunny all the time in Colorado because she feels like she should be outside doing something.

她是在

She grew up in

太平洋西北部长大的，所以习惯了多雨的天气。

the Pacific Northwest, so she's used to more rain.

这百分百会影响人的情绪。

But a 100%, it affects your mood.

是的。

Yes.

对。

Yes.

确实如此。

It's true.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

我也有这样的日子。

I have days like that too.

遇到天气特别好的时候，你就特别想出去走走。

When it's a beautiful day, you just feel like.

对。

Yeah.

有时候，外面的天气和你心里想做的事根本对不上号。

Even sometimes it not might not match up with your your mood, your feeling of what you wanna do that day.

你明明想待在家里，窝一整天，心想‘天气这么差，只能待 indoors’，结果外面阳光明媚。

You might wanna have an indoor day with the, you know, oh, there's bad weather, so I have to be inside, but the weather is beautiful.

那这时候你怎么办？

And now what do you do?

在西部这边，情况就不太一样了。我是在东海岸长大的。

Or over here in the West, the difference is so I I grew up on the East Coast.

在东海岸，只要一下雨，那就是真真正正的雨天。

And on the East Coast, if you have if it's raining, it's a rainy day.