3.10 早读 |你要比自己想象的要好得多

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 别说话了！

2. 盘点XX

3. 没有他，她会更好。

4. 你所没有的

3.10 早读原文

Stop saying what you were not and start saying what you are. Stop saying what you don't have and start taking inventory of what you do have. You are a lot better off than you think.

英音讲解01:25，美音讲解5:20，词汇讲解06:45

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

今日发音练习重点

saying

inventory /ˈɪnvənt(ə)ri $ -tɔːri/

对比重读：

what you were not & what you are

what you don't have & what you do have

言之有物

1. 词链儿：

stop doing XX 停止不再做XX

stop to do XX 停止正在做的事改为去做XX

=stop what you are doing in order to do something else

Stop talking!

别说话了！

They stopped to talk the matter over in detail.

他们停下来，详细地商量这件事情。

反义表达：

start doing XX

start to do XX

He started toread the book. → 开始要去读（强调目的）

He started reading the book. → 开始读起来（强调进行）

2. 词链儿：

以下看做整体，当做名词理解：

what you were not 你不是什么 → 你什么都不行

what you are 你是什么 → 你哪里行

what you don't have 你所没有的

what you do have 你所拥有的

3. 词链儿：take (an) inventory of XX

盘点XX

=to make a list of goods that a company or a person has at a particular time

Take an inventory of your own biases.

盘点一下你自己的偏见。

4. 词链儿：ˌbetter ˈoff 更好的；比较宽裕的

反义表达：worse off

better off with/without XX 有/没有XX更好

be better off doing XX 最好做XX

I think she's better off without him.

我觉得没有他，她会更好。

He'd be better off working for a bigger company.

若他在大一点的公司里工作，境况就会比较好。

原声例句：Honestly, we're much better off without her.

说句实话，没有它我们更加自在。

原声例句：Incentives and competition made society better off.

激励和竞争让社会变得更好了。

You're better off here.

呆在这里挺好。

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She's better off...

Away from me.

远离我......

对她更好。

图片源自《地狱之轮》

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