【词汇大师】着火啦！！（1/2）

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经历过火灾吗？今天就来学学与"fire"有关的词汇。
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"The family below you was 'burned out,' which means ... "
主持人对话②"And some people might have felt 'burned up.'"
主持人对话③ "When something is burned up, it also means it's literally burned up."
主持人对话④ "It's destroyed."

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"Two weeks ago, around three a.m., all the fire alarms in my home that I share with my wife and my son, they began to go off. Very loud, very annoying. And we rushed out of the building in our pajamas out into the cold night and stood there on the street and watched our building burn. Fortunately everyone in the building made it out OK. But the family in the apartment beneath ours, their apartment is now black and charred and they lost many of their belongings."
"That's right, they were burned out, which means the fire was so severe that they were unable to return to their apartment."
"Right, because it turned out to be an electrical fault, something wrong with the wiring that caused the fire. So if we felt that the electrician who put the electric sockets there did a poor job, we'd be burned up, meaning we'd be irritated or angry at their poor work."
"And it's interesting, because we have both 'burned up' and 'burned down.' And burned down tends to be used for bigger objects like houses and buildings and automobiles, and burned up tends to be for smaller things like pieces of paper or leaves or something that basically once it's caught on fire, all that's left is a little bit of ash and some gas."