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In this episode, I am going to teach you a word that has two different meanings. The word is handy. Handy: h-a-n-d-y. Handy.
在这一集中，我将教你一个有两个不同含义的单词。这个词是handy。
As you could probably guess, handy has something to do with your hand. And it has two different meanings that are related, because they both have something to do with a hand.
你可能已经猜到了，handy与你的手有关。它有两个不同的相关含义，因为它们都与手有关。
The first meaning of the word handy that I'm going to tell you about today is "nearby," or "convenient," or "easy to use," or "easy to reach."
今天我要告诉你的handy的第一个含义是“附近”或“方便”或“易于使用”或“容易拿到”。
Let me give you an example of a sentence that uses handy with this meaning.
让我给你举一个使用handy的句子的例子，它有这个意思。
"When I'm watching a movie at home, I always like to have the TV remote handy." I always like to have the TV remote handy. What does that mean?
例如：When I'm watching a movie at home, I always like to have the TV remote handy.其中I always like to have the TV remote handy.是什么意思？
It means "I always like to have the TV remote near my hand. I like to have the TV remote in a place where I can easily pick it up, or I can easily hold it, or use it. I can easily put my hand on it."
它的意思是“我总是喜欢把电视遥控器放在手边。我喜欢把电视遥控器放在我可以轻松拿起、可以轻松握住或使用它的地方。我可以轻松地把手放在它上面。”
And now let me tell you the other common meaning of the word handy. Handy can also mean "good at using your hands."
现在让我告诉你handy这个词的另一个常见含义。Handy也可以表示“善于使用双手”。
When we use handy in this way, it usually means that someone is good at using their hands to use tools. A handy person is good at fixing things.
当我们以这种方式使用handy时，通常意味着某人善于用双手使用工具。handy的人擅长修理东西。
Or a handy person is good at building things. A handy person is good at using tools to do different things.
或者handy的人擅长建造东西。handy的人擅长使用工具做不同的事情。
We have a special word for somebody who is handy for their job. Somebody whose job is to make small repairs for people or to build small things for people.
我们有一个专门的词来形容那些工作上手巧的人。他们的工作是为人们做一些小修理或为人们建造小东西。
We call that person a handyman. Handyman: h-a-n-d-y-m-a-n. Handyman. I think we still use this word even though, of course, it is not only men who can be handy with tools.
我们称这种人为handyman。我认为我们仍然使用这个词，当然，不仅仅是男人才能熟练使用工具。
I think we still use the word handyman even when we are talking about women, but maybe people have started to use other words for that kind of thing now.
我认为即使在谈论女性时，我们仍然使用handyman这个词，但也许现在人们已经开始使用其他词来表示这种事情了。
There is one more word I want to tell you about. It is related to handy, but it is a little bit different. And the word is handsy. Handsy: h-a-n-d-s-y. Handsy.
还有一个词我想告诉你。它与handy相关，但略有不同。这个词是handsy。
Handsy also has something to do with your hand, but it doesn't have to do with being near your hand, or convenient to hold, or able to use your hand to use tools.
Handsy也与手有关，但与靠近手、方便握住或能够用手使用工具无关。
Instead, handsy has to do with touching people inappropriately. Touching people inappropriately—that's what handsy is.
相反，handsy与不恰当地触摸他人有关。
For instance, you might hear someone say to her friend, "I went on a date last night with a new person, and everything was going well. We were having a great time, but then he got a little handsy."
例如，您可能会听到某人对她的朋友说：“I went on a date last night with a new person, and everything was going well. We were having a great time, but then he got a little handsy.”
He got a little handsy. In other words, "He started using his hand to touch me in an inappropriate way. He was touching me in a way that I do not like."
He got a little handsy意思是“他开始用手以不恰当的方式触摸我。他用我不喜欢的方式触摸我。”
Handsy is a similar word with a similar meaning, but it's actually pretty different.
Handsy是一个类似的词，含义相似，但实际上非常不同。
And that is handy and handsy, two common and useful words that I think you should know.
以上就是handy和 handsy，这是两个常见且有用的词，我认为你应该知道。
