2019-12-20
7 分钟Hi there, and welcome to Harry's podcast.
This is where I help you to understand and improve your use of English.
We look at grammar aspects, conversational english expressions, so that you can improve the level of conversation and the standard of conversation you have with people or when you're traveling or in fact for business, whatever it might be.
So what podcasts do I have for you today?
So the first one, we're going to look at colocations and colocations in connection with crime.
Yeah.
So when people commit a crime.
So we're going to look at four initially cut down on crime, white collar crime, violent crime, juvenile crime, and I'll give you some examples.
To cut down on crime.
Well, when we cut down on crime means we want to reduce crime.
So the reports that we see in our newspapers would indicate that the police are putting every effort into a project or plan to cut down on crime, meaning to reduce the rate of crime.
That might be to reduce the rate of crime, or to cut down on crime in particular areas, like locations in the city center or in the suburbs, or it might be to cut down on particular types of crime.
So serious crime or other smaller crimes, you know, house burglaries or car thefts, or as we have a lot of problems in London at the moment with knife crimes, and there's another collocation, knife crimes, very, very serious.
So the police are putting in plans or action plans where they will try to cut down on different types of crimes.
We can have white collar crimes.
White collar.
C O L L A R is the color of the shirt.
A white collar shirt usually indicates management.
Okay.
And white collar crime is an expression, collocation, used to describe financial crimes where somebody might take money from a company, somebody might embezzle money and take it without people's knowledge.