11.21 Daily Highlights of《Goodbye,Mr Chips》

课堂笔记：

1.tax表示耗尽：to make someone have to work hard or make an effort

例句：The kids are really taxing my patience today.

引申➡️taxi：飞机缓慢滑行

例句：The plane taxied to a halt.

2.for the first time：“第一次”的另一种表达

例句：For the first time I got the courage to grab the mic.

3.anti-不喜欢什么➡️pro-喜欢什么

I'm pro-American TV shows.

4.fluke表示侥幸、意外之喜：something good that happens because of luck

文中：just a war time fluke：（Chips自觉并没有什么真本事）只是赶上战时了

在Shoe dog中的fluke：Can it really be nothing but a fluke of geography that the oldest shoes ever discovered are a pair of nine-year-old sandals…salvaged from a cave in Oregon？能在Oregon看到这款九年前的鞋真的是侥幸么？

5.censor：审视

The article was censored文章被和谐了

可以同义替换的还有sanitize/scrub，两者都可以表达“和谐”

例如：the sanitized version of events which was reported in the government-controlled media.

6.given：表示理所当然的

it's a given that Eric gives us assignments everyday.

7.reverberate：发出响声 表达一件事影响很大

例句：

1）The words of my high school teacher are still reverberating in my ears.

2）The room reverberated with laughter

8.give sb a chill：让人打了一个寒战，引申为某事让人起了一身冷汗

语音点：

1.ration：/'ræʃən/

2.colonel/ˋkɝnḷ/虽然单词内部没有r美音也是卷舌音，这是为什么呢？