聽力綜合能力提高—— Day 29
聽力文本對照

聽力片段一：

Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.

I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.

One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train.


知識點:
1) Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.

發音點：
to 的略讀成t, 比如go to school/go to work
wake up 的連讀。前面是一個輔音，后面是一個元音，就會連讀。
For的略讀。略讀原則就是所有的元音全都弱讀成/ə/

表達點：
wake up 醒來
wake someone up把某人叫醒
例：（We often slept in when we were in college.） It’s already 10 O’clock. It’s time to wake him up. 已經10點鐘了，該叫他起床了。
Volt /voʊlt/ n.伏


2) I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.

發音點：
You are 略讀成Your,要短而急促，略讀的時候忌諱拖長音。
To 的略讀。

表達點：
too + adj to do something 太怎么樣而不能做某事

3) One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train.

表達點：
大學四年：freshman 大一／sophomore 大二／junior 大三；senior 大四
horse around 胡鬧，瞎玩，鬼混
atop /əˈtɑːp/ adv. /prep.在…上面


聽力片段二：

It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time. We'd certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!

My father wears it now in solidarity.
知識點:
1) It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time.

發音點：
It is/was ….中前面的it發音經常省略掉。比如Who is it? It’s me. 就會直接說’s me. 這個原句中也聽不到It was，但是在做聽寫練習的時候還是要補全。
Scurried up 的連讀，和stood up 連讀道理一樣。前面輔音，后面元音，連在一起發音更方便。

表達點：
overnightadj.隔夜的；adv.一晚上
例句：You won’t learn English well overnight. 你沒有辦法一夜就把英語學好。
搭配：overnight celebrity/success 隔夜明星／成功

somehow adv.不知道怎么搞的
例句：I was not very good at schoolwork at the time. But I somehow went to Harvard.



2) We'd certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!
My father wears it now in solidarity.


表達點：
scurry /ˈskɝː.i/急跑，急趕
current /ˈkɝː.ənt/ adj.現在的；n.電流，水流
solidarity /ˌsɑː.lɪˈder.ə.t̬i/ n. 團結


聽力片段三：

That night began my formal relationship with death — my death — and it also began my long run as a patient. It's a good word. It means one who suffers. So I guess we're all patients.

Now, the American health care system has more than its fair share of dysfunction — to match its brilliance, to be sure. I'm a physician now, a hospice and palliative medicine doc, so I've seen care from both sides. And believe me: almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well — I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.


知識點:
dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ n.功能失調
hospice /ˈhɑː.spɪs/ n. 收容所
palliative /ˈpæl.i.ə.t̬ɪv/ adj.緩和的，減輕的
both sides相似輔音，發音只發后面一個
unwitting /ʌnˈwɪt̬.ɪŋ/ adj.無意的

定語從句：
It means one who suffers.
almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well
wewho work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.

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