Straight, how can you be so straight?

Life's everything but straight.

It's going up and down.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

A and B 结构中的and一般弱读，比如:

black and white

bread and butter

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：How can you be so XX ?

你怎么可以这么XX？

How can you be so cruel to me?

你怎么可以这么残忍？

How can you be so calm about this?

你怎么能对此这么平静？

How can you be so sure you are going to win?

你怎么这么确定你会赢呢？

How can you be so obtuse?

你真是个木头。

图片源自《肖申克的救赎》

How can you be so confident?

你怎么能够这么有自信？

图片源自《老友记》

2. 词链儿：everything but XX

除了XX以外其他一切

Life's everything but straight.

生活除了一帆风顺，什么都会发生。

but 除了

= except

I taught you everything but common sense.

我悉心栽培你却忘了教你做人。

I was tired. I was hungry. I was everything but discouraged.

我既累又饿，可就是没有气馁。

★原声例句：I forgot everything but my own amazement.

我除了感到自己的惊诧外什么都不记得了。

★原声例句：Everything but monsters are not real.

除了怪物以外的一切都不是真的。

Everything but religion.

任何事情，除了宗教。

图片源自《大鱼》

I was wrong. About everything. Everything but you.

我错了，我判断错了一切，唯独没看错你。

图片源自《荒原》

3. 词链儿：go up and down

起起伏伏，起起落落

具象：

The people on the bus go up and down.

巴士上的乘客颠上颠下。

抽象：

You'll go up and down, and be in darkness and light.

你会经历起起伏伏，也会置身于生命的黑暗和光明中。

拓展表达：ups and downs 浮沉；苦乐

回顾【如何面对生活中的起起落落？How to face the ups and downs in life? 】

Surfing, like life, is full of ups and downs.

冲浪就像人生一样，有起有落。

Like most married couples we've had our ups and downs, but life's like that.

和所有已婚夫妇一样，我们也经历过沉浮波折，但生活就是如此。

You and I have our ups and downs. But I have always considered you my family.

你我之间起起伏伏，有好有坏。但一直以来我始终把你当家人看待。

图片源自《生活大爆炸》

活学活用：

请用 everything but XX 随意造句

《小王子》（The Little Prince）：是法国On Entertainment 2015年出品的奇幻动画电影，该片改编自安东尼·德·圣-埃克苏佩里创作的同名文学作品，讲述了一个小女孩偶然与年老的飞行员相识，并根据他回忆的指引开启了探索小王子世界的旅程。

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