1. Turn this sentence into a complete sentence while retaining the same meaning and without adding any new meaning.
<pre class="js_message_plain ng-binding" ng-bind-html="message.MMActualContent" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; word-break: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">"With America's top one percent of earners earning 81 times the average of the bottom 50 percent."</pre>2. Complete the sentence by adding additional meaning as a result of the sentence "With [A]...[then B]"
3. Translate the sentence into Chinese (or your own language...but I can only check Chinese).
I will respond with the answers in a few days.
I helped look up a few songs for English language learners that can help with listening skills. A lot of modern songs these days may be too fast in their pace or just not appropriate and I looked back to songs from the 1970s for some songs that could be useful to practice listening. Do be careful though that each individual singer also has his/their own accents that aren't exactly like the daily English you might hear if you were exploring parts of the US today. Use it for listening practice, but I wouldn't recommend copying their exact accents.
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees (listening difficulty: easy/intermediate)
Released in the late 1970s, I chose this particular song because of its fairly steady pace and relatively clear pronunciation of words. There's also a good amount of repetition of lyrics for you to catch the same words again.
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd (listening difficulty: hard)
Released in 1974, Sweet Home Alabama has a catchy tune and is also a very recognized song. More so than the songs I chose here, the singer has more of an artistic way he sings that's not quite as clear. The lyrics aside from the chorus is also quite different in every section.
Take Me Home, Country Road - John Denver (listening difficulty: easy/intermediate)
This is a popular American song released in the early 1970s that most people have probably encountered somewhere or another.
Difficulty: Because of the way that John Denver enunciates some of the lyrics some of the words may be a bit hard to catch. Eg. "the ridge mountains" he quickly drops off "mountains" so that you can barely catch the word.
Because a lot of my language partners are Chinese, this is should also be a special song for them. John Denver held a special concert in honor of Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) in 1979 during Deng's visit to a few parts of the US which started a relationship that allowed him to tour China later on. This particular song has been a popular foreign song in China for decades.
我刚用了网上翻译的网站翻译了一下然后这个词被翻译成 "Rhythm" or "Melody"
英语的 "Rhythm" 跟 "Melody" 是两个完全不同的概念。那哪一个意思比较准确呢?
