See what the northern countries show:

Hundreds of leagues ice-bound go;

Thousands of leagues flies snow.

语音讲解

今日发音练习重点：

1. northern在美音中两个音节都包含卷舌

2. bound

3. flies snow

言之有物

1. hundreds of leagues/thousands of leagues

league noun. 长度单位：里格

一里格等同于三英里或四千米

Between A and B lay three hundred leagues of deserts and mountains.

在A和B之间横亘着三百里格的沙漠和山川。

I shall not see you, for I am very close to death, and hundreds of leagues separate you from me.

我不会再见到您了，您我之间远隔千里格，而我又死在眼前。

They will be 300 leagues from here by now.

league noun. 同盟、级别

When it comes to cooking, I'm not in her league (= she is much better than me) .

提到烹饪，我的水平远比不上她。

词链儿：in somebody's league 与XX同一级别

I don't flatter myself that I'm even in the same league as you. 我不是在自夸自己能和你平起平坐。

A house like that is out of our league (= too expensive for us) .

那样的房子不是我们这号人买得起的。

词链儿：out of somebody's league 配不上、负担不起

They are in league with each other.
他们是一伙儿的。

词链儿：in league (with somebody) （与XX）勾结、串通、同谋

Now we're up in the big leagues. 现在我们结成联盟。

词链儿拓展：
hundreds of people 数百人/上百人

thousands of people 数以千计的人/成千上万人

2. ice-bound adj. 冰封的; 冻结的

复合词的写法：ice bound/ice-bound/icebound

an icebound ship 一艘被雪覆盖的船

About half a year the lake is icebound.

一年里有半年时间湖是被冰封的。

3. fly snow 飘雪

flying snow 飘着的雪

Dancing in the flying snow, he and his wife hugged tightly.

在满天飞舞的雪花中，他和妻子紧紧地拥抱在一起。

Snow fly in the sky.

雪花在天空中飞舞。

活学活用

请用 flying snow 随意造句

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