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本课教10个高级英语短语，帮助你摆脱简单词汇，更清晰地表达想法。适合中级和高级学习者，提升日常对话和考试表达能力。
Hi there.
你好！
This is Harry.
这是哈利。
And welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.
欢迎大家再次回到由哈里主持的“高级英语课程”中。在这里，我会尽力帮助大家更好地理解英语这门语言。
In our advanced English lesson today, we're looking at advanced expressions that we can use in daily use.
在今天的高级英语课程中，我们将学习一些可以在日常生活中使用的复杂表达方式。
And Okay, so I have ten of them in total.
好的，总共有十个这样的物品。
And I'll go through them one by one to take something for granted.
我会逐一分析这些情况，看看哪些事情被人们视为理所当然（即没有被真正重视）。
Well, you can also take someone for granted.
嗯，你也可能对某人视而不见（或者认为他们理所当然属于你的生活）。
To take something for granted is to assume that it's going to happen, or to assume that it will always be there.
把某件事视为理所当然，意味着认为它一定会发生，或者认为它永远都会存在。
So we often use it in the negative.
因此，我们经常用它的否定形式。
We shouldn't take it for granted that.
我们不应该想当然地认为那是理所当然的。
So what should we not take for granted?
那么，有哪些事情我们不应该想当然地认为它们是理所当然的呢？
We shouldn't take it for granted that the government will always be there to help us.
我们不应该想当然地认为政府总会随时出现在我们身边、帮助我们。
When there are problems with fuel costs or other energy costs, we shouldn't take it for granted.
当燃料成本或其他能源成本出现问题时，我们不应对此习以为常、掉以轻心。
The government might announce that people shouldn't take it for granted, that the government are going to step in and pay the difference,
政府可能会宣布：人们不应将某些福利视为理所当然；政府将会介入并承担相应的费用差额。
so perhaps we have to cut back on our spending so we shouldn't take it for granted.
因此，也许我们不得不削减开支；我们不应该把某些东西视为理所当然的东西。
Sometimes we take people for granted.
有时候，我们会把别人当作理所当然的存在，而忽视他们的感受或付出。
Our parents, we take them for granted because they're always there when we need them and then when they're not,
我们的父母，我们常常对他们习以为常——因为他们总是在我们需要他们的时候出现在我们身边；然而，当他们真的不在我们身边的时候，我们才会意识到他们的珍贵。
what do we do?
我们该怎么办？
Yeah, we're feeling a little bit sad or sorry.
是的，我们感到有点难过或惋惜。
So taking something for granted means to assume that it's always going to be there.
因此，把某件事视为理所当然，就意味着认为它永远都会存在。
It's never going to change.
这种情况永远不会改变。
And of course, we all know as we get a little bit older, the world does change and we should never take anything for granted.
当然，我们都明白：随着年龄的增长，世界确实会发生变化，我们永远不应该把任何事情视为理所当然。
Next.
接下来。
Having said that, this is an expression we use when we are talking about something and we want to give some information,
话虽如此，这个表达方式是我们用来描述某件事并希望提供一些相关信息时的用语。
usually contrasting.
通常情况下，这两种情况是相互对立的（即存在明显的对比）。
Yeah.
是的。
Okay.
好的。
So for example, we could be talking
比如说，我们可以讨论这个话题。
to people and say, okay guys, I think we need to get ready for a really difficult time over the next few months.
我要对大家说：“好吧，各位，我认为我们需要在接下来的几个月里为一段非常艰难的时期做好准备。
Having said that, the sales in the year to date have been really good.
话虽如此，今年迄今为止的销售额确实非常不错。
I've been quite surprised.
我感到非常惊讶。
So we are warning people that the next few months might be difficult.
因此，我们提醒大家：接下来的几个月可能会非常艰难。
But having said that, we're just going
不过话虽如此，我们还是继续走吧。
to give them a little bit of
给他们一点点……
a boost by telling them that the sales in the year to date have actually been much more promising than we had originally expected.
通过告诉他们：截至今年为止的销售情况实际上比我们最初预期的要好得多，从而给他们带来积极的激励（或：提升他们的积极性）。
Okay, so so when we're having said
好的，那么当我们说到……
that, it's a way of introducing another point that might be in contrast to the point that we have already or we have just made.
这是一种引入新观点的方法，这个新观点可能会与我们之前已经提出的观点或刚刚提出的观点形成对比。
Okay, so you might say, well, guys, we're going to work a little bit longer and harder.
好吧，你们可能会说：“伙计们，我们需要再努力工作一会儿。
Perhaps we might have to do some overtime.
也许我们不得不加班一些时间。
However, having said that, I would like to remind you that we will still honour all holidays and anybody who's got some annual leave to take.
不过，尽管如此，我还是想提醒大家：我们仍然会尊重所有的法定假日，以及任何有年假需要休的人的权利。