单词 · Words
赞同;公开支持;为…背书
She endorsed the new wellness app because she had been using it every morning for a year.
译:她为这款新的健康应用背书,因为她连续一年每天早上都在使用它。
💡 💡 endo-(在内)+ orse,原指「在某人身上签字担保」→ 公开支持、背书。名词 endorsement(代言;公开支持)。职场搭配 endorse a proposal(赞同提案)/ endorse a candidate(支持候选人)。
约束,抑制;(名词)路边镶边石
He quit social media for a month to curb the habit of checking his phone every few minutes.
译:他戒了一个月社交媒体,以克制每隔几分钟就刷一次手机的习惯。
💡 💡 跟 curve 同源,原指路边的石头「弯成弧形」挡住马车。引申为「从源头限制」。高频搭配 curb spending(控制开支)/ curb enthusiasm(给热情泼冷水)。名词还指「路缘石」。
(形)表达清晰的;口齿伶俐的(动)清楚地表达
She is one of the most articulate speakers I have met — every sentence lands with surprising clarity.
译:她是我见过的最善于表达的人之一——每一句话都说得格外清晰。
💡 💡 articul(关节、连接)+ -ate,把想法用「关节」一样精巧地连起来。形容词和动词重音位置不同。搭配 articulate your thoughts(说清楚想法)/ an articulate answer(条理清晰的回答)。
品味;细细欣赏;享受(美味或体验)
Instead of rushing out the door, she took a moment to savor the smell of fresh coffee each morning.
译:她没有急着出门,而是每天早上都花一点时间细细品味新鲜咖啡的香气。
💡 💡 来自法语 saveur(味道)。英式拼写 savour。比 taste 更进一步——taste 是「尝」,savor 是「慢慢品味」。TED 高频金句:Savor the moment.(享受当下。)搭配 savor the memory / savor the victory。
维护;坚持;维持(原则、法律、传统等)
As a judge, she is expected to uphold the law even when public opinion is firmly against her.
译:作为法官,即使民意普遍反对,她依然被期望要维护法律。
💡 💡 up(向上)+ hold(握紧)→ 紧紧握住不放手 = 坚持、维护。常见搭配 uphold the law / uphold standards(坚持标准)/ uphold a tradition(维护传统)。近义 maintain,但 uphold 更强调「道义责任」。
美文 · Essay
There is a moment, somewhere between late August and early September, when the light begins to change. It does not announce itself with fanfare. The shadows lengthen by a breath, the air turns cooler at dusk, and the leaves — not yet falling — seem to pause, as though considering something.
有一段时光,介于八月底与九月初之间,光开始悄悄改变。它从不喧哗宣告自己的到来。影子多出一丝悠长,黄昏的空气转凉,而那些叶子——尚未飘落——仿佛停驻,像在思忖着什么。
We spend so much of our lives bracing for the dramatic: the sudden loss, the grand beginning, the storm that breaks the sky. Yet the world, more often than not, moves by quiet degrees. Autumn arrives not as a shout but as a whisper — a slow shifting of color, a softer sun, the first morning you step outside and reach, almost without thinking, for a sweater you had forgotten.
我们大半生都在为戏剧性的时刻做准备:猝然的失去、盛大的开始、撕裂天空的暴雨。然而世界,多半时候,是以安静的尺度移动的。秋天不是以呐喊,而是以低语降临——颜色缓缓流转,阳光变得柔和,第一个清晨你走出门外,几乎不假思索地,伸手去取那件你已遗忘的毛衣。
Perhaps that is the lesson. Change need not be loud to be real. A life is redrawn not only in its upheavals but in its small, unhurried turnings — the friendship that deepens without a word, the habit set down gently, the courage that grows while no one is watching.
或许这就是它的教诲。改变不必喧响,才成其为真实。生命被重新描画,不只在其剧变之中,也在那些微小、从容的转折里——友谊在无声中加深,习惯被轻轻放下,勇气在无人注视时生长。
So when the season turns, let it turn. Do not rush to name what is ending. Stand at the window a moment longer. The year is only learning, again, how to let go — and in letting go, how to begin.
所以,当季节流转,就由它流转吧。不要急着为正在结束的事物命名。在窗前再多站一刻。这一年不过是在重新学习,如何放手——而在放手之中,如何开始。
语法点 · Grammar Notes
词汇与短语 · Vocabulary
喧闹的号角声;大张旗鼓
用法:常作 with (much) fanfare,指高调、隆重地。
变长,延长
用法:及物 / 不及物皆可,描述时间、影子、道路等拉长。
黄昏,傍晚
用法:at dusk 在黄昏时分,写作中常营造静谧氛围。
做好准备(迎接困难)
用法:后接名词,如 brace for impact / the worst / a storm。
以安静的、渐进的方式
用法:degree 此处表"程度 / 步骤",by degrees = 逐渐地。
低语,耳语
用法:文中作名词,与 shout 对比,拟人化秋的"轻"。
剧变,动荡
用法:多指生活、社会的剧烈变动,含不安定感。
从容的,不慌不忙的
用法:修饰节奏、语调、步伐,强调"慢而稳"。
加深,变深
用法:可用于感情、颜色、危机等,作及物或不及物。
放手,放下
用法:常接 of + 名词,表释怀、不再执着。
(文中)流转、转变
用法:the season turns 表季节更替,文学化用法。
停顿,暂停
用法:作不及物,常接 to do 表"停下去做"。