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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them maybe let's

get to your first question this week

first question this week comes from

eliab hello eliab eliab says hi alicia i

love your videos i was watching a series

and they said these things i can read

him and you're reading into that what do

they mean thanks nice question yeah

first let's start with i can read him so

the question here i think is about the

verb read right we usually use read for

books and newspapers right words on a

page but we can also use read for people

or maybe even buildings if you work in a

certain profession but when we talk

about being able to read a person it

means we understand something about that

person based on maybe how they're

dressed how they speak the way that they

move when you can read someone it means

that that person is communicating

something to you

not just through the words that they're

saying right so that's the idea here

that that person is giving you some

information about themselves and you are

able to read that so that's what this

means this i can read him so you can use

this as well like you could say like oh

my gosh i can read that guy like a book

he's trying to talk to that girl across

the room for example so that means that

that person is communicating something

and you are able to read it as if that

person were a book you can kind of think

of it that way okay let's talk now about

that other use of read that you

described you're reading into this this

use of read means that you are finding

too much detail in this situation or in

this comment in other words you're

understanding something or your

understanding of the situation is beyond

what is happening here here's an example

situation you might find at work so

maybe you come to a contract discussion

with your company and they make an offer

and you're not so happy about the offer

but you think about it for a long time

you think about it so much and you start

to think is the company valuing me do

they care about me you start to think

all of these kind of intense thoughts

and maybe you go beyond what the company

is actually saying so your friend or

someone else might say to you i think

you're reading too much into this which

means you are reading more information

from the situation that is actually

there like you are looking for too much

detail or you're thinking too much about

the situation that's what this reading

too much into something means like

you're thinking too much about this

situation or you're thinking too deeply

about the situation just think about the

information you have in front of you so

i hope that this helps clear up your

understanding about these two uses of

read it's a really interesting verb

thanks for the question okay let's move

on to your next question next question

comes from coden hi conan conan says

hello may i ask the difference between

in my 20s and at the age of 20. thank

you so much sure in my 20s versus at the

age of 20. you can also do this for

something like in my 30s and at the age

of 30 and so on in my 20s means from the

year 20 until the year 29 so your 20s

refers to the years in which you are 20

something 21 22 23 in my 20s so for

example i was so crazy when i was in my

20s or i did so much studying when i was

in my 20s it refers to that time period

of your life before 20s you can say in

my teens but that specifically refers to

like 13 through 19. so generally we use

this for in my 20s and my 30s and my 40s

and my 50s those kinds of numbers in

contrast at the age of 20 refers to

something that happened

only in the year in which you were 20

years old it doesn't refer to 21 22 23

all those other years it refers to one

year only so at the age of 20 i was a

university student or at the age of 20 i

had two part-time jobs that refers to

that year only so in my 20s refers to a

whole group of years at the age of 20

refers to just one year so you can use

different years as you see fit i hope

that this helps you thanks for the

question okay let's go to our next

question next question comes from

muhammad hello himam hey mom says hi

alicia

throne in this sentence i am really just

thrown by the place it's not what i

expected at all what does it mean

great question to be thrown by something

means to be surprised or to be confused

or to encounter something unexpected so

in this sentence i was really thrown by

the place it means i was confused or i

was surprised or there was something

kind of strange about it that i didn't

expect

you can also use this in conversations

like if someone says something really

surprising to you like hey did you know

that i'm leaving the company tomorrow

you might go whoa

i was really thrown by that i had no

idea so it's like someone kind of shakes

you or maybe throws you across the room

and you feel confused or suddenly like

kind of startled or surprised so that's

kind of the feeling here you might feel

shocked or maybe like i don't know what

to do your mind is kind of upset by

something in some way so we tend to use

this in a way that shows surprise shock

or confusion so this is how we use

throne in this way i was really thrown

by that or i was really thrown by her

comment it expresses that confusion

surprise something unexpected happening

thanks for a great question okay let's

go to our next question next question

comes from alina hello alina alina says

what is the difference between scare and

intimidate nice question let's talk

about scare first to scare someone or to

scare something like maybe an animal

means to cause that person to feel fear

like i scared my little brother or i

scared the cat i feel so bad about it

you caused someone else to feel fear

to intimidate someone is kind of like

scaring them a little bit but you're not

causing them to feel fear when you

intimidate someone you are showing them

your power so maybe you could say my

co-workers tried to intimidate me at

work the other day so you're trying to

express your power to someone else when

you intimidate someone it's generally

not seen as a positive thing you're

trying to make someone feel lower than

you so when you intimidate someone at

work you're trying to maybe make your

own power seem higher which is generally

not seen as a very healthy kind of thing

to do so to intimidate someone might

mean to scare them as well if someone is

trying to intimidate you yes they may

also scare you like they may threaten

you or they may say mean things or they

may bully you and so on but the

objective of intimidation is to find

some kind of power to get some kind of

power over you so this is the difference

between scare and intimidate i hope that

this answers your question thanks for an

interesting one okay let's move on to

our next question next question comes

from ali ahmad khan hello ali ali says

hi alicia could you tell me the

difference between these examples how i

met your mother and how did i meet your

mother i'm confused about these examples

great question okay this is actually the

name of a very popular tv series in the

u.s maybe that's what your question is

from

so how i met your mother this is a

statement right how i met your mother

this is how i met your mother the way in

which or the manner in which i met your

mother

how did i meet your mother is a question

how did i meet your mother or how did i

meet that guy i forgot how did i do

something refers to a question pattern

so how did i do something these kinds of

patterns are like questions you ask

yourself like how did i do that what did

i do or how did i meet that guy i forget

or how did i meet your mother in this

case it's asking yourself a question

that's the idea with this kind of

sentence pattern how i met your mother

or how i did that is the beginning of an

explanation for something so this is how

i met your mother or this is how i did

that so that's the difference here with

one you're explaining something you're

sharing some information with the other

pattern you're asking yourself a

question about the manner in which you

did something so i hope that this helps

you thanks very much for the question

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您问我的每周系列

问题，我回答他们也许让

我们来回答你本周的第一个

问题本周第一个问题来自

eliab你好eliab eliab说你好，我

喜欢你的视频我正在看一个系列

，他们说这些我可以读

他，你正在读 他们是什么

意思谢谢很好的问题是的

首先让我们从我可以阅读他开始所以

我认为这里的问题是关于

动词 read right 我们通常使用 read 表示

书籍和报纸页面上的正确单词

但我们也可以使用 read for

如果您从事某个职业，甚至可能是建筑物，

但是当我们

谈论能够阅读一个人时，这

意味着我们

可能基于他们的

穿着方式来了解该人 当你能读懂某人时，他们说话的方式是他们移动的方式，

这意味着

那个人正在

向你传达一些东西，

而不仅仅是通过他们

所说的正确的话，所以这里的想法

是那个人正在向你提供一些

关于他们自己和你的信息

能够阅读，这就是

这意味着我可以阅读他，所以你可以使用

这个，就像你可以说，哦，

天哪，我可以阅读那个人，就像

他试图和房间对面的那个女孩说话的书一样

所以这意味着

那个人正在交流一些东西

，你可以阅读它，就好像那

个人是一本书，你可以这样

想，好吧，现在让我们谈谈

你描述的阅读的其他用途，

你正在阅读 这种

read 的使用意味着您

在这种情况下或在此评论中发现了太多细节，

换句话说，您正在

理解某事或您

对情况的理解超出

了这里发生的事情这里是一个

例子 你可能会在工作中找到工作，所以

也许你来

与你的公司讨论合同，他们提出了一个报价

，你对这个报价不太满意，

但你考虑了很长时间

你想了很多，然后你开始

想想公司是否重视我，

他们是否关心我你开始思考

所有这些强烈的想法

，也许你超出了

公司实际所说的范围，所以你的朋友或

其他人可能会对你说，我认为

你正在阅读 太多了，这

意味着您

正在从实际存在的情况中读取更多信息，

就像您正在寻找太多

细节一样，或者您对情况思考太多，这就是过度

阅读

某事意味着

您正在思考 太多关于这种

情况，或者你对这种情况思考得太深

，想想

你面前的信息，所以

我希望这有助于澄清你

对 read it's 的这两种用途的

理解 一个非常有趣的动词

谢谢你的问题好吧让我们

继续你的下一个问题下一个问题

来自coden你好柯南柯南说

你好我可以问一下

我20多岁和20岁之间的区别。

非常感谢我20多岁 与 20 岁相比。

你也可以

在我 30 多岁和

30 岁时这样做 20

某事 21 22 23 在我 20 多岁的时候，例如，我在 20 多岁的时候

非常疯狂，

或者我在 20 多岁的时候学习了很多

东西 但这具体指

的是 13 到 19 岁。所以通常我们将

其用于 20 多岁和 30 多岁以及 40 多岁

和 50 多岁的那些数字，

相比之下，20 岁时是指

仅在 你是 20

岁，它不是指 21 22 23

其他所有的年份

仅限于一年，所以在 20 岁时我是一名

大学生或 20 岁时我

有两个兼职工作，

仅指那一年，所以在我 20 多岁时指的是

整个年龄组 20

仅指一年，因此您可以根据需要使用

不同的年份，我

希望这对您有所帮助，感谢您提出的

问题，好吧，让我们转到下一个

问题，下一个问题来自

muhammad hello himam hey mom says hi

alicia

potion in this sentence i 我真的只是

被这个地方扔了，这根本不是我所

期望的

表示我很困惑，或者我

很惊讶，或者有一些

奇怪的东西，我没

想到

你也可以在对话中使用它，

比如如果有人说了一些

让你很惊讶

的话 公司 明天

你可能会走 哇，

我真的被我不

知道的东西扔了，所以就像有人在摇晃

你，或者把你扔到房间的另一边

，你感到困惑或突然

有点受惊或惊讶，这就是

你在这里的感觉 可能会感到

震惊，或者我不知道该

怎么做你的头脑

在某种程度上对某事感到不安，所以我们倾向于以

一种表现出惊讶或困惑的方式使用它，

所以这就是我们

以这种方式使用宝座的方式 我真的被

她的评论吓到了，或者我真的被她的

评论吓到了，它表达了困惑，

惊喜发生了一些意想不到的事情，

感谢你提出了一个好问题，好吧，

让我们继续下一个问题，下一个问题

来自 alina，你好，alina alina 说

scare 和 alina 有什么区别

吓人的好问题让我们

先谈谈吓唬吓唬某人或

吓唬动物之类的东西可能

意味着让那个人感到恐惧，

就像我害怕我的小弟弟或者我

害怕猫一样 鳗鱼太糟糕了，

你让别人感到

恐惧 恐吓某人有点像

吓唬他们，

但当你恐吓某人时，你并没有让他们感到恐惧，

你是在向他们展示

你的力量，所以也许你可以说我的

前几天同事试图在工作中恐吓我，

所以

当你恐吓某人时，你试图向别人表达你的力量，

这通常

不会被视为一件积极的事情。

恐吓

工作中的某人 你试图让

自己的权力看起来更高

也可能

会吓到你，就像他们可能会威胁

你，或者他们可能会说刻薄的话，或者他们

可能会欺负你等等，但

恐吓的目的是

找到某种力量来

控制你，所以这是不同的 ce

在恐惧和恐吓之间我希望

这能回答你的问题谢谢你的一个

有趣的问题好的让我们继续

我们的下一个问题下一个问题

来自 ali ahmad khan 你好 ali ali 说

你好 alicia 你能告诉我

这些例子之间的区别我是怎么

认识的 你妈妈，

我

是怎么认识你妈妈的

是的，我是怎么认识你妈妈的 这就是我认识你妈妈的方式 我认识你妈妈的方式或方式 我是怎么认识你妈妈的，

这

是一个问题

我是怎么认识你妈妈的，或者我

是怎么认识我忘记的那个人的 我如何

做某事指的是一个问题模式

所以我是如何做某事这些类型的

模式就像你问

自己的问题，比如我是怎么做的，我做了什么

，或者我是怎么遇到那个我忘记的人，

或者我是怎么遇到的 是的 在这种情况下，我们的母亲是在

问自己一个问题

，这就是这种句型的想法，

我

是

如何认识你母亲的，或者我是怎么做到的

这样做是

有区别的 这个问题

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