天天用英语:十六课 - Mysterious New Whale Species Discovered in Alaska
The days you work are the best days.
笔记:
写作文多用被动,减少主观性。
字典和词汇表都是给人查的,不是让人背的。
会用的才是有用的。
要查词典,百度不见得准确。
使役动词:mak let have + to
宾语从句that做主语不省略
词汇:
corpse 尸体 corps 军团
wash
in dead
be different from … than …to…
inhabit
turn out 结果证明是
as far… from…as far…from…
given that
尸体:
carcase
carcass
cadaver
body
有灵主语 为人类等生物
无灵主语 为无生命物体
=逻辑主语 前后照应=
世界这么大,你得去看看
摘抄:
To dump a job you don’t absolutely love is to give up nothing, regardless of how much money you’re making or how many years you’ve invested in it. It’s strange to see people guard such careers as if they actually hold something of value. What they’re really trying to protect is their self-esteem, which they think will be damaged by admitting to a mistake made many years prior.
This path of career apathy, left unchecked by conscious awareness, doesn’t end well. It leaves people with nothing to do but wait for retirement and then death.
Don’t let this be you. It’s better to deal with a messy repair now than to flush the rest of your working life in a feeble attempt to uphold a bad decision. Allow yourself to grieve, to be afraid, and to get mad as you deal with the emotions you’ve been suppressing. Cry about it. Complain about it. Scream about it. Just don’t go back to being numb.
It’s perfectly OK to admit you’re on the wrong path and to be uncertain and frustrated about what to do next. This is a very human situation. The benefit of dealing with those difficult feelings is that they’ll help you clarify what you do want, and therein lies the energy to pursue new opportunities for greater happiness and fulfillment.
if our democracy is to work the way it should in this increasingly diverse nation, then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction, Atticus Finch, who said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
reality has a way of catching up with you.
And we all owe you a deep debt of gratitude.(CHEERS) (APPLAUSE)
That’s why we cannot withdraw from big global fights to expand democracy and human rights and women’s rights and LGBT rights.(APPLAUSE)
No matter how imperfect our efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem, that’s part of defending America. For the fight against extremism and intolerance and sectarianism and chauvinism are of a piece with the fight against authoritarianism and nationalist aggression.
But remember, none of this happens on its own. All of this depends on our participation; on each of us accepting the responsibility of citizenship, regardless of which way the pendulum of power happens to be swinging.
Experimental science progresses by holding steady one variable at a time, an approach that is not always easy when dealing with networks of genes, proteins or other molecules.
Most men without hair would agree that being bald is sexy. However, most men with hair would rather retain their locks than become bald—a clear discrepancy. But there is some scientific research that suggests baldness has a number of social advantages.
It’s hard to deny that our physical appearance matters in society. What we look like on the outside can determine (to an extent) the shape of our career, what kind of people we associate with, who we marry, and how socially successful we are in general.
People draw inferences about someone else’s personality based on appearance all the time.
Better technology has been key in boosting the industry, from the use of diamond-wire saws that more efficiently cut wafers to better cells that provide more spark from the same amount of sun. It’s also driven by economies of scale and manufacturing experience since the solar boom started more than a decade ago, giving the industry an increasing edge in the competition with fossil fuels.
寒风中手指好冰T_T