留美老师带你每天说英文 第511期:对熟悉的事情产生怀疑
2020-05-28来源:和谐英语
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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是:
There's an irony. The difficulty of this course consists in the fact that it teaches what you already know. It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings, and making it strange.
讽刺的是,这堂课的困难之处在于它要教导你的是你已经知道的事。让我们对本来熟悉、毫无疑问的事情,感到陌生并产生疑惑
学习重点:
1.irony 讽刺
irony (n.) 讽刺
ironic (adj.) 嘲讽的
iron (n.) 铁
2.difficulty 困难
difficulty (n.) 困难
3.course 一门课程
course (n.) 一门课程
lesson (n.) 一节课
class (n.) 班级
corpse (n.) 尸体
intercourse (v.) 交际、往来
4.consist 组成
consist (v.) 组成
consistency (n.) 一致性
inconsistency (n.) 不一致、前后矛盾
5.familiar 熟悉的
familiar (adj.) 熟悉的
unfamiliar (adj.) 不熟悉的
familiarity (n.) 熟悉度