中譯/中文意思: 安全至上
Dialog at: 3:32 and 6:13
A: Oh, the weather looks great!
B: Yeah, it does. Got your umbrella?
A: What for? It’s sunny!
B: Better safe than sorry~
Dictation:
Hello, everybody,
My name is Coach Shane, and welcome to Easy
English Expressions. You and me everyday. Come on. Let’s master English.
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily
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terrible English. Thank you very much for listening to this podcast. You can
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Tell your friends. Thank you so much for listening. Today’s expression is “better
safe than sorry”. “better safe than sorry”. Oh, boy, I really like this
expression. This is something I said very frequently. It’s me. “better safe
than sorry” B-E-T-T-E-R better safe S-A-F-E than T-H-A-N sorry S-O-R-R-Y. Well,
the full sentence would be it is better to be safe than sorry. And what this
expression means is “don’t be risky”. So, for example, you leave the house and
as you leaving the house, you look at your cell phone. And you see there’s only
about 10% of your battery left. So, do you bring your charging
cord? Or, do you think all out be okay? What do you do? Now, many of you
probably do not bring your charging cord. You know, ???. Me? I always bring my
charging cord. 70%? No problem. 30%? Better safe than sorry. If I don’t bring
my charging cord, and my cell phone battery dies, I will be sorry. In this
case, sorry doesn’t mean “Oh, I am sorry.” It actually means disappointed, sad,
or even angry. So, it’s better safe than sorry for me.
Yep. You know, I am kind of crazy. Now, I
live in the desert, so I never bring an umbrella. It’s not rain. It’s not going
to rain here. But when I lived in Korea, I could leave the house in the morning
and it would be nice and sunny and then in the afternoon, it would be raining.
So, for me, everyday, I carry an umbrella. Beacause, you know why. Let’s check
out the dialog:
A: Oh, the weather looks great!
B: Yeah, it does. Got your umbrella?
A: What for? It’s sunny!
B: Better safe than sorry~
You bet? That’s what happens. And you leave
the house, nice weather. You come home and it’s raining no umbrella. Your nice
cloth gets all dirty. What a disaster. It’s terrible, I know, I know. Better safe
than sorry.
I went to the hospital with my mother about
a week ago. And she told me: “I was just 10 minutes in and out, no problem.”
That was what my mom said. And I was thinking: “Well, 10 minutes at the
hospital can be more like an hour“. So I decided to bring a book. I brought a
book with me. And when my mom saw me with my book, she said: “What’s that? What
do you need it for“? I said: “Better
safe than sorry, mom”. I would rather have my book, and you know carry it around
even though it’s useless than sit at the hospital for one hour doing nothing.
What happen? My mother was in and out in 10 minutes. I never opened the book.
But, hey, I am glad I had it. Better safe than sorry.
What about you? Are you a risk-taker even for the silly things? Or you like me?
do you always carry an umbrella? Do you always bring along extra clean T-shirt?
What else do I do? I always hide 10 dollars in my wallet or in my jacket
pocket. You know, it’s better safe than sorry. You’ll never know, you’ll never
know. That’s today’s expression. It’s a brand new
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to that this week. Let’s check out the dialog two more times and together let’s
master English.
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