英语日常口语 Unit16:A kitchen romance

本单元是关于厨房里的风流韵事的对话

Michal: Oh Bronka! I'm so miserable! Alice doesn't want to go out with me.
Helen: Oh sorry, Michal. Am I interrupting something here?
Michal: No, no, I'm just pouring my heart out to Bronka.
Helen: Oh yeah, I found out that Alice gave you a knock-back but it's not the end of the world. There are plenty more fish in the sea you know.
Michal: Fish? I don't want a fish, I want a date!
Helen: Well, there's someone right in front of you!
Michal: You're always too busy studying. You wouldn't go out with a guy like me.
Helen: Oh wouldn't I? Why don't you ask first!
Michal: Would you?
Helen: I'd love to!

Vocabulary :

There are plenty more fish in the sea: (idiom): There are other people available (in this episode, Helen suggest there are other girlfriends apart from Alice for Michal).
To give someone a knock-back (informal): to reject someone

本单元的语言点是英语动词短语，动词短语是动词加介词和副词构成的短语，例如 drop out 意思是没有完成大学学业，离开学校。

Phrasal verbs or multi-word verbs are verbs that are combined with one or two particles (a preposition or adverb), for example, 'out' to make verbs with new meanings. For example, drop means to let slip (She dropped the vase and it broke) but drop out means to leave university or college without graduating (After only 3 months of college, he dropped out and got a job).

Phrasal Verbs – out

Pour out something/Pour something out: Talk about emotions or feelings
You can pour out your troubles to me. I won't tell anyone.
She really poured her heart out to her mum after she failed her exams.

Find out (something): Learn something (by reading or hearing it)
I only found out last week that she's getting married. She kept that one a secret!
When she found out he was having an affair, she divorced him.

Go out (with someone): Have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
They've been going out for 5 years and he still hasn't asked her to marry him.
He asked her to go out with him but she didn't fancy him so she said "No."

Point out something/Point something out: Inform or tell
We had a great tour guide in Paris . She pointed out lots of secret places we'd never heard of before. When I make a mistake I hate the way he always points it out .

Fall out (with someone): Have an argument or disagreement with someone and stop being friends with him or her
She fell out with me after all these years over an invite to a party!
They were best friends for years but they fell out and now they don't even talk to each other.

Run out (of something): Not have anything left of something
This pen has run out . Can I borrow yours?
Our car ran out of petrol and we had to walk 10 miles to a garage to buy some more.

Figure something out/Figure out something: Think about something until you discover the answer
He figured out how his new DVD player worked after he read the instruction manual.