Oh, the misery.
Everybody wants to be my enemy.
Spare the sympathy.
Everybody wants to be my enemy.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. misery中字母s对应浊辅音/z/;
2. my enemy 元音遇到元音连读+/j/。
言之有物:
1. misery noun. 痛苦
Fame brought her nothing but misery.
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
miserable adj. 痛苦的
Don't look so miserable!
别一副闷闷不乐的样子!
miserable housing conditions
恶劣的住房条件
Why there are so many miserable people these days?
为什么现在有这么多痛苦的人?
法国作家雨果作品 《悲惨世界》Les Miserables,其中miserables为法语。
回顾【sorrow】
2. 词链儿:spare the sympathy 收起你的同情心吧
*spare的用法:
① adj. 空闲的
spare time 空闲时间
② adj. 多余的
Do you have a spare pen?
你有多余的笔吗?
③ verb. 饶恕;不伤害
They asked him to spare the women and children.
他们要他放过妇女和儿童。
④ verb. 使避免;使免遭
Luckily, I was spared the embarrassment of having to sing in front of everyone.
幸运的是,我躲过了在大家面前唱歌的尴尬。
★原声例句:You will save time and spare yourself a lot of agony.
你可以节省时间,让自己免受很多痛苦。
★原声例句:I hoped that my plight would make her feel sympathy and that she might spare me.
我希望我的困境能使她同情我,宽恕我。
She should have called me I could have spared myself another wasted trip.
她应该联络我,省的我又白跑。
We gonna spare the taxpayers the expense of a trial.
是要帮纳税人省下审判的钱。
图片源自《美国恐怖故事》
Spare her this. You can see he's dead.
请使她免受此苦难,他已死了。
图片源自《圣经故事》
拓展词链儿:spare no effort/expense
不遗余力;不惜代价
We will spare no effort to ensure the safety of the tunnels.
我们将不遗余力地确保隧道的安全。
回顾【spare me 别说了】
3. sympathy noun.
sym(共同的)+pathos(感觉)
sympathetic adj. 同情的
pathetic adj. 可悲的
Don't waste your sympathy on scum like that.
对这样的渣滓你没必要同情。
She comes across as a more sympathetic character in the movie.
她在影片中扮演的角色更能引起观众的共鸣。
I thought bartenders were supposed to be sympathetic.
我以为调酒师都颇有同情心。
图片源自《大西洋帝国》
We need this story to be solid and sympathetic.
我们需要这个故事值得推敲,能引发同情。
图片源自《绝命毒师》
活学活用:
请用 spare 随意造句
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