每日听写 · 2024-06-28

His appeal quickly overtook mine, making him more popular.

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• 语言上
• ·appeal n. (个人或物的)吸引力
  e.g. The appeal of this city lies in its architectural beauty. 这座城市的吸引力在于其建筑之美。
• overtake v. 超越
  e.g. She overtook the last runner and won the race. 她超过了最后一名赛跑者, 赢得了比赛。
• making这里是一个现在分词作结果状语的用法，表示前半句的一个结果，就是他比我更受欢迎。跟今天高阶中的doing一个用法。
  译文
  他的魅力迅速超过了我，使他更受欢迎。

Inspite of their differing backgrounds, their strong belief in self-reliance coincided remarkably with each other, bridging their worlds.

【句子分析】
Inspite of their differing backgrounds, their strong belief in self-reliance coincided remarkably with each other, bridging their worlds.

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• 语言上
• Inspite of 尽管，后面不能直接接句子，要接名词/名词短语。
  e.g. She managed to succeed inspite of all the difficulties. 尽管有所有的困难，她还是成功了。
• differing adj. 不同的，有差异的，来自于动词differ
• remarkably adv. 显著地；非凡地
  e.g. Remarkably, nobody was killed. 竟然没有死人，真是万幸。
• bridging their worlds 连接他们的世界，bridge v. 架起桥梁，就是连接；
  e.g. Their shared interest in music ended up bridging their worlds . 他们共同对音乐的兴趣最终成为了连接他们世界的桥梁。
  这里bridging这个现在分词作状语，表示一个结果，结果是让两个人有了联系。
  【参考译文】
  尽管背景迥异，他们坚信自力更生的想法不约而同，这拉近了他们的距离