In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us...I love you.

語音講解

今日發音練習重點：

1.whole 舌側音；

2. pieces around us 連讀。尤其注意pieces around的連讀銜接。

言之有物

1. 詞鏈兒：in spite of XX 不顧; 不管；盡管

in spite of + noun./doing XX

In spite of all your talk you never seem to come to the point.

你雖然說了那么多話，但好像一直沒貼題。

拓展：despite和 in spite of的用法

在in spite of 和despite后面，我們用名詞和代詞。

• We enjoyed our camping holiday in spite of the rain.

• Despite the pain in his leg he completed the marathon.

如果句子里包含了the fact that，我們可以用 in spite of 和despite跟”主語和動詞"的結構。

• In spite of the fact that he worked very hard, he didn’t manage to pass the exam.

• Despite the fact that he worked very hard, he didn’t manage to pass the exam.

Despite of the pain in his leg he completed the marathon.

In spite of that he worked.....

2. 詞鏈兒： go to pieces 崩潰 瓦解

After the matter, he seemed to go to pieces.

這件事情以后，他好像精神崩潰了

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