10.25 早读 | 人最宝贵的资产并不是金钱，而是时间

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 宝贵的财富

2. 心怀惧怕

3. 岁月的流逝

4. 一去不复返

10.25 早读原文

Your most valuable commodity isn't your money. It's your time. You can always make more money. But you can't make more time. And time gone by is gone forever.

语音讲解01:15，词汇讲解04:20

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

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1. valuable /ˈvæljuəbəl, -jəbəl $ ˈvæljəbəl/ 多种发音；2. 可发四个音节，第二三音节间元元连读以/w/连接；

3. commodity(j) isn't(tʃ) your 词间元元连读以/j/连接、词间同化/t/+/j/→/tʃ/；

4. 区分 can can't发音；

5. gone /ɡɒn $ ɡɒːn/词尾为前鼻音，注意区分后鼻音。

言之有物

1. 词链儿：Your most valuable commodity is...

人最宝贵的是......

→词链儿：most valuable...

最有价值的/最重要的/最贵重的......

The most valuable asset everybody has, is time.

每个人都拥有的最有价值的资产就是时间。

→词汇：commodity n. 商品；有用的东西；有使用价值的事物

It's a buyable, sellable, and tradable commodity.

它是一种可买、可卖、可交易的商品。

Time is a precious commodity.

时间是宝贵的财富。

2. 词链儿：make money/time

赚钱；获利/挣得时间

3. 词链儿：time gone by

=time that is gone by

逝去的时间

→XX (that is) gone by

逝去的XX

词链儿：in years gone by 在过去的年岁里

In years gone by, people were phobic (ˈfəʊbɪk AmE ˈfoʊbɪk) about getting on trains. They weren't used to it.

在过去，人们对坐火车心怀惧怕。他们对此还不习惯。

→go by（时间）流逝；过去

Things will get easier as time goes by.

随着时间的推移情况会有所改善。

My grandmother was becoming more and more sad and frail as the years went by.

随着岁月的流逝，我的祖母变得越来越伤感和虚弱。

影视原声视频：

Drink with me, to days gone by!

与我举杯，敬过往岁月！

影视片段《悲惨世界 Les Misérables》

影视原声视频：

Sometimes, years go by between seeings.

有时候，不知不觉时光流逝于转眼间。

影视片段《飞屋环游记 Up》

4. 词链儿：be gone forever

永远消失；一去不复返

This is a memory that's gonna be gone forever.

这一段回忆会永远消失了。

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