If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
語音講解:
今日發(fā)音練習(xí)重點:
1. 后進同化:with sixty
2. run不要發(fā)成wrong。注意音組/ʌn/的發(fā)音
言之有物:
1. unforgiving minute 無情的一分鐘
“時間飛逝不等人”之殘酷
*unforgiving adj. 不饒人的; 不寬容的;
He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight
他斤斤計較,很不大度。
Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very unforgiving.
商場如戰(zhàn)場,競爭激烈,不近人情。
That's the most unforgiving speech you've ever made.
我生平只聽到你講這一句氣量小的話。
圖片源自《傲慢與偏見》
2. sixty seconds worth of distance run 價值為六十秒的長跑
→distance run 航程 / 遠距離長跑
You start your distance run like normal.
您像正常情況下一樣開始您的長跑。
→*(金額、時間)+worth of sth. 表示價值多少,或能用多長時間
The winner will receive ten pounds' worth of books.
獲勝者將得到價值10英鎊的書籍。
You've got three years' worth of research money to do what you want with.
你有可維持3年的研究經(jīng)費去做自己想做的事。
...three year's worth of food here.
在這里種出夠吃三年的食物。
圖片源自《火星救援》
$26000 worth of sides?26000美元的冷菜?
圖片源自《華爾街之狼》
活學(xué)活用:
請用 unforgiving 隨意造句
《假如》(If):“龍媽”日前上節(jié)目朗讀了一段英國名詩《假如》(If),這首詩曾多次被英國人評選為最受歡迎的詩歌,其中詩文"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;" 刻在溫網(wǎng)中央球場入口處。龍媽說這首詩對她來說有特殊意義,因為兒時父親經(jīng)常念給她聽,有安撫心靈的功效。
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