练习材料:L12 (1)Life on the desert island 时长: 43s
Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched.
You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes.
Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out.
音标任务配置:L0+L4
知识笔记:wretched
adj.
1.感到不适的;难受的;不愉快的feeling ill/sick or unhappy
2.极坏的;恶劣的extremely bad or unpleasant
3.可怜的;悲惨的making you feel sympathy or pity
4.[obn] (informal) (表示憎恶)该死的,无法容忍的used to show that you think that sb/sth is extremely annoying
eg: But, you wretched man, I shall say to you what Madame D used to say: you just be very rich, then!
您有多么可怜啊,我要学D太太说过的话来跟您讲了,‘那么您很有钱罗!’
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