中文說「雖然…但是」很順，英文寫成 Although our sales went down, but… 卻是錯的。英文的 although 和 but 只能二選一，because 和 so 也一樣；despite 後面要接名詞，想接句子用 even though。這集用簡報前請朋友幫忙看投影片的情境，一次拆掉三個中文腦最常犯的連接詞錯誤。 ▶ 完整逐字稿、重點單字、句型： https://mjenglishclass.com/daily-english/en-although-but ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔓 解鎖無廣告＋完整內容，支持 VIP 訂閱： Apple｜https://apple.co/4rYiYa7 Spotify｜https://sptfy.bio/mjenglish 📚 推薦教材：賴世雄獨門英文文法心法＋圖表＋練習 https://s.shopee.tw/AKO1JfgYp4 ☕ 請我們喝杯咖啡： https://p.ecpay.com.tw/E34AEEA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗣️ 情境對話 Dialogue 場景：週日下午，台北的咖啡店；Hannah 明天要用英文做業績簡報，請外國朋友 Noah 幫她看投影片，她一句一句念給他聽。 Hannah: Noah, can you check my slides? I have to present in English tomorrow. （Noah，可以幫我看一下投影片嗎？我明天要用英文報告。） Noah: Sure. Read me the first one. （好啊。念第一張給我聽。） Hannah: Although our sales went down, but our customers are happier. （雖然我們的業績下滑，但是客戶更滿意了。（although 和 but 同時出現，英文多了一個）） Noah: Close. Just drop one of them. Although our sales went down, our customers are happier. （很接近了。拿掉其中一個就好：Although our sales went down, our customers are happier.） Hannah: Wait, I can't use both? In Chinese we always use both. （等等，我不能兩個都用？中文我們都是兩個一起用。） Noah: In English it's one or the other. Or you could say, our sales went down, but our customers are happier. （英文是二選一。或者你可以說：Our sales went down, but our customers are happier.） Hannah: Okay. Next one. Because the market was slow, so we cut costs. （好。下一張：因為市場不景氣，所以我們削減了成本。（because 和 so 同時出現，一樣多了一個）） Noah: Same thing. Because the market was slow, we cut costs. Or, the market was slow, so we cut costs. （一樣的問題。Because the market was slow, we cut costs. 或者 The market was slow, so we cut costs.） Hannah: So because and so are a pair too. Pick one. Got it. （所以 because 和 so 也是一組，選一個就好。懂了。） Noah: Exactly. Clean sentences, and you'll sound more confident tomorrow. （沒錯。句子乾淨，你明天聽起來也會更有自信。） ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 重點單字 although／ɔːlˈðoʊ／雖然（已經帶有轉折，後面不用 but） even though／ˈiːvn ðoʊ／儘管、雖然（比 although 語氣更強） though／ðoʊ／（口語，放句尾）不過、可是 despite／dɪˈspaɪt／儘管（後面接名詞或 -ing） go down／ɡoʊ daʊn／（數字）下降、下滑 cut costs／kʌt kɔːsts／削減成本 slide／slaɪd／（簡報的）一頁投影片 drop／drɑːp／拿掉、刪掉（字、句子） ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 重點句型 Sentence Patterns 放句首 → Although ＋ 句子, 句子 例：Although our sales went down, our customers are happier.（雖然業績下滑，客戶更滿意了。） 放中間 → 句子, but 句子 例：Our sales went down, but our customers are happier.（業績下滑，但客戶更滿意了。） 因為…所以 → Because…, ／ …, so… 例：Because the market was slow, we cut costs.（因為市場不景氣，我們削減成本。） 更強調 → Even though ＋ 句子 例：Even though it rained, we went hiking.（儘管下雨，我們還是去爬山。） 口語句尾 → …, though. 例：It's raining. We're still going, though.（在下雨。不過我們還是要去。） ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚦 下次這樣說 Next Time ① 雖然…但是 ❌ Although it's raining, but we're going. ✅ Although it's raining, we're going. ② 因為…所以 ❌ Because I was tired, so I went home. ✅ I was tired, so I went home. ③ 儘管… ❌ Despite it was raining, we went. ✅ Despite the rain, we went. #althoughbut #學英文 #中式英文 #英文podcast #生活英文 #MJ英語 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
