ESL杰夫的一天 第117期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(9)

I lay my head down and I pull up the covers, so I am warm, and because I'm such a great husband, I kiss my wife goodnight. 我躺了下来然后盖上被子，因此我身子是温暖的，因为我是模范丈夫，所以我亲了一下妻子并道了

ESL杰夫的一天 第116期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(8)

I fluff my pillow, and I climb into bed. 我拍松枕头，然后爬上了床。 Notice that verb to climb, climb, into bed. 注意到climb into bed中climb这个动词。 It means the same as to get into bed. 它与get into bed的get意思相同。

ESL杰夫的一天 第115期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(7)

I pull back the covers. 我拉开被子。 The covers, covers, are the blanket, the comforter, and the top sheets. 被子（covers）可以是毯子、羽绒被和上层床单。 We take those things and we have to pull them back. 我们拿着这些物

ESL杰夫的一天 第114期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(6)

For example, I have pajamas that say Superman on it, and I wear my Superman pajamas to bed. Doesn't everyone? 例如，我穿的睡衣上面有超人的图案，我穿着超人睡衣去睡觉。是不是所有人都这样呢？ Well, in addition to p

ESL杰夫的一天 第113期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(5)

To hamper, as a verb, means something different. 动词hamper的意思又有所不同。 To hamper someone means to get in their way to prevent them from doing something. To hamper someone的意思是阻碍某人阻止某人做某事。 But as a noun

ESL杰夫的一天 第112期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(4)

To finish up is really the same as to finish, but we love in English to use those prepositions as part of these two word verbs. To finish up就是to finish的意思，但在英语中我们喜欢用这些介词来作为由两个单词构成的动词的一

ESL杰夫的一天 第111期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(3)

I have to admit is an expression that we use when you're going to say something that maybe you don't want to say you don't want to tell the truth. I have to admit是当你要说你可能不想说的事情你不想说实话的时候会用到的一种表

ESL杰夫的一天 第110期:睡前准备和睡觉讲解(2)

I'm looking forward to having that ritual, a ritual, ritual, is something that you do on a regular schedule 我期待能有这样的惯例，惯例（ritual）是指你定期做某事 or at a regular time every day or maybe every week or every month,

ESL杰夫的一天 第119期:睡前准备和睡觉(2)

At 10:30, I decide to get ready for bed. 晚上10:30，我决定上床睡觉。 When I was little, my mother would read me a bedtime story. 在我小的时候，我妈妈会给我读睡前故事。 I'm looking forward to having that ritual with my ow

ESL杰夫的一天 第91期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具讲解(5)

My wife comes into the kitchen and helps me chop the tomatoes. 我妻子走进厨房并帮我切西红柿。 To chop, chop, means to cut something into small pieces. 切（chop），是指把某物切成小块。 We chop tomatoes we make them into sm

ESL杰夫的一天 第92期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具讲解(6)

In a salad, you often have lettuce and maybe tomatoes, other food, other vegetables, and you want to mix them together. 沙拉里通常会有生菜、西红柿等别的食物或者别的蔬菜，而你想把这些东西搅拌在一起。 Often you pu

ESL杰夫的一天 第93期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具讲解(7)

So, I get out the place mats and the napkins to set the table. 因此，我取出餐具垫和餐巾摆在餐桌上。 A napkin, napkin, is like a little towel that you use. 餐巾（napkin），是你使用的一种小毛巾。 In case you need to wi

ESL杰夫的一天 第94期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具讲解(8)

My wife and I talk about our long day, meaning we had many things happen today, and maybe we are very tired, so we had a long day. 我妻子和我聊着我们漫长的一天，意思是今天我们身上发生了很多事，或者是我们很累，所以

ESL杰夫的一天 第95期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具讲解(9)

At the end of your dinner at the end of your meal if you want to keep some of that food, we call it leftovers. 吃完晚餐后吃完饭后如果你想保留的那些食物，我们称之为吃剩的食物。 And in this case, I'm going to put the lef

ESL杰夫的一天 第97期:做晚饭 吃晚饭和清洗餐具(2)

When I get home, I start on dinner right away. 当我回到家的时候，我立马开始准备晚饭。 I clean off the kitchen counter after putting away the groceries and decide to make pasta. 在把食物放好之后我便清理了一下厨房柜台

ESL杰夫的一天 第98期:休息 邮件和垃圾(1)

With the dinner dishes done, my wife and I each sit down on the couch to chill out and watch the national news which comes on at 6:30. 由于晚餐餐具洗好擦干了，我和我妻子坐在沙发上歇息，并观看6:30开播的国内新闻。 Du

ESL杰夫的一天 第99期:休息 邮件和垃圾讲解(1)

Part nine is called Relaxing, the Mail, and the Trash. 第九部分称为休息、邮件和垃圾。 We begin with the sentence With the dinner dishes done, 我们以由于晚餐餐具洗好擦干了这个句子开始， the dinner dishes are the dis

ESL杰夫的一天 第100期:休息 邮件和垃圾讲解(2)

When we say a television show comes on, we mean that that is when it begins that is when you can watch it. 当我们说a television show comes on，我们是指它的开始时间也就是什么时候你可以看到它。 The national news can also be

ESL杰夫的一天 第101期:休息 邮件和垃圾讲解(3)

You get a bill for your electricity, for your phone, for your Internet access. 你会收到电费、手机费和网费单。 You have to pay your bills. 你必须支付你的账单。 Well, you should pay your bills; maybe you don't. 那个，你应该

ESL杰夫的一天 第102期:休息 邮件和垃圾讲解(4)

In New York or Boston, some of the cities on the eastern coast of the United States, 在纽约或波斯顿等这样的美国东海岸城市， people talk about sitting on the stoop, that mean you're sitting on your stairs. 人们说到坐在门廊上时