Past lives couldn't ever hold me down.
Lost love is sweeter when it's finally found.
I've got the strangest feeling.
This isn't our first time around.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. hold 单词内舌侧音/l/不要丢
2. strangest 包含易错音组/e?n/,末尾-est的发音为/?st/
3. down、found、around 押韵,包含易错音组/a?n/
言之有物:
1. past lives 过去的日子/前世
lost love 失去的爱情
life的复数:lives/la?vz/
live的第三人称单数形式:lives /l?vz/
2. 词链儿:hold XX down
① 控制,压制某人
There's no power on Earth that's gonna hold me down forever.
世上永不再有任何武力可以令我屈服。
② 抑制、使压低
We will aim to hold down prices.
我们将力求抑制价格上涨。
Hold it down, will you? I'm trying to sleep!
小点声行吗?我要睡觉!
③ 保住(工作、职位)
hold down a job 〔暂时〕保住工作[职位]
= keep a job
He never could hold down a job.
他从来就保不住自己的工作。
You held me down, but I got up.
Get ready 'cause I've had enough.
你压制了我,但我站了起来。
准备好,因为我受够了。
图片源自《Roar》
He probably couldn't hold down more than a part-time job.
他可能无法保持长期的工作,只能做兼职。
图片源自《犯罪心理》
…and I can't even hold down a job.
而我连个工作都没有。
图片源自《犯罪心理》
3. 词链儿:the first/second... time around
= the first/second...time that something happens
同样的事情第一次/第二次发生时
first 也可替换为 last/next...
I missed their concert the first time around so I'm going next week.
我错过了他们的第一次音乐会,所以下周我要去听。
This time around it was not so easy.
这一次这事儿可就不那么容易了。
★原声例句:I'd rather invest in them the second time around than in the first time around.
我宁愿第二次投资而不是第一次投资。
★原声例句:We have the perfect design the first time around.
我们第一次就有了完美的设计。
Some things are better the second time around.
有些事情第二次会更好。
What actually happened the first time around?
第一次到底发生了什么?
图片源自《伞学院》
活学活用:
请用the first/second... time around随意造句
《Promise》:是由美国音乐人Sapientdream署名的一首歌曲,单曲于2018年1月7日独立发行。
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