【句子】What’s with the spitting? Are you warding off death? 【ModernFamilyS3E11】

【发音】/ˈwɒts/ /wɑːts/ /wɪð/ /ðə/ /spɪtɪŋ/ /ɑːr/ /juː/ /wɔː(r)dɪŋ/ /ɒf/ /ɑːf/ /deθ/

【发音技巧】spitting闪音；warding off连读；

【翻译】你吐口水干嘛？驱赶死神吗？

【适用场合】

今天我们学习一下这个动词短语ward off的用法；

to ward off a danger or illness means to prevent it from affecting you or harming you

这个短语可以后面跟上某种危险、某种疾病等等，

表示“阻止某种疾病/危险影响自己、伤害自己”；



eg: How will we ward off all these attackers?

我们要怎么击退这些来犯/攻击的人？



eg: If you feel like you're getting a cold, these vitamin C tablets should help you to ward it off.

如果你觉得你快要感冒了，这些维生素C片能帮助你抵御感冒。



eg: She put up her hands to ward him off.

她举起双手，把他挡开了。



eg: She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant.

她可能为了抵御袭击者而进行了一场搏斗。



eg: We couldn't ward off the attackers any longer.

我们没办法再抵御进攻者了。



eg: You should take vitamins to ward off infections.

你应该服用一些维生素，来抵抗感染。



eg: Mass burials are now under way in an effort to ward off an outbreak of cholera.

为了防止霍乱的爆发，人们正在进行大规模的掩埋。



eg: The flies were annoying me, but I warded them off.

那些苍蝇很烦人，但是我把它们赶走了。



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The champion boxer warded off the opponent's blows.