VOA慢速英语:Rethinking Grammar: How We Talk

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短语讲解：

1. Dolly Parton: “You know I’ll wake up sometimes from a dream and think I’d better get up and write that down or I’ll forget it.”

wake up 醒来; 活跃起来; 引起注意
例句：I used to wake up early and get up at 6:30.
我通常醒得早，六点半钟起床。

2. Rhett Buetler: “Everybody kind of relates rodeo with kind of a wild energizing experience…something that gets out of control.”

get out of 摆脱; 逃避
例句：It is easier to get into debt than to get out of debt.
负债容易还难。

3. But there are millions of native speakers who have their own vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation that is different from Standard American English.

be different from 不同于; 与…不同
例句：May your destiny be different from her.
希望你的命运和她不同。

4. There are dozens of regional varieties of American English. 

dozens of 很多
例句：The tornado claimed dozens of lives.
那场龙卷风夺去了几十条人命。

5. Some people look down on certain regional accents and dialects.

look down on 轻视; 俯瞰（某处）; 看不起（某人）
例句：Don't look down on the role women can play.
不要小看妇女的作用。

6. When we hear someone use grammar that we think of as perhaps not standard, it’s very easy to judge them as uneducated and maybe they’re not too bright.

think of 想起; 考虑; 有…想法
例句：She is sensitive to what people think of her.
她很敏感人们对她是怎么想的。

7. Instead of the standard, “The coffee is cold” some speakers say, “The coffee cold.”

instead of （用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…， （用…）而不用…
例句： I might have two families to stand by me instead of one.
我可以得到两个而不只是一个家族的支持。

8. So, of course, white folks who don’t know African-American dialect raise their hands up in despair and say, ‘Oh, this is ungrammatical, it’s illogical, how can you possibly have a sentence with no verb?

hand up 上交; 呈上; 把…扶上去
例句：Will all those who vote for the motion put one hand up?
请赞成这项提议的举手。