每日听写 · 2024-06-25

People of goodwill can do better.

本题难度较低

• 语言上
• goodwill n. 善意，will n. 意志、心愿，强大的意志力：a strong will
  e.g. They offered their help as a gesture of goodwill.
  他们提出帮助作为一种善意的表示。
• do better 表现得更好
  e.g. After receiving the feedback, I knew I could do better next time.
  收到反馈后，我知道下次我可以做得更好。
• 发音上
  People of goodwill can do better.
  奥巴马这句话说的非常慢，每个单词都没吞音。
  译文
  拥有善意的人能做得更好。

Nuclear power began to lose its appeal by the 80's. I'm not here to debate positives and negatives of nuclear power or not. What matters in this alternate timeline is the public perception of it.

【句子分析】
Nuclear power began to lose its appeal by the 80's. I'm not here to debate positives and negatives of nuclear power or not. What matters in this alternate timeline is the public perception of it.

• 下划线：连读
• 删除线：不发音
• 灰色字体：弱读
• 语言上
• lose its appeal 失去吸引力
  e.g. The new law caused the countryside to lose its appeal to developers.
  新法律使得乡村对开发商失去了吸引力。
• positives and negatives 利弊
• perception n. 认知，看法
  e.g. Public perception of the event changed over time.
  公众对该事件的看法随着时间的推移而改变。
• alternate timeline 替代时间线，平行时间线
  e.g. In an alternate timeline , these events might have unfolded differently.
  在一个平行时间线中，这些事件可能会有不同的发展。
• 发音上
• speaker的发音习惯是把to都读的很轻，比如began to中的to就是一个很轻的/d/的音；
• alternate 作为形容词要注意其中字母a的发音有变化。
  【参考译文】
  到了80年代，核能开始失去其吸引力。我并不打算来讨论核能利弊。这个平行时间线中重要的是公众对核能的看法。
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