9.19早读 | Beauty and the Beast

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 如此的真实

2. 我几乎认不出她了。

3. 手把它弯过来

4. 几乎不算朋友

9.19 早读原文

Tale as old as time,

true as it can be.

Barely even friends,

then somebody bends, unexpectedly.

英音讲解02:00，美音讲解08:01，词汇讲解09:27

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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. tale 包含易错难发音组/eɪl/，区分tell/el/；tale发音时注意双元音/eɪ/的饱满度；

2. true as it 词间连贯，true as词间元元连读以/w/连接；

3. friends bends 词尾字母组合ds对应/dz/的发音。

言之有物

Tale as old as time, true as it can be.

古老的传说，如此的真实

Barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly

他们本来做朋友都勉强，却有人退让改变，真是出乎意料

1. 词链儿：barely even friends 几乎不算朋友

barely adv. 几乎不，几乎没有

I barely recognized her.

我几乎认不出她了。

We barely know each other.

我们几乎不认识彼此。

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—Apologize for the racket.

—Barely noticed.

我对嘈杂声表示抱歉。

几乎没注意到。

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近义词： hardly, scarcely

2. bend verb. 弯曲/俯身

She bent and picked up a plastic bucket

她弯腰提起一个塑料桶。

This is too stiff, I can't bend it with my hands.

这东西太硬，我无法用手把它弯过来。

3. unexpectedly adverb. 竟然/居然/出乎意料地

I was really surprised when he turned up unexpectedly.

我实在很吃惊当他意外地出现。

Well, that was unexpectedly beautiful.

真是出乎意料的感人。

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活学活用

请用 barely 随意造句

Beauty and the Beast

美女与野兽

Tale as old as time, true as it can be.

古老的传说，如此的真实

Barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly

他们本来做朋友都勉强，却有人退让改变，真是出乎意料

Just a little change, small to say the least

只是一点点的改变，几乎微不足道

both a little scared, neither one prepared

两个人都有些畏惧，都还没有准备好

Beauty and the beast

美女与野兽

Ever just the same

曾经是一样的

ever a surprise

曾经是个惊人之事

Ever as before

曾经在从前

Ever just as sure

曾经很确信

As the sun will rise

就像太阳升起一样

Ever just the same

曾经是一样的

Ever a surprise

曾经是个惊人之事

Ever as before

曾经在从前

And ever just as sure

曾经是确信的

As the sun will rise

就像太阳升起的时候

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song

古老的传说，古老的曲调

Bitter sweet and strange

百感交集 心中激动又甜蜜

Finding you can change

发现你能改变

learning you were wrong

能认识到错误

Certain as the sun

就像太阳一样

(Certain as the sun)

（就像太阳一样）

Rising in the east

从东方升起

Tale as old as time,Song as old as rhyme

古老的传说，古老的歌韵

beauty the beast

美女与野兽

Tale as old as time,tune as old as song

古老的传说，古老的旋律

Beauty and the beast

美女与野兽

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