3.15早读 | 面对未知与危机，像母亲一样思考

今天是Gwen陪你早读的第 1945 天哦！

听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 母亲身份

2. 生孩子；生下（某人）

3. 有机过程

3.15 早读原文

Motherhood is not simply the organic process of giving birth. It's an understanding of the needs of the world.

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

今日发音练习重点：

言之有物

1. motherhood

sisterhood

brotherhood

fatherhood

boyhood

-hood

后缀-hood 来源于古英语，它一般加在名词后面（有时也加在形容词后面），构成抽象名词。其主要意思是the state or quality of being ～（...的状态或性质）和the character or status of ～（...的身份或资格）。此外，还可以表示 a group or body of～s (...的集体）与a concrete instance of～(...的实例）。

boyhood n.男孩时代，少年时代；男孩们，少年们

He often told us his boyhood adventures.

他常常把自己少年时代的奇遇告诉我们。

I didn't know I would handle the whole motherhood thing…

还对为母之道一无所知

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Hey，Knick fan,am I interested in your views on fatherhood？

《尼克队》迷，我有兴趣知道，你对为人父亲的想法吗？

图片源自《老友记》

2. organic process 有机过程

organic adj. 有机的；生物的; 器官的

3. give birth (to)...

生孩子：Angela gave birth to a beautiful baby girl last night.

使发生：The technological advances gave birth to the Industrial Revolution.

You're gonna need to give birth to this baby here.

就在这里生孩子。

图片源自《行尸走肉》

Get married, give birth to two and a half babies.

结婚，生个一儿半女。

图片源自《第一次》

原声例句：Gain some perspective, so that you could come back and give birth to something new that was more aligned with the who you are meant to be now.

获取一些观点，然后反过来用于产出适合你当下的新的观点。

原声例句：The writing process also provoked serendipity that would be little happy accidents that would give birth to a new idea.

写作的过程激发了一些机缘，一些小的可爱的意外，使我促成了新的点子。

The youth of America.We helped give birth to MTV.

美国的年轻人，我们帮助促成了MTV.

图片源自 《波西米亚狂想曲》

4. an understanding of the needs of the world

need noun. 需求；需要

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