特色四:提供關鍵句型與文法解說,最適合自學讀者使用 ■ 每篇講稿皆挑選出句型和文法的學習重點。如美國脫口秀主持人康納歐布萊恩的講稿中,解釋了different from、different than、different to之間的差異,書上說最正確也最普遍的用法是different from: 例:Jack looks very different from his brothers. 傑克在他的兄弟們中顯得很不一樣。
■ 本文中出現的different than普遍在北美地區使用,但different than後面可以加上子句,在如以下狀況使用時,會比different from更精確: 例:Things are different than they were a year ago. 事情跟一年前相比都變了。 會比 Things are different from the way they were a year ago. 更簡單明瞭。
1. 形容詞的平行結構 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 早睡早起讓人健康、富裕、且聰明。
2. 動詞的平行結構 To be, or not to be, that is the question. 生存,還是死亡,問題就在這裡。 Surfing, skiing and skateboarding are my favorite sports. 衝浪、滑雪和玩滑板都是我最喜愛的運動。
3. 介系詞的平行結構 I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. 我承諾,無論順境或逆境、疾病或健康,我都會對你忠誠。
特色五:每篇演說收錄名人語錄,這些發人深省的英文短句,比起長篇大論,更讓人印象深刻,英文學習成效也更好 ■ Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission—to make the world more open and connected. 臉書原本不是為了成立一家公司而設立。當初設立是為了達成一個社會使命——讓世界更加開放,更加彼此連結。—馬克祖克柏談臉書
I think a lot of the time there isn’t such a black-and-white difference between what’s a platform and what’s an app. It’s really just like the most important apps become platforms. 我認為網路平台和應用軟體往往沒有非常大的差別。其實很像是最有用的應用軟體就會變成網路平台。—馬克祖克柏談網路平台和應用軟體
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