泛读笔记

就当我是个搬运的吧

这是我在最近读的英语文章中摘抄的一些个人感觉比较有意思高质量的笔记，之前是都堆到便签里了，后来分销到几个群聊里面，但是感觉群是个群主建立的交流平台，不是很合适，所以就暂且推送到这里吧，有兴趣有时间就自己看看，反正质量应该没得说。

PS.菜单栏里的照抄笔记与这个更新了下。

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When a committed person tackles a roadblock, the roadblock stands very little chance. After a little time spent hacking away at the roadblock, the universe will tend to do the equivalent of saying, “Well, alright then… I was just checking to see if you were serious. I won’t stand in your way anymore. You’re free to proceed.”

Perhaps it’s a universal safety mechanism, something along the lines of survival of the fittest. Maybe the universe won’t allow weak-minded people to go too far down the path of goal achievement, since if they were to succeed in a big way, they’d just make a real mess of things. Strong-willed people are free to pass, while weak-minded ones get knocked back and have to train up a bit more.

Time for a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:   When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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Have honest discussions with your child about why you are limiting their screen access. Eat dinner with your children without any electronic devices at the table — just as Steve Jobs used to have tech-free dinners with his kids. Don’t fall victim to “Distracted Parent Syndrome” — as we know from Social Learning Theory, “Monkey see, monkey do.”

Developmental psychologists understand that children’s healthy development involves social interaction, creative imaginative play and an engagement with the real, natural world. Unfortunately, the immersive and addictive world of screens dampens and stunts those developmental processes.

We also know that kids are more prone to addictive escape if they feel alone, alienated, purposeless and bored. Thus the solution is often to help kids to connect to meaningful real-life experiences and flesh-and-blood relationships. The engaged child tethered to creative activities and connected to his or her family is less likely to escape into the digital fantasy world. Yet even if a child has the best and most loving support, he or she could fall into the Matrix once they engage with hypnotic screens and experience their addicting effect. After all, about one in 10 people are predisposed towards addictive tendencies.

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Problems can occur in relationships when the partners have vastly different objective mate value

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Performances begin at 6.30 each evening. Two women with painted smiles wearing short, sparkly mustard (暗黄色) dresses and five-inch platform heels slap at acoustic guitars; another lifts her saxophone(萨克斯) high in a way only possible when the instrument is made of plastic, not brass. All look as though they have learnt how to perform by watching lip-synched (对口形假唱) 1980s pop videos. Waitresses clap and persuade middle-aged Chinese men to join them on stage. The set finishes with an anthem to the PLA. Across the river the unchanging night lights burn on.

China's Pan Pan, who sired more than 130 cubs, succumbs to cancer.

it’s trial-and-error from the get-go. And if you’re like most people, it’s been mostly error.<br><br>our partners are often seen as assets rather than someone to share mutual emotional support.

The relationship scorecard develops over time because one or both people in a relationship use past wrongdoings in order to try and justify current righteousness. This is a double-whammy of suckage. Not only are you deflecting the current issue itself, but you’re ginning up guilt and bitterness from the past to manipulate your partner into feeling wrong in the present.

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Privilege becomes self-perpetuating. Consensus stifles creativity and initiative.

Liberals came up with a different answer. Rather than being concentrated, power should be dispersed, using the rule of law, political parties and competitive markets. Rather than putting citizens at the service of a mighty, protecting state, liberalism sees individuals as uniquely able to choose what is best for themselves. Rather than running the world through warfare and strife, countries should embrace trade and treaties.

Fear surrounding the consequences of China’s rise has engendered the spread of misinformation and hyperbole, much of which dominates public discussion of China in the United States

下面的这些是积攒很久英文杂志里的。

英文杂志笔记2

Skyrocketing housing prices make it impossible for young people buy their own houses. She looks so of the moment!Ask almost any young parent how technology affects their job as a mom or dad, and while they might not realize how many hours they’re using it, they8 are aware of how complicated the relationship is.

On the one hand, parents want their kids to take breaks from their phones, yet they often find themselves unable to resist the buzzes and beeps of their own phone in the other.<br>When the phone vibrates, it takes incredible will power not to pick it up

Dig a little deeper into the data and it turns out that fewer than half of Africans have phones. If asked ,whether you wanna live in today with recession and unemployment and pollution, or fight and struggle and survive in war? There is a answer by specialists, which is, in fact,  we are not in war, or else we even had no time to think.Last but not least, life expectancy is understandably lower in a graying society, where senior citizens stand a larger chance than their younger counterparts to be on the death roll.

A multitude of reasons can be attributed to the drop of life expectancy. For starters, the environment is worse than it used to be. Pollution, especially air pollution, is plaguing most countries and America is no exception. Every year millions of lives are lost to Some deadly pollution-induced diseases, driving down the nation's life expectancy. The staggering economy also plays a role. Unemployment gives rise to high stress level, low living standards and poor medical treatment, all these increasing the death rate.

英文杂志笔记1

Such impairments could pose a serious threat to the success of a Martian colony. beat/overcome/defy the odds (=succeed despite great difficulties) 克服重重困难To make the rest of nature pay the price for that preference, though, is an act of supreme selfishness. You might think we were spending a little too much time with our cats.A Donald Trump presidency will have unforeseen consequences for just about every interest group on the planet, but Muslims and the Muslim world may be feeling this historic upset particularly keenly.

As with planting a tree or exercising, the best time to start practicing safe web browsing practices was 10 years ago. The second best time, however, is right now.The 2016 election defied the conventional wisdom from start to finish.

It’s no coincidence that Trump did exceptionally well in the traditionally blue states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which have large populations of white working-class voters. Problems with the polls’ methodologies will undoubtedly be identified in the days and weeks ahead.It seems equally reasonable to conclude that many Trump voters kept their intentions to themselves and refused to cooperate with the pollstersWhen something is too cheap, people squander it

Evidence that reason can change minds, wrote in BBC Future that the “illusion of truth” is created from frequently hearing a statement repeated.Taking a look at the emissions from the last couple years, the report concludes that “global greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, and while the indications are encouraging that the growth rate of global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and industry is slowing, it is still too early to say whether this is likely to be permanent.

Assuming that post-2030 actions receive the “same level of effort” (rather than less or more), we’d be on a path that would see about a 3°C warmer world. Compared to the consequences of 4°C or more, that’s excellent news. IN RECENT years Chinese consumers have been duped by misbranded, shoddy condoms; tainted alcohol; 40-year-old meat and, in 2008, contaminated baby milk that killed four children and landed 50,000 in hospital efforts to breed it into submission it will be doomed to failure. I couldn't help but be reminded of the doggedness I'd observed among Obama volunteers in 2008.

People don't realize there's nothing without a blue-collar worker. To have lives be sacrificed because of corporate greed and warmongering, it's too much for me — and I realize I don't have all the facts — that there's just too much sidestepping on her

Marriage counselors tell us that couples frequently tie the knot without discussing the core matters that can cement or sunder their marriage