练习材料:
Lesson 46-3 Hobbies
It is no useoffering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, thechance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It isno use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who hasbeen working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worryabout trifling things at the weekend.
As for theunfortunate people who can command everything they want, who can gratify everycaprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire for them a newpleasure, a new excitement is only an additional satiation. In vain they rushfrantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredomby mere clatter and motion. For them discipline in one form or another is themost hopeful path.
It may also besaid that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into twoclasses:
ˈhɒbiz
ɪt ɪz nəʊ juːz ˈɒfərɪŋ
ðə ˈmænjʊəl ˈleɪbərə, ˈtaɪəd aʊt wɪð ə hɑːd wiːks swɛt ænd ˈɛfət, ðə ʧɑːns ɒv ˈpleɪɪŋ ə geɪm ɒv ˈfʊtbɔːl ɔː ˈbeɪsbɔːl
ɒn ˈsætədeɪ ˈɑːftəˈnuːn. ɪt ɪz nəʊ juːz ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ ðə ˌpɒlɪˈtɪʃənɔː ðə prəˈfɛʃənl ɔː ˈbɪznɪs mæn, huː hæz biːn ˈwɜːkɪŋ ɔː ˈwʌriɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈsɪərɪəsθɪŋz fɔː sɪks deɪz, tuː wɜːk ɔː ˈwʌri əˈbaʊt ˈtraɪflɪŋ θɪŋz æt ðə ˈwiːkˈɛnd.
æz fɔː ði ʌnˈfɔːʧnɪt
ˈpiːpl huː kæn kəˈmɑːnd ˈɛvrɪθɪŋ ðeɪ wɒnt, huː kæn ˈgrætɪfaɪ ˈɛvri kəˈpriːs ænd leɪ ðeə
hændz ɒn ˈɔːlməʊst ˈɛvri ˈɒbʤɪkt ɒv dɪˈzaɪə fɔː ðɛm ə njuː ˈplɛʒə, ə njuː ɪkˈsaɪtmənt
ɪz ˈəʊnli ən əˈdɪʃənl ˌseɪʃɪˈeɪʃən. ɪn veɪn ðeɪ rʌʃ ˈfræntɪk(ə)li raʊnd frɒm
pleɪs tuː pleɪs, ˈtraɪɪŋ tuː ɪsˈkeɪp frɒm əˈvɛnʤɪŋ ˈbɔːdəm baɪ mɪə ˈklætər ænd
ˈməʊʃən. fɔː ðɛm ˈdɪsɪplɪn ɪn wʌn fɔːm ɔːr əˈnʌðər ɪz ðə məʊst ˈhəʊpfʊl pɑːθ.
ɪt meɪ ˈɔːlsəʊ biː
sɛd ðæt ˈræʃənl, ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs, ˈjuːsfʊl ˈhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋz ɑː dɪˈvaɪdɪd ˈɪntuː tuː ˈklɑːsɪz:
任务配置:L0 + L4
知识笔记:
单词:1、manual:手动的,手工,2、laborer:劳动者,劳工,3、sweat:汗,流汗,4、trifling:琐碎的,细小,5、gratify:欣慰,合意,6、caprice:任性,7、additional:额外的,另外,8、satiation:饱足感,9、vain:只要,invain:仅在,10、frantically:疯狂地,11、avenging:复仇的,12、clatter:哒,哗啦声,13、motion:运动,议案,动作,14、rational:合理的,15、
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练习感悟:今天又是觉得非常困的一天,明明睡眠已经很充足了。所以今天的文章,其实难度是中等的,但是我的状态不好,今天录了六七次才勉强达标。
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