瞬间秒杀听力 第230期:在大城市生活与工作

 It's not easy to live and work in a big city,

'cause the competition is so fierce

and you can barely¹ balance your job and your life.

And I know it's also hard to

live in a small city like my hometown,

just in a different way.

But I chose here because it has the very thing

that I cherish² the most:

the freedom to live my own life.

在大城市生活并不容易，

因为竞争非常激烈，

你几乎没有办法平衡工作与生活。

我也知道在一个像我家乡一样的小城市里生活并不容易，

只是不容易的方式不同。

但我选择了这里，

因为这里有我最珍视的东西：

过自己生活的自由。

1 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

2 cherish   

vt.抱有，怀有（希望等），爱护，抚育，珍爱

参考例句：

• I cherish for you the liveliest feeling of affection and gratitude.我对你怀有最强烈的爱和感激之情。
• We must cherish experience acquired at the cost of blood.我们必须珍惜用鲜血换来的经验。