Sometimes you can’t see what you’re learning until you come out the other side.

語音講解：

今日發音練習重點：

1. until /ʌnˈtɪl, ən-/ 中/ʌn/不要發出后鼻音/ŋ/

2. the other：the變音，元元連讀+/j/

言之有物：

1. Sometimes you can’t see what you’re learning

what you’re learning 當做一個大的名詞

How would you explain what you're learning to someone else?

你會如何向其他人解釋你在學習什么？

2. until you come out the other side. 意譯：直到撥云見日

詞鏈兒：come out (on) the other side

根據不同語境可譯為：從低谷中走出；擺脫/解脫（從痛苦中走出）...

I can break through the wall of fear and come out on the other side.

我能打破恐懼這堵墻，并超越它。

I went through a rough patch, but I came out (on) the other side.

我曾有過一段艱辛坎坷的日子，但我從低谷中走了出來。

圖片源自《24小時》

① 詞鏈兒：come out of XX 從XX出來

She won't come out of her room.

她不愿意出門。

You come out of that bathroom!

你給我從衛生間里出來！

My mother says I can't come out.

我媽不讓我出去。

② 詞鏈兒：the other side 另一面/另一邊

I work on the other side of town.

我在城的另一邊工作。

...but this is the other side of it.

可這是墨西哥好的一面。

圖片源自《壞老師》

3. 詞鏈：do/did +not... until（do可以改用其他助動詞）

直到...才...

You can't go out until you've finished this.

你沒把這事做完就不能出去。（直到完成才可以出去）

I didn't receive his letter until yesterday.

我直到昨天才收到他的信。

They didn't arrive until eight o'clock.

他們直到八點鐘才來到。

The play didn't start until everyone was seated.

直到人人都就了座， 劇才開演。

It will not leave you until your quest is fulfilled.

直到你完成任務，它才會離開你。

圖片源自《變形金剛 最終騎士》

★原聲例句：So they can't go out until those roads are cleared.

如此一來，他們必須等到道路通暢后才能出去。

★原聲例句：...which is something I didn't know how to do until I learned.

……直到我學會了，我才知道該怎么做。

No one removes so much as one bolt from this battlestar, not until the Admiral tells us we can！

沒有任何人可以拿走這艘太空堡壘上哪怕一根的螺釘。除非上將點頭允許。

圖片源自《太空堡壘卡拉狄加》

詞鏈兒：It is not until... that...

It was not until yesterday that I learned it.

我直到昨天才知道。

★有until出現的這類句子，英文是否定的，中文卻要肯定。根本原因就是until有“終點”的意思，明確包含了“到了這個時間點，情況就發生變化，原先一直沒有發生的事這時候發生了”的意思。

活學活用：

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