2018-02-05

雅思阅读真是特别耐读，值得反复回味。

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1.Half the world's 6800 languages are likely to vanish within two generations—that's one language lost every ten days.

【第一次了解到全球语种如此之diversity.而汉语能成为世界6800多种语言中的三个dominating 语言之一，真是让人自豪。vanish的同义替换文中出现多次，分别有： lost ,shrink, extinct, disappear,endangered, erosion（侵蚀），而与之相对的词也很丰富，reserve，survive，rekindle （重新点燃），preserve,revive,淋漓尽致展现了表达同一意思时，英语语言的丰富性】

2.The world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people.

【be peppered with 充满，pepper 除了我们常见的胡椒，辣椒的意思外还有充满之意。相当于be full of 】

3.People lose faith in their culture.

【lose faith 和文章中两处内容相呼应，1)the  reason why people reject the language of their parents begins with a crisis of confidence. Native Americans have not lost pride in their language】

4.Moreover ,the loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world .

【这句话是真理值得背下来。deprive sb of sth 固定搭配，剥夺某人某种权利。】

5.But a growing interest cultural identity may prevent the direst predictions from coming true.

【这句话的那个词都快被我划重点了。cultural identity 文化认同。prevent from doing.direst 是dire 的最高级表示可怕的、悲惨的、极端的。horrible/terrible/ extreme】

End：鸡血已用光困困困。