10.16早读 | 我一辈子都在推迟去做想做的事。敞开的门不会永远敞开

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10.16早读原文

I have spent my entire life putting off things that I thought there'd be time for later. Open doors don't stay open forever.

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

今日发音练习重点：

forever

off of 的区别

言之有物

1. spend time doing XX 花时间做XX

I spent a lot of time cleaning that room.

我打扫房间花了好久。

I spent an hour at the station waiting for the train.

我在站台等火车等了一个小时。

2. put off XX/put XX off 推迟XX

Why did I keep putting off working on this essay? Now I'll be up all night writing it.

为什么我要一直推迟写论文？现在我得熬夜写了。

The meeting has been put off until next week so that more people can attend.

为了使更多的人可以参加，此次会议已推迟到下周。

I hate to keep puttingyou off, but we are not ready to deal with you yet.

一直让你等真不好意思，但我们还没准备好和你交涉。

图片来自《禁闭岛 》

put off的另一个意思：没有胃口做XX

put me off my tea 让我没有胃口喝茶

图片来自《爱丽丝梦游仙境 》

图片来自《V字仇杀队》

4. stay open

stay+adj. 保持XX的状态

Stay hungry, stay foolish. 保持饥饿,保持愚蠢。

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