Learn English Vocabulary Daily #24.5 — British English Podcast · English Like A Native Podcast
本集介绍5个实用英语词汇，涵盖名词短语、名词和动词短语，适合练习日常表达和听力理解。内容涉及思维流程、多样性及主导地位等主题。
Hello, and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast.
你好，欢迎收听《像母语一样说英语》（The English Like a Native Podcast）这个播客节目。
My name is Anna and you are listening to Week 24, Day Five of Your English Five a Day.
我的名字是安娜，您现在正在收听《每天五句英语》（English Five a Day）节目的第24周、第5天的内容。
This is the series that aims to increase your active vocabulary by giving you five
这是一个旨在通过提供五个单词来增加你的主动词汇量的系列内容。
healthy pieces of vocabulary every day of the working week from Monday to Friday.
每周工作日（从周一到周五），每天都会提供一些新的、实用的词汇。
So, let's start today's list with a noun phrase and it is train of thought.
那么，让我们从名词短语“train of thought”开始今天的列表吧。
Train of thought.
思路的连贯性（或：思维过程的逻辑性）。
We spell this T R A I N, train.
我们把这个词拼写为“T R A I N”，即“火车”。
Of, O F.
哦，O F……
Thought, T H O U G H T.
思考……
Train of thought.
思路的连贯性（或：思维过程的逻辑性）。
Now, your train of thought is referring to the flow of your ideas or the flow of what you're thinking,
现在，你的思维过程指的是你想法的连贯性，或者说你思考内容的连贯性。
how one thing leads to another.
一件事是如何引出另一件事的。
So, here's an example sentence, "Billy's train of thought was suddenly interrupted by the loud noise outside."
下面是一个例句：“比利的思路突然被外面的巨大噪音打断了。
We sometimes have that, don't we?
我们有时候就是会遇到这种情况，不是吗？
We lose our train of thought when something distracts us.
当某些事物分散我们的注意力时，我们就会失去思路（即无法继续按照原来的思路思考下去）。
It usually is our phone, a notification pops up on your phone or it goes
通常情况下，是我们的手机出现了问题：手机上会弹出一条通知信息，或者手机本身就出现了故障（无法正常使用）。
and you lose your train of thought.
然后你就思路混乱了（或者说：就无法继续原来的思路了）。
You lose what you were thinking about or what you were trying to do because you were interrupted so rudely and so suddenly.
你原本在思考的事情，或者试图完成的任务，都失败了——因为你的思路被突然、且极其无礼地打断了。
I've lost my train of thought now.
我现在思路完全乱了，不知道该说什么好了。
I can't remember what I was saying.
我记不起自己当时在说什么了。
I often do that actually, in the middle of talking to people.
其实我经常会在和别人交谈的过程中做这件事。
Sometimes even when I'm live streaming, I'll be talking about something and then I'll get distracted by a comment or by my own thoughts.
有时候，即使我正在进行直播，我在谈论某个话题时，也会被别人的评论或自己的思绪分散注意力。
I get pulled onto a different subject or topic.
话题突然转向了另一个方向。
And then I try to come back to what I was originally saying and I've completely forgotten my point.
然后我试图回到自己最初想要表达的内容，结果却完全忘记了自己的观点。
I've completely lost my train of thought.
我完全忘记了自己原本在想什么。
Okay, next on the list is a noun and it is variety.
好的，列表中的下一个词是一个名词，它的名字是“variety”（多样性）。
Variety.
多样性。
We spell this V A R I E T Y.
我们把这个词拼写为“VARIETY”（多样性）。
Variety.
多样性。
Variety is the quality or state of being diverse and different, or a range of different options.
多样性”指的是事物具有丰富性和差异性的特征或状态，也可以指多种不同的选择或可能性。
So, if I go to an ice cream shop, I would hope that there would
所以，如果我去一家冰淇淋店，我希望那里会有……
be a variety of flavours in the shop that I could choose from.
商店里有各种各样的口味可供我选择。
What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
你最喜欢的冰淇淋口味是什么？
I have to say, I think mine is rum and raisin.
我得说，我觉得我喜欢的口味是朗姆酒加葡萄干（的饮品）。
My children love chocolate ice cream.
我的孩子们非常喜欢巧克力冰淇淋。
So does my partner.
我的伴侣也是如此。
Chocolate ice cream all the way.
就选巧克力口味的冰淇淋吧。
But not for me.
但对我来说不行。
I find chocolate ice cream to be a bit too rich.
我觉得巧克力冰淇淋的口感有点太浓郁了（或者说：它的味道过于浓郁、难以入口）。
It's not very refreshing on the palate.
这种味道在口中并不会带来什么清爽的感觉（或者说：它的口感并不令人愉悦）。