9.19早读|生活不可能没有一点失败

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 考试没过。

2. 还不如

3. 他们太激动了，尖叫了出来。

9.19 早读原文

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.

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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. cautiously 不卷舌；

2. unless you；that you 词间可以同化，也可不同化；

3. might as well not have lived at all 词间连读、击穿。

4. 轻读重读

重读：impossible failing so cautiously not lived all

弱读：that it is to at you have

言之有物

1. fail at doing 失败于

The person who tries to do too many things at a time may fail at all of them.

想一次性完成很多事情的人，可能最后全都失败了。

We excel at making a living but often fail atmaking a life.

我们善于谋生，却在营造美好生活上一败涂地。

拓展：fail to do （尝试后）未能做成

I failed to pass the exam. 考试没过。

fail somebody 让某人失望、辜负某人

2. so...that...如此…以致…

When the football fans saw Beckham, they got so excited that they cried out.

他们看到贝克汉姆的时候，太激动了，尖叫了出来。

3. might as well 还不如

There's nothing I can do about the problem, so I might as well go with the flow.

关于这个问题我无能为力，所以我不如就顺其自然好了。

Since you have started the job, you might as well finish it.

既然你开了头，倒不如把它做完吧。

Look, I'm not leaving until you come out. So you might as well talk to me.

你不出来我是不会走的，你还是跟我说说的好。

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