跟着Gwen學英語之每日早讀 第793期

See what the northern countries show:

Hundreds of leagues ice-bound go;

Thousands of leagues flies snow.

語音講解

今日發音練習重點：

1. northern在美音中兩個音節都包含捲舌

2. bound

3. flies snow

言之有物

1. hundreds of leagues/thousands of leagues

league noun. 長度單位：裏格

一里格等同於三英里或四千米

Between A and B lay three hundred leagues of deserts and mountains.

在A和B之間橫亙着三百里格的沙漠和山川。

I shall not see you, for I am very close to death, and hundreds of leagues separate you from me.

我不會再見到您了，您我之間遠隔千里格，而我又死在眼前。

They will be 300 leagues from here by now.

league noun. 同盟、級別

When it comes to cooking, I'm not in her league (= she is much better than me) .

提到烹飪，我的水平遠比不上她。

詞鏈兒：in somebody's league 與XX同一級別

I don't flatter myself that I'm even in the same league as you. 我不是在自誇自己能和你平起平坐。

A house like that is out of our league (= too expensive for us) .

那樣的房子不是我們這號人買得起的。

詞鏈兒：out of somebody's league 配不上、負擔不起

They are in league with each other.
他們是一夥兒的。

詞鏈兒：in league (with somebody) （與XX）勾結、串通、同謀

Now we're up in the big leagues. 現在我們結成聯盟。

詞鏈兒拓展：
hundreds of people 數百人/上百人

thousands of people 數以千計的人/成千上萬人

2. ice-bound adj. 冰封的; 凍結的

複合詞的寫法：ice bound/ice-bound/icebound

an icebound ship 一艘被雪覆蓋的船

About half a year the lake is icebound.

一年裏有半年時間湖是被冰封的。

3. fly snow 飄雪

flying snow 飄着的雪

Dancing in the flying snow, he and his wife hugged tightly.

在滿天飛舞的雪花中，他和妻子緊緊地擁抱在一起。

Snow fly in the sky.

雪花在天空中飛舞。

活學活用

請用 flying snow 隨意造句

《沁園春·雪》（Qinyuan spring and snow）：是無產階級革命家毛澤東創作的一首詞。該詞上片描寫北國壯麗的雪景，縱橫千萬裏，展示了大氣磅礴、曠達豪邁的意境，抒發了詞人對祖國壯麗河山的熱愛。下片議論抒情，重點評論歷史人物，歌頌當代英雄，抒發無產階級要做世界的真正主人的豪情壯志。全詞熔寫景、議論和抒情於一爐，意境壯美，氣勢恢宏，感情奔放，胸襟豪邁，頗能代表毛澤東詩詞的豪放風格。

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