Meaning of IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say, "It's not rocket
science."
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We actually mean that it's really, really
easy.
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A good example would be maybe the tire on
your car needs to be pumped up and you don't
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really know how to do it.
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So you ask a friend, "Hey!
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How do you pump a tire up on a car?"
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Your friend would probably say, "Well you
go to the gas station or the service station
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and you put some money in the air pump and
then you hook the hose up to your tire and
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you pump it until it is full of air.
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It's not rocket science."
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So basically what they're saying there is
that, that job is actually fairly easy to
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do and you can use this for a lot different
things.
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So someone might ask, "How do you wash the
dishes?"
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And you could say, "You put some water in
the sink.
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You put some soap in the sink, and then you
wash the dishes.
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It's not rocket science."
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