Helen: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning English. I’m Helen.
Oliver: 嗨，我是Oliver。
Helen: Today we’re going to look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary.
Oliver: 地道英語和大家一起學習現代英式英語中經常出現的流行詞彙和實用表達。那Helen,今天給我們帶來的新詞是什麼呢?
Helen: Today we are going to concentrate on one word.
Oliver: 就一個詞兒, excellent。
Helen: It has several uses though. The word is handy, h-a-n-d-y, handy.
Oliver: 這個詞兒和手有關， hand. Handy 在手這個字的.後邊多了一個字母Y。
Helen: Often people talk about someone who is handy with something. That means this person is good at doing something, for example fixing cars.
Oliver: 也就是說，handy在這裏是做什麼事情很拿手，很在行的意思。你舉的例子是有人修車很在行，就可以用handy。
Helen: Yes, my friend Keith likes cars very much and he’s good at fix problems in them, so he’s very handy with cars.
Oliver: 讓我們聽一個例子。
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A: There’s something wrong with my computer, it keeps shutting down after 10 minutes.
B: Why don’t you give Jason a call? He’s really handy with computers.
A: Thanks, I’ll give him a ring now.
Oliver: Helen, 你說過 handy這個詞兒還有其它的意思。
Helen: Yes, handy could also mean convenient.
Oliver: 有方便的意思。
Helen: For example, I always find it handy to have a pen with me.
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A: It’s too dark to see the keyhole.
B: Hang on, I’ve got a little torch on my key ring.
A: Oh, that’s handy.
Oliver: 好啦，我們今天學到的詞兒是handy，這個詞兒有兩個基本意思，一個意思是某人做什麼事情很拿手，很在行，另外一個意思是方便。
Helen: You’ve been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. Join us next time.
Oliver: 我們下次節目再會。
