外刊精读· 赛琳娜回应捐肾好友取关
的有关信息介绍如下:赛琳娜回应捐肾好友取关事件概述:赛琳娜就未提及捐肾好友一事道歉,此前其言论引发好友Francia Raisa不满并取关。

取关:unfollow sb. 例如,Francia unfollowed Gomez on Instagram(弗朗西亚在Instagram上取关了赛琳娜)。
被激怒:be irked by。如Francia was so irked by Gomez’s quote about Swift(弗朗西亚被赛琳娜关于泰勒·斯威夫特的言论激怒了)。
评论区:in the comments section of。例如,she branded it “interesting” in the comments section of an E!News post(她在E!News帖子的评论区留言称这“很有趣”)。

英文报道中形容同一人的不同词汇在英文报道中,为了避免重复使用同一个词汇来形容同一个人,常常会采用不同的表达方式。例如,在描述赛琳娜时,使用了“Justin Bieber’s ex”(贾斯汀·比伯的前女友)这样的表述。这种多样化的词汇运用不仅丰富了文章的语言表达,还能让读者在阅读过程中保持新鲜感,提高阅读体验。同时,这也要求读者在阅读英文报道时,要善于积累和总结这些不同的表达方式,以便在自己的写作和交流中能够灵活运用。
“break down”的英语释义及例句
释义:If someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying.(如果某人崩溃了,他们会失去控制并开始哭泣。)
例句:
Because he was being so kind and concerned, I broke down and cried.(他如此体贴关心,令我忍不住失声痛哭。)
The young woman broke down in tears.(这名年轻妇人痛哭流涕。)
在赛琳娜的纪录片中,她因狼疮症状恶化而挣扎,一度崩溃痛哭。Justin Bieber’s ex also gave a candid look into her health battle in her documentary, at one point breaking down into tears as she struggled with her lupus symptoms worsening.
形容疼痛的英语词汇除了“painful”,还有很多其他形容疼痛的词汇。例如“excruciating”,它的词根可以这样理解:ex = out,cru = cross(十字架),从十字架上摆脱出来是个“痛苦的过程”。
例句:She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.(她在回忆中呻吟,又一次饱尝那时所经历的极度困窘。)
在报道中的运用:In it she comes to terms with the fact that her battle with the autoimmune disease was the toughest it had been in a while as she felt excruciating pain ‘everywhere.’(在纪录片中,她接受了与自身免疫性疾病的斗争是迄今为止最艰难的这一事实,因为她感到“全身”剧痛。)
释义:to have an angry and bitter argument with sb over a long period of time(长期争斗;争吵不休),强调长期性。
常见搭配:private feud(私人恩怨)、personal feud(个人恩怨)、family feud(家族世仇)。
例句:a long and bitter feud between the state government and the villagers.(州政府和村民间的久积深怨)
在报道中的运用:But just a year after her kidney donation, the two were said to be feuding, with Francia taking an issue with Selena’s “unhealthy lifestyle” and her consuming alcohol following the surgery.(但捐肾一年后就传出两人不和,弗朗西亚对赛琳娜的“不健康生活方式”和她术后的饮酒提出了质疑。)

