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A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves;
I’ll set my cloud-like sail to cross the sea which raves.
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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.押韵: waves/raves
2.cloudlike /dl/或喉塞音
言之有物
1. a time will come to...会有...的时候→会有时
①表示抽象意义的“时间”,不可数。如:
Time will show which of us is right.
时间能证明咱们谁对谁错。
②表示“一段时间”,通常可数。如:
She was away for quitea long time.
她已经离开了相当长一段时间。
③表示“次数”“……回”,为可数名词。如:
The baby woke up three times in the night.
孩子夜里醒了3次。
④表示“倍数”“……倍”,为可数名词。如:
The new method was ten times more efficient than the traditional one.
新方法比传统方法的效率提高了10倍。
⑤表示“时机”、“机会”,通常用单数形式。如:
The best time to invest is now.
现在是投资的最佳时机。
⑥表示“时代”、“时期”,通常用复数形式。
Times have changed. 时代不同了。
⑦表示“可能发生的时间”,可数或不可数。
When the time comes, you will know.
到时候你就会知道。
The time has come to make a choice,Mr.Anderson.
是时候做出决定了,Anderson先生。
图片源自《黑客帝国》
There's a time when a man needs to fight…
人必须有奋战的时刻。
图片源自《大鱼》
拓展:big time/small time
→big time
① 功成名就
He finally hit the big time.
他终于成功了。
②很大程度上
You messed up big time.
你绝对搞砸了。
→small time 小规模的、不重要的、卑贱的
Do you intend to be a small-time tennis professional in your life?
难道你就甘心一辈子当个二流的职业网球运动员?
图片《非常嫌疑犯》
2. ride the wind and cleave the waves
ride the wind→乘风
cleave(verb. 劈开) the waves→破浪
3. set my cloud-like sail→直挂云帆
①set sail 启航
Two hours later the ship set sail for China.
两个钟头之后,这艘船就启航来中国了。
② noun.+like 像XX的
cloudlike adj. 像云一样的
rainbowlike adj. 像彩虹一样的
dreamlike adj. 像梦一样
4. cross the sea which raves 穿过咆哮着的海洋→济沧海
rave verb.
①咆哮、怒吼
The guy on the corner was raving like a madman.
角落里的那位男士像个疯子一样地吼叫着。
②极力夸奖
raved about its beauty 大谈特谈其美丽
“It's his best performance yet,” raved one movie critic.
影评人夸赞道:“这是他有史以来最好表演”。
rave notices/reviews 极高的评价
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