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leak
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The word “leak,” in this podcast, means a person or thing that allows secret information to be shared with people who shouldn’t know it: “The university had an information leak and all of its students’ contact information was shared with the public.” The word “leak” also means a crack or small hole in a wall, ceiling, or something else that lets air or water through it: “When it started raining, we discovered that there was a leak in the ceiling.” The word can also be used as a verb, “to leak”: “The car is leaking oil.” Finally, the phrase “to take a leak” is an informal, rude (unpleasant and not polite) expression meaning that one needs to go to the bathroom to urinate: “I drank too much water and now I have to take a leak.” to scour In this podcast, the verb “to scour” means to look through many things, trying to find a specific one, or a certain detail or piece of information: “She scoured her phone bill, trying to understand why she had been charged so much money that month.” Or, “He scoured the book, looking for the paragraph he had remembered reading earlier.” The verb “to scour” also means to scrub, or to rub something very hard to clean it: “He spent almost an hour scouring the dirty pot.” Or, “What cleaner should I use to scour the bathtub?” “Scouring powder” is a white powder that is sold as a cleaner for washing very dirty dishes or ovens: “How much scouring powder should I use to clean the oven?” 3 these materials on another website or distributing them in any way is prohibited. English as a Second Language Podcast www.eslpod.com ESL Podcast 412 – Corporate Spying
پادکست مرتبط
اپیزود مرتبط با این کلمه: «Corporate Spying». دو دقیقه اول را همینجا گوش کن و متن همگام را دنبال کن. برای ادامه کامل، از دکمه پایین استفاده کن.
Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 412: Corporate Spying.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 412. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
Our website is eslpod.com. You can go there and download a Learning Guide for this episode, an 8 to 10 page guide that gives you all of the vocabulary, definitions, new sample sentences, additional definitions not found in this audio podcast, cultural notes, comprehension checks, and a complete transcript of everything that you hear.
This episode is a dialogue between Joachim and Dawn. They’re going to be talking about spying, trying to get secret information from another company, and in the process they’ll use a lot of different vocabulary to talk about spying and corporate secrets. Let’s get started.
Joachim: I’m really having second thoughts about hiring a firm to do corporate spying for us. I don’t want to do anything that’s ethically questionable.
Dawn:
پیشنمایش ۲ دقیقهای تمام شد. برای ادامه، وارد صفحه کامل پادکست شو.