ESL Podcast 594 – Competition and Prizes

Olga: Are you going to take me on, or are you chicken?

Apollo: Me chicken? No way! Bring it on!

Olga: Okay, but get ready to get trounced. I’m going to teach you a thing or two about how this game should be played. Ready for some humiliation?

Apollo: Stop trash-talking and get over here. What are we playing for? How about 20 or 30 dollars?

Olga: Those stakes are too high. Let’s say that the champion will get bragging rights.

Apollo: Bragging rights?! If I can’t have a cash prize, I was hoping for at least a trophy or a medal.

Olga: Yeah, right. You want a medal for winning at thumb wrestling?!

Apollo: As far as I’m concerned, thumb wrestling should be an Olympic sport!

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take somebody on （運動或比賽）同某人較量；反抗；與某人戰鬥
chicken 膽怯；懦弱；怯懦
Bring it on 儘管來吧
trounce => to defeat somebody completely

humiliation => Humiliation is the embarrassment and shame you feel when someone makes you appear stupid, or when you make a mistake in public.丟臉;羞辱;蒙羞

stake /stek/ 賭注
steak /stek/ 牛排
brag 吹噓；自吹自擂
cash prize 獎金
thumb /θʌm/
wrestling /'rɛslɪŋ/ 摔跤運動
As far as I’m concerned 就我而言;依我看