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听前想一想:用英语怎么说?
1. 铁因不用而生锈。
2. 滞而不前将削弱心智的力量。
3. 一瓶纯净水
4. 火辣辣的太阳烤得我们虚软无力。
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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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. i‧ron /ˈaɪən $ ˈaɪərn/ 单词发音特殊,需特殊记忆
2. lose /luːz/ → loses /ˈluːz ɪz/ → loses its /ˈluːzɪz ɪts/
3. stagnation / inaction 以-tion结尾,重音在倒数第二音节
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1. iron rusts from disuse 铁因不用而生锈
disuse n. 不用;废弃
= sth is no longer being used
The factory fell intodisusetwenty years ago.
这家工厂二十年前就废弃了。
The wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.
多年不用的车轮早已锈迹斑斑。
2. water loses its purity from stagnation
① pure-purity
→ pure adj. 纯的;纯粹的
pure gold/silk 纯金、真丝
a bottle of pure water 一瓶纯净水
→ purity n. 纯洁;纯净;纯粹
spiritual purity 心灵纯洁
the purity of tap water 自来水的纯净度
相同的构词:secure - security
② stagnate-stagnation
→ stagnate v. 停滞;不发展
I feel I'm stagnating in this job.
我觉得,干这份工作我没有长进。
His career had stagnated.
他的事业已经陷入停滞。
→ stagnation n.
a period of economic stagnation
经济停滞时期
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
运动是绝对的,而静止是相对的。
What would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system?
什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢?
图片源自《耶鲁大学开放课程》
3. inaction sap the vigor of the mind
① act - action - inaction
inaction n. 无为;无作为
We simply cannot afford the cost of inaction.
再不有所作为,后果将无法承受。
② sap v. = to make sth/sb weaker 削弱;逐渐破坏
sap XX
The hot sun sapped our energy.
火辣辣的太阳烤得我们虚软无力。
A dance groupie. These hangers-on, they really sap your energy.
舞蹈追星族,那些花痴,真让人伤神。
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③ the vigor of the mind 心智的力量
vigor n. 活力,精力
4. so does/do ... 也,同样〔用于表示刚说的情况对某人或某物也是如此〕
As the demand rises, so do prices.
需求增加,价格也会上涨。
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.