Past lives couldn't ever hold me down.

Lost love is sweeter when it's finally found.

I've got the strangest feeling.

This isn't our first time around.

語音講解：

今日發音練習重點：

言之有物：

1. 詞鏈兒：

past lives 過去的日子/前世

lost love 失去的愛情

life的復數：lives/la?vz/

live的第三人稱單數形式：lives /l?vz/

2. 詞鏈兒：hold XX down

① 控制，壓制某人

There's no power on Earth that's gonna hold me down forever.

世上永不再有任何武力可以令我屈服。

② 抑制、使壓低

We will aim to hold down prices.

我們將力求抑制價格上漲。

Hold it down, will you? I'm trying to sleep!

小點聲行嗎？我要睡覺！

③ 保住（工作、職位）

hold down a job 〔暫時〕保住工作[職位]

= keep a job

He never could hold down a job.

他從來就保不住自己的工作。

You held me down, but I got up.

Get ready 'cause I've had enough.

你壓制了我，但我站了起來。

準備好，因為我受夠了。

圖片源自《Roar》

3. 詞鏈兒：the first/second... time around

= the first/second... time that something happens

同樣的事情第一次/第二次發生時

*first 也可替換為 last/next...

I missed their concert the first time around so I'm going next week.

我錯過了他們的第一次音樂會，所以下周我要去聽。

This time around it was not so easy.

這一次這事兒可就不那么容易了。

I'd rather invest in them the second time around than in the first time around.

我寧愿第二次投資而不是第一次投資。

We have the perfect design the first time around.

我們第一次就有了完美的設計。

Some things are better the second time around.

有些事情第二次會更好。

活學活用：

請用 the first/second... time around 隨意造句

《Promise》：是由美國音樂人Sapientdream署名的一首歌曲，單曲于2018年1月7日獨立發行。

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