跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读(MP3+文本) 第962期
日期:2020-09-10 08:58

(单词翻译:单击)

A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves;

I’ll set my cloud-like sail to cross the sea which raves.


语音讲解:

今日发音练习重点:

1. 押韵:waves/raves

2. cloudlike 可发成舌边爆破/dl/或喉塞音+ligh/l/

言之有物:

1. 词链儿:a time will come to...会有...的时候→会有时

①表示抽象意义的“时间”,不可数。如:

Time will show which of us is right.

时间能证明咱们谁对谁错。

②表示“一段时间”,通常可数。如:

She was away for quite a long time.

她已经离开了相当长一段时间。

③表示“次数”“……回”,为可数名词。如:

The baby woke up three times in the night.

孩子夜里醒了3次。

④表示“倍数”“……倍”,为可数名词。如:

The new method was ten times more efficient than the traditional one.

新方法比传统方法的效率提高了10倍。

⑤表示“时机”、“机会”,通常用单数形式。如:

The best time to invest is now.

现在是投资的最佳时机。

⑥表示“时代”、“时期”,通常用复数形式。

Times have changed. 时代不同了。

⑦表示“可能发生的时间”,可数或不可数。

When the time comes, you will know.

到时候你就会知道。

The time has come to make a choice,Mr.Anderson.

是时候做决定了,安德森先生。


图片源自《黑客帝国》

There's a time when a man needs to fight…

人必须有奋战的时刻...


图片源自《大鱼》

拓展:big time/small time

→big time 点击跳转

① 功成名就

He finally hit the big time.

他终于成功了。

②很大程度上

You messed up big time.

你绝对搞砸了。

→small time 小规模的、不重要的、卑贱的

Do you intend to be a small-time tennis professional in your life?

难道你就甘心一辈子当个二流的职业网球运动员?

He was small-time, just runnning dope, they say.

他当时势力不大,只是经营毒品。


图片《非常嫌疑犯》

2. ride the wind and cleave the waves

ride the wind→乘风

cleave(verb. 劈开) the waves→破浪

3. set my cloud-like sail→直挂云帆

① set sail 启航

Two hours later the ship set sail for China.

两个钟头之后,这艘船就启航来中国了。


② noun.+like 像XX的

cloudlike adj. 像云一样的

rainbowlike adj. 像彩虹一样的

dreamlike adj. 像梦一样

4. cross the sea which raves 穿过咆哮着的海洋→济沧海

rave verb.

① 咆哮、怒吼

The guy on the corner was raving like a madman.

角落里的那位男士像个疯子一样地吼叫着。

② 极力夸奖

“It's his best performance yet,” raved one movie critic.

影评人夸赞道:“这是他有史以来最好表演”。

词链儿:

raved about its beauty 大谈特谈其美丽

rave notices/reviews 极高的评价

活学活用:

请用 a time will come to... 随意造句

《行路难》(Hard is the way of the World):全诗抒写了李白在政治道路上遭遇了艰难险阻之后产生的不可抑制的激愤情绪,但李白并未因此而放弃远大的政治理想,仍盼着总有一天会施展自己的抱负,表现了李白对人生前途乐观豪迈的气概,充满了积极浪漫主义的情调。


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