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Learn the English Phrase "to edge out" and "a double-edged sword"

2025/1/31
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Bob the Canadian: 在这节英语课中,我想帮助你们学习英语短语“to edge out”。当你“edge someone out”时,意味着你超越了他们。例如,在工作中,你和一位同事都在争取晋升,但只有一个名额。可能因为你懂得更多,所以你能够胜过你的同事,因为你就是更好的选择。有时候,当团队在赛季末比赛时,他们会“edge out”那些和他们处在同一位置的人。他们赢得一场比赛,而另一个城市的其他队伍输掉一场比赛,这帮助他们“edge out”其他队伍,帮助他们超越他们。另一个我想教你们的术语是“a double-edged sword”(双刃剑)。当然,双刃剑是指两边都锋利的剑。但在英语中,我们用它来描述一种既对人有益,但在某些方面也有害的情况。最经典的例子总是说名声是一把双刃剑。成名是一把双刃剑。当然,你有很多钱,可以做任何你想做的事情,但你不能去普通的杂货店,因为人们都想要你的签名。所以名声是一把双刃剑。它有优势,可能有很多优势,但它也有缺点,那就是你不能做普通人在生活中做的事情。总而言之,“to edge out”意味着超越。我认为最好的例子是运动队。你知道,他们可以“edge out”竞争对手,然后可能以更好的名次结束。而“a double-edged sword”是指任何既有积极或许多积极方面,又有消极或许多消极方面的情况。

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In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase to edge out. When you edge someone out, it means you pass them. Maybe at work you and a colleague are both trying to get a promotion, but there's only one spot. And maybe because you know a bit more, you can edge out your colleague because you're just the better choice. Sometimes when teams are playing towards the end of their season, they edge out someone who's kind of at the same spot as them they win a game and the other team, maybe in a different city, loses a game. And that helps them edge out the other team. It helps them surpass them.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"If you enjoy these lessons please consider supporting me at: http://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)The other term I wanted to teach you today is a double edged sword. So of course a double edged sword would be a sword that is sharp on both sides. But in English we use this to describe a situation that both benefits the person but also is negative in some way. The classic example is always to say fame is a double edged sword. Being famous is a double edged sword. Sure you have lots of money and you can do whatever you want, but you can't just go to a normal grocery store because people all want your signature. So fame is a double edged sword. It has an advantage. It has a lot of advantages probably, but it also has a disadvantage in that you can't do what normal people do in life.So to review, to edge out means to surpass. I think that the best example is the sports team. You know, they can edge out the competition and then maybe finish in a better spot. And a double edged sword is any situation where there's both like a positive or many positives and negative and a negative or many negative aspects to it.But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Cecilia. Good luck, Bob. And then a nice four leaf clover emoji. Thanks. It went extremely well. So Cecilia is referring to the fact that yesterday I'm going to stop trying to do this. Yesterday or two days ago for you was the first day of second semester for me and it went really well. In fact, it's Thursday morning right now as I record this and I'm realizing that it's very enjoyable to get up, to go for a walk and then to make an English lesson for all of you.I think I'm at my best in the morning. I think this time of day, right now it's about quarter to nine, I think. I think this time of day is just a better time of day for me. And for a full year I've been teaching in the morning. And then coming home to make YouTube videos and lessons for you in the afternoon. And now I'm realizing that I get to get up and when I'm fresh, when I have lots of energy, that's when I'll be making YouTube lessons. So I think that this is a win win for you guys. I think. I don't know for sure, but I think the English lessons will get better. I think I'll be a little more creative. I have plans to still make sure I do one of these short lessons in town once a week, but I just feel a bit more relaxed.In fact, I keep looking at the clock this morning and realizing it's way earlier still than I thought it was. For some reason I was getting ready to go to work and I had this kind of feeling like I was late for some reason, which I'm not at all. I think I'm actually going to get to work earlier today than I need to. I probably need to be at work around 10:30 every day. As many of you know, I'm 70%, so I don't work full time. So yeah, I'm gonna get up, work on YouTube. You might see me replying to comments at a different time of day on this channel, but either way I think it should be fo

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