跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第1018期
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. 后进同化:with sixty
2. run不要发成wrong。注意音组/ʌn/的发音
言之有物:
1. unforgiving minute 无情的一分钟
“时间飞逝不等人”之残酷
*unforgiving adj. 不饶人的; 不宽容的;
He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight
他斤斤计较,很不大度。
Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very unforgiving.
商场如战场,竞争激烈,不近人情。
That's the most unforgiving speech you've ever made.
我生平只听到你讲这一句气量小的话。
图片源自《傲慢与偏见》
2. sixty seconds worth of distance run 价值为六十秒的长跑
→distance run 航程 / 远距离长跑
You start your distance run like normal.
您像正常情况下一样开始您的长跑。
→*(金额、时间)+worth of sth. 表示价值多少,或能用多长时间
The winner will receive ten pounds' worth of books.
获胜者将得到价值10英镑的书籍。
You've got three years' worth of research money to do what you want with.
你有可维持3年的研究经费去做自己想做的事。
e year's worth of food here.
在这里种出够吃三年的食物。
图片源自《火星救援》
$26000 worth of sides?26000美元的冷菜?
图片源自《华尔街之狼》
活学活用:
请用 unforgiving 随意造句
《假如》(If):“龙妈”日前上节目朗读了一段英国名诗《假如》(If),这首诗曾多次被英国人评选为最受欢迎的诗歌,其中诗文"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;" 刻在温网中央球场入口处。龙妈说这首诗对她来说有特殊意义,因为儿时父亲经常念给她听,有安抚心灵的功效。
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