Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be. Don't accept their enslavement, for your mother birthed you free.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. 对比重读：Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be.

2. birthed 尾部-ed清清浊浊发/t/音

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：Be who you want to be. 成为你想成为的人。

句式同：

Do what you want to do. 做你所想做。

Say what you want to say. 说你所想说。

See what you want to see. 见你所想见

...to do what you want to do?

...做你想做的事。

图片源自《盗火线》

want somebody to do something 想让某人做某事

2. slave—enslave—enslavement

slave noun. 奴隶

enslave verb. 使(en)...变成奴隶、奴役

enslavement noun. 奴役、束缚

The abused and enslaved in the Red Queen's court!

那些在红皇后皇宫里被虐待和奴役的人们啊！

图片源自《爱丽丝梦游仙境》

3. birthed you free 生而带给了你自由

He was curious from birth.

他还在娘胎里时就很好奇。

图片源自《楚门的世界》

birth 名词作动词 verb.

birth you (to be) free 生出自由的你

拓展：“生孩子”用英语怎么说？

① give birth to XX 生出XX

It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure

孙子孙女的出生给他带来了极大的快乐。

名词 giving birth 生孩子（这件事）

Giving birth is something which can be done only by the female sex.

生育孩子是只有女性才能做的事。

② bring somebody into the world 带到世界上，即为“生孩子”

③ in labor/labour 分娩中

His wife is in labour.

他的夫人正在分娩。

活学活用：

请用 give birth to 随意造句

《TED：读书能改变命运，她们是最好的证明》：这个世界上还存在一些地方，那里的女性还过着奴役般的生活，甚至不允许接受教育，可这也是能改变她们命运的唯一出路。欣慰的是，有一些勇敢的女性开始站出来对抗封建教条，她们不畏艰难困阻，选择通过读书改变自己的命运。摄影师Laura Boushnak女士为我们讲述了她们的动人故事

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