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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe okay
let's get to your first question this
week first question this week comes from
brinto hi brinto brinto says can you
please tell me the difference between
change exchange and interchange sure
let's talk about it let's start by
talking about change we can use change
in probably the most situations out of
these three words when we want to alter
something so we want to make a different
kind of something or we want to use a
different type of something we can use
change to describe that so if you want
to make a
maybe slight alteration
which is a noun that you can use to
describe a change as well if you want to
do something in a document for example
you want to write a new sentence in a
document or you want to remove a
sentence in a document you would
describe that as a change as a noun or
if you want to use a verb in this case
you could say i changed the document
that means you altered it or you made it
different in some way the key with
change is that you are making something
different in some way or you're adding
something new you're removing something
that wasn't there some common
expressions you might hear change used
in are for example like to change the
baby which means to change the diaper on
the baby to put a new diaper on a baby
or as we talked about earlier to make a
change in a document can also be
described as changing a document so
adding or removing something to make
something different that's what we use
change to talk about let's move along to
exchange to exchange means to usually
have two things that you want to swap so
we use this a lot when we are shopping
for example if you go to a store and you
buy a shirt that's small but you needed
a shirt that's a medium and you realize
it after you got home you might come
back to the store and ask to exchange
the shirts for a different size that
means you have two things that are the
same or very very similar and you want
to swap them so we use exchange to talk
about this like i exchanged my shirts at
the store yesterday to use another
example you could talk about maybe
exchanging money at a currency exchange
stand so when you want to transfer money
from for example us dollars to euros you
would ask for a currency exchange or in
other words to swap money in this way so
when you use exchange you are switching
you can think of switching or swapping
one thing for another thing okay finally
let's go to interchange interchange i
use the word interchangeably or you can
use them interchangeably a lot on this
channel that means that you can replace
something with something else like it's
okay to use that thing or this thing in
this place so to use something
interchangeably means that you can use
one or two or maybe three or more things
in exactly the same way or in exactly
the same position so this is different
from exchange which refers to some kind
of transaction usually
interchange doesn't have this feeling
it's like saying you can use anything in
this place or you can use anything in
this way
exchange doesn't have this feeling about
it it just kind of refers to switching
or swapping to things that are similar
or roughly equal so i hope that this
helps you understand the differences
between change exchange and interchange
thanks very much for the question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from nihan hello nihan
nihan says hi alicia i've got a question
is there an adjective in english
meaning that you won't talk to anyone
because you're soaking but it's
temporary because another person did
something wrong to you and it's not that
you often sulk as a personal quality
yeah this is an interesting question we
might not use an adjective in this case
if i had to choose an adjective
specifically i might describe this
feeling as gloomy like you feel gloomy
because someone else did something to
you or something happened and your mood
is low you might say i'm gloomy or you
might say i'm feeling dejected or maybe
if it's really serious despondent like
you don't want to talk to somebody and
it's very very serious what we might say
instead of using a specific adjective in
this case if you are actively not
talking to someone because you're upset
with that one we might instead say we're
giving someone the silent treatment
which means you are not talking to
someone because they did something wrong
or because there's some kind of problem
so we often say that that's a kind of
punishment like not talking to someone
is a kind of punishment so we might use
that kind of expression in this case
like oh i'm giving him the silent
treatment he made a huge mistake and i
don't want to talk to him right now so
we could use something like that to
express that kind of feeling you feel
upset you don't want to talk to someone
you are giving them the silent treatment
i hope that this helps you i hope this
kind of communicates the idea that you
were expressing in your question thanks
for an interesting topic okay let's move
on to our next question next question
comes from gerardo vega hello gerardo
gerardo says hello alicia i'd like to
know what's the difference between stare
and look at thank you very much sure
okay let's cover look at first we use
look at to refer to moving our eyes to
something so we focus our attention on
something when we use look at like look
at the camera means use your eyes to
focus on the camera so we use our eyes
in a direction when we look at something
look at that look at him look at her
right but stare to stare at something
means yes to use your eyes to focus on
that but it means you don't move your
focus so for example if you see
something interesting or maybe you see
like an attractive person or you see
something you really want to eat
whatever it might be for you if you look
at something for a very long time and
you don't look at anything else you can
describe that as staring at something so
for example a pretty girl crossed the
street and he stared at her for 10
seconds straight so that means someone
focused their attention on another
person 100 focus their attention on
another person for 10 seconds straight
so stare means a long period of focused
attention to look at does not have this
feel we just use our eyes to focus and
to take in images so this is the
difference between look at and stare i
hope that this helps you thanks for the
question okay let's move on to our next
question next question comes from achoo
i hope i said that right achchu says
white house staffer has tested positive
for covid19 on cnn and white house staff
has tested positive for covid19 on bbc
in our country we use staff commonly but
staffer is new to me is this an american
lingo what's the difference between them
great question yeah so staff generally
is used to talk about a group of people
right the people who work at a company
or an organization we're talking about
everybody there all of the employees all
of the members we say that's the
company's staff those are the people
that work there or they belong to the
organization so we understand staff as a
group of people right however you may in
some cases see the word staffer staffer
we tend to see this more i feel in like
government organizations or maybe more
official organizations staffer refers to
one person only one person only so in
this case as with the news reports a
staffer got a disease in this case
we want to use staffer here to refer to
one person only in this news report so
this might be a decision it might be a
decision that's determined by the
reporting agency different reporting
agencies might follow different rules
for if they choose to use staff or maybe
employee or staffer but this is what it
means staffer refers to just one person
staff refers to a group of people
generally so i hope that this helps you
understand the difference thanks for an
interesting question okay let's move on
to your next question next question
comes from
onerolan wonderland i hope i said your
name right owner allan says hi alicia
and team thanks for your great work it's
amazing awesome thank you
sometimes i receive short messages from
native speakers without a personal
pronoun like got it
as far as i know this is okay in spanish
or russian languages but can i do this
in short sentences in non-formal verbal
speech only or should i avoid it hmm
good question so when you get messages
like these like got it or understood
those kinds of things it's totally
normal it's totally natural to use those
kinds of expressions in quick messages
typically with your friends with your
coworkers your colleagues if you're
close to somebody it's generally
understood that it's okay to drop that
you don't have to say i got it or i
understood it's fine to just say
understood or got it
if however you don't have such a close
relationship with someone if you are
talking to a client for the first time
or you're exchanging emails with a
teacher for the first time or you're
making a new connection it's better to
write full sentences i would recommend
that you don't use these kind of casual
expressions until you know someone and
you've developed a little bit of a
relationship with them but then
absolutely it's completely fine to use
these short messages just to show you've
received something or you saw something
or you understood some information so
yeah got it or understood or even just
great something like that those are
perfectly fine to use and they're very
effective ways to communicate as well so
i hope that this helps you thanks very
much for the question
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大家好，欢迎回来询问艾丽西亚
您问我的每周系列
问题，我回答他们也许可以，
让我们来回答你
本周的第一个问题，本周第一个问题来自
brinto 嗨 brinto brinto 说你能
告诉我
零钱交换和交换之间的区别，当然
让我们谈谈它让我们从
讨论零钱开始吧
可以在这三个词中的大多数情况下使用 change
当我们想要改变
某物时，我们想要制作不同
类型的东西，或者我们想要使用
不同类型的东西，我们可以使用
change 来描述，所以如果你想要
做一些
细微的改变
，这是一个名词，如果你想在文档中做某事，你也可以用它来
描述改变
，例如
你想写一个
文档中的新句子，或者您想删除
文档中的句子，您可以将其
描述为名词的更改，或者
如果您想在这种情况下使用动词，
您可以说我更改了文档
，这意味着您更改了它或您 让它
在某种程度上有所不同 改变的关键
是你正在
以某种方式做出不同的东西，或者你正在添加
一些新的东西你正在删除
一些不存在的东西
你可能会听到一些常见的表达改变
，例如 to change the
baby 这意味着给婴儿换
尿布 给婴儿换上新尿布
或者我们之前谈到的
在文档中进行更改也可以
描述为更改文档，因此
添加或删除某些内容以制作
某些内容 不同，这就是我们用
change 来谈论的 let's move going to
exchange to exchange 意味着通常
有两件你想要交换的东西，
所以我们在购物时经常使用这个
，例如，如果你去商店
买了一个 shi rt 很小，但你需要
一件中号的衬衫，
回家后你意识到你可能会
回到商店要求
将衬衫换成不同尺寸的，这
意味着你有两件
相同或非常相似的东西 你
想交换它们，所以我们用交换来
谈论这个，就像我昨天在商店交换了我的衬衫一样
使用另一个
例子，你可以谈论可能
在货币兑换处兑换货币，
所以当你想
从例如我们转账时 美元到欧元，您
会要求进行货币兑换，或者
换句话说，以这种方式交换货币，因此
当您使用兑换时，您正在转换
您可以考虑转换或将
一件事换成另一件事，好吧最后
让我们去交换交换，我
使用 单词可互换，或者您可以
在此频道上大量互换使用它们，
这意味着您可以用
其他东西替换某些东西，例如可以
在 thi 中使用那个东西或这个东西
s place so to use something
compatible意味着你可以以完全相同的方式或在完全相同的位置使用
一个或两个或三个或更多的东西
，
所以这
与交换是不同的，交换指的是
某种交易，通常
交换不会 有这种
感觉就像说你可以在这个地方使用任何东西
或者你可以以这种方式使用任何东西
交换没有这种感觉
它只是指切换
或交换到相似
或大致相等的东西所以我希望 这
可以帮助您理解
零钱交换和交换之间的区别
非常感谢这个问题好的
让我们继续你的下一个问题下一个
问题来自nihan你好
nihan nihan说你好艾丽西亚我有一个问题
是否有英语中的
形容词 你不会和任何人说话，
因为你正在浸泡，但这是
暂时的，因为另一个人
对你做了错事，并不是
你经常作为一个角色生闷气 l quality
是的，这是一个有趣的问题
，
如果我必须专门选择一个形容词，我们
可能不会在
这种情况下使用
形容词 低，您可能会说我很沮丧，或者您
可能会说我感到沮丧，或者
如果真的很沮丧，例如
您不想与某人交谈，
那么我们可能会说非常非常认真，
而不是使用特定的形容词
在这种情况下，
如果您因为对某人不高兴
而主动不与某人交谈，我们可能会说我们正在
给予某人沉默的待遇
，这意味着您不与某人交谈是
因为他们做错了事
或因为存在某种问题
所以我们经常说这是一种
惩罚，就像不和某人说话
是一种惩罚，所以我们可能会
在这种情况下使用那种表达方式，
比如哦，我正在给他沉默的
款待 他犯了一个巨大的错误，我
现在不想和他说话，所以
我们可以用类似的东西来
表达那种你感到不安的感觉
我希望这对你有帮助 我希望
这种方式能传达
你在问题中表达的想法
感谢一个有趣的话题 好的让我们
继续我们的下一个问题 下一个问题
来自 gerardo vega 你好 gerardo
gerardo 说你好 alicia 我想要
知道凝视和注视有什么区别
，谢谢，非常确定，
好吧，让我们首先介绍一下，我们用“
注视”来指代将眼睛移到
某物上，因此
当我们使用“注视”时，我们将注意力集中在某物上，就像
看相机一样 意思是用你的眼睛
聚焦在相机上，所以
当我们看某物时，我们用眼睛指向一个方向
t 表示您不会转移
注意力，例如，如果您看到
一些有趣的东西，或者您
看起来像一个有魅力的人，或者您看到
一些您真的想吃的
东西，如果您长时间看某样东西，无论它对您来说可能是
什么
你不看其他任何东西，你可以
将其描述为盯着某物
，例如一个漂亮的女孩穿过
马路，他连续盯着她看了 10
秒钟，这意味着有人
把注意力集中在另一个
人身上 100 把注意力集中在
另一个人连续 10 秒
所以凝视意味着长时间集中
注意力看没有这种
感觉我们只是用我们的眼睛来聚焦
和拍摄图像所以这是
看和凝视之间的区别我
希望这会有所帮助 谢谢你的
问题 好的让我们继续下一个
问题 下一个问题来自
achoo 我希望我说的是对的 achchu 说
白宫工作人员
在 cnn 和白宫 s 上的 covid19 检测呈阳性
taff 在我们国家的 bbc 上检测出 covid19 呈阳性
我们通常使用工作人员，但
工作人员对我来说是新的，这是一个美国
行话，他们之间有什么区别？
在公司
或组织工作 我们谈论
那里的每个人 所有员工
所有成员 我们说这是
公司的员工 那些是在
那里工作的人或者他们属于
组织所以我们将员工理解为
一群人 是的，但是在
某些情况下，您可能会看到 Staffer Staffer 这个词，
我们更倾向于看到这个词，我觉得像
政府组织或者更多的
官方组织，staffer 指的是
一个人，只有一个人，所以在
这种情况下，就像员工得到的新闻报道一样
在这种情况下，
我们想在这里使用工作人员来指代
此新闻报道中的一个人，因此
这可能是一个决定，它可能是一个
由 th 决定的决定 e
报告机构不同的报告
机构可能会遵循不同的规则
，如果他们选择使用员工，或者可能是
员工或员工，但这
意味着员工仅指一个人
员工通常指一组人，
所以我希望这有助于您
理解 差异感谢一个
有趣的问题好吧让我们
继续你的下一个问题下一个问题
来自
onerolan Wonderland我希望我说你的
名字正确所有者艾伦说嗨艾丽西亚
和团队感谢您的出色工作
真是太棒了谢谢
有时我会收到短信 来自
没有人称代词的母语人士
，据我所知，这在西班牙语或俄语中是可以的，
但我可以只
在非正式口头演讲中用简短的句子做到这一点，
还是我应该避免它嗯
好问题，所以当你得到
像这样的消息喜欢得到它或理解
那些东西这是完全
正常的在qu中使用这些表达是完全自然的
通常与您的朋友和您的
同事您的同事发送消息 如果您
与某人关系密切，通常
认为可以放弃
您不必说我明白或
明白了，只要说
明白或明白就
可以了 但是
，如果您是
第一次与客户交谈，
或者您是第一次与老师交换电子邮件，或者您
正在建立新的联系，那么您与某人的关系并不密切，最好
写完整的句子 我
建议您在
认识某人并且与
他们建立了一点
关系之前不要使用这种随意的表达方式，
但是绝对可以使用
这些短消息来表明您已经
收到了一些东西 或者你看到了一些东西，
或者你理解了一些信息，
所以是的，得到它或理解了，甚至只是
很棒的东西
，它们非常好用，它们也是非常
有效的沟通方式，所以
我希望这对你有帮助 非常感谢你
的问题
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