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BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well.
I'm Feifei and I'm here with Beth. How are you? Hi, Feifei. I'm OK, although my younger sister is staying with me at the moment and she expects me to do everything for her. This morning she wanted me to bring her breakfast in bed. I said you can moan all you like. I am not making you breakfast in bed. Oh, no. Although all you like, that's an interesting phrase. It's
It means a person can do or say something as much as they want to, but it won't change the situation. Yes, it's used when complaints or actions won't have any effect. Like my sister complaining, there was no way I was going to make her breakfast in bed. Exactly. The decision was final.
This reminds me of when I was at school, when our teacher used to give us lots of homework at school holidays and we complained. But the teacher always told us, you can complain all you like, but you still have to do it all. Yeah, I think we had the same, to be honest. Right, let's listen to more examples of all you like. Stop making that noise. You can cry all you like. I'm not going to give you that ice cream.
你正在收听的是 BBC 英语教学的第一道英语节目。 刚刚我们一起学习了短语 all you like 的用法。
All you like 通常用来表明不论他人怎么劝说抱怨, 事情或人的决定都不会因此做出改变,不为所动。 也就是我们常说的,随你怎么做。 So we've said all you like is used to say that somebody can continue to do something, like complain, but it won't change the outcome. It's usually a phrase used at the end of a clause that has the modal verb can.
Yes, and that second clause is often linked with but. 在实际使用中, all you like 通常衔接在包含 can do something 这个结构的强调句之后, 并进一步引出由 but 引导的转折句。
比如, you can moan all you like, but I won't change my mind. 你尽管发牢骚吧,但我是不会改变心意的。 I might actually say that to my sister later on if she continues to ask me to do any more things for her. Well, good luck with your sister. We'll be back next time with another useful English phrase. See you soon. Bye.