跟着Gwen學英語之每日早讀 第211期

You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

語音講解
單詞發音
keep/kiːp/-feet /fiːt/
swept /swept/
連詞發音
might be swept off /maɪtbisweptɒf/
輕讀重讀
重讀：keep/swept off
弱讀：the/and/your/

詞彙講解
your feet(on the ground) expression.
釋義：to think in a sensible and practical way and not have ideas or aims that will be impossible to achieve
例句：She's really creative, but she also has her feet firmly on the ground.
p off phrase.
釋義：掃走
例句:Sweep the crumbs off the table.
把桌上的食品屑掃掉。
supermarket sweep 超市掃蕩
掃貨的英語：
sweep goods
go on a shopping spree
I went on a shopping spree after getting my scholarship money!
我那天瘋狂掃貨，一分錢都沒留下!
知識點拓展精講
拓展：feet/foot 有關的表達
①Don't let the grass grow under one's feet
釋義： to not waste time or delay starting something 勸人不要停止不前，浪費時間。
②to stand on one's own two feet
釋義：to be able to do what you need to do, earn your own money, etc without help from others 獨立自主，依靠自己的意思。
例句：She’s never learned to stand on her own feet.
③to throw oneself at someone's feet
公開表示對某人的愛慕之情，或是拍馬奉承、百般討好某人。
I'm still looking for the right girl to marry. And when I find her, I'll throw myself at her feet and ask her to spend the rest of her life with me.
我現在還在物色一個我認爲合適的女孩作爲我的妻子。一旦我找到了，我就要拜倒在她的石榴裙下，懇求她作爲我的終身伴侶。
④sweep somebody off sb's feet
指一個人由於一件使他興奮的事 而感到不由自主 to make someone feel suddenly and strongly attracted to you in a romantic way
例句：
He was hoping to sweep her off her feet, but she just laughed.
他希望自己能一下子把她迷住，但她只是笑了笑。
My mom told me that prince charming would just come and sweep me off my feet.
我媽媽告訴我有一天白馬王子會出現，並且令我傾倒。

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