4.29早读 | 我根据相貌选择朋友,根据人品选择熟人,根据才识选择敌人

4.29早读 | 我根据相貌选择朋友,根据人品选择熟人,根据才识选择敌人

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今天是Gwen陪你早读的第 1990 天哦!

听前想一想:用英语怎么说?

1. 我根据人品选择熟人。

2. 你继承了你母亲的美貌。

3. 他们只是萍水相逢而已。

4. 智力超群


4.29 早读原文

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects.

TODAY

今日早读


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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.choose /tʃ→uːz/ 由辅音/tʃ/ 滑向→/u:/;而不是“触z”

2.ac‧quaint‧ance /əˈkweɪntəns/

言之有物

1. I choose my friends for their good looks,我根据长相选择朋友


① choose XX for... 根据...选择 XX

I choose my sunglasses for their styles.

根据款式选择太阳镜。


② good looks 美貌


looks n. 吸引人的外貌

You get your good looks from your mother.

你继承了你母亲的美貌


原声例句:Again, it's not because of his personality or his charming good looks.

再说一遍,这不是因为他的个性或者他迷人的外表


原声例句:She has good looks. She's got an awesome job.

长得很好看。她有一份好工作。


Who needs money when you got good looks

我都长这么帅了还要钱干吗?

图片源自《迷失》


And all I've got is my boyish good look.

而我只有这张青春帅气的脸

图片源自《冰川时代》


Come on,she doesn't have classic good looks,but she's adorkable.

别这样,虽然她没有经典的美猫脸,但也呆萌呆萌的啊!

图片源自《打工姐妹花》


2. (I choose) my acquaintances for their good characters, 根据人品选择熟人

① acquaintance n. 熟人

acquaint vt. 使认识,介绍

-ance 表名词,“性质、状况”,一般缀于动词之后。


We're old acquaintances.

咱们彼此是老熟人了。


They were nothing more than casual acquaintances. 他们只是萍水相逢而已。


This gentleman is an acquaintance of Mr Carson,my lady.

这位先生是卡森先生的熟人,小姐。

图片源自《唐顿庄园》


I'm supposed to meet an acquaintance, a Mr.Means.

我是来见一个老朋友的,米恩斯先生。

图片源自《大西洋帝国》


拓展:on first/closer acquaintance 初次详见时 / 进一步熟悉之后...


On first acquaintance, the city seems quite old.

初来乍到时一看,这城市似乎相当古老。


On closer acquaintance, I found her quite easy to get along with.

经过进一步熟悉,我就发现她很好相处。


② character n. 个性,性格,品格


He has a cheerful but quiet character.

他的性格乐观文静。


She has a forceful character.

她有坚强的性格


3. (I choose) my enemies for their good intellects. 根据智力选择敌人

intellect

① n.智力;领悟力;理解力;思维能力

superior/considerable/keen intellect 智力超群


She has a formidable/superior/considerable/keen intellect.

才智超群


a man of superior intellect can read you.

有个高智商能看透你。

图片源自《脱狱之王》

because no-one else can compete with my massive intellect.
因为我的大智慧无人能敌。

图片源自《新福尔摩斯》


② n.智力高的人;才智超群的人

She was one of the most formidable intellects of her time.

她是当时的一名盖世英才


点击回顾【词汇解析:choose、pick和select】

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3XuKnVxLVBwWQlW-aNZjTQ


4. 省略:并列结构中一些重复的词语可以省略。

She was poor but (she was) happy.

她虽然穷,但很快乐。


结构上的重复 I choose my XX for their XX 可以表示相似或相关的意思,用相同结构表示同类项目。



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    I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects. 我根据长相选择朋友,根据人品选择熟人,根据智力选择敌人。

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