#3 每日一词 shape 20180919 三

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场景1:重复的行为造就了我们。

造句:What we repeatedly do shapes what we are.

场景2:互联网科技正在对传统金融行业产生影响。

造句:The continous development of Internet technology, such as cloud computing, big data and mobile Internet, are shaping the business modes of traditional financial industries.

✅场景3: 事实上,头脑风暴有助于集思广益。

造句:In fact, brainstorming is viewed as valuable in helping shape good ideas during the session.

以下3句话摘自 Born a crime

1. I think he thought he was giving me an ultimatum that would get me to shape up.
shape up 好好表现,做出改进
这个短语有三个含义:
a. to improve your behaviour or work
b. to make progress in a particular way
c. shape up or ship out AmE spoken used to tell someone that if they do not improve, they will be made to leave a place or their job 表现好一点,否则请走人
2. That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love.
3. Their religion, their institutions, all of the things that shaped their culture came from Afrikaners.

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1. 认识这个词(基础篇)

词:shape

英英释义: to influence the way that a person, idea, or situation develops

例句:Phenomenal English is shaping how English learners approach the language.

2. 体会这个词 (进阶篇)

“shape”作为名词表示“形状”,它也常作为动词使用,意思是“影响”、“塑造”、“决定”。用它可以替换 influence 和 have an impact on。由于“shape”有“形状”的意思,因此作“塑造”的意思形象生动,表示影响的程度很大。

比如,柯林斯词典中就有这样一个简单实用的例句:

Like it or not, our families shape our lives and make us what we are.

《经济学人》在写政策、制度、法规等对社会和人的影响时,会经常用到这个词。2016 年《经济学人》圣诞特刊中,有一篇文章写的是经济学人集团所在的大楼对它的影响,作者是这样写的:

Over the years the building has shaped The Economist in several ways, some good, some less so.

再如,On Writing Well 的作者 William Zinsser 在另一本著作 Writing Places 中,提到一份报纸对他童年的影响时是这样写的:

When I was a kid the Herald Tribune had shaped the values I would take through life as a writer.
另外,“reshape”也经常出现,可以和“shape”放在一起来学习。

3. 从认识到会用(作业)

1)翻译下面的句子:

很多人认为,我们所讲的语言可以决定我们的思维方式。

(参考翻译:Many believe that the language we speak shapes the way we think.)

2)结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等,想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景,再造句。

场景:

造句:

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