386. Learning How to Drive

📝 Translation

• Original Xavier: Look out! Put your foot on the brake! Brandy: I am braking. Xavier: No, your foot is on the gas pedal! Brandy: Oh. There’s the brake. Xavier: You just ==took 10 years off my life. I was sure you were going to hit the median== or the railing. ==I didn’t know what I was getting into== when I agreed to teach you how to drive. Brandy: Relax. I’m really getting the hang of this. ==Shifting gears isn’t as hard as I thought it would be, it’s cool to parallel park, and driving in reverse is fun! Xavier: Would you please keep your hands on the steering wheel, instead of playing with== the radio? Keep your eyes on the speedometer and stop using the ==rearview mirror== to look at yourself. Brandy: And you stop working yourself into a tizzy. I’m a fine driver. Xavier: I don’t think those people you’re about to hit would agree with you. Brandy: If they don’t like the way I drive, they should get off the sidewalk!

• Chinese Xavier：小心！踩刹车！ Brandy：我正在刹车。 Xavier：不对，你踩在油门上了！ Brandy：哦。刹车在这里。 Xavier：你刚才简直吓掉我半条命。我刚才确信你要撞上中间隔离带或护栏了。我答应教你开车的时候，根本不知道自己给自己找了什么麻烦。 Brandy：放轻松。我真的开始掌握诀窍了。换挡没有我想象的那么难，侧方停车很酷，而且倒车也很好玩！ Xavier：你能不能把手一直放在方向盘上，别玩收音机了？眼睛看着速度表，别再拿后视镜照自己了。 Brandy：你也别瞎紧张了。我开车开得挺好的。 Xavier：我觉得你马上就要撞到的那些人可不会同意你的说法。 Brandy：如果他们不喜欢我开车的方式，他们就该离开人行道！

• First 2026-03-11 12:31 X: Look out! Press the brake Put your foot on the brake! B: I was pressing the brake am braking! X: No, you pressed your foot is on the gas pad pedal! B: Oh. the brake is here There's the brake. X: You just took ten 10 years of off my life. I was sure you were going to hit the median or the railing. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I agreed to teach you how to driving drive. B: Relax. I'm really started to hang on it getting the hang of this. Switching stick is not so hard like Shifting gears isn't as hard as I thought it would be, it's cool to and praparral parallel parking is cool, and it’s fun to driving reverser driving in reverse is fun! X: Can Would you put please keep your hands on the steering wheel, and stop instead of playing the ==with the== radio? Fix Keep your eyes on the speedometer and don’t look yourself on the rearmirror stop using the rearview mirror to look at yourself. B: And you stop working yourself into a Don’t get into tizzing y. I drive pretty well 'm a fine driver. X: I think don't think that those people who would be hit won’t you're about to hit would agree with you. B: If they don’t like the way I drive, they should go away get off the sidewalk!

  Full review: 386. Learning How to Drive - Review

  Key Takeaways:

  • Use put your foot on the brake, not “press the brake” — emphasizes the physical foot placement.
  • Pattern: teach someone how to + base verb — not “teach you driving.”
  • Play with = fiddle/tinker; play the radio = turn it on and listen.
  • Get off a surface (sidewalk, stage, bus) — not “go away the sidewalk.”
  • Key idiom: work yourself into a tizzy = gradually make yourself anxious.

---