Age is rarely kind to anyone. Nothing one can do about it. One just has to get on with it.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
1. kind 包含易错音组/ain/,不要发成“看d”;双元音要发饱满;
2. do (w) about it ;to (w) anyone 词间元元连读带出小/w/。
言之有物:
1. 词链儿:be kind to XX
对XX体贴/亲切/友好
The weather was very kind to us.
天气非常宜人。
My boss has been extremely kind to me.
老板对我非常好。
→反义表达:be unkind to XX
对XX不好
Her husband is very unkind to her.
她丈夫对她非常刻薄。
2. 词汇:rarely = not often 很少,难得
We rarely see each other now.
我们现在很少见面。
→ be rarely kind to XX
很少对XX好→ 对XX不友善
3. 词链儿:Nothing one can do about it.
对此,人们无能为力。
=One can do nothing about it.
=There's nothing one can do about it.
There's nothing I can do about the problem, so I might as well go with the flow.
关于这个问题我无能为力,所以我不如就顺其自然好了。
So there's nothing we can do about it?
这么说,我们就一点办法没有了?
★原声例句:But there's nothing I can do about it right now.
但我现在对此无能为力。
★原声例句:There's no end in sight, and we can do nothing about it.
眼前看不到尽头,我们对此也无能为力。
Nothing we can do about it.
也没别的办法了。
图片源自《奇迹缔造者》
But there's nothing I can do about it.
Nothing you can do about it?
但我也确实没辙了。
没辙了?
图片源自《单身日记:好孕来袭》
4. 词链儿:get on with XX
①与…友好相处
②继续(干某事)
I get on fairly well with everybody.
我和每个人的关系都还可以。
Just buzz off and let me get on with my work.
走开,我得继续干活了。
回顾【get on with XX】
活学活用:
请用 XX can do nothing about... 随意造句
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