Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do, than by the ones that you did do. ——Mark Twain
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. 对比带来重读:didn't和did两词需重读
2. one不要读成“忘”。听讲解,注意音组/ʌn/的发音
言之有物:
1. *一段时间+from now
=从现在开始算起的...后
例如,10 years from now 从现在开始十年后
If all goes as expected, we could be drilling three years from now.
倘若一切如期进行,我们可能3年后就可以钻探了。
Years from now, years and years,I'll be back.
好多年后,我会回来。
图片源自《蒂凡尼的早餐》
Not even a year from now.
甚至一年后的去向都无法预测。
图片源自《我们这一天》
1000 years from now, there'll be no guys and no girls.
一千年后,不分男女。
图片源自《猜火车》
2. be more disappointed by A than by B
对A比对B更失望(此为more...than...的基本用法)
拓展:more...than...的特殊用法:
跟形容词、副词、动词、名词等,表“与其说……不如说、是……更是、有……无……”等。
George is more intelligent than aggressive.
与其说乔治言语放肆,不如说他聪颖过人。
Tom was more good than bad.
与其说汤姆坏,不如说他好。
活学活用:
请用 be more disappointed by A than by B 随意造句
《人生终点前,人们最后悔的五件事》:布诺妮.维尔是澳洲的一名护士,多年来她一直在照顾那些生命只剩下12个星期的病人们,并总是问他们“对人生有什么遗憾,希望能改变些什么。”根据这些对话,她总结了临终前人们最遗憾的五件事。
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