AEE：我从它身边走过：在生活的混乱时刻建立连接

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This is an All Ears English podcast.

我直接从它旁边走过去了。

I walked right past it.

在生活的混乱时刻，建立真正的联结。

Connection in life's messy moments.

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你是不是觉得自己的英语进步卡住了？

Are you feeling stuck with your English?

我们会教你如何通过注重交流，而不是追求完美，变得自信又流利。

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection.

本期节目由两位美国主持人带来：英语冒险家林赛·麦马洪，以及纽约电台女孩米歇尔·卡普兰，她们分别从科罗拉多和纽约市为你直播。

With your American hosts, Lindsey McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

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你有没有过这种情况，东西明明就在眼前，比如太阳镜或者钱包，可你就是找不到？

Do you tend to lose things even when those items like your sunglasses or your wallet are right in front of you?

如果有的话，你不是一个人在战斗。

If so, you're not alone.

今天我们就来聊聊，当你犯这种小错误时该怎么说，毕竟生活中这样的小插曲太多了。

Today, find out what to say when you make this mistake because life is full of these silly moments.

你是不是还在心里把母语翻译成英语？

Are you still translating from your native language into English in your head?

你是不是总在各种时态之间搞混？

Are you always getting confused between the different grammar tenses?

咱们一起来看看，你最需要提升的是哪一块。

Let's figure out what you need to work on.

通过我们五分钟的测验，快速了解你的英语水平，网址是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

Find your current English level with our five minute quiz at allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

嗨，Michelle。

Hey there, Michelle.

最近怎么样？

What's shaking?

有什么新鲜事？

What's going on?

嗨，林赛。

Hey, Lindsey.

没什么特别的。

Not too much.

林赛，你有没有过正在打电话的时候，却到处找手机的情况？

Lindsey, have you ever been on the phone and looked for it while you were on it?

是啊，有啊。

Oh, yeah.

当然有。

Of course.

有的。

Yes.

当然了。

Of course.

或者，米歇尔，你有没有戴着眼镜却到处找的时候？

Or, Michelle, have you ever looked for your sunglasses and not realized they were on your head?

有。

Yes.

有。

Yes.

当然了。

Of course.

对啊。

Yeah.

所以我最近好像提过这事，但我觉得这真的很常见。

So I I have I think we spoke about this recently, but this is a very I think this is pretty common.

我觉得每个人都有过这种时刻，突然发现自己在想：天哪。

I think everybody can relate to this kind of moment where you're like, oh my god.

不过呢。

But yeah.

就是那种脸朝下摔个大跟头的时刻。

The real, like, the face plant moment.

对吧？

Right?

就是我们

Where we

是的。

Yes.

没错。

Yeah.

对啊。

Yeah.

就是这样。

Exactly.

你到处找一样东西，结果它就在特别显眼的地方。

You're looking for something, and then it's in a super obvious place.

或者在冰箱里，你有没有过这种时候？我跟丹说：希腊酸奶放哪儿了？

Or in the fridge, do you ever ask, like, I'll say to Dan, like, where is the Greek yogurt?

结果一看，就在那儿放着。

And it's like, it's right there.

就摆在那儿呢。

Like It's right there.

哎呀，不会吧。

Oh, No.

真的假的。

No.

没错。

For sure.

我找东西总是找不着。

I'm not very good at looking for things and finding things.

东西通常就摆在我眼前。

They're usually right in front of my face.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Exactly.

就是这样。

Exactly.

这其实是一种人人都会遇到的普遍情况。

So this is a I think this is a universal situation that people find themselves in.

接下来我们聊聊怎么用英语描述这种情况，因为这特别适合讲故事，也适合自嘲。

So we're gonna talk about how to describe this situation in English because this is great for storytelling, for teasing yourself.

这看起来像是个挺傻的话题，但其实特别能拉近人与人之间的距离。

So it's one of those things that seems like such a, like, a kind of a silly topic, but can actually bring about connection.

而且还挺有意思的。

And it's and it's fun.

就是挺轻松、挺有趣的。

Like, it's lighthearted, and it's fun.

对。

Yeah.

这些表达甚至在办公室休息区也很管用，比如你找东西时，记得自己放哪儿了。

And this could be these phrases could be useful even, let's say, in the work break room if you're looking for something that you left there.

你的咖啡杯。

Your coffee cup.

对吧？

Right?

你那个特别的咖啡杯。

Your special coffee cup.

没错。

Yes.

它就摆在那儿。

And it's right there.

或者在家，或者在朋友家也用得上。

Or at home or at a friend's house.

所以不管在哪，这个都很实用。

So it's going to be really useful all over the place.

明白吗？

Okay?

是的。

Yes.

很好。

Good.

没错。

Exactly.

好了，各位，在开始之前，我们想提醒一下，无论你在哪个平台收听《All Ears English》，别忘了点关注，这样就不会错过任何内容了。

So, alright guys, before we get into it, we want to remind you to hit the follow button wherever you're listening to All Ears English so you don't miss anything.

是的。

Yes.

如果你认同我们的理念——重视连接，而非完美，现在就点个关注吧。

Hit follow now guys if you believe in our our philosophy, which is connection not perfection.

好了。

Alright.

好了。

Alright.

我们之前已经给听众们透露了一些我们可能会提到的内容。

So we've already given some hints to our listeners of what we might say.

我想我们俩之前都说过，那事儿就明明白白摆在眼前。

I think we both said earlier, it was right in front of my face.

是的。

Yes.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yes.

是的

Yeah.

我特别喜欢这个。

So I love this one.

我的意思是，确实如此。

I mean Yeah.

它就在眼前，但也不一定非得是字面意义上的‘眼前’。

It was right in front it doesn't have to have been right in front it doesn't have to be literal.

是的

Yeah.

是的

Yeah.

只是想说，它离我特别近。

But it's just saying it was so close to me.

就在那么明显的地方。

It was in such an obvious spot.

我到处找我的钱包，结果它就在我眼前。

So I was looking everywhere for my wallet, and then it was right in front of my face.

我不禁想知道，人的大脑为什么会这样。

I wonder why the human brain does this.

是不是因为周围太乱了，我们根本没把那东西认出来就是我们要找的。

I wonder if it's because there's just a lot of other chaos going on, and we just don't identify the item as the thing we're looking for.

因为我们的视线根本就从它上面滑过去了。

Because our eyes pass over it.

是啊。

Yeah.

对吧？

Right?

所以我有时候会觉得，不管我在找什么，都会把它当成有生命的东西。

So I always sometimes I feel like, oh, whatever I'm looking I like personify it.

总觉得我找的东西就在某个地方，正偷偷笑我呢。

Like I feel like whatever I'm looking for, it exists somewhere and it's kind of laughing at me.

这真有意思。

That's funny.

就好像它知道我在找它，正躲在某个地方笑话我。

Like, it knows I'm looking for it, and it's laughing at me in somewhere.

它确实在某个地方。

It is somewhere.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

林赛，你生活中有没有什么东西总是找不到？

Lindsay, is there something in your life that you feel like you always miss place?

比如，你是不是经常觉得

Like, are you just it's

不幸的是，可不是只有一样东西这样。

just like Unfortunately, it's not any one thing.

是所有事情。

It's all things.

都是各种小事。

It's all things.

我就爱这样。

It's I do this.

我伴侣老笑话我，说我特别丢三落四。

Like, my partner teases me a lot that this is like, I'm the worst.

我找东西的样子，就像个小孩一样。

The idea is that I look like a child would look for something.

我其实不太会认真找东西，确实如此。

Like, I don't I don't do a good job really looking for things and Yeah.

找东西嘛，挺麻烦的。

Finding Unfortunately.

对。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

对我来说，我总在找指甲剪。

Like, for me, I feel like I'm always looking for a nail clipper.

哦，没错。

Oh, yes.

有意思。

Interesting.

总是这样。

Always.

比如昨晚，我急死了。

Like, last night, I was desperate.

我的指甲长了，但我喜欢保持短一点。

Like, my nails are getting long, and I like to keep them short.

然后我就想，唉。

And I was like, ugh.

你有吗

Do have

你有没有一个固定的地方放指甲剪？

do you have a designated spot where the nail clipper goes?

看来我没有。

Apparently, I don't.

对吧？

Right?

问题就在这儿。

That's that's the issue.

如果我有，我就该在每个房间都放一个，这样我就能一个个丢掉，可我确实有很多。

If I had a I just, like, need to leave one in every room so that I can lose each of them one by one, but I have a lot.

是啊。

Oh, yeah.

所以我总觉得，你刚买一个新的，结果又找到了旧的，然后新的又不见了。

So I feel like I'm I you know, and then you buy a new one, and then you find the old one, and then you lose the new one.

所以现在就是

And then so it's just

你有大概十个指甲剪，但都

You have, like, 10 nail clippers, which you

用不上。

cannot use.

但它们也都找不到了。

But then they're all gone also.

所以我总觉得，这简直就是个指甲剪的问题。

So, like, I feel like it's a nail clipper.

我就是觉得，有些东西我不会买贵的，因为总会弄丢。

I'm like and there are there are things that I will not buy an expensive one of them because I lose that.

比如太阳镜。

Like, sunglasses.

我不会买贵的太阳镜，也不会买贵的手套，这类东西都一样，买了就跟扔了没区别。

I will not buy expensive sunglasses, expensive gloves, anything like that because it's like throwing it in the trash.

我懂。

I know.

我买太阳镜总是一阵一阵的。

I go through phases with sunglasses.

有时候就忍不住买一副贵的。

I'll go and splurge on a nice pair.

上回那副贵的，我忘在一家精酿啤酒馆的洗手间里了。

And then my last nice pair, I left them in the bathroom of a brewery.

我气坏了。

I was so mad.

当时就直接走了。

I just left.

后来回去找，已经没了。

And then I went back, they were gone.

真够惨的。

How sad.

对吧？

Right?

哦，真够惨的。

Oh, that is sad.

所以别人也觉得它们挺不错的。

So someone else thought they were nice too.

是的。

Yeah.

我想是吧。

I guess so.

不管怎样，咱们还是回到那个吧。

Anyways, let's get back to the one.

下一个是什么，米歇尔？

What what's the next one, Michelle?

我那时候正盯着它看呢。

I was looking right at it.

所以啊，你当时其实并不是真的在找东西，可能只是盯着橱柜发呆，但这更多是种隐喻。

So again, you weren't I mean I mean, maybe you were just like staring at a cabinet looking for something, but it's more metaphorical.

就是，它明明就在那儿。

Like, it was just it was right there.

那我的信用卡到底在哪？

So where's my credit card?

天哪。

Oh gosh.

我明明就盯着它看。

I was looking right at it.

是的。

Yes.

没错。

Exactly.

你甚至可能在超市里，翻钱包付钱的时候也这么说。

And you might say this even if you are at the grocery store and you're digging into your wallet to try to pay for your groceries.

你可能会大声说出来。

Might say this out loud.

你可能会笑着附和一声，对吧。

You might have like chuckle with the Yeah.

跟收银员说的时候。

With the cashier.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

你有没有过，比如把交通卡或者保险卡递给别人的时候，

Have you ever given in, like, a subway card or something or your insurance card to the

经常的事。

All the time.

我就是想知道，你们收吗？

You're I'm like, do you take?

然后通常是在酒吧之类的地方，调酒师会说句带刺的话，或者逗你一下。

And then usually, it it was, like, at a bar or something, bartender will make a snide remark or something and tease you a little bit.

你懂的。

You know?

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

你该付账的时候，会把身份证给他们，或者反过来也行。

You're supposed to pay the bill and you give them your ID or vice versa.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

天哪。

Oh god.

太尴尬了。

So embarrassing.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

或者你干脆直接提一句。

Or you can just comment on it.

你可以说，我压根就没想过要去那儿找。

You can say, the one place I didn't think to look.

是的。

Yeah.

你可以说，我去过邮局，也去过失物招领处，哦，对了。

So you could say, I went to the post and I went to the lost Oh, and yeah.

我这是在干嘛呢？

What what am I doing?

哦，原来如此。

Oh, okay.

我去失物招领处找过了。

I went to the lost and found.

我到处都找遍了，你猜怎么着？

I looked all over the place, and then guess what?

它就在我的仪表盘上。

It was on my dashboard.

就是我最没想到的地方。

The one place I didn't think to look.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

天哪，真是没想到。

So Oh my gosh.

哪儿都找了，就差那儿没找。

Looked everywhere except that one spot.

这不就是常说的脑子短路嘛。

It's just what we call a brain fart.

对吧？

Right?

就是脑子短路了。

It's a brain fart.

是的。

Yeah.

有时候吧，我记得有次跟老爸找一份特别重要的文件，其实我们早就拿着了。

Or sometimes, you know, I remember I was looking for a very important document with my dad and we had it.

文件就在我们手里。

We had it.

然后我们开车去了个地方，结果俩人都找不着了。

And then we drove somewhere and then we both couldn't find it.

其实那东西根本没离开过车。

And it hadn't left the car.

我们啥也没干，就坐在那儿。

Like, we didn't do anything.

俩人都快急疯了。

We were both starting to freak out.

后来才发现，它掉到手套箱后面缝里去了。

And then it it had, like, fallen, like, behind like, in the glove compartment, it have, like, fallen in the crack behind it.

天哪。

Oh, no.

哎呀我的天。

Oh gosh.

哎呀我的天。

Oh gosh.

是的

Yeah.

别提我爸爸了，他老丢东西。

I mean, don't even get me started with with my dad.

他总是丢三落四的。

He loses stuff all the time.

真是够呛。

It's bad news.

他真不容易。

Poor guy.

我本来想给他买个能把手机固定在腰带上的东西。

I wanted to buy him like a like a way to connect his phone to his belt or something.

所以我们买了。

So we Yeah.

至少手机没那么容易丢了，但又能怎么办呢？

So we're not losing the phone so much, but what can you do?

生活真不容易。

Life is hard.

生活真不容易。

Life is hard.

是啊。

Yeah.

好了，米歇尔。

Alright, Michelle.

我们还能说点别的。

There's a few other things we could say.

那事儿明明就摆在我眼前。

It was staring me in the face.

所以这个算是把东西拟人化了，你知道的。

So this is kind of the persona personification one, know.

另一个说法是，它就在我眼前，但这个说法听起来好像它长了眼睛，正盯着你看，而且你

So the other one was, it was right in front of my face, but this one makes it sound like it has eyes and it's looking at you and you

拟人化，我太喜欢这个说法了。

Personification, I love it.

你可以说，我终于找到我的书了。

You could say, so I finally found my book.

它就摆在我桌上，明明白白地盯着我。

It was staring me in the face right on my desk.

对。

Yes.

或者我根本就从它旁边走过去了。

Or I walked right past it.

我完全没注意到我的包。

So I totally missed my bag.

我直接从它旁边走过去了。

I walked right past it.

没错。

Yep.

对。

Yep.

我觉得这个节目特别能引起听众共鸣。

And I think I love this episode because I think it's gonna be universally relatable for our listeners.

是的。

Yeah.

没错。

Right.

他们每个人在生活中大概都会时不时遇到类似的情况。

They're they're all probably doing some version of this at some point in their lives, right, on a regular basis.

所以我希望如此。

So I hope.

希望不只我们这样。

I hope it's not just us.

是的。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

我不这么认为。

I don't think so.

不过呢，确实是。

But yeah.

我的意思是，林赛，为什么这个话题能引起共鸣？

I it just I mean, Lindsay, why is this a good connection topic?

因为你知道，这种事会发生在你身上，而那一刻，身边的人——不管是伴侣、朋友还是收银员——也常常会遇到类似的情况。

Just because, you know, it happens to you, and in that moment, there's someone around you, a spouse, a friend, a cashier, who it also happens to sometimes.

当他们能在你身上看到自己的影子时，你们之间就有了连接。

And when they can see themselves in you, you have connection.

与其紧张尴尬，不如干脆说出来。

If you can articulate, instead of getting nervous and getting awkward, we just articulate.

我们用上这些话，稍微自嘲一下就好。

We use one of these phrases and we kind of make fun of ourselves a little bit.

是的。

Yeah.

而且讲故事的时候，你跟别人说，有时候就是个挺搞笑的事儿。

And also for storytelling, you know, you're telling someone, you know, sometimes it's just a funny story.

是的。

Yeah.

我记得跟你说过，我那次找不到眼镜的事儿，好吧。

I mean, think I told you the story of when I couldn't find my glasses and Okay.

还有我后来拿错的那些东西。

And some of what I picked up instead.

其实我不这么认为。

I don't think so actually.

我赶紧跟你说一下。

I'll tell you real fast.

那是好多年前，我刚搬去纽约的时候，那时候我还没做激光手术。

So this was years ago when I first moved to New York and I I've since gotten laser eye surgery.

所以我现在不戴眼镜，但以前视力特别差。

So I don't wear glasses, but I had pretty bad vision.

最麻烦的就是，你把隐形眼镜摘了，却不知道眼镜放哪儿了。

And I was the worst thing would be if you took out your contact lenses without knowing where your glasses were.

那时候你就知道糟了。

Because then you're like, uh-oh.

是的。

Yeah.

这倒不会出什么大问题。

It's not gonna have a problem.

对。

Yeah.

你就在那儿瞎摸一通。

You're fumbling around.

我确实干过这事儿。

Had done that.

所以我当时到处找，一边摸一边想：眼镜到底在哪儿？

And so I was looking and I'm like feeling everywhere on my bed where where are they?

结果我找到了，拿起来一看，居然是个格兰诺拉麦片棒。

And then I found them and I picked it up and it was a granola bar.

那时候我的视力差到这种地步。

And that's how bad my vision was.

我看到那个麦片棒，还以为是我的眼镜呢。

I saw the granola bar and I'm like, there are my glasses.

对啊。

Yes.

我真以为那是我的眼镜。

I thought those were my glasses.

所以以前我的视力有多差，你就知道了。

So that's how bad my vision used to be.

我直接就把它拿起来了。

I just picked it up.

我还以为这是个能量棒呢。

I'm like, this is a granola.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

真高兴你做了手术。

I'm glad you got the surgery.

天啊，米歇尔。

Jeez, Michelle.

是的。

Were Yes.

是的。

Yes.

我确实那样过。

I definitely was.

总之，在这个角色扮演里，我们不会用到所有这些道具，但当时我找不到眼镜，你就在我身边。

So, anyways, so in this role play, we're not gonna use all of these, but in this role play, I couldn't find my glasses, and you are with me.

是的。

Yes.

好的。

Alright.

当然了，总有人在旁边看着这一切。

Of course, someone's always around to to witness this Yes.

是的。

Yes.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Mhmm.

就是这样。

Exactly.

好的。

Alright.

好了，开始了。

Here here we go.

他们在哪儿？

Where are they?

是这些吗？

Are these them?

哦，对。

Oh, yes.

谢谢。

Thank you.

哇。

Wow.

他们就在我眼前。

They were right in front of my face.

这种事经常发生在我身上。

That stuff happens to me all the time.

有一次我在机场怎么也找不到我的行李。

Once I couldn't find my luggage at the airport.

我当时急得不得了。

I was in a total panic.

我问了个人，你猜怎么着？

I asked someone, and guess what?

其实我就正盯着它看呢。

I was looking right at it.

没错。

Right.

对。

Yeah.

我觉得这种情况更容易发生在我们紧张或者压力大的时候。

I think this is more likely to happen if we're like high strung or we're feeling nervous or something.

是的。

Yes.

至少对我来说是这样

At least for

我确实会这样。

me, it does.

比如机场就是一个地方，因为我总是反复检查。

Like, an airport would be a place because I do a lot of checking.

我有点爱检查东西。

I'm kind of a checker.

我们以前聊过这个。

We've talked about this before.

我们确实聊过。

We've talked about this.

没错。

Yep.

所以每次坐Lyft到机场下车后，我就会开始一遍遍地检查。

And so I'll like, I'll get out of the Lyft and I'll be dropped off at the airport and then I'll be like checking.

好吧。

Okay.

我手机带了吗？

Do I have my phone?

我有没有带

Do I have

这个？

this?

有。

Yeah.

有。

Yeah.

有。

Yeah.

那时候我就会想：我的手机在哪？

And that would be the moment when it'd be like, where's my phone?