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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 成为你想成为的人。

2. 想让某人做某事

3. 生而带给了你自由

4. 生孩子

5. 分娩中

5.22 早读原文

Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be. Don't accept their enslavement, for your mother birthed you free.

英音讲解01:01，美音讲解06:11，词汇讲解09:48

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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. 对比重读：Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be.

2. birthed 尾部-ed清清浊浊发/t/音。

言之有物

1. 词链儿：Be who you want to be. 成为你想成为的人。

句式同：

·Do what you want to do. 做你所想做。

·Say what you want to say. 说你所想说。

·See what you want to see. 见你所想见。

...to do what you want to do?

...做你想做的事。

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want somebody to do something 想让某人做某事

2. slave—enslave—enslavement

·slave noun. 奴隶

·enslave verb. 使(en)...变成奴隶、奴役

·enslavement noun. 奴役、束缚

3. birthed you free 生而带给了你自由

He was curious from birth.

他还在娘胎里时就很好奇。

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birth 名词作动词 verb.

birth you (to be) free 生出自由的你

拓展：“生孩子”用英语怎么说？

① give birth to XX 生出XX

It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure

孙子孙女的出生给他带来了极大的快乐。

名词 giving birth 生孩子（这件事）

Giving birth is something which can be done only by the female sex.

生育孩子是只有女性才能做的事。

② bring somebody into the world 带到世界上，即为“生孩子”

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③ in labor/labour 分娩中

His wife is in labour.

他的夫人正在分娩。

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