If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. 后进同化:with sixty
2. run不要发成wrong。注意音组/ʌn/的发音
言之有物:
1. unforgiving minute 无情的一分钟
“时间飞逝不等人”之残酷
*unforgiving adj. 不饶人的; 不宽容的;
He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight
他斤斤计较,很不大度。
Business is a competitive activity. It is very fierce and very unforgiving.
商场如战场,竞争激烈,不近人情。
That's the most unforgiving speech you've ever made.
我生平只听到你讲这一句气量小的话。
图片源自《傲慢与偏见》
2. sixty seconds worth of distance run 价值为六十秒的长跑
→distance run 航程 / 远距离长跑
You start your distance run like normal.
您像正常情况下一样开始您的长跑。
→*(金额、时间)+worth of sth. 表示价值多少,或能用多长时间
The winner will receive ten pounds' worth of books.
获胜者将得到价值10英镑的书籍。
You've got three years' worth of research money to do what you want with.
你有可维持3年的研究经费去做自己想做的事。
...three year's worth of food here.
在这里种出够吃三年的食物。
图片源自《火星救援》
$26000 worth of sides?26000美元的冷菜?
图片源自《华尔街之狼》
活学活用:
请用 unforgiving 随意造句
《假如》(If):“龙妈”日前上节目朗读了一段英国名诗《假如》(If),这首诗曾多次被英国人评选为最受欢迎的诗歌,其中诗文"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;" 刻在温网中央球场入口处。龙妈说这首诗对她来说有特殊意义,因为儿时父亲经常念给她听,有安抚心灵的功效。
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