跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第1071期

（单词翻译）

True love involves precisely¹ not giving someone what is their due, but giving them instead, what they need in order to survive.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. involve中包含舌侧音/l/

2. ue的发音，英音为/djuː/，美音为/duː/

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：involve something / doing something

The second accident involved two cars and a lorry.

第二起事故涉及两辆轿车与一辆卡车。

The operation involves putting a small tube into your heart.

手术要求在你心脏处放一根小管子。

Nothing that will involve blackmailing² you into hunting him down.

反正不会威胁你去追杀他。

2. precisely adv. 恰恰地；精确地

正是...

=exactly

We arrived at precisely two o'clock.

我们两点整到达。

3. 词链儿：what is their due 他们应得的东西

*due用作名词，意为“应得的东西，正当报酬”

He finally received his due.

他终于得到了他应得的。

*due用作形容词，“应付给的，到期的”，通常只作表语

The check will become due on July 10th.

该支票将于7月10日到期。

The only thing is, the application is due this Friday.

问题是，申请到本周五就截止了。

*“预定到达的”，通常只作表语

What time is the train due?

火车预定什么时间到？

用法：due to（介词） 由于，因为，由...引起。

按照传统语法 due to 主要引导表语，一般不引导状语。

His absence was due to the storm.

他因暴风雨而缺席。

Her success was due to her hard work.

她成功是因为她努力工作。

但是在现代英语中，due to也可用来引导状语。如：

He was late due to the very heavy traffic.

由于交通拥挤他迟到了。

★原声例句：I give it its due. I take it to therapy.

我会给它它应得的。我带它去接受治疗。

★原声例句：Those are probably due to technical errors. But the reality is that people are very nervous.

这或许是技术故障引起的。但现实是人们非常紧张。

We are evacuating³ immediately due to a possible bomb.

因为发现炸弹威胁，现在需要紧急疏散。

At this dinner, we don't discriminate⁴ due to age.

本餐厅不搞尊老爱幼那一套。

4. what they need in order to survive

他们所需要用以生存的（技能）

in order to 为了...

=for the purpose of

I went home in order to change my clothes.

我回家换衣服。

活学活用：

请用 due 随意造句

《真正的爱是什么？为何如此重要？》：人们很容易就会爱上那些拥有超群智慧，具有非凡成就或美貌的人。但爱一个外表美丽、举止优雅的人并不是什么特别的壮举，真正需要我们注意的是对扭曲的、凋零的、自我厌恶的事物的爱。我们会渐渐明白，真正的爱是注视着人们的心，意识到我们都有缺点，而不是把注意力放在那些会消失的物质上。