Look for the people that actually are examples to you rather than somebody that you think you need to straighten out yourself.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
言之有物:
1. 词链儿:be an example to XX
是XX的楷模;榜样
Her courage is an example to us all.
她的勇气是我们大家的榜样。
回顾【set an example 树立榜样】
2. 词链儿:rather than XX 而不是
近义表达:instead
回顾【Rather than getting angry and pissing away my entire future, I knew I just had to get on with my life.】
3. 词链儿:straighten out
想法摆正/行为修正
straight adj. 直的 adv. 笔直地
straighten v. 弄直;整顿;改正
He hasn't come round yet. Could you try and straighten him out?
他一时想不通, 你开导开导他好吗?
He straightened out when he joined the army.
他参军后,人就改好了。
★原声例句:Mary, are you down here to straighten him out a little bit?
玛丽,你是来劝劝他的吗?
★原声例句:We need you historians to straighten us out.
我们需要你们这些历史学家来帮我们理清头绪。
We'll straighten this out.
我们会把这搞清楚的。
图片源自《后天》
The sisters at the convent of the perpetual flame of purity will straighten you out.
永纯之火修道院的修女们会让你脱胎换骨。
图片源自《生命之书》
活学活用:
请用 straighten out 随意造句
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