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第一步：泛读原文（盲听1遍，泛读1遍，对照文本听1遍）

Incredibly, the average front pockets in US women’s blue jeans are 48 per cent shorter and 6.5 per cent narrower than the equivalent in men’s jeans, say journalists at The Pudding publication.After measuring dozens of pockets in 20 of the most popular jeans brands in 2018, they also found less than half of women’s front pockets could fit a thin wallet,let alonea phone and keys. Most would not fit the average woman’s hand beyond the knuckles.This is good news forthe $56bn global handbag market. But a lot of women would cheerfully do what men have done for centuries and carry everything we need in pockets.

第二步：精读原文（精读1遍，对照文本听1遍，精读1遍）

读原文（精读1遍，对照文本听1遍）

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学一个写作方法：英文重点信息在前，中文重点信息在后。

Incredibly, the average front pockets in US women’s blue jeans are 48 per cent shorter and 6.5 per cent narrower than the equivalent in men’s jeans, say journalists at The Pudding publication.

例句中，重点信息先表述出来。语言的表达排序上。中文修饰在前，重点在后，先整体阐述问题，由大到小。而英文重点在前，修饰在后，先局部后整体，是由小到大!

如：昨天晚上七点，我去看了电影。

I have gone to movieat 7 o’clock last night.

02

学一个语法：let alone

let alone可以接名词，可以接状语（比如由介词引导），可以接动词，也可以接动名词。

通过语料库网站搜索let alone, 得到：

1）That would be unusual for a regular-season game,let alone the All-Star contest. 可知let alone可以接名词。

2）High tech employees are hard enough to find in the world at large, let alone at Apple. at是介词，你就知道了let alone可以接状语。

3）那let alone接动词还是接动名词(V-ing)呢？I am a UNO student and I don't go when its free, let alone having to pay for it.

03

学一个短语：good news for

对某人来说是好消息，be good news for sb。反过来，如果是坏消息呢，我们就可以说sth. be bad news for sb。

Sth is good/bad news句型很常见，比如经济学人里面提到苹果手机的时候说bad news for Apple, good news for humanity，苹果的坏消息，人类的好消息。

又比如经济学人中：

This is good news for its people, but means that an ever-higher share of the population is elderly.

这对其国民来说是个好消息，但也意味着老年人在总人口中的比重越来越高。

翻译

《布丁》杂志的记者称，令人难以置信的是，美国女式蓝色牛仔裤的前口袋平均比男式牛仔裤的前口袋浅48%，窄6.5%。在测量了2018年最受欢迎的20个牛仔裤品牌的许多口袋后，他们还发现，只有不到一半的女式牛仔裤前口袋能装下一个薄钱包，更不用说放手机和钥匙了。大多数口袋放不下普通女性的整只手。这对价值560亿美元的全球手提包市场来说是个好消息。但很多女性会乐于做男性几个世纪以来一直在做的事，把需要的东西都放在口袋里。

第四步：回答问题（评论区回答问题）

Reading Questions：

1. What is the size of the average front pockets in US women’s blue jeans compared with men’s?

2. How much is the worth of the global handbag market?

3. 翻译：Incredibly, the average front pockets in US women’s blue jeans are 48 per cent shorter and 6.5 per cent narrower than the equivalent in men’s jeans, say journalists at The Pudding publication.

4. 跟读+模仿（这是学习英语口语最好的方法），群提交语音作品。

滑动查看答案

Q1

48 per cent shorter and 6.5 per cent narrower

Q2

$56bn

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