A: Steven! Where have you been? I\u2019ve been trying
to get a hold of you for hours!
B: I\u2026 um\u2026 there was an emergency at work, so\u2026
A: I was waiting for you in the restaurant for three
hours! And you didn\u2019t even have the decency to
call me! Do you have any idea how embarrassed
I was?
B: Honey, I promise this won\u2019t happen again, it\u2019s just
that I\u2026
A: Yeah, right. I\u2019ve heard it all before. I\u2019m not going
to take any more of your empty promises. This
is the 5th time you\u2019ve stood me up in two weeks!
You need to get your priorities straight. I\u2019m tired
of you putting your job first all the time!
B: Come on, Veronica, that\u2019s not fair. I do care about
you a lot, you know that. I tried to \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A: You know what? Maybe we should just take a
break. I need some time to think about where this
relationship is heading.
B: But\u2026Veronica, would you just listen to me? There
was a fire alarm at my office building today and I
was stuck\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Key Vocabulary<\/strong> get hold of<\/strong> \u2014 Verb<\/em> find or contact someone <\/p>\n\n\n\n Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n heading\u2014<\/strong>is where you are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voice: Example one.<\/em><\/strong> Voice: Example two.<\/em><\/strong> Voice: Example three.<\/em><\/strong> have any idea<\/p>\n\n\n\n Voice: Example one.<\/em><\/strong> Voice: Example two.<\/em><\/strong> Voice: Example three.<\/em><\/strong> A: Steven! Where have you been? I\u2019ve been trying to get a hold of you for hours!B: I\u2026 um\u2026 there was an emergency at work, so\u2026 A: I was waiting for you in the restaurant for threehours! And you didn\u2019t even have the decency tocall me! Do you have any idea how embarrassedI was?B: Honey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,33,29],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-english","tag-english-pod","tag-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
decency<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0 \/\u02c8di\u02d0snsi\/\u00a0 Noun (noncount)<\/em> polite or moral behavior
do you have any idea<\/strong> \u2014 Phrase<\/em> do you know
stand (someone) up<\/strong> \u2014 Verb<\/em> fail to keep the appoint ment to meet someone
get your priorities straight<\/strong> \u2014 Phrase<\/em> realize what is more im portant
head<\/strong> \u2014 Verb<\/em> go towards a specified direction or place
stood up<\/strong> \u653e\u2026\u7684\u9e3d\u5b50
priorities<\/strong> \/pra\u026a\u02c8\u0254r\u0259tiz\/ n. \u4f18\u5148\uff1b\u4f18\u5148\u4e8b\u9879\uff1b\u4f18\u5148\u6743<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A: I don\u2019t know where our relationship is heading.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
B: Where\u2019s this bus heading?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
C: Where\u2019sthis project heading?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A: You forgot my birthday. Do you have any idea how angry I am?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
B: Julie kissed my boyfriend. Does she have any idea how mean that was?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
C: I just broke up with my boyfriend. Don\u2019t you have any idea how sad I am?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"