Memorise 10 LONG Phrases to Speak English Fluently · mmmEnglish
学习10个实用英语长句，帮助你自然表达过去的变化和回忆。适合练习描述经历和日常对话。
Hey there.
嘿，你好！
Today I've got 10 long phrases that I want to help you to memorise so that you sound more natural when you speak in English.
今天，我准备了10个较长的英语短语，希望帮助你们记住它们，这样在说英语时你们的表达会更加自然。
I want to help you learn these phrases so that you can practise using them without thinking about them.
我想帮助你学习这些短语，这样你就可以在不需要刻意思考的情况下自如地使用它们了。
Now, it's important that you learn these phrases as a chunk, as a group of words together.
现在，重要的是你要将这些短语作为一个整体来学习，也就是把它们看作是一组连贯的词语。
These words belong together.
这些词语应该被放在一起。
They are always said in this particular way.
它们总是以这种方式被表达出来的。
Now, I do not want you worrying about grammar.
现在，我不想让你们为语法问题而烦恼。
Please don't try and translate each word individually.
请不要试图逐个翻译每个单词。
Just learn these phrases as a chunk
只需将这些短语作为一个整体来记忆即可。
of words so that you can remember
通过重复这些词语来帮助自己记住它们。
them more easily and you can sound much more natural when you're trying to use them in your English conversations.
这样你会更容易地使用这些表达方式，而且在英语对话中使用时，你的表达也会显得更加自然。
So, these phrases that I'm sharing with you today, they are all useful when you are talking about change.
因此，今天我与大家分享的这些短语，在讨论变革时都非常有用。
And we do this a lot, don't we?
我们经常这样做，不是吗？
We do it when we talk about
我们在讨论相关话题时就会这样做。
things that were different in the past or we compare how things are now with what they were like before.
过去与现在有所不同的事物；或者我们将现在的情况与过去的情况进行比较。
There are also some lovely phrases that native English speakers use just to simply acknowledge change during a conversation.
还有一些非常优美的表达方式，英语母语者会在交谈中用它们来简单地表示对某种变化的认可。
Change happens.
变化是不可避免的。
It's life.
这就是生活。
So, we're going to learn some of those phrases too so that you can start using them just like a native English speaker does.
那么，我们也会学习其中一些短语，这样你就可以像以英语为母语的人一样开始使用它们了。
Are you ready to start?
你准备好开始了吗？
Let's start with: When I was growing up.
让我们从以下内容开始说起：在我成长的过程中……
And that phrase is often used with used to.
这个短语经常与 “used to” 连用。
So, we'll talk about that as well.
那么，我们也会讨论这个话题。
But this is a really natural way
但这确实是一种非常自然的方式。
to start talking about your childhood because it describes the habits and the routines that you had in the past,
开始谈论你的童年，因为童年时期形成的习惯和日常作息方式能够反映你过去的生活方式。
the things that you did regularly that you don't do so regularly anymore.
那些你曾经经常做的事情，现在却不再经常做了。
Now, you can also say: When I was a kid, when I was a girl, but by using growing up here in this phrase,
现在，你也可以这样说：“当我还是个孩子的时候……”不过，这里使用“在这里长大”这个表述，会让人感觉更加生动、更具情感色彩。
it includes the whole of your childhood, the younger years as well as the teenage years.
它涵盖了你整个的童年时期，包括幼年阶段和青少年阶段。
So, let's look at that phrase, when I was growing up, that phrase is then followed by the subject,
那么，让我们来看看这个短语。在我成长的过程中，这个短语后面通常会跟着主语。
which is often not always, but often
这并不总是如此，但大多数情况下确实是这样。
the same as the subject in the phrase, and then followed by used to and the base form of our verb.
这与短语中的主语相同；其后接 “used to” 以及动词的基本形式（即动词的原形）。
So, let's look at some examples.
那么，让我们来看一些例子吧。
When I was growing up, I used to walk to school on my own.
在我成长的过程中，我经常独自步行去上学。
When I was growing up, we used to spend our summer holidays at my grandparents' beach house.
在我成长的过程中，我们常常在暑假期间去祖父母的海滨别墅度过假期。
When I was growing up, we used to dial our friends' telephone numbers into the phone.
在我成长的过程中，我们总是需要手动将朋友的电话号码输入电话机中才能拨打电话。
Do you remember that?
你还记得那件事吗？
Gosh, I'm showing my age a little here.
天哪，我在这里确实有点暴露了自己的年龄了。
Back then, a great phrase to use if you want to take the listener, the person that you're talking to,
在那个时候，如果你想吸引听众（也就是你正在与之交谈的人），有一个非常合适的表达方式……
back to a specific time that you've already mentioned in your conversation.
回到你们谈话中已经提到过的某个具体时间点。
And it's really important that you have already specifically mentioned the point in time, because otherwise, back then,
非常重要的是，你之前已经明确提到了具体的时间点；否则的话，那时候……