A dog found a rabbit and started chasing him, but the rabbit got away.
Seeing this, a goat stopped to gloat. “Too fast for you, wasn’t he?” He sneered.
“Why are you surprised?”said the dog. “I was chasing him for fun; he was running for his life.”
“Oh, the rabbit struggled to run faster than you for his life,” the goat said in thought.
“Yeah, next time please think a second time before you sneer at others,” the dog said with a sigh.
有一天,一条狗发现了一只兔子并开始追他,但是兔子很幸运地逃脱了。
山羊看到了这一幕后,停下来幸灾乐祸地对着狗冷笑道,“他跑得实在太快了,不是吗?”
“这有什么可奇怪的?”狗说,“我追他仅仅是为了好玩,而他跑得更快则是为了能活命。”
“哦,原来兔子是为了生存才必须比你跑得更快。”羊若有所思。
“是啊,下次请你嘲笑人的时候多想想吧。”狗叹了口气说。
这个故事不同于龟兔赛跑,它讲的是一个人的表现取决于他做这件事的动机。故事里兔子跑是为了活命,当然拼命地跑得飞快,而狗追兔子只是为了好玩,所以也就不会拼尽全力跑了。So, performance depends on motivation.
那今天我们要学的是两个词汇,stop 和 sneer。
stop是小学的单词了,之前讲蟋蟀和蚂蚁的故事当中我们还学了它的替换词cease。stop我们需要注意的点,是这两个词组区别,stop to do 停下来去做……
stop doing 停下在做的事。在故事中,a goat stopped to gloat 羊停下自己在做的事,开始幸灾乐祸。如果这个句子变成a goat stopped gloating,那么意思就变成“羊停止幸灾乐祸”了。所以千万不要用错了哦。
第二个单词,sneer, “嘲笑,讥讽”,通过故事的语言表达,显然它是一个不及物动词,需要介词at来跟出嘲笑的对象,故事中就有例子 ... before you sneer at others。来一个例句
You may sneer, but a lot of people like this kind of music.
你可以嗤之以鼻,但很多人喜欢这种音乐。
另外,sneer也有名词性质,意思不变,“嘲笑,讥讽”。这个往往可以用在高中读后续写的描写中,来两个例句:
He said with a sneer.他的话中带有嘲笑之意。
A faint sneer of satisfaction crossed her face.她的脸上掠过一丝得意的冷笑。
你学会了吗?
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