Every day you wake up and there'll be less of you. You live your life for them and they don't even see you. You don't even see yourself. We don't get a lot of things to really care about.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. wake up重音在up上；动词+介词的搭配，重音一般均落在后词上；

2. there'll 为单音节缩约词，此处there弱读为/eə(r)/。

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：wake up 醒来；唤醒

What time do you usually wake up in the morning?

通常你早晨几点钟醒？

亦可用作：wake XX up 使活跃；使清醒

Try not to wake the baby up.

尽量别把孩子弄醒。

A cold shower will soon wake you up.

你冲个凉水澡，很快就清醒了。

2. 词链儿：less of... （与不可数名词连用）较少的，更少的

I aim to spend less of my time travelling.

我打算少花点时间在旅行上。

Less of that noise, please!

请小点声！

less of you 更少的你

3. 词链儿：not even 连...都不

She did not even bother to phone us.

她甚至连电话都没打给我们。

They didn’t even offer me a cup of tea.

他们连一杯茶都不给我。

People were not even thinking in scientific ways.

人们甚至不用科学的方式思考。

图片源自《耶鲁大学开放课程》

I'm not even gonna put up a fight.

我甚至不打算向你们开战。

图片源自《新飞跃比弗利》

4. 词链儿：care about 在乎，在意；关心

I care about him and hate to see him hurt like this.

我喜欢他，不看到他这样受伤。

He doesn't care about his clothes.

他不讲究衣着。

★原声例句：We care about making government work better.

我们关心的是让政府工作得更好。

★原声例句：People care about my feelings and they respect me.

人们在意我的感受，他们尊重我。

What they care about is efficiency and they care about safety.

他们真正在意的是效率和安全。

图片源自《机械战警》

I don't care about the truth. I care about a conviction.

我不在乎事实，我在乎的是定罪。

图片源自《丧心病探》

I tried to impress her with stuff she doesn't care about, I don't care about.

我想让她为我骄傲，用那些我和她都毫不在乎的东西。

图片源自《笨人晚宴》

活学活用：

请用 care about 随意造句

《疾速猪杀》（Pig）：一名松露猎手(尼古拉斯·凯奇饰)独自居住在俄勒冈州的野外，当他心爱的觅食猪被绑架后，他必须前往波特兰，带着自己被抛弃的过往，去拯救那只猪。

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