But how long does it take someone to become a fluent speaker of English?

但是一个人要想说一口流利的英文需要学习多长时间？

You take someone to the airport, it's clearly the beginning of the relationship.

送某人去机场，这显然是一段关系的起点。

" To arrest" (arrest) is what the police do when they take someone to jail.

“逮捕”（arrest）是警察把人带进监狱时所做的事情。

To own someone, very similar to school someone or to take someone to school.

拥有某人，与学校某人或带某人去学校非常相似。

And if you take someone to school, same idea, you've embarrassed them.

如果你带某人去学校，同样的想法，你会让他们感到尴尬。

" drop off" means you take someone to a place, and then you leave them there.

所以：“drop off”意思是你把某人带到一个地方，然后你把他们留在那里。

And it took someone to travel thousands of miles from Europe to discover a river right under their nose?

并且需要有人从欧洲旅行数千英里才能在他们眼皮底下发现一条河流？

If they are shot or cut or having a heart attack, you would take someone to the emergency room.

如果他们中枪、割伤或心脏病发作，您会带人去急诊室。

It is easy to sue someone, " to take someone to court, " we would say, in certain countries over defamation.

起诉某人“将某人告上法庭”很容易，我们会说，在某些国家/地区是因为诽谤。

Well, it actually means like taking someone to court and asking for money, because someone has harmed you in a way.

嗯， 它实际上意味着把某人告上法庭并索要金钱，因为有人在某种程度上伤害了你。

In English, when we say we're going to take someone to the cleaners, we mean we're going to take a lot of money from them.

在英语中，我们说take someone to the cleaners的意思是我们要从他们那里拿走一大笔钱。

" To take someone to court" (court) means to go to the government and complain in the hopes of getting your money back.

“to take someone to court”（法庭）的意思是去政府投诉，希望能把钱要回来。

So, if you want to, if you take someone to school, or school someone, to school someone, that means you're teaching them something.

所以，如果你愿意， 如果你带某人去学校， 或者带某人上学， 带某人上学，那就意味着你正在教他们一些东西。

" To show (someone) around" means to take someone to different parts of the city, or to help someone become familiar with the most important things or places.

“To show (someone) around” 是指带某人到城市的不同地方，或帮助某人熟悉最重要的事物或地方。

And then, for the very last item in the list, how long it takes someone to fall asleep, she uses falling intonation. This is how we know the list is finished.

然后，对于列表中的最后一项， 一个人入睡需要多长时间，她使用了降调。 这就是我们知道列表已完成的方式。

Antonin says that suing the contractor " might be the only way to compel her to fix the problem." We already mentioned the verb " to sue, " which is to take someone to court.

安东宁说，起诉承包商“可能是迫使她解决问题的唯一方法。”我们已经提到了“起诉”这个动词，意思是将某人告上法庭。

To say, " Well, you did this wrong, and therefore you have to take responsibility for being wrong." " To take someone to task" is to tell the person why he or she is wrong.

说，“好吧，你做错了，因此你必须为错误承担责任。” “to take someone to task”就是告诉这个人他或她错的原因。