1.28早读 | 想法就像病毒，有弹性，传染性很强。最微小的思想种子也能成长

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1.迅速走红

2.传染性极强的

3.传播病毒

4.小小的念头

5.种下了一个想法

1.28 早读原文

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. A smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

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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.idea/virus

言之有物

1. virus noun. 病毒

拓展词链儿：go viral

（短期内）获得大量传播，迅速走红，变得火爆、疯传、疯转、爆红。

Their amazing video of the project has now gone viral with millions of views.

项目视频迅速爆红，引来上百万观看。

2. resilient / highly contagious

resilient adj. 有韧劲的 点击跳转

highly contagious adj. 传染性极强的

contagious adj.

transmit /spread virus 传播病毒

get infected with XX 被XX感染

become infected 被传染

vaccine 疫苗

Smallpox is highly contagious and kills 30 percent of its victims.

天花的传染性很强，百分之三十的感染者丧命。

It is highly contagious and can spread rapidly.

感染性强，传播迅速。

原声例句：The spread of highly contagious illnesses such as smallpox and measles became a death sentence for those with no immunity.

传染性强的疾病，如天花和麻疹，对于没有免疫力的人来说就是死刑。

That's out of the question.polio is highly contagious.

不行，小儿麻痹症很容易传染。

图片源自《大西洋帝国》

I can't let you go in there, She's highly contagious.Honest.

我不能让你进去，她具有高度传染性，真的。

图片源自《天生一对 (The Parent Trap)》

3. a seed of an idea 思想的种子/小小的念头

Although there may be an ending, there is always a seed of an idea which someone can nurture and grow into a tall tree.

同 a germ of an idea

He has a germ of an idea, but it's unshaped.

By early 2010, he had a germ of a business idea.

拓展词链儿：to plant a seed (of an idea) 种下思想的种子

The seed of an idea was planted.

原声例句：And all these observations planted the seed of an idea.

所有这些观察使TA种下了一个想法。

Now, the seed that we plant in this man's mind will grow into an idea.
我们植入这人头脑里的种子会成长成为一个意念。

图片源自《盗梦空间 (Inception)》

4. grow to 逐渐长成.../渐渐XX

I'm sure you'll grow to like her in time.

我肯定你慢慢就会喜欢她了

In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions.

在热带，植物会长得非常高大。

You grow to appreciate what you have.

你会渐渐珍惜你所拥有。

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请用a seed of an idea随意造句

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