Hello! Welcome to the vocabulary
audio for the Nudist lesson. Let's get started. Vocabulary.
"Neighbors get an eyeful when nudist
steps outside."
To talk about and eyeful.
"To get an eyeful" means to see a lot. Alright. It means feels your
eyes. He say, "Wow! That was an eyeful." Or "I got an
eyeful", it means you saw a lot, a lot of something.
In this case, a lot of
somebody's body. And it talks about when the nudist steps outside.
"Nude",
(N-U-D-E), means without clothes. Alright. No clothes. Naked. "Nude"
and "naked" are similar.
But a nudist is a person
who does not wear clothes. And it's a... We can also use it as an additive.
For example, "a nudist
beach", is a beach for people who don't wear clothes. You go to the nudist
beach and nobody's wearing clothes. (Sometimes we also say, "a nude
beach".)
So, a nudist is a person
who does not wear clothes.
Alright. And then she says in the letter Dear
Abby, we have a male name neighbor I call "Flash".
"Flash", is a
slang for somebody who is nude, does not wear clothes, that you know... runs
around very fast. They run around without clothes. So this is their funny
nickname for their neighbor, the guy who lives near them.
And he frequently, often
walked outside to get his newspaper. Or go to them get the mail or retrieve
something from his car.
"To retrieve"
means to get something and bring it back. So if he retrieve something from his
car, it means he goes to his car, he gets something from the car, and he brings it back inside the house.
Sometimes we talk about
dogs. Dogs will retrieve, right? You throw *** stick. The dog runs, gets the
stick and brings the stick back to you. That's retrieve, or retrieving.
"To retrieve".
Okay. So this guy retrieve
something from his car and he's naked. He's naked when he does it. He's nude or naked.
"Nude" and
"naked" have the same meaning. They mean no clothes. So, this guy
naked. he goes to his cl.... his car, he goes to the mailbox, but he's naked.
No clothes.
Okay and... She says
that... you know, many people in the neighborhood, especially women, they don't
like to look at his house, because they're afraid,right?
They're afraid that if they
look they will see him in the buff.
"In the buff",
"in the buff" is a slang. It means naked. It's another way to say
"naked" or "nude". "No clothes". "In the
buff".
"He is in the
buff" means he is naked, he has no clothes. "In the buff",
"in the buff."
Okay! So this guys always
in the buff. (He doesn't have clothes on, right?)
And will be in the buff,
standing at his door, or standing in front of his window or walking out side in
front of his house, and she says, Flash, her nickname for this guy
"Flash". He the basically likable. He's a nice guy.
"Likable" means
easy to like, friendly. And he's generally... He's generally helpful guy.
And she says, "We
hesitate to say anything."
"To hesitate".
"To hesitate" means to wait to do something. Itmeans you want to do
something. You... You are planning to do something, but you wait first. You're
not sure. So you wait.
So they want to say
something to this man. They want to say something to Flash, but then they stop.
(oh) "Maybe we shouldn't."
Alright. They think and,
"Oh, I don't know, maybe, should we say something? Should we not?"
They hesitate. They wait to say something.
She says they don't want to
destroy their friendship. Their relationship with him. So that's why they
hesitate. That's why they're waiting. That's why they don't take action.
Okay. She said, in her
city, she's from Austin, Texas. Austin, Texas is a liberal city, a college city
and the capital of Texas. It's probably the only liberal city in Texas.
But anyway, she said in
their city in Austin, it's not against the law to be a nudist. So if you are
someone who likes to be naked in Austin, its okay. The police will not grab
you. You can walk around your house. You can walk around your yard, outside
your house. Nude; naked; in the buff.
Okay. And also women can go
topless in public in Austin. A woman can take off her shirt and walk around of
Texas. No problem.
So, they can't call the
police. It's not a possibility. The police won't do anything.
She says, "However to
see a fella streak to his car is surprising and unsettling."
Alright. "Fella".
"Fella" means guy. Alright! “G-U-Y” or man; a fella. It kinda old
word, really. …. Not many people say “fella” anymore. You might have heard the…
the movie Goodfellas, right? It means good guys or good men. So “fella” means
man or guy; fella. But it's an old word. Maybe in 1915.
Okay! In the verb “to
streak”. She says, “To see a fella streak to his car…”
“To streak” means to run
naked, to run nude, to run naked. So you have no clothes and then you run
across the… the street, or you run somewhere. So you're running in you’re in
the buff. You're running and you're
naked, that's called streaking or to streak. (The verb is “to streak”).
She says, “this is
unsettling…”
“Unsettling”. “Unsettling”
means something that upsets you. Something that makes you… may be angry or may
be sad, or maybe shocked and surprise. The emotion is called “unsettled”.
Alright. She say, “I feel unsettled” it means you feel
a little strange. You feel a little nervous, maybe. You feel a little bit wrong,
a little upset. It's not a strong word if you say “I feel unsettled”, it's not
strong, its weaker than upset.
“Upset” is strong, “I'm
upset” means you feel strong emotion. If you say, “I feel unsettled”, it means
you feel a little wrong but it's not too strong. It’s not, not, not very strong.
Okay. And then she says, “In the normal course
of things”.
“In the normal course if
things”, that's a common phrase. It means, in normal life, in normal daily life,
in the normal course of things.
He, Flash (is a neighbor).
he may be spotted in the nude once a week.
“To be spotted” means to be
seen. Alright. “To spot”, the verb. “To
spot means to see something. Usually it means to see something that is hard to
find. Alright. It means you're looking and finally, “Ah, I see it”, “ah I spotted”. Alright. So we use pot when
something is difficult to find or maybe you don't want to see it. In this case
you don't want to see it.
So she says she spots him
in the nude once a week. She sees him in the nude or in the buff once a week.
She says, “I'm sure this
happens more, but luckily, thankfully our paths don't cross more than once a
week.”
Okay. She says “our paths
don't cross”, it means we don't meet each other. The phrase “to cross paths”. “Path”,
“a path” is like a road, right? It's a road for walking. So if you say “to
cross paths”, means to meet another person. Alright! You're walking on a little
road. They're walking on a little road. And your roads cross each other. So you
meet each other.
So, it's kinda an idiom. “To
cross paths” means to meet somebody. Usually, it's to meet somebody suddenly. It
similar to, to bump into. Alright! I… “I bumped into her yesterday”, it means
you met somebody yesterday. You were not planning to meet them, but by accident,
oh you met them,
- Hi! How are you?
- Oh! Hi, how are you?
The same you could say, “We
crossed paths yesterday”. Alright! We crossed paths yesterday. We met each
other yesterday.
Okay. She says this happens once a week. She crossed paths with the
naked guy once
week. She sees him once a week.
And finally, she asks Abby is
this something we should be worried about/concerned about?
“to be concerned” means to be worried. “Concern” means worry.
And finally she signs her
name. She signs it, “Startled in Austin, Texas”.
“Startled” means surprise
or shock. Sometimes both ideas, surprised and shocked: startled.
So if I.. “AHHH!”
If I shout suddenly, alright?
I startled you. I can use it as a verb. I startle you. I startle you, it means
I surprise you.
It can also be an emotion. You can say “I was
startled”. Alright! “He made me feel startled”
So it can be a feeling. So,
you say startle. An emotion and an adjective, or it can be a verb. “He startled
me”, “he surprised me”.
All right. That is all for the vocabulary for
the nudists lesson. Go on to the mini story.
See you next time. Bye bye!
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