英语早间课堂:听懂什么话了吗?

Good morning, all my dear listener. Welcome to my class in the morning. I’m Juliet. A saying goes, “An hour in the morning is worth two hours in the evening.” So, I hope we can spend a wonderful and meaningful time here.

We have a somewhat rude and curt way of asking if someone understood something clearly. Guess what it is. Let’s listen to the following minisituational dialogueto get the answer.

(Scene:It happens between two good friends.)

A:Sara, why don’t you ever talk to me.

B:Because you are loser. I don’t like you. Get the message?

Have you got the answer? It is a short sentence——Get the message?It means “Do you understand what I said?” It’s similar to saying in Chinese——听懂什么话了吗?“Loser” in this dialogue means”who is defeated in a competition”. Do remember this phrase”talk to sb”. Here is an relative phrase——talk to sb about sth.

Let’s see another mini situational dialogue.

(Scene:It happens between two co-workers.)

A:Have you seen Jenna around the office recently?

B:Why do you ask it over and over. She had an accident and is in hospital. Get my message so far?

Here, “over and over” means “repeatedly, again and again”. “To have an accident” means “to overtake an unpleasant even that causes sb some damage, injury, and so on”.

If you ask someone a confused matter, he is kinda rude and curt, saying this word, “Get the message?” to you, you could say in this way to become psychologically balanced:Don’t you see it is your fault. You didn’t make yourself clear.