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英语读报 周更贴
英语的重要性不言而喻,学好英语需要浸泡在英语的环境中。
看英文报纸就是一个不错的开始。
不定期分享漂亮的英语句子,四六级期末能用上就更值了
2018年01月23日 10点01分
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Demand for this technology(智能家居) has grown sharply, despite its shortcomings, which include difficulty picking out commands in a noisy room and understanding accents.
举例子句型 despite xxx, which include xxx
2018年01月23日 10点01分
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But they fear that widespread US tariffs, and Chinese retaliation, will raise prices significantly for Americans, hurt the economy and kill jobs.
推高物价:raise prices significantly for sb.
伤害经济:hurt the economy
造成失业: kill jobs
2018年03月27日 04点03分
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level 8
As the planet’s population swells and our disposable incomes grow, more of us will have the opportunity to travel.
2018年04月08日 11点04分
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In fact, hard decisions often get more complicated when they’re deferred. And as a leader gets more senior, the need to make hard calls only intensifies.
In our ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,700 leaders, 57% percent of newly appointed executives said that decisions were more complicated and difficult than they expected.
2018年04月20日 08点04分
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长难句: The American one has come under growing scrutiny since it emerged that Nicole Meyer, the sister of President Donald Trump’s influential son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had touted her connections with the Trump family when trying to attract investors to an EB-5 project during a trip to China last May.
句子简化:The plan has come under growing scrutiny since it emerged that Meyer had touted her connections with the Trump family.
该句子是主语从句。
原句 That (句子) emerged.
从句太长要后置,用形式主语it做主语。
It emerged that (句子).
emerge: become known.
It emerged that they had had a disagreement.
[来自 英语读报]
2018年05月26日 09点05分
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From Microsoft's perspective, this deal plays nicely into the company's push into cloud computing, which is one of its biggest and most important initiatives.
//可以代替 in my opinion
2018年06月06日 08点06分
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Last year’s film Loving Vincent, told his story in the world’s first animated feature to be entirely hand-painted in oils, an extraordinary labour of love worthy of the man himself.
// worthy of the man himself 直接翻译为,等同于这人他自己,它是介词短语做后置定语,翻译时候提到核心词前面。
参考翻译:去年的电影《至爱梵高》是世界上第一部纯手绘油画动画作品形式讲述梵高故事的电影,是一部和他本人相称的爱的杰作。
[ 英语读报 ]
2018年06月14日 08点06分
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As mundane tasks are automated, and workers rely on computers for data analysis, the added value of humans will stem from their creativity.
人的附加值源自其创造力。
2019年01月21日 11点01分
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Uniqlo has profited from changes in American society, some of which might seem at first glance to be unrelated to fashion.
Millennial shoppers entered a job market with fewer jobs, while carrying more student debt, which limited how much money many of them could spend on clothes.
That austerity contributed to a cultural shift, in which conspicuously expensive clothing fell out of favor.
//非限制性定语从句
2019年03月24日 02点03分
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Like a scientist bent on making a discovery, he must cherish the hope that one day he will be amply rewarded.
他必须像一个专心致志进行探索的科学家那样抱有这样的希望,即终有一天,他的努力会取得丰硕的成果。
bent [bent] adj. 弯曲的,变形的;下定决心的
be bent on 专心致志于 ; 一心想要 ; 专心致力于
cherish [ˈtʃerɪʃ] v. 珍视,珍爱;怀念(过去),抱有(希望)
amply [ˈæmpli] adv. 充足地;广大地
2022年04月16日 14点04分
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