Can I just stay a while and we'll put all the world to rights.

The little ones will grow, and I'll still drink your favorite wine.

Soon they're going to close, but I'll see you another day.

So much has changed since you've been away.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

while/I'll 包含的/aɪl/为难发音组；

意群停顿：so much has changed / since you've been away//。

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：stay a while 久留

It's only 11:00, stay a while.

才11点啊，再待会嘛！

He doesn't live here: he is only staying a while.

他不住在这儿，只不过暂时呆一下。

2. 词链儿：put XX to rights 整顿XX，以使其恢复正常

此处right为名词，本短语中right应为复数形式。

He helped his mother put things to rights after his father died.

他父亲死后，他帮助妈妈使一切恢复如初。

This medicine will soon put you to rights.

这药可以使你很快康复。

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

如果你想让世界恢复正常，你应该从谁开始:你自己还是别人?

Put the world to rights.

让世界恢复正常

3. 建议背诵整句：

So much has changed since you've been away.

你离开以后，发生了好多变化。

① 词链儿：so much has changed since.... 自从...以来很多事都改变了。

So much has changed since the pandemic first began.

疫情以来发生了很多改变。

Not much has changed since he left.

他离开后，没发生什么改变。

★原声例句：So much has changed since the last election.

自上次选举以来，发生了很多变化。

★原声例句：So much has changed since I was in high school.

自从我上高中以来，发生了很大的变化。

② 词链儿：be away 离开

此处指“逝去”，等同于pass away

活学活用：

请用 so much has changed since 随意造句

《探望时间》（Visiting Hours）：是由艾德·希兰演唱的歌曲。艾德·希兰在疫情隔离期间，受到朋友&导师Michael Gudinski去世的感触，写下了该曲，于2021年8月19日以单曲形式发行，后收录至艾德·希兰的专辑《=》中。

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