跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第1054期

（单词翻译）

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious¹. A smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

idea/virus 注意红色部分不要卷舌

言之有物：

1. virus noun. 病毒

拓展词链儿：go viral

（短期内）获得大量传播，迅速走红，变得火爆、疯传、疯转、爆红

Their amazing video of the project has now gone viral with millions of views.

项目视频迅速爆红，引来上百万观看。

2. resilient / highly contagious

→resilient adj. 有韧劲的 点击跳转

→highly contagious adj. 传染性极强的

词汇拓展：

contagious adj. 传染的

transmit /spread virus 传播病毒

get infected with XX 被XX感染

become infected 被传染

vaccine² 疫苗

Smallpox³ is highly contagious and kills 30 percent of its victims.

天花的传染性很强，百分之三十的感染者丧命。

It is highly contagious and can spread rapidly.

感染性强，传播迅速。

★原声例句：The spread of highly contagious illnesses such as smallpox and measles⁴ became a death sentence for those with no immunity⁵.

传染性强的疾病，如天花和麻疹，对于没有免疫力的人来说就是死刑。

That's out of the question. Polio is highly contagious.

不行，小儿麻痹症很容易传染。

I can't let you go in there, she's highly contagious.

我不能让你进去，她具有高度传染性。

3. 词链儿：a seed of an idea 思想的种子/小小的念头/细微的想法

Although there may be an ending, there is always a seed of an idea which someone can nurture⁶ and grow into a tall tree.

虽然会有结局，但细小的念头总能长成参天大树。

= a germ of an idea

He has a germ of an idea, but it's unshaped.

他有个念头，但念头未经打磨。

By early 2010, he had a germ of a business idea.

2010年时候，他就有了一个商业念头。

拓展词链儿：to plant a seed (of an idea) 种下思想的种子

The seed of an idea was planted.

念头就这么种下了。

★原声例句：And all these observations planted the seed of an idea.

所有这些观察使TA种下了一个想法。

Now, the seed that we plant in this man's mind will grow into an idea.

我们植入这人头脑里的种子会成长成为一个意念。

4. 词链儿：grow to 逐渐长成.../渐渐XX

I'm sure you'll grow to like her in time.

我肯定你慢慢就会喜欢她了

In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions.

在热带，植物会长得非常高大。

You grow to appreciate what you have.

会渐渐珍惜你所拥有。

活学活用:

请用 a seed of an idea 随意造句

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