Day 23

“Two weeks later.”和“In two weeks.”的区别是什么？

A: Hey，bro，I'm going to Thailand two weeks later.

D: Oh，that sounds fun，but the sentence sounds strange.

A: Why?

D: For native speakers，we would say I'm going to Thailand in two weeks or two weeks from now .

A: OK，got it. The beach is gonna be so beautiful.

D: They'll all see your dad bod.

A: Shut up.

All right！听完今天的对话之后，我们要来学习 “two weeks later” 和 “in two weeks” 的区别。

大白，为什么这里我不能用“two weeks later”？

W ell，Alex，you can use “two weeks later”if you are talking about the past . You could say I went to Thailand three months ago and then two weeks later I went to Malaysia.

But if we are talking about the present or the future， we say “in two weeks” or “two weeks from now”.

For example，“I plan to go to Vancouver in two weeks”，or I could say “I'm going to Vancouver two weeks from now”.

今天要给大家讲解的这个内容，对于很多学生来说，如果让你做选择题你可能不会选错，但是在口语当中却是你经常犯错误的一个知识点。

比如说在对话当中，我说我两周后要去泰国，“I'm going to Thailand.”是发生在将来的事情，这个时候应该用 “in two weeks” 。那什么时候应该用 “two weeks later” 呢？

大白举了另外一个例子：他三个月以前去了泰国，然后两周之后又去了马来西亚，因为去马来西亚这件事情发生在过去，所以用了“two weeks later”。大家记住一点： 发生在将来的事情，用“in”；发生在过去的事情，就用“later” 。

OK，so it's time for today's bonus. You heard me say Alex had a dad bod. Now，what is a “dad bod” ?

You take two words “dad” and “body” and put it together. What happens after you get married，you have kids，and you don't have so much time to go to the gym? you started to put on some weight . Maybe you have a beer belly . Maybe your body doesn't look so good.

So we call that a “ dad bod ”，but “dad bods” actually became kind of popular recently because Leonardo DiCaprio，a very very famous actor，had a“dad bod”.

OK，我们今天的“bonus”给大家讲了一个非常有意思的表达，叫“a dad bod ”，指 中年发福的身体 。一般男人在结婚生子之后，生活比较稳定了，身体就开始发福，就会拥有一个“dad bod”。