读者文摘:拼字大赛冠军谢尔曼访谈
日期:2019-07-12 16:45

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Do you have a favorite letter? The C. A lot of starting-out players are afraid of C's because they don't make any two-letter words.
你有最喜欢的字母吗?C3_bF&DGh@q]z7~0J7。很多新手都害怕C这样的字母#7@zu6yuaV,b79。因为他们构不成任何两个字母的单词,lt@y9%BJCMN.lMGT&
But I did a survey of the dictionary and found that the C starts more words than any other letter in the alphabet except S.
但是我研究了一下字典,我发现除了字母S外,以C开头的单词比其它任何字母都要多F&t8,Fq8OXk(YZ-Y
It also combines well with H, L, R, and S and ends a lot of adjectival words.
C和H、L、S组成的单词很多,而且C是很多形容词的结尾N9UQg2patZB)+Wvbug
So it's massively powerful. Wait, you did a "survey" of the dictionary? How many words do you know?
所以它非常强大k8CVtSgZ%zY7PN3Ky。等一下,你“研究”了一下字典?你知道多少单词?
Probably around 120,000. Were you always good at Scrabble? Well, I was beating my mother regularly when I was eight.
大概12万个~aiqt8JfIrjW。你一直都擅长拼字游戏吗?我八岁的时候经常赢我的母亲pgC%2;2;+&]

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Your older brother, Larry Sherman, also plays. Are you the Serena and Venus Williams of the Scrabble world?
你的哥哥拉里·谢尔曼也玩这个游戏~Ld=LSv;F!Ku)。你们是拼字游戏世界的大小威廉姆斯吗?
He's not as close to me as Venus is to Serena. We're more like the McEnroe brothers. We're usually in the same division, but he's on the lower end.
他和我的水平差距要比塞雷娜与维纳斯的差距要大dBkMS8@KORDy30+vSp。我们更像是麦肯罗兄弟5fvl.]=%][。我们经常在一个级别中,但是他水平要低一些IzhS)pfns_emw27Y
When did you realize you were going to win the championship? Not until the very last draw.
你什么时候意识到你要夺得冠军了?知道最好一次抽签%-A8#VDI*!.q5jCmqt
I had four tiles left, and I took the last three tiles out of the bag: two blanks and an S.
我还剩下4块,我从袋子里拿出了最后3块:两个空格和一个S%ZzPQHC3.rWCX
It allowed me to bingo out—play all seven tiles and earn a 50-point bonus. What was your winning word? Strings!
它让我取得了成功,七张牌全部打完,赢了50分奖金Iy.%+(#ARDi-。你获胜的单词是什么?弦乐器!

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重点讲解

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1.afraid of 害怕
In many places in the world children are afraid of the unknown, of the unreal.
在世界上许多地方,孩子们害怕的是那些未知的、不真实的东西%R;kYNMSFWGAnxhOCT
2.close to接近
We like to live in flats because we can be close to our friends.
我们喜爱住在公寓因为我们能够接近我们的朋友..XvhTZZ^#MHU5QT
3.combine with结合
Because cholesterol can't travel alone through the bloodstream, it has to combine with certain proteins.
胆固醇因为不能单独在血液中移动,所以必须和特定的蛋白质结合aUZr)3!XBT#Q

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重点单词
  • exceptvt. 除,除外 prep. & conj. 除了 ..
  • alphabetn. 字母表,基本原理(元素),符号系统
  • championshipn. 锦标赛,冠军,拥护
  • combinev. 结合,联合,使结合 n. 集团,联合企业,联合收割
  • bonusn. 奖金,红利
  • certainadj. 确定的,必然的,特定的 pron. 某几个,某
  • unknownadj. 未知的,不出名的
  • surveyv. 调查,检查,测量,勘定,纵览,环视 n. 调查,纵
  • stringsn. (乐器的)弦 名词string的复数形式