#3 每日一词 shape 20180919 三

✅作业提交

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.

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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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下文：现象级英语社群

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：