听力综合能力提高—— Day 29
听力文本对照

听力片段一：

Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.

I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.

One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train.


知识点:
1) Well, we all need a reason to wake up. For me, it just took 11,000 volts.

发音点：
to 的略读成t, 比如go to school/go to work
wake up 的连读。前面是一个辅音，后面是一个元音，就会连读。
For的略读。略读原则就是所有的元音全都弱读成/ə/

表达点：
wake up 醒来
wake someone up把某人叫醒
例：（We often slept in when we were in college.） It’s already 10 O’clock. It’s time to wake him up. 已经10点钟了，该叫他起床了。
Volt /voʊlt/ n.伏


2) I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.

发音点：
You are 略读成Your,要短而急促，略读的时候忌讳拖长音。
To 的略读。

表达点：
too + adj to do something 太怎么样而不能做某事

3) One night, sophomore year of college, just back from Thanksgiving holiday, a few of my friends and I were horsing around, and we decided to climb atop a parked commuter train.

表达点：
大学四年：freshman 大一／sophomore 大二／junior 大三；senior 大四
horse around 胡闹，瞎玩，鬼混
atop /əˈtɑːp/ adv. /prep.在…上面


听力片段二：

It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time. We'd certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!

My father wears it now in solidarity.
知识点:
1) It was just sitting there, with the wires that run overhead. Somehow, that seemed like a great idea at the time.

发音点：
It is/was ….中前面的it发音经常省略掉。比如Who is it? It’s me. 就会直接说’s me. 这个原句中也听不到It was，但是在做听写练习的时候还是要补全。
Scurried up 的连读，和stood up 连读道理一样。前面辅音，后面元音，连在一起发音更方便。

表达点：
overnightadj.隔夜的；adv.一晚上
例句：You won’t learn English well overnight. 你没有办法一夜就把英语学好。
搭配：overnight celebrity/success 隔夜明星／成功

somehow adv.不知道怎么搞的
例句：I was not very good at schoolwork at the time. But I somehow went to Harvard.



2) We'd certainly done stupider things. I scurried up the ladder on the back, and when I stood up, the electrical current entered my arm, blew down and out my feet, and that was that. Would you believe that watch still works? Takes a licking!
My father wears it now in solidarity.


表达点：
scurry /ˈskɝː.i/急跑，急赶
current /ˈkɝː.ənt/ adj.现在的；n.电流，水流
solidarity /ˌsɑː.lɪˈder.ə.t̬i/ n. 团结


听力片段三：

That night began my formal relationship with death — my death — and it also began my long run as a patient. It's a good word. It means one who suffers. So I guess we're all patients.

Now, the American health care system has more than its fair share of dysfunction — to match its brilliance, to be sure. I'm a physician now, a hospice and palliative medicine doc, so I've seen care from both sides. And believe me: almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well — I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.


知识点:
dysfunction /dɪsˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ n.功能失调
hospice /ˈhɑː.spɪs/ n. 收容所
palliative /ˈpæl.i.ə.t̬ɪv/ adj.缓和的，减轻的
both sides相似辅音，发音只发后面一个
unwitting /ʌnˈwɪt̬.ɪŋ/ adj.无意的

定语从句：
It means one who suffers.
almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well
wewho work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve.

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