Age is rarely kind to anyone. Nothing one can do about it. One just has to get on with it.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. kind 包含易错音组/ain/，不要发成“看d”；双元音要发饱满；

2. do (w) about it ；to (w) anyone 词间元元连读带出小/w/。

言之有物：

1. 词链儿：be kind to XX

对XX体贴/亲切/友好

The weather was very kind to us.

天气非常宜人。

My boss has been extremely kind to me.

老板对我非常好。

→反义表达：be unkind to XX

对XX不好

Her husband is very unkind to her.

她丈夫对她非常刻薄。

2. 词汇：rarely = not often 很少，难得

We rarely see each other now.

我们现在很少见面。

→ be rarely kind to XX

很少对XX好→ 对XX不友善

3. 词链儿：Nothing one can do about it.

对此，人们无能为力。

=One can do nothing about it.

=There's nothing one can do about it.

There's nothing I can do about the problem, so I might as well go with the flow.

关于这个问题我无能为力，所以我不如就顺其自然好了。

So there's nothing we can do about it?

这么说，我们就一点办法没有了？

★原声例句：But there's nothing I can do about it right now.

但我现在对此无能为力。

★原声例句：There's no end in sight, and we can do nothing about it.

眼前看不到尽头，我们对此也无能为力。

Nothing we can do about it.

也没别的办法了。

图片源自《奇迹缔造者》

But there's nothing I can do about it.

Nothing you can do about it?

但我也确实没辙了。

没辙了？

图片源自《单身日记：好孕来袭》

4. 词链儿：get on with XX

①与…友好相处

②继续（干某事）

I get on fairly well with everybody.

我和每个人的关系都还可以。

Just buzz off and let me get on with my work.

走开，我得继续干活了。

回顾【get on with XX】

活学活用：

请用 XX can do nothing about... 随意造句

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