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twist
معنی و توضیح
The word “twist,” in this podcast, means an unexpected change: “We all expected him to propose to Steph, so it was a strange twist when he proposed to Linda instead.” The phrase “a twist of fate” is often used to talk about things that happen in life through destiny, or something that is meant to happen: “He always says that missing the plane was a twist of fate, because that’s how he met his future wife.” The phrase “a twist of [fruit]” refers to small piece of lemon, lime, or orange that is put in a drink to flavor it: “I’d like a glass of iced tea with a twist of lemon, please.” In the 1960s, “the twist” was a popular dance where one rotated one’s body from side to side: “Do you know how to dance the twist?”
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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 494: Types of Story Endings.
This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 494. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
Go to our website at eslpod.com to download a Learning Guide for this episode. The Learning Guide will help you improve your English even faster by giving you all of the vocabulary words and definitions, sample sentences with each of the main vocabulary words we discuss on this episode. You’ll also find cultural notes, comprehension questions, additional definitions, and a complete transcript of everything we say on this episode.
We’re talking, in this episode, about “story endings,” the way that a movie or a play or a novel might end. It’s a conversation between Hamid and Rachel, and we will use a lot of vocabulary that you might use to describe the ending of stories. Let’s begin.
Hamid: I just finished a really good book. I thought the characters were headed toward a tragic ending, but there was a twist near the end, and everything turned
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