Words & Expressions
*(go) to extremes, if someone does something to extremes, they do it to point beyond what is normal or acceptable
take/carry something to extremes
--Problems only occur when this attitude is taken to extremes.
--She had gone to extremes to avoid seeing him.
*facts and statistics=facts and figures 事實和數(shù)據(jù)
--Pushed too far, there is no doubt that such a trend could damage public confidence in official facts and figures.
--He cites a number of interesting facts and statistics.
*tabloid/?t?bl??d/=tabloid newspaper, a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, and stories mainly about sex, famous people etc rather than serious news.
n/adj: tabloid journalists
--The tabloids speculated as to whether she was having an affair, and with whom.
*somebody/something has yet to do something, used to say that someone has not done something, or that something has not happened when you think it should already have been done or have happened.
--I have yet to hear Ray’s version of what happened.
--The bank has yet to respond to our letter.
yet to come
--She said that the worst may yet to come.
--The worst of the storm is yet to come.
*foot的復(fù)數(shù)形式锄蹂，注：在復(fù)合詞中常用單數(shù)形式智政，如a six-foot-tall man
--feet ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 腳
--foot/feet ? ? ? ? ?英尺
--foots ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 沉淀物
Pronunciation:
*newspaper /?nu?z?pe?p?r/
*last year /t/+/j/=ch發(fā)音同化, eg. actually/natual/virtual/let you
感謝小咪和dalin的語音點評：
often里面的o就是/?:f?n/而不是/a/
另外wall/w??l/& fired /fa?? $ fa?r/還是偏英音
