跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第1056期

（单词翻译）

If we love such moments ferociously², then maybe we can learn to live well – not in spite of death, but because of it.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. ferociously的发音要注意两点：第二音节重读；-cious处不要卷舌

2. 用升调读出ferociously，提示此处为半句

言之有物：

1. love such moments ferociously 热烈地去爱这些瞬间

ferocious¹ adj. 猛烈的 = fierce

★原声例句：...who fought through a ferocious battle, and found himself on that jungle hill.

经历了一场残酷的战斗，发现自己置身于丛林山丘上。

★原声例句：These ferocious predators³ are almost silent when they fly.

这些凶猛的捕食者在飞行时，几乎没有声音。

The sun, after all, is just fuel burning ferociously.

毕竟，太阳只是猛烈燃烧的燃料。

The battle was ferocious. We were greatly outnumbered.

战斗异常惨烈。我们寡不敌众。

2. learn to live well 学会好好生活

3. 词链儿：in spite of XX 不管XX / 尽管XX

=regardless of

They kept going in spite of their fears.

尽管有恐惧，他们还是继续前行。

In spite of her orders to stay, I left.

虽然她命令我留下，我还是离开了。

★原声例句：...that in spite of the Nos and rejections⁴, in spite of how bad the economy is, in spite of what the newspapers are saying, that is possible, that somebody somewhere would give me a job.

尽管有很多拒绝，尽管经济形式不好，尽管报纸上说了那些话...是有可能的。总会有人给我一份工作。

In spite of it all, we are family.

尽管如此，我们还是一家人。

Well, you do know in spite of everything, you still mean the world to me.

你要知道，不管我们之间发生什么事，你在我心中依然是最重要的。

拓展词链儿：in spite of the fact that 不顾XX的事实

They hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage.

尽管她从来没登台演唱过，他们还是雇佣了她。

活学活用：

请用 in spite of 随意造句

《TED演讲：向死而生》：演讲者BJ Miller读大学时遭遇横祸，从死神那捡回一条命，但从此也永远地失去了的双腿和一只胳膊。长大后他成为了一名临终关怀医师，结识了很多准备迎接死亡的人，他的很多经历游走在生死之间，所以比常人会更加珍惜和明白生命的价值与意义。我们常问“人终有一死，那么生命中最重要的是什么呢？”让我们在他饱含深情，令人动容的演讲中找寻答案。