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back to ask Alisha the weekly series

where you ask me questions and I answer

them maybe ok let's get to your first

question this week first question this

week comes from Takumi hi Takumi how

come he says hi Alicia I'm a university

student in Japan I teach English to

elderly students as a part-time job one

of them asked me what fire with fire

means I guess the man heard the phrase

in a movie could you tell me the meaning

yeah this is part of an idiom the

expression is usually to fight fire with

fire that's the full phrase typically

you might also hear to match fire with

fire or to meet fire with fire but in

most cases it's to fight fire with fire

this phrase means to fight an opponent

with the same weapon or the same method

that your opponent uses so sometimes

this literally means fighting someone

with the same kind of weapon but in most

cases it's talking about like a specific

kind of competition and using the same

method as your opponent to participate

in that competition for example if

someone starts shouting at you you can

fight fire with fire by shouting back at

them so in that case there's no fire

involved but shouting is your opponent's

weapon or method of attacking so if you

want to fight that you use the same

method and shout back so that could be

considered fighting fire with fire you

might also hear this used in like

business situations when you're talking

about like competition between

businesses or between companies or

industries for example company a is

spending a lot of money on advertising

this year we have to fight fire with

fire and increase our own advertising

budget so this just means to compete or

like to attack or oppose someone with

the same method or the same weapon that

they use against you so again this is

usually to fight fire with fire I hope

that helps you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question comes from el hassan ahmed

hello again al hassan al hassan says

what is the difference between I don't

know what is that and I don't know what

that is

for example I don't know what the

difference between them is and I don't

know what is the difference between them

okay

the difference is that the second

example is correct the first example is

incorrect these are examples of what are

called embedded questions so it's when

we have a question inside a statement or

we have a question inside another

question these are called embedded

questions embedded questions and when we

use the verb to be in embedded questions

it takes a slightly different word order

so when we use the verb to be to ask a

direct question we would say something

like where is the restroom or where are

my coworkers that's a direct question

but when we use an indirect question or

we use an embedded question we have to

change the word order a little bit so

instead of where is the restroom we have

to say something like I don't know where

the restroom is and instead of where are

my co-workers we might say do you know

where my coworkers are so in each of

these examples the to be verb actually

moves to the end of the sentence or to

the end of the question this is kind of

special for these embedded questions

style responses so keep this in mind

when you're making an embedded question

is does not follow your question word is

goes at the end of the sentence the same

is true for our and of course was and

were if you're making past tense

statements or past tense questions but

again this is just for the verb to be if

you're using any other verb you don't

need to worry about this change so if

it's like talk or walk or drink or

whatever you don't need to worry about

that if you're using the verb to be

however you do need to switch your word

order in the sentence so again your

second example sentence is correct so I

don't know what that

is is the correct sentence I don't know

what is that is incorrect

of course if you're ever not sure what

to do and you're faced with a situation

where you should choose it's not

impolite it's not incorrect to use a

direct question like where is the

restroom but it does sound a bit more

polite to phrase it indirectly or to use

an embedded question like do you know

where the restroom is it sounds a bit

more polite so again if you're ever

unsure you can use a direct question no

problem but do make sure to practice

these embedded questions and the special

pattern that we use with the verb to be

so I hope that that helps you thanks

very much for the question okay let's

move on to your next question next

question comes from on high on on says

can you give an explanation about the

word roughly thanks so much okay sure

roughly means about it means

approximately or around for example

roughly half of the students in the

class passed the test sales decreased by

roughly thirty percent last month so in

these cases roughly means about or

around we tend to use roughly more in

polite situations like at work in

meetings we don't use it so much in

everyday conversation in everyday

conversation we use about or around

there's another use of roughly however

which you can kind of think of as

meaning aggressive or like a little bit

aggressive or not refined so for example

my neighbor speaks roughly but he's

actually a nice guy or this woman on the

train pushed me really roughly it hurt

so in those cases roughly means in kind

of an aggressive manner a slightly

aggressive manner or a not refined

manner so when we use roughly as an

adverb in this way it means like not

refined it's it's kind of aggressive

when you're using it to talk about

amounts or data it means about so I hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

the question ok let's move on to your

next question next question comes from

Patricia hi Patricia

Patricia says hi Alicia I enjoy your

videos thank you

my question is about when I visit

restaurants and I don't want ice in my

drink for example how do I say that no

ice or without ice thank you yeah we

would say no ice no ice so if you said

without ice it's probably not a

communication issue but more naturally

we would say no ice please

you can use this for pretty much

anything any kind of special order like

no tomato no onion no pickles and so on

so if you don't want something use no

before the name of that thing that you

don't want we have another expression

that we use at restaurants which is on

the side on the side so for example if

you order a salad and you say I'd like

the dressing on the side please

it means your salad and the dressing or

the topping for the salad will come

separately so if you don't say on the

side the restaurant staff will probably

put the dressing on top of your salad

and serve it to you if you request the

dressing on the side however you can

choose how much to put on top of your

salad so some people like to in this

case with salads request that things be

served separately to do that you say on

the side you'll usually get a separate

dish or a separate cup or bowl or

something for your dressing or whatever

it is you've chosen to order so on the

side is another thing you can use in

restaurants finally for the opposite of

this situation for the opposite of no if

you want more of something you use extra

extra like extra cheese please or extra

bacon please or extra avocado keep in

mind though that when you say extra

you're probably going to have to pay

more so if you have like a cheeseburger

for example and you say I'd like extra

avocado so that means there's already

avocado on the cheeseburger you want

more avocado on it you're probably going

to have to pay more for that avocado if

however you order something without an

ingredient like no tomato on this

cheeseburger there's no discount so

please don't expect a discount if you

ask for less of something if you ask for

more of something however it's probably

going to cost you a little more money so

also keep in mind that

use extra when something already exists

inside the dish so in my example it's

like an avocado burger there's avocado

on the burger I want more I say extra if

there's no avocado on the burger I say

like something like can I have a picado

as a topping please or can I add avocado

as a topping please we might use one of

those expressions so can I have

something as a topping or can I add

something we might use one of those two

patterns so those are a few restaurant

related expressions that I hope are

helpful for you thanks for the question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question comes from will Jin's diss

Samus hello will jhin's will Jin says hi

Alicia is there a difference between to

lend and to borrow yes the difference is

in the point of view for example I lent

my friend a pen and my friend borrowed a

pen from me so when the person that is

giving the object is the subject of the

sentence we use lend when the person who

is receiving the object is the subject

of the sentence we use borrow so let's

swap the people in my example sentences

so my friend lent me a pen and I

borrowed a pen from my friend so again

in those cases the person giving the

object is the subject of the sentence

when I use lend and the person receiving

the object is the subject of the verb

borrow when I use borrow so please keep

this in mind this relationship so am i

giving or am i receiving that's what's

important to keep in mind I know it's a

little confusing at first but with

practice you will get the hang of it

you'll get used to it so I hope that

this helps you thanks very much for the

question

okay that is everything that I have for

this week thank you as always for

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回答你本周的第一个问题 本周的第一个问题

来自 Takumi 嗨 Takumi

他怎么会说嗨 Alicia 我

是日本的一名大学生 我教

老年学生英语作为兼职工作其中

一个人问我 fire with fire 什么

意思 我猜这个人

在电影里听到了这个短语 你能告诉我意思

是的 这是一个成语的一部分 这个

表达通常是用

火来灭火 这通常是你可能听到的完整短语

to match fire with

fire or to meet fire with fire but in

most cases it is to fire with fire with fire

这句话的意思是用与

对手相同的武器或相同的方法

与对手作战，所以有时

这字面意思是 m 意思是

用相同的武器与某人战斗，但在大多数

情况下，它就像一种特定

的比赛，并使用与

对手相同的方法来

参加比赛，例如，如果

有人开始对你大喊大叫，你可以

通过以下方式以火攻毒 向他们大喊大叫，

这样在这种情况下就不会涉及火力，

但大喊是你对手的

武器或攻击方式，所以如果你

想打架，你可以使用相同的

方法并大喊大叫，这样可以被

认为是以火攻克，你

可能还会听到

当您谈论

企业之间或公司或行业之间的竞争时，这

用于类似的业务情况，例如公司a今年

在广告上花费了大量资金，

我们必须以

火攻毒并增加我们自己的广告

预算，所以这个 只是意味着竞争或

喜欢使用与您对抗

的相同方法或相同武器

来攻击或反对某人，所以这又是

通常以火攻毒 我

希望对你有帮助 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 el hassan ahmed

hello again al hassan al hassan says

what is the difference 和 I don't

know what is that 我不知道

那是

什么例如我不知道

它们之间有什么区别我不

知道它们之间有什么区别

好吧区别在于第二个

示例是正确的第一个示例

不正确这些 是

所谓的嵌入问题的例子，所以当

我们在陈述中有一个问题或者

我们在另一个

问题中有一个问题时，这些被称为嵌入

问题嵌入问题，当我们

使用动词作为嵌入问题时，

它需要一个稍微不同的词

因此，当我们使用动词 be 提出

直接问题时，我们会说

诸如洗手间在哪里或

我的同事在哪里之类的直接问题，

但是当我们使用间接问题时 问题或者

我们使用嵌入式问题，我们必须

稍微改变词序，所以

我们

必须说诸如我不

知道洗手间在哪里而不是我的同事在哪里，而不是厕所在哪里

说你

知道我的同事在哪里，所以在

每个例子中，动词实际上

移动到句子的末尾或

问题的末尾，这

对于这些嵌入式问题

风格的回答来说有点特殊，所以请记住这

一点 你正在做一个嵌入的问题

是不跟随你的问题词

是在句子的末尾这

对我们也是如此，

当然如果你正在制作过去时态

陈述或过去时态问题，但

同样是 只是为了动词，如果

你使用任何其他动词，你

不需要担心这种变化，所以如果

它像谈话、走路或喝酒或

任何你不需要担心的事情

，如果你使用 动词 to be

但是你确实需要切换你的

句子中的词序所以你的

第二个例句是正确的所以我

不知道那

是正确的句子我不

知道那是

什么当然是不正确的

'面临一种情况

，您应该选择

它不是不礼貌使用

直接问题（例如洗手间在哪里）并没有错，

但是间接表达或使用

嵌入式问题（例如你知道

在哪里）听起来确实更有礼貌 厕所是不是听起来

更有礼貌，所以如果你

不确定你可以使用直接问题没

问题，但一定要练习

这些嵌入的问题和

我们与动词一起使用的特殊模式，

所以我希望那个 帮助你

非常感谢这个问题 好吧 让我们

继续你的下一个问题 下一个

问题来自 on high on 说

你能解释一下这个

词 大概谢谢 非常感谢 好的 确定

大致意思 关于它 意思是

大约或 ar 例如

，班上大约一半的学生

通过了测试，上个月销售额下降了

大约 30%，所以在

这些情况下，大致意味着

我们在礼貌的情况下倾向于使用大致更多，

比如在

我们不使用的会议中工作

在日常对话中，

我们经常使用 about 或 around

还有另一种用法，粗略

但是你可以认为它具有

侵略性或有点

侵略性或不精致，例如，

我的邻居说话粗鲁，但他

实际上是一个 火车上的好人或这个女人

真的粗暴地推了我一下，这很痛，

所以在这些情况下，粗略的意思是

有点咄咄逼人的态度，有点

咄咄逼人的态度或不优雅的

态度，所以当我们以这种方式粗略地用作

副词时，它的意思是不

精炼它

当你用它来谈论它所代表的

数量或数据时，它有点咄咄逼人，所以我

希望这对你有帮助，非常感谢你提出

的问题 s 继续你的

下一个问题 下一个问题来自

Patricia 嗨 Patricia

Patricia 说嗨 Alicia 我喜欢你的

视频谢谢

我的问题是关于我什么时候去

餐馆我不想在我的

饮料中加冰例如我该怎么说不

加冰或不加冰谢谢，是的，我们

会说不加冰，不加冰，所以如果你

说不加冰，那可能不是

沟通问题，但更自然的是，

我们会说不加冰，请

你可以用它来做几乎

任何事情 任何特殊订单，比如

不 番茄不洋葱不泡菜等等，

所以如果你不想要某样

东西，在你不想要的那东西的名称前使用 no，

我们有另一种表达方式

，我们在餐厅使用，它

位于侧面，例如 如果

你点了一份沙拉，然后说我想要

旁边的调料，

这意味着你的沙拉和沙拉的调料

或配料将分开来，

所以如果你不说在

旁边，餐厅工作人员可能会

放 上面的敷料

如果您要求将沙拉放在一边，然后将其提供给您，

但是您可以

选择在沙拉上放多少，

因此在这种

情况下，有些

人喜欢沙拉要求将食物分开提供

在旁边，您通常会得到一个单独的

盘子或单独的杯子或碗或

用于调味的东西，或者

您选择订购的任何东西，所以

侧面是您最终可以在餐厅使用的另一件事

，与

此相反 与否相反的情况如果

你想要更多的东西，你会额外使用额外的东西，

比如额外的奶酪或额外的

培根或额外的鳄梨，

但请记住，当你说额外时，

你可能需要支付

更多，所以如果你有 例如，像一个芝士汉堡

，你说我想要额外的

鳄梨，这意味着

芝士汉堡上已经有鳄梨了，你想要

更多的鳄梨，你

可能需要为那个鳄梨支付更多的钱，

如果你点了一些没有的东西 但是

这个芝士汉堡上没有番茄之类的成分

没有折扣，所以

如果您

要求的东西少一些，请不要期待折扣如果您要求

更多的东西，但它可能

会花费您更多的钱，所以

也要记住

当菜肴中已经存在某些东西时使用额外

的所以在我的例子中它

就像一个鳄梨汉堡汉堡上有鳄梨

我想要更多我说额外如果

汉堡上没有鳄梨我说

像我可以有

一个picado作为浇头 请或者我可以添加鳄梨

作为浇头吗？我们可以使用其中

一种表达方式，所以我

可以添加一些东西作为浇头吗，或者我可以添加

一些我们可以使用这两种模式之一的东西，

所以这些是一些

与餐厅相关的表达方式，我希望是

对你有帮助 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 will Jin 的 diss

Samus 你好 jhin 的 will Jin 说你好

Alicia 借给和给之间有区别吗

借，是的，区别

在于观点，例如，我借给

我朋友一支笔，而我朋友向我借一支

笔，所以当

给出对象的人是我们使用的句子的主语时，

当接收的人

宾语是

我们借用的句子的主语，所以让我们

在我的例句中交换人，

所以我的朋友借给我一支笔，我

从我的朋友那里借了一支笔，所以

在这些情况下，给予宾语的人

是主语

当我使用借出时的句子，而接收对象的人

是动词借用时的主语，

所以请

记住这一点这种关系所以我是在

给予还是在接受这是

重要的要记住我知道这

有点 一开始很困惑，但通过

练习你会掌握它的窍门，

你会习惯的，所以我希望

这对你有帮助非常感谢你的

问题，

好吧，这就是我

这周的一切，谢谢你一如既往地

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