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听前想一想:用英语怎么说?
1. 我直到昨天才知道。
2. 电影快开场了。
3. 别在意他们所说的话。
4. 对细节的关注
1.19 早读原文
It's not until you're about to lose someone that you finally pay attention.
英音讲解00:45,美音讲解00:45,词汇讲解02:35
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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. until 不是“安”、不是“昂”
2. lose someone 后进同化
3. pay(j) attention 元元连读
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1. 词链儿:It's not until ... that... 直到…才...
until 与否定词连用,英文是否定的,中文却要肯定
句式: It is not until... that...
It was not untilyesterday that I learned it.
我直到昨天才知道。
It was not until 1911 that the first of the vitamins was identified.
直到1911年才发现了第一种维生素。
*有until出现的这类句子,英文是否定的,中文却要肯定。根本原因就是until有“终点”的意思,明确包含了“到了这个时间点,情况就发生变化,原先一直没有发生的事这时候发生了”的意思。
原声例句:It's not until the end that you realize what a magnificent thing she has done.
直到最后你才意识到她做了一件多么了不起的事。
原声例句:But it's not until dawn's first light that all of the magnificence of Big Bend is revealed.
但直到黎明的第一缕曙光,Big Bend的壮丽景色才显露出来。
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It's not until you lose everything that you can truly appreciate everything, Belle.
只有失去了一切你才会真正珍惜一切,贝儿。
图片源自《美女与野兽》
It's not until you come to the end of yourself that you'll discover the ugliness of your brokenness and the beauty of God's grace.
直到你走到生命的尽头,你才会发现自己破碎的丑陋和上帝恩典的美丽。
2. 词链儿:be about to do XX 即将做某事
I was just about to ask you the same thing.
我刚才正要问你同一件事情。
The film was about to start.
电影快开场了。
辨析:
be about to do 表示即将发生的动作,在时间上指最近的将来(时间更紧迫)
be going to do 表示将要发生的事情或打算最近要进行的动作
拓展:not be about to do sth 不愿,无意(做某事)〔用于强调〕
I've never smoked in my life and I'm not about to start now.
我从未抽过烟,现在也不打算学。
I am not about to lose another friend.
我不会再冒险失去另一个朋友了。
图片源自《新飞跃比弗利》
I was about to bash your face in.
我正打算给你脸上来一拳。
图片源自《美国恐怖故事》
3. 词链儿:pay attention (to XX) 注意XX
pay little/no attention to XX 不在意;不当回事
Don't pay any attention to what they say.
别在意他们所说的话。
attention to detail 对细节的关注
I thought attention to detail was your thing.
我以为关注细节是你的长项。
图片源自《新飞跃比弗利》
Yes, I, unlike you, pay attention todetails.
没错,我跟你不同,我注意细节。
图片源自《机器之心》
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It's not until you're about to lose someone that you finally pay attention.
It's not until you're about to lose someone that you finally pay attention.