雅思阅读真是特别耐读,值得反复回味。
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1.Half the world's 6800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations—that's one language lost every ten days.
【第一次了解到全球语种如此之diversity.而汉语能成为世界6800多种语言中的三个dominating 语言之一,真是让人自豪。vanish的同义替换文中出现多次,分别有: lost ,shrink, extinct, disappear,endangered, erosion(侵蚀),而与之相对的词也很丰富,reserve,survive,rekindle (重新点燃),preserve,revive,淋漓尽致展现了表达同一意思时,英语语言的丰富性】
2.The world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people.
【be peppered with 充满,pepper 除了我们常见的胡椒,辣椒的意思外还有充满之意。相当于be full of 】
3.People lose faith in their culture.
【lose faith 和文章中两处内容相呼应,1)the reason why people reject the language of their parents begins with a crisis of confidence. Native Americans have not lost pride in their language】
4.Moreover ,the loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world .
【这句话是真理值得背下来。deprive sb of sth 固定搭配,剥夺某人某种权利。】
5.But a growing interest cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true.
【这句话的那个词都快被我划重点了。cultural identity 文化认同。prevent from doing.direst 是dire 的最高级表示可怕的、悲惨的、极端的。horrible/terrible/ extreme】
End:鸡血已用光困困困。
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