Dan: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Dan. 大家好，欢迎收听地道英语节目。我是丹。

Feifei: 大家好，我是冯菲菲。Dan have you arranged everything for the office party tomorrow? 明天办公室聚会的一切事宜你都安排妥当了吧？

Dan: The party? Oh absolutely. 聚会呀？没问题。

Feifei: You remembered to book the restaurant? 你没忘了订酒店吧？

Dan: Uh-huh. 嗯。

Feifei: Because it's really important that it's been reserved. 你可千万要记住订一个桌子，否则明天晚上的晚餐聚会就没戏了， 这个非常重要。

Dan: Really important. Gotcha. 很重要，Gotcha.

Feifei: Gotcha? Gotcha 什么意思？

Dan: Gotcha. It means I understand. It's short for I've got you. Gotcha意思就是“我明白了”，是I've got you的简短说法。

Feifei: Ah gotcha. Gotcha 的意思就是懂了，明白了。So if you understand something you can say gotcha. Is it rude? 那么一件事情你懂了的话就可以说gotcha。会不会不太礼貌？

Dan: Well, it's very informal. You wouldn't hear it in a very polite conversation. Let's hear some examples of people using the phrase gotcha. 这是一种非正式的说法，不会出现在很礼貌的谈话中。我们来看几个例子。

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Example

A: Don't forget to post those letters – they're really important.
别忘了把这些信寄出去，这可是很重要的。

B: Gotcha; I'll do that right now.
明白。我马上去办。

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Dan: So gotcha there means I understand. But it can also be used to show you've just played a joke on someone. 因此gotcha意思就是我明白了，也可以用来表示你只是在跟某人开玩笑。

Feifei: 我们和某人开玩笑，那个人当真了，这时我们就可以说 gotcha.

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Examples

A: Hey did you know that they're adding Brad Pitt's face to Mount Rushmore? 你知道吗？布拉德皮特的头像被雕刻到拉什莫尔山上了。

B: No way! That's incredible! 不会吧！怎么可能！

A: Ahh gotcha! They're not really! 哈！是假的。

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A: Hey these tickets are really cheap! 嘿！这票很便宜啊。

B: Yeah, but the gotcha is that the flights are really early. 是啊，不过比赛开始的太早了。

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Dan: In that last example gotcha wasn't being used to show that he was playing a joke, but instead that there was a catch or a hitch. Although the tickets were cheap, the gotcha was that the flights were really early. 在第二个例子中gotcha并不表示开玩笑，而是隐藏的问题、困难、圈套。这句的意思是虽然门票便宜，但问题是比赛开始的太早了。

Feifei: So gotcha 也有隐情，圈套的意思。

Dan: Right, I better go now Feifei. I've got to book the table for tomorrow. 菲菲，我要走了。我得去酒店订一张桌子。

Feifei: What? You said you'd booked it already! 什么？你不是说已经订好了吗？

Dan: Ahh gotcha! Of course I have. 骗你的！我当然早就订好了。

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Dan: Bye! 再见！

Feifei: Bye! 再见！