7.27早读 | 时光荏苒，生命短暂，别将时间浪费在争吵、道歉、伤心和责备上

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7.27 早读原文

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. ― Mark Twain

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

今日发音练习重点：

1. isn't不弱读 否定式不弱读

2. so brief is life/so to speak 插入成分的语调，因独立于主句，而整体低沉。

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1. so brief is life

Life is so brief.

两句插入成分：so brief is life和so to speak

2. for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account

① bickering noun. (为小事) 斗嘴，争吵;

bicker verb.

The two brothers are bickering again.

这弟兄俩又在闹别扭。

I'm tired of all this endless bickering!

我对这些无休止的争吵烦透了！

② apology noun. 道歉

③ heartburning noun. 不满 妒忌

④ call somebody to account 责问; 质问

His manager called him to account over the missing reports.

他的经理因为他丢失了报告而责备他。

That's it—the next time I see Rachel, I'm calling her to account! I simply can't tolerate her selfish behavior any longer.

就这样吧！下次我见到瑞秋，我一定要训训她！再也忍不了她那么自私了。

3. but an instant 不过一瞬间

but 只是=only 副词

Jack is but a pupil.

杰克只是个小学生。

I went there, but to see him.

我去了那里，不过是为了见他。

4. so to speak 话说回来

想要一句话概括或整理自己的想法或状况时可以使用这个短语。用我们的话来说就是“一句话”。

I'd like to go back to the days when I was young, so to speak.

其实，我非常希望回到年轻的时候。

I really want to get out of here, so to speak.

说真的，我真想离开这里。

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