No one's perfect. People make their mistakes as they stumble uphill. I thought the marginalized were supposed to have a voice.

語音講解：

今日發音練習重點：

言之有物：

1. 詞鏈兒：No one's perfect.

=Nobody's perfect.

=None of us is perfect.

金無足赤，人無完人。

Cut yourself some slack, because no one is perfect.

放自己一馬吧，因為人無完人。

2. 詞鏈兒：stumble uphill

爬坡

詞匯：stumble v. 蹣跚而行，踉蹌；絆腳，絆跌

He stumbled upstairs and into bed.

他踉踉蹌蹌地走上樓倒在床上。

3. 詞匯：

margin n. 邊緣；極限；界限

marginal adj. 邊緣的；微不足道的

marginalize v. 使〔某人或某群體〕顯得不重要，使…邊緣化

marginalization n. 邊緣化；忽視

Female employees complained of being marginalized by management.

女性雇員抱怨被管理層邊緣化了。

the marginalization of the elderly

對老年人的忽視

4. 詞鏈兒：be supposed to do/be...

（按規定、習慣、安排等）應當，須......

You were supposed to be here an hour ago!

你本該在一小時以前就到這兒！

What is that supposed to mean?

這算什么意思呢？

That's what artists are supposed to do. They're supposed to be... supposed to be inspiring.

那是藝術家們應該做的事。他們就應該...... 應該能夠啟發靈感。

影視片段《嘻哈帝國》

I suppose that's supposed to be humorous?

我想這該是很好笑吧？

影視片段《超人前傳》

5. 詞鏈兒：have a voice

有發言權

=have a say

Employees should have a voice in the decision-making process.

雇員在決策的過程中應該有發言權。

活學活用：

請用 be supposed to do/be... 隨意造句

Jordan Peterson - How Young Men Have Been Marginalized

心理學教授喬丹?彼得森 Jordan B. Peterson

多倫多大學心理學教授，臨床心理學家，前哈佛大學心理學系教授。主要研究異常心理、社會心理以及da人格心理學，大五人格研究專家。

彼得森和哈佛大學、多倫多大學的同事及學生聯合發表了一百多篇學術論文，推動當代人對人格的理解，他在哈佛執教時，入圍過極富聲望的利文森教學獎（Levenson Teaching Prize）。在多倫多大學被學生稱為“改變人生”的三位教授之一。

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