It's better to live half a lifetime being a person who you truly are than to live a hundred lifetimes pretending to be someone who you aren't.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. truly /ˈtruːli/中/tr/为难发音组；

2. hundred 包含易错音组 /ʌn/和/dr/。

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：it's better to do XX than to do XX

They say it's better to give than to receive.

人们说施比受有福。

It is better to prevent illness than to cure it.

=Prevention is better than cure.

预防疾病胜于治疗疾病.

★原声例句：It's way better to do it badly than not to do it at all.

做得不好总比什么都不做要好。

★原声例句：It's much better to do it right than to do it fast.

正确地做比快速地做要好得多。

Don't you guys have anything better to do than to harass an old shopkeeper?

你们就没更重要的事可做了吗？非要来骚扰一个上了年纪的店主。

图片源自《犯罪心理》

You still don't have anything better to do than wait for me to come home.

你还是那样，除了等我回家，没什么好消磨时光的。

图片源自《我欲为人》

2. lifetime 一生，终生

拓展：once in a lifetime 一生只有一次

It’s the sort of opportunity you see only once in a lifetime.

这种机会你一辈子也只能碰到一次。

An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime.

像这样的机会一生也许只会遇到一次。

once-in-a-lifetime adj. 一生中难得一次的；千载难逢的；难能可贵的

And these T-shirt are once in a lifetime chance.

而这批T恤是我们百年难得一遇的机会。

图片源自《打工姐妹花》

This man is a once in a lifetime leader.

他是个难得的领袖。

图片源自《24小时》

3. 词链儿：be a person who you truly are 做真正的自己

truly = really 真实地，确实地

4. 词链儿：live a hundred lifetimes 活一百辈子 → 年岁绵延

5. 词链儿：pretend to do... 假装做...

She pretended not to notice.

她假装没有注意到。

Were you just pretending to be interested?

你只是在假装感兴趣吗？

I won't pretend to know what that is.

我都不知道这是什么。

图片源自《大西洋帝国》

You do kind of pretend to be something you're not.

你的确是在伪装自己。

图片源自《打工姐妹花》

活学活用：

请用 it's better to do XX than to do XX 随意造句

《TED演讲：为自己而活有多重要》：相比于活成别人年岁绵延，如果我们能够做真正的自己，即便不满百年，生命也会更加闪耀。

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