“地道英语”：Twig 顿悟
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大家好,欢迎收听 BBC 英语教学的地道英语节目。 在每期节目中,我们都会介绍一个英语母语人士或讲英语流利的人会用到的习惯用语或者短语。

I'm Feifei and I'm here with Beth. How are you? Hi, Feifei. I'm great, thanks. And I have a funny story to share with you. Oh, go on. So I was at a fancy dress party last weekend and I was talking to a person in a superhero costume. I had no idea who it was. I was talking to them for ages, but then they finally took their mask off and I twigged it was my cousin. Oh, must have been a good costume. Yeah.

And that's a great example of the word we're looking at in this programme, twig.

It's an informal British English verb and if you twig, it means you realise or understand something, often after some time or confusion. Exactly. And you can suddenly twig something or it can be a slower realisation. Can you give us an example of when you have twigged something, Feifei? Yes, actually. I was in the lift the other day and the person standing next to me looked really familiar –

But I didn't know who it was until I got out of the lift. I suddenly twigged. It was a famous actor. Ah, that's cool. Twig can often be used in situations where you've been a bit slow to understand something. Like maybe you're watching a mystery film and it's only in the final scene that you guess who the murderer is. You finally twig.

Yes, and we always twig a thing, the realisation. Here are some more examples of the verb twig. So I know this man in the office and then I also know a woman in my choir and I've only just twigged that they're actually siblings.

So a friend of mine has really smelly breath and I tried to tell him gently by offering him mints and I even bought him a toothbrush once and he finally twigged and sorted it out. My wife kept telling me stories about her friend who was going out with someone called Dave. It was months later that I twigged it was my friend Dave. Music

你正在收听的是 BBC 英语教学的地道英语节目 以上我们一起学习了俗语 twig 的用法

在英式英语中,twig 可以做动词,意思是突然明白了某事,顿悟。 Twig 既可以用来表达经过思考后突然明白了某事,也可以是未经思考的对某件事情产生了顿悟。 So twig is used to describe the moment you finally realize something. Yes, it's really useful for describing those aha moments.

Twig 可以表达出我们领悟某件事时的惊奇或者惊喜。 比如有一次我和孩子玩捉迷藏的时候, 直到听见他在碗柜里打了喷嚏才意识到他藏在哪儿。

The other day I only twigged where my son was hiding when I heard a sneeze from inside a kitchen cupboard. Oh, how funny. So, to recap, we've learnt twig, which we can use when we realise or understand something, often after some time or confusion. And that's all from us. We'll be back next time with another useful English phrase. See you then. Bye. BBC Learning English

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And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation. It felt a really safe and welcoming space. After yoga classes, I felt amazing. But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders.

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You just get sucked in so gradually.

And it's done so skillfully that you don't realize. And it's like this, the secret that's there. I wanted to believe that, you know, that whatever they were doing, even if it seemed gross to me,

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