عبارت انگلیسی
slowdown
معنی و توضیح
The word “slowdown,” in this podcast, means a situation where cars are moving very slowly, usually because too many cars are trying to drive along the same road: “Bad weather caused a major slowdown on all the major freeways.” The word “slowdown” also means a reduction in some activity: “Will an economic slowdown really affect cell phone manufacturers?” A “slowpoke” is someone who does something too slowly, especially someone who is moving too slowly: “Come on, slowpoke, we have to be there in 10 minutes!” Finally, someone who is “slow- witted” is stupid or at least unable to understand things quickly: “Kenji is so slow- witted that we had to explain the new process to him at least five times before he understood it.”
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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 903: Listening to a Traffic Report.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 903. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
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This episode is a story about listening to the traffic report – a report about how the traffic is on the freeways and roads in your city. Let's get started.
Every afternoon before I leave work, I listen to the traffic report to see if I should take my usual route home or make a detour. So today, like every day, I turned on my radio.
“It’s a tough commute today if you’re traveling on I-35 north. There’s a major slowdown due to an overturned big rig that’s
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