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Neil: Hi Helen, would you like to go shopping this afternoon? I'd like to blow some money!
Helen: Wow, Neil, that's an offer I can't refuse. I'd love to go shopping with you, but first we have to present the programme.
Neil: OK… Let’s tell the listeners about that expression – to blow some money.
Helen: 歡迎收聽BBC 的地道英語, 我是 Helen.
Neil: And I'm Neil. In Real English we look at words and expressions you might not find in your dictionary. Today's expression is to blow money.
Helen: Blow 平時的意思是吹，比如吹風, 吹氣。但是在這里它又有另外一個意思就是花很多很多錢。
Neil: Yes, if you blow money you spend a lot of it. There's also a sense of being wasteful.
Helen: Wasteful – 浪費。 如果一個人 'blow money' 吹錢，其實也就是說他花錢太浪費。
Neil: Someone who is very extravagant might blow money.
Helen: Extravagant – 奢侈。讓我們聽幾個例子吧, Neil.
Example
A: My credit card bill is huge this month.
B: Why’s that?
A: Well I blew 120 pounds on that new dress. It’s lovely, but I don’t even know when I can wear it!
C: My sister never has any money, even though she’s got a good job. She usually blows about 100 quid every Saturday on going out.
Helen: 在第一段對話中，這位女士告訴她的朋友，她花了不少錢買了一條新裙子。
Neil: And it was a bit of a waste of money.
Helen: 結果她都不知道自己有沒有機會穿這條裙子，這不擺明了是浪費嘛！
Neil: And in the second example, the man’s sister blows money on going out.
Helen: 這位男士說他的妹妹每周都花100英鎊出去玩，所以她存不了錢! 好了，我們再來復習一下，今天的新表達是:
Neil: To blow money.
Helen: 意思就是一次花很多錢，而且還是比較浪費的那種。
Neil: We’ve run out of time now – let’s get to the shops and blow some money.
Helen: Fantastic. 我們下期節目再見!
