2025-03-14
23 分钟Hey, everybody.
Welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing great.
I hope your English learning is going well, and I hope that you feel like you know a lot more phrasal verbs now, since you started listening to these phrasal verb episodes.
And in today's episode, we're going to look at two phrasal verbs.
The first one is block off, and the second one is blow away.
So let's first define these two phrasal verbs.
Block off means to obstruct or block some area using a barrier.
So, for example, I could say part of the central square was blocked off for the special event.
So what I'm saying here is that the authorities maybe blocked part of this central square using some type of barrier, maybe that police tape or some other type of barrier, so that people couldn't pass and go through or go around that barrier because they were having a special event there.
So they blocked it off.
And the other phrasal verb is blow away.
So this means to impress someone greatly.
For example, I could say the last part of the movie blew me away.
What I'm saying here is that the end of the movie was just really incredible in some way.
It really impressed me, surprised me, it moved me in some great way.
It blew me away.
Okay, now I'm going to talk about a couple different things, and while I talk, I'm going to use these two phrasal verbs over and over again so that you can get accustomed to hearing them in different sentences, get a feel for them, and hopefully by the end of this episode, you'll know these phrasal verbs well.
So I'm first going to talk about a real story that happened recently, and I'll embellish it a little bit, meaning I'll add some details that aren't exactly true, just to exaggerate a little bit, but the story itself actually happened.
And that is when we were in Mexico a few months ago, and we got stuck at the top of this big hill in a town called Atlitsko.