跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读(MP3+文本) 第211期
日期:2017-08-22 09:14

(单词翻译:单击)

You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

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语音讲解
单词发音
keep/kiːp/-feet /fiːt/
swept /swept/
连词发音
might be swept off /maɪtbisweptɒf/
轻读重读
重读:keep/swept off
弱读:the/and/your/

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词汇讲解
1.keep your feet(on the ground) expression.
释义:to think in a sensible and practical way and not have ideas or aims that will be impossible to achieve
例句:She's really creative, but she also has her feet firmly on the ground.
2.sweep off phrase.
释义:扫走
例句:Sweep the crumbs off the table.
把桌上的食品屑扫掉。
supermarket sweep 超市扫荡
扫货的英语:
sweep goods
go on a shopping spree
I went on a shopping spree after getting my scholarship money!
我那天疯狂扫货,一分钱都没留下!
知识点拓展精讲
拓展:feet/foot 有关的表达
①Don't let the grass grow under one's feet
释义: to not waste time or delay starting something 劝人不要停止不前,浪费时间。
②to stand on one's own two feet
释义:to be able to do what you need to do, earn your own money, etc without help from others 独立自主,依靠自己的意思。
例句:She’s never learned to stand on her own feet.
③to throw oneself at someone's feet
公开表示对某人的爱慕之情,或是拍马奉承、百般讨好某人。
I'm still looking for the right girl to marry. And when I find her, I'll throw myself at her feet and ask her to spend the rest of her life with me.
我现在还在物色一个我认为合适的女孩作为我的妻子。一旦我找到了,我就要拜倒在她的石榴裙下,恳求她作为我的终身伴侣。
④sweep somebody off sb's feet
指一个人由于一件使他兴奋的事 而感到不由自主 to make someone feel suddenly and strongly attracted to you in a romantic way
例句:
He was hoping to sweep her off her feet, but she just laughed.
他希望自己能一下子把她迷住,但她只是笑了笑。
My mom told me that prince charming would just come and sweep me off my feet.
我妈妈告诉我有一天白马王子会出现,并且令我倾倒。

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重点单词
  • creativeadj. 创造性的
  • charmingadj. 迷人的
  • delayv. 耽搁,推迟,延误 n. 耽搁,推迟,延期
  • impossibleadj. 不可能的,做不到的 adj. 无法忍受的
  • achievev. 完成,达到,实现
  • romanticadj. 浪漫的 n. 浪漫的人
  • phrasen. 短语,习语,个人风格,乐句 vt. 措词表达,将(
  • sensibleadj. 可察觉的,意识到的,实用的 n. 可感知物