Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2551. Embrace both meanings of this useful English word. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you?
Awesome, Michelle. How's everything going for you?
Everything is good over here. Lindsay, have you embraced wide leg pants yet?
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Chapter 2: What are the different meanings of the word 'embrace'?
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But if you do want that power list, those transcripts, you can do a seven-day free trial. So go to allersenglish.com slash app. All right. Awesome. Okay. Let's break it down, Michelle, then. So what are the meanings of embrace?
Okay. So, yeah. So one would be to hug or to somehow, you know, put your arms around something more literal. And that's what the joke was I was making was because it sounded like she should run up to these decorations and hug them. But that's not what she meant.
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Chapter 3: What role does vocabulary play in effective communication?
But it's actually a pretty funny thought, right?
Yeah. It is.
It is. I'm envisioning Aubrey doing that right now. But it's a more formal way to say hug, right? Embrace.
Yeah, it is. You might hear it in like a fancy romance novel or something or read it. For example, the two lovers embraced in the film after they had a fight. Yeah.
Or the siblings embraced after their argument, but only because their dad made them.
Yeah, I mean, really, nine times out of ten, you would just say hug, wouldn't you? Exactly.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, embrace is more, like, I feel like embrace is like a dramatic hug.
Yeah, it really is.
Like a very dramatic hug. Like, so you would all, like, I think, yeah, this one about the two lovers embracing, right? Yeah.
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