Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 211. .
The noun phrase today is a leap of faith. Okay. Let's take a look at the board here.
If someone says something is a leap of faith,
it is acceptance of an idea or a conclusion
mostly based on faith. One is trusting or believing
in something that is incapable of being proven. So you
just can't prove it. So you just have to take a leap of faith and
really hope for the best. Hope that whatever you believe in is
really going to come true or really going to happen. All right. Let's continue.
The origin of this phrase derives from a Latin
translation of the words" saltus fidei. " All right. The fidei of course would be
the faith. So that's the leap of faith. The Danish
philosopher Soren Kierkegaard
is credited with popularizing this term
as a metaphor. You know, kind of like a comparison I think that's comparison
without using like or as. So he's comparing it, for
one's religious belief in God. His point of argument was that God
was spiritual and not physical. God
is completely separated from man's material world.
Thus God could only truly be understood through faith.
Not through science or logic. Okay. And let's and actually this is
this phrase, it's used a lot in English and
to be honest, most of the time it's used it's not really specifically
about religion or faith in itself, but this is where it came from.
And here's four examples of how we would hear it used on
kind of an everyday basis. So here's the first example.
After all the times , he got caught lying to us
in the past , he now expects us to take a leap of faith
and just trust him again. All right. Or number two here. In the movie "Fugitive. "
Now this is an old movie with Harrison Ford . The
character, Richard Gimble. Okay. Played by Harrison Ford
was about to be caught by the police and he chose
to take a leap of faith and dove into a waterfall off a mountain in order
to escape here. So he literally took a leap
with his leap of faith. Yeah. That was a movie a long time ago. I
think it was actually a remake of an older movie where the guy's...
his wife died and you know, and he heard her on the phone
he tried to rush home by the time we got home
she was dead. But like usual , you know, when a wife is murdered
sometimes usually the husband becomes the first suspect.
Well the number one suspect and of course in the movie he really didn't
do it and they , they couldn't really catch the real
guy and the phone call was kind of questionable.
They didn't really understand, understand you know, was she calling for him
or was she saying he was the murderer or something like that.
Anyway that really doesn't matter. The point was that he was
innocent and he was lucky I think when they were bringing to prison that the.. if
I remember correctly I think the bus crashed and somehow that he got away.
But anyway, he almost got caught again. The policeman
chased him right up to the top of the mountain. He was right there. He had
nowhere to go but... Well either I'm going to die or
you know, I got to go. You know, I'm not going back in there and going to prison.
So that's what he did. He just took a leap
of faith and hoped for the best and hope that he survived that jump. That's
what he did. So all right. Let's look at the third
one here. In 2010, a pair of Siamese twins
who were attached at the head. Yeah. They were Iranian, they were Iranian
sisters. They were attached by their heads
though. So that's a really bad place to be attached. That's why
they didn't have this operation until they were you know, adults
And yeah, I remember and the media had them on for
a long time, But they decided to go for it. They took a leap of faith and
tried to have the operation to finally be separated .
Sadly though this one didn't work. They took a leap of faith
and both of them ended up dying. The, the operation was a failure,
but they still took a leap of faith. They just tried to do it. They just tried to
go for it. So you know, you got to be careful. It
doesn't always work out but sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of
faith. All right. And here's the last one here.
Number four. This is just another one. You know,
that we might make up. I know it is an extreme sport. Just
try it. You might love it. Sometimes in life
you just have to take a leap of faith and you know, just go for it. Just do it.
You know there's no guarantee nothing will happen to you. You just got to do it.
Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it . I hope it's clear. I hope is very informative.
Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.