Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. heavy(j) is 注意紧元音/i/和松元音/?/之间的衔接
2. heavy head 均包含元音/e/,注意发音口型:
3. crown 包含易错音组/a?n/
言之有物:
1. 主系表的倒装:
The head (that wears the crown) is heavy.
→ Heavy is the head (that wears the crown).
主系表,一般均可以倒装为“表系主”的结构
The girl is sitting under the tree. 女孩坐在树下。
→ Sitting under the tree is the girl.
He who is content is happy. 知足者常乐。
→ Happy is he who is content.
*倒装的用处:
①强调表语成分
②主语较长或结构较复杂的句子,通过倒装可使句子更加匀称。
The head (that wears the crown) is heavy. 主干部分是 The head is heavy. 主语和系动词间隔较远,不利于理解,通过倒装则可解决这一问题。
2. crown n. 王冠;冠军宝座
wear a crown 戴王冠
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
我将不戴宝冠,不争荣宠。
图片源自《权力的游戏》
词链儿:win/lose/fight for/defend one's crown
He lost his Olympic crown to George.
他输给了乔治,丢掉了奥林匹克桂冠。
He plans to defend his Olympic crown.
他计划卫冕奥运会冠军。
3. 近似表达:
欲戴王冠,必承其重:
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Heavy hangs the head (that wears a crown).
图片源自《摩登家庭》
One who wants to wear the crown must bear its weight.
4. 复习早读中出现过的汉语中的俗语、成语:
眼不见,心不烦
What the eye can't see, the heart won't grieve over.
情人眼里出西施
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
常在河边走,哪有不湿鞋
You don't spend decades tap dancing on hornets' nests, and not expect to be stung.
鱼和熊掌不可兼得
You can't have your cake and eat it.
No matter where you are, what you want, you can only have two out of three things.
不入虎穴,焉得虎子
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
授之以鱼,不如授之以渔
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches, but to reveal to him his own.
种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆
You reap what you sow.
吃一堑,长一智
If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing.
由其沉默,知其为人
A man is known by the silence he keeps.——Oliver Herford
律人要先律己
Hold yourself to the same standards you hold your staff.
两情若是久长时,又岂在朝朝暮暮
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
得失如一,生死无二。正如无光不成影
Loss and possession, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ——Hilaire Belloc
子欲避之,反促遇之
One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.
出其不意,攻其不备
It's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out.
塞翁失马,焉知非福
I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes, but I have to believe that something good is going to come out of this.
有阳必有阴
There's a yin for every yang. If there's bad, good will rise up against it.
杀不死我的会让我更强大
Which does not kill us makes us stronger.
以其人之道还治其人之身
You can't out-clever a fox, so use his cleverness against him.
知人知面难知心
What's on a person's face is not always what's in their heart.
活学活用:
请用 win/lose/fight for/defend one's crown 随意造句
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