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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 我有点高攀不起他。

2. 一名关键证人

3. 社会流动性越来越大

4. 代代相传

1.8 早读原文

Talent is kind of random. You might have it, but what does it mean? But character is observed. It is witnessed. Character is taught and it's passed down.

英音讲解01:10，美音讲解04:08，词汇讲解06:00

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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. 根据清清浊浊的规律，witnessed, observed, passed 词尾的发音分别为/t/ /d/ /t/;

2. mean包含紧元音/i:/，发音时注意口型的紧张感；

3. down词内包含易错难发音组/aʊn/，发音时注意双元音发饱满，词尾带出鼻音/n/。

言之有物

1. 词链儿：kind of

有点

kind of=kinda

近义表达：sort of=sorta

That made me feel kind of stupid.

那使我感到有点儿愚蠢。

He's kind of out of my league.

我有点高攀不起他。

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2. 词汇：witness

→n. 目击者；目击证人

She said a key witness lied during the trial in 1972.

她说一名关键证人在1972年的审判中撒了谎。

→v. 亲眼看见；亲身经历

Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the incident to contact them.

警方呼吁凡是目击这一事故的人与他们联系。

→主语变为：地点/时间，表示着这个时间或这个地点发生了什么事

Recent years have witnessed a growing social mobility.

近年来人们的社会流动性越来越大。

3. 词链儿：be passed down from...to...

某物由...传给...

It was a gift passed down from my grandfather to my father then to me.

这是从我爷爷传到我爸爸，再传到我手上的礼物。

拓展词链儿：

pass down from generation to generation 代代相传

pass down through/for/over/by (the) generations/ages 代代相传

... be passed down from one's ancestors 祖先传下来的......

影视原声视频：

It was passed down, like I said. Passed down? By whom?

我刚说了，是传下来的话。传下来的话？谁传的？

影视片段《绝命毒师》

影视原声视频：

But some, including this one, have remained within a single family, passed down through the generations.

但有一些，包括这一幅，只在一个家族之中，代代传承下来。

影视片段《文明》

活学活用

请用 pass down 随意造句

Adele Accepts The Sherry Lansing Leadership Award | Women in Entertainment 2023

Talent can't dictate how you move. Talent can't decide how you treat people. It doesn't have a moral compass. Talent cannot read a room. You can be the most talented person on the planet and only make bad decisions.

And to be honest, talent is kind of random. It is like you might have it, but what does it mean? But character, well, character is observed, it's witnessed, character is taught and it's passed down.

My character, as I'm sure you can tell this from the last minute I've been on stage, has a roughness and a toughness to it. I trust no one, and yet I'm completely fearless. And I hundred percent got it from the women who raised me.

As a child, you're a sponge. You learn what you're shown. My mother, my aunties, my grandmothers, they were all strong, loud, boisterous, loyal and cutthroat women like me. Just jumped for you kind of women, chaotic, but focused, soft in the middle, but solid on the outside. Like me. They're a force to be reckoned with and quite frankly, terrifying at times - like me.

Because that was because they had to learn the hard way what it is to be a woman. And so in turn, they hardened. Their character was their armor. But thanks to them, my character is my skin.

As a child, you're a sponge. You learn what you're shown. My school teachers, my God, I had some of the most amazing teachers who gave me my love of literature, of words, of poems and rhymes, stories and writing.

They were far too qualified to be teaching at a school like mine. I could easily have made double the money at private schools, but they stayed with us to give us a chance.

And that taught me loyalty. These are my leaders and I'm eternally grateful to them all for making me who I am today.'

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