中文里有多音字，英语中也有"一词多义"，今天小编就带大家来学习下tank这个单词，除了我们最熟悉的"坦克"意思，还能表达什么意思呢？快快点开视频一起学习吧！
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视频文本：
All right take a look at this.
好啦 我们来看看这句话
My confidence tanked after I failed the exam.
（后面会解释，先自行推敲）
What does that mean?
这句话是什么意思呢
What do you think that means? Look at the word tanked.
你觉得tanked在这里会是什么意思呢
What do you think that means?
到底是什么意思呢
Can we understand it by the context?
根据语境你能猜出来意思吗
Well take a look at this, failed the exam,
我们先来看下这个 考试失败
What would happen to your confidence if you failed an exam?
试想一下 如果你考试失败了 你的自信心会不会受到打击
Would your confidence go up or down?
你的自信心是增长还是下降呢
Well I think you know.
好吧 我想你大概猜到意思了
The word tanked means to go down, your confidence would go down right if you failed an exam.
tanked意思就是自信心一落千丈 如果你考试失败了 你的自信心会很受打击
So the word tank is a verb and it means to plummet.
tank在这里是做动词使用 和plummet意思一样
Plummet means to go down fast okay?
plummet就是快速下降的意思
Like this.
就像这样
Plummet, way down okay?
直线下滑
So tank and plummet are both verbs and they mean to go down fast.
tank和plummet都是动词 都表示快速下降的意思
So take a look at this example, the stock market tanked this week.
看下这个例句 股票市场本周*
You look, it was doing really well up up up up up.
看这里 一开始是上升状态的
Then wow, this week it just tanked.
可是这周呢 直线下滑的厉害
This week of the stock market tanked.
本周的股票市场*了
Or you could say, his health tanked after his divorce.
另外一个例子 离婚后 他的身体状况直线下降
His health tanked means his health went down his health plummeted.
意味着离婚后 他的身体状况越来越差了
So in this example with the stock market, you could say the stock market plummeted.
股票市场* 你也可以将tanked替换成plummeted
Means the same thing tanked or plummeted.
这两个单词意思都是一样的
And in this example, you could say his health plummeted after his divorce.
这个例子里 你就可以把tanked替换成plummeted
Take a look at this, this is called a tank top.
我们来看下这个 这个叫背心
A tank top is just a shirt without sleeves.
背心装就是没有袖子的衣服
In Western culture, men and women wear tank tops in the summertime if it's nice and hot outside.
在西方文化里 夏天外面很热时 人们都会穿背心装
You see men and women wearing tank tops outside.
你会看到外面街上大家都是穿着背心装
Ooh look at this, this is a tank.
看这个 这叫坦克
This thing is called a tank.
这个叫坦克
Did you know that Russia has more than 15,000 tanks?
你知道俄罗斯有15000多辆坦克吗
Wow, and Canada, well Canada has 80 tanks.
加拿大有80辆坦克
15,000 more than 15,000 tanks.
15000多辆
80.
80辆
I don't even know why Canada has the military.
我其实不知道加拿大为什么会有军队
If anybody wanted to kill us, you could just kill us.
如果有人想要*人放火 我们也阻止不了啊
I don't think we're gonna defend ourselves with 80 tanks.
我不认为这80辆坦克可以起到什么作用
You know Canada's not a very strong country, you know when it comes to military,
其实我们知道 在军事方面 加拿大并不是一个很强的国家
Canada is sandwiched between the two most powerful countries in the history of the world.
在历史上 加拿大曾经被夹在两个强大的国家之间
US is to the south and Russia is...well...sort of to the north.
美国在加拿大南边 俄罗斯算是在它的北边
Actually you know on a map, it looks like Russia and Canada are very far apart,
光看地图的话 你会觉得俄罗斯离加拿大很远
but really they're not far apart at all, it's just over the top of the world if you believe the world is round.
但实际上它们离的不远 都是在世界的顶端 如果你相信世界是圆的这一说法的话
A lot of people these days believe the world is flat.
不过现在有很多人觉得地球是平的
Hmm I don't know.
嗯 我也不知道
So if it's flat, maybe Russia and Canada are far apart, I don't know.
如果地球是平的话 或许俄罗斯和加拿大真的离的很远吧 我也不是很清楚
But I think the world is round.
但我还是认为 地球是圆的
Okay so here's another meaning of the word tank.
这里 tank它有另外一个意思
Look at these, these are tanks, this is a propane tank.
看这里 这个是丙烷罐
If you want to do some barbecuing in the summer, you need a propane tank.
如果你想在夏天烧烤 你就需要这个
I don't know what kind of tank that is, but that's some sort of tank.
我不太清楚那个是什么类型的槽 不过也是槽的一种
Look at these there's a water tank.
这是个水箱
This is...I don't know what kind of tank this is...
我不知道这是什么类型的
That a tank is just like a big container for holding a liquid.
反正就是可以装液体的容器
You know maybe water, maybe gas,
可能装的是水或者汽油
maybe milk, no, not milk, probably not milk.
或者是牛奶 噢 不 应该不是牛奶
Okay take a look at this, this is a fish tank.
看这个 这是一个鱼缸
A fish tank, hey do you have a fish tank in your house?
嘿 你家里有鱼缸吗
I wish I had a fish tank but I don't have any pets.
我希望我有一个鱼缸 但是我不养宠物
Okay so the word tank can also be an adjective.
tank还可以做形容词使用
Like this, get tanked...get tanked means to get drunk.
就像这个 get tanked意思就是[喝醉了]
So you could say 'let's get tanked this weekend.
所以你可以说 我们周末喝一场吧
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