每日听写 · 2024-03-22

But until he's in college, he might be benched as a reserve member.

本题难度较低

• 语言上
• benched v. （体育比赛中）被要求待在替补席， 也可以引申到感情里，被当备胎了，be benched。
  e.g. He's a talented player but he's been benched for the last few games.
• reserve member 替补成员
  e.g. She started her career as a reserve member before becoming a regular player.
• 译文
  但在他上大学之前，他可能作为一个替补成员被要求待在替补席。

if you're worried about breaking yourphone, you could buy an extended warranty. It covers you for three years.

本题难度适中

• 语言上
• break your phone 摔坏手机
• warranty 保修期，extended warranty 延长保修期
  e.g. The refrigerator comes with a 12-month warranty.
• cover 提供...保护，覆盖
  e.g. The travel insurance covers you against illness or injury.
  译文
  如果你担心手机会坏，你可以购买一个延长保修期。它为你提供三年的保护。

And so some people knit together the networks around them, creating a kind of dense web of ties in which they're comfortably embedded.

【句子分析】
And so some people knit together the networks around them, creating a kind of dense web of ties in which they're comfortably embedded.

• 下划线：连读
• 删除线：不发音
• 灰色字体：弱读
  【解析】
• speaker咬字很清晰、用力；其中，kind of的连读中of进行了一些弱读，很像kinda 的音。web of ties中是较普遍的辅音+元音的连读。
• knit v. 编织 （knit-knit-knit过去式、过去分词都是knit）
  e.g. Society is knit together by certain commonly held beliefs. 社会是靠某些共同的信念来维系的。
• network n. 网状系统；关系网
• dense ad. 密集的、周密的
• web of ties 关系网，tie n. 领带；联系、纽带 e.g. family ties 家族关系
• embed v. 把...牢牢嵌入 embed sth in sth，句中 in which they're comfortably embedded . 是定语从句，来修饰前面的web of ties。
  e.g. an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术。
• creating 是现在分词作结果状语，结果是，创造出一个非常紧密的关系网。
  【参考译文】
  所以一些人会把周围的关系网紧密地联系到一起，创造出一个紧密的关系网，而他们也可以舒适的身处其中。
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