看到这几句话,分享一下:
1)Sometimes the sound bites really don’t capture the full reality.
soundbite值得学习一下,A "sound bite" refers to a short, memorable, and often catchy snippet of speech or audio, typically extracted from a longer speech, interview, or broadcast. Sound bites are designed to capture the essence of what was said in a concise manner, making them easily repeatable and shareable. They are frequently used in news media and political communication to quickly convey key points or messages to the audience. 类似汉语的“金句”(catchy statements),初学者capture the full reality这种表达也是值得留意的。
2)His speech was from start to end a barefaced declaration for independence. barefaced是中国人很喜欢用的一个词,科林斯这样解释:You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
3) In Asia, he shored up old alliances, built new ones and fanned the country’s economic headwinds. 这句话里的fan economic headwinds是个很生动的搭配。
4)Russia directly borders six countries that the United States is treaty-bound to defend. 这里的treaty-bound to do sth.是值得学习一下的。比如We are contract-bound to sell out these products before the end of this year.
5) He immediately pledged support for Israel’s merciless military campaign rather than condition U.S. aid on Israel finding a strategy that would protect civilians. 这句话里的condition A on B, A的实现,必须以B为条件,这个用法值得留意。