L5 The Facts

L5 The Facts

Words & Expressions

*(go) to extremes, if someone does something to extremes, they do it to point beyond what is normal or acceptable

take/carry something to extremes

--Problems only occur when this attitude is taken to extremes.

--She had gone to extremes to avoid seeing him.

*facts and statistics=facts and figures 事实和数据

--Pushed too far, there is no doubt that such a trend could damage public confidence in official facts and figures.

--He cites a number of interesting facts and statistics.

*tabloid/ˈtæblɔɪd/=tabloid newspaper, a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, and stories mainly about sex, famous people etc rather than serious news.

n/adj: tabloid journalists

--The tabloids speculated as to whether she was having an affair, and with whom.

*somebody/something has yet to do something, used to say that someone has not done something, or that something has not happened when you think it should already have been done or have happened.

--I have yet to hear Ray’s version of what happened.

--The bank has yet to respond to our letter.

yet to come

--She said that the worst may yet to come.

--The worst of the storm is yet to come.

*foot的复数形式，注：在复合词中常用单数形式，如a six-foot-tall man

--feet                 脚

--foot/feet          英尺

--foots               沉淀物

Pronunciation:

*newspaper /ˈnuːzˌpeɪpər/

*last year /t/+/j/=ch发音同化, eg. actually/natual/virtual/let you

感谢小咪和dalin的语音点评：

often里面的o就是/ɒ:fən/而不是/a/

另外wall/wɒːl/& fired /faɪə $ faɪr/还是偏英音