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9.7 早讀原文

Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be. Don't accept their enslavement, for your mother birthed you free.

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音標(biāo)符號來自權(quán)威詞典| Longman Dictionary

今日發(fā)音練習(xí)重點(diǎn)：

1. 對比重讀：Be who you want to be, not who they want you to be.

2. birthed 清清濁濁

言之有物

1. Be who you want to be. 成為你想成為的人。

句式同：

Do what you want to do. 做你所想做。

Say what you want to say. 說你所想說。

See what you want to see. 見你所想見

to do what you want to do?

做你想做的事。

圖片源自《盜火線》

want somebody to do something 想讓某人做某事

2. slave—enslave—enslavement

slave noun. 奴隸

enslave verb. 使(en)...變成奴隸、奴役

enslavement noun. 奴役、束縛

圖片源自《愛麗絲夢游仙境》

3. birthed you free

He was curious from birth.

圖片源自《楚門的世界》

birth 名詞作動詞 verb.

birth you (to be) free 生出自由的你

拓展：生孩子怎么說？

① give birth to XX 生出XX

It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure

孫子孫女的出生給他帶來了極大的快樂。

名詞 giving birth 生孩子（這件事）

Giving birth is something which can be done only by the female sex.

生育孩子是只有女性才能做的事。

② bring somebody into the world 帶到世界上，即為生孩子

③ in labor/labour 分娩中

His wife is in labour.

他的夫人正在分娩。

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