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Learn the English Words "schemozzle" and "bamboozle"

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Bob the Canadian:在这个英语课程中,我想要帮助大家学习单词“schemozzle”。“schemozzle”的意思是一团糟。例如,你工作在一个面包厂,需要四卡车的面粉来制作当天的面包,但只来了一卡车,这就是一个“schemozzle”。或者,来了八卡车面粉,这也是“schemozzle”。这是一个有趣的词,我不确定自己是否发音正确,但我今天听到一位同事这样说。无论何时使用这个词,它都意味着事情一团糟,事情没有按照预期进行。 我今天想教大家的另一个词是“bamboozle”。这个词的意思是欺骗某人,通常是为了经济利益。我喜欢今天的这两个有趣的词,“schemozzle”和“bamboozle”。当你“bamboozle”某人时,这意味着你欺骗他们购买一些不值钱的东西。如果Jen在市场上“bamboozle”人们,最终人们会对我们感到厌烦,因为她一直在欺骗他们,也许是卖给他们一束只有10朵花,却说有30朵。 总结一下,“schemozzle”的意思是一团糟,而“bamboozle”的意思是欺骗某人,通常是为了从他们那里获得金钱。我今天还分享了我防止水瓶在我的车里翻倒的方法,以及我观察到车旁地面颜色变化的原因,并推测可能是因为融化的冰雪和道路上的盐和沙子。最后,我还描述了最近经历的风暴以及我需要清理的垃圾堆。

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Read along to practice your English and to learn the English words SCHEMOZZLE and BAMBOOZLE

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the word schemozzle. When there is a schemozzle, it means that something is a mess. Let's say you're at work and you need four truckloads of, I don't know, flour in order to make bread that day. Maybe you work at a bread factory and only one truckload showed up. That would be a real schemozzle. Or maybe instead of four truckloads showing up, eight truckloads show up. That's a schemozzle. It's a funny word. I don't even know if I'm quite saying it correctly, but I heard a colleague say it today. They said, wow, there's just a real schemozzle. And I won't give you the specifics, but whenever you use this word, it means something is a mess. It means it's not going the way it's supposed to or it isn't the way it's supposed to be.

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 word I wanted to teach you today is bamboozle. This means when you trick someone, usually for financial gain. By the way, I just. I like the funny words today. Schemozzle and bamboozle. When you bamboozle someone, it means that you trick them into buying something that isn't worth what you think it is. If Jen was to bamboozle people at market, eventually people would be annoyed with us because she would be tricking them, maybe selling them, you know, 10 flowers in a bouquet and saying there's 30 in there or something like that. She would be bamboozling them.So to review. Oh, I already put the words away. A schemozzle is a mess. And when you bamboozle someone, you trick them, usually because you want to get money from them somehow.Oh, it's getting a little cold out here. Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Sajonara. Hi, Bob. By the way, did you fasten the seat belt around the bottle? And my response? I did indeed. I learned my lesson a long time ago when a bottle fell over in my van and the lid came off. Yeah, that was a... That was a mess. I was going to say schemozzle, but that doesn't really describe it. But yes, I did have that. Thanks for the comment, by the way. I did have that once... By the way. I put a water bottle in my van in the last video. And after I put it. Or in my car, and then after I put it in there, I did put the seat belt through the handle and fasten the seat belt, because that's a good Way to prevent it from falling over.So. So anyways, how's everybody doing? I have to admit I'm a little bit nervous. It's the first day of school or first day of second semester tomorrow. That's probably why I'm talking so quickly. I'm just gonna go over here out of the wind a little bit. It's. It is quite a bit colder than I was expecting out here. Sorry. I was just looking at the ground here because it's a bit of a different color. And this is where my van was parked, so I better check the oil in that van. I don't think it's oil. I don't know. What do you think it is? You see how the. It's a little darker there than it is over here. I think, though, that might just be from yesterday. Things melted a bit and so the vehicles all have, like, salt and sand and stuff on the side from the roads. And maybe that just kind of slipped off.So can I venture out into the cold again? Yeah, probably. I'll do that. So. Or maybe not a little colder than I was expecting. I was gonna. Expecting. I was gonna show you this as well. We had a windstorm that was not there the other day. That actually came from. I think it came from over there. We have a bit of a junk pile over there. You've probably seen it in a few videos. I do really need to clean that up.

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