快递小哥陪你学英语——五篇英文杂志解读

五篇文章源于我在2017年订购的文章快递：

2017年快递小哥和我陪你学英语

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VcAA7Q7g95v4ECpOuDVhjw

这是四月份发来的文章，之前三月文章都依次写了类似读后感的文章，但是感觉不好，这次的会比较多的英语知识点哈，

我应该会写12次，伴随着这一年的12个月，也想单词机器人oh my robot一样，有一年的时间（其实是12次的机会）慢慢提升文章赏析水平。

这三次不推荐看，但是有强迫症，想放这里，以后也是：）

一月：文章快递

二月：文章快递| |两本书评| |朗读三篇

三月：三月文章包裹快递

恩，这篇是四月份的。

五篇文章按照我的阅读顺序先后写成。

一

The reason why exhaustion and burnout

are so common

链接：

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160721-the-reasons-why-exhaustion-and-burnout-are-so-common

BBC的文章，不翻墙打不开。

知识点：

1. sap her of all her energy

to make someone weaker or take away strength or an importantquality from someone, especially over a long period of time

eg:

Constant criticism saps you of your confidence.

Taking care of her dying mother had sapped all her energy.

2. mundane tasks

very ordinary and therefore not interesting

eg:

Mundane matters such as paying bills and shopping for food do not interest her.

3. Alongside the weariness came feelings of emotional despondency:" I was dedesenchanted, disillusioned and hopeless."

词组：alongside sth. comes ....放在开头非常好用。

最后的三个形容词也有必要记下，特别是前两个把前缀去掉就是美好的形容词~~

4. If the media are to be believed,

 插入语类，可以积累下

5.apocalypsenoun

 UK  /əˈpɒk.ə.lɪps/

 US  /əˈpɑː.kə.lɪps/

[ S or U ] a very serious event resulting in great destruction andchange

eg:

The book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.

一个非常好的副词：obsessively——unable to stop thinking about something; too interested in orworried about something

其实因为词汇表上的大部分单词都是我认识的，然而文章里有很多我不认识的却没有给出解释......不清楚这什么运气，所以我会放些自己不认识的....至于其他的，只是每个人词汇量不同，只能说遇到就查查吧，能记一个是一个...这单词账，早晚是要还的。

6. Or are periods of lethargy and detachment as inevitable a part of human life as head colds and broken limbs?

这里是要紧密结合上下文理解的，这篇文章写的也不错，是我做笔记做多的，画出来的好句子比较多的一篇文章，建议读完之后再看。句子长只是因为用了as....as....， 后面有很多句子也用了，非常好使，主要是这个比喻形象。

lethargy: having little energy; feeling unwilling and unable to do anything

detachment: a group of soldiers who are separated from the maingroup in order to perform a particular duty:

7. There is no doubt that exhaustion is a pressing concern today

我知道这个句型用烂了，这里是想说pressing这个形容词用的很不错~~

8. take extended sick leave

维基百科定义：Sick leave (or paid sick days or sick pay) is time off from work that workers can use to stay home to address their health and safety needs without losing pay.

这是男性更倾向于采取的方法。后面跟了个burned out这词很有意思，相当于exhausted，但是英语里一般避免重复，所以用这个替换。

9. 这几句话的观点很有意思：

burnout is just a "luxury version" of depression for high-flying professionals

only losers become depressive. Burnout is a diagnosis for winners, or, more specifically, for former winners

depression entails a loss of self-confidence, or even self-hatred or self-contempt, which is not the case for burnout, where the image of the self often remains intact

our brains are simply ill evolved to deal with the mordern working environment

（注意ill可以当形容词也可以当副词，这里当副词用）

the emotional need to prove one's worth through one's job

With no chance to recharge our minds and bodies, our batteries are constantly running dangerously low

句子都不难，主要看内容，我喜欢得都一个一个单词打下来了，怎么能不细看，品味

10. Hipporcates是个古罗马物理学家，他认为生理和心理疾病都是源于以下四种元素的不均衡性

blood， yellow bile, black bile, phlegm

11. What changes through history are the cause and effects that are aligned with exhaustion.

If history has taught us anything, it is that there is no easy cur for this malaise.

这句型很不错，值得记下来，套话形势非常大，作文里凑字数绝对够霸气。

malaise: a general feeling of being ill or having no energy, or anuncomfortable feeling that something is wrong, especially withsociety, and that you cannot change the situation

eg:

They claim it is a symptom of a deeper and more general malaise in society.

We were discussing the roots of the current economic malaise.

12. ride the peaks and throughs

draw boundaries between work and leisure

这两个短语也很好，换个名词组，分分钟写作文一气呵成。

13. There is something very reassuring to learn that one is not alone in the way one feels, that others have felt the same——although in different circumstances.

这句话做结尾，也算总结全篇了，我为什么总是想着写作文呢，其实平常读读也蛮不错的。You are not alnoe.鼓励下自己。

其实这篇文章我之前读过几遍了，在天天用英语栏目里也听过老师讲课，但是当时没什么感觉，就隐约记得那位中韩混血儿老师提到那个四种元素，但是自己再去赏析这篇文章，觉得读一遍确实有点浪费。

百度搜索有这篇文章的朗读版：

http://www.ximalaya.com/12887848/sound/34285874

今晚在读这篇文章时，感触颇深：一是因为拿着纸质版的文章，我每天用手机看三五篇杂志，都是细看，但是也不能写写画画，读完印象不深，顶多复制些好句子，找点好词，但是不多时就忘记了，原先收藏了很多文章——我把之前收藏的所有中文文章都删了，后来又把所有英文杂志都删了，看多少是多少吧，能记几个是几个；二是因为前几天，感觉非常无力，内心非常低落，不知道是什么原因，上课打不起精神，复习也是，写文字里都透出一股忧伤。怎么都解决不掉，然后前天晚上听了会自己喜欢的比较开心的调子的歌曲，才好了点。

文章就讲了现代人的这种exhaustion, llike a badly insulated wire, 原因是email and social media drain our reserves, 我觉得自己倒不是，平常根本不玩手机，只有在宿舍里看会微信文章（中英文），其他没wifi时就背下单词、读下英语、看会书(Think fasy and slow)

Fatigue and exhaustion may just be part of the human condition. 这句话我倒是挺认同的，而不是as a sign of spiritual weakness, 估计大部分原因还是因为这个：It mainly manifests in the anxiety of underperformance and a sense of not being good enough——of not living up to these expectations.  (live up to不辜负）

二

George Saunders's Advice to Graduates:

Err on the side of kindness

链接：

http://www.wnyc.org/story/george-saunderss-advice-graduates/

NewYork的文章，不翻墙还是打不开。

不过我用搜狗搜了下微信文章，想起来寸头三井寿以及小蚊子成长宣言做的工作：

百度上也能搜到天天用英语栏目的喜马拉雅音频，尽管我几乎没听过——读得很慢，适合细听，我打算听SS——美国科学六十秒scientific Americans 60 seconds science，最近还在听个人访谈录，喜马拉雅有声书还存了好多。

这篇文章很朴实——口语化，没有语言点，初读时很轻松就过了，第二遍也是看下主题，第三遍这次读体会到作者背后的苦心——爱心。（前两遍都是在手机上看的电子版，第三遍是晚上看的纸质版）

不过我还是挖出来了些短语出来。

知识点：

1. Down through the ages
   

2. over the course of his life

3. In the interest of confidentiality

4. sensibly reservedly mildly （这三个词很棒）

5. prioritize our own needs over the needs of others

6. it starts out all rainbows and pupy dogs

7. You do well in high-school, in hopes of getting into a good college, so you can do well in the good cologe, in the hopes of getting a good job, so you can do well in the good job so you can...

8. Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it

9. So be a good and proactive and even some what desperate patient on your own behalf

10. Travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers

这些都是我很感动的句子，太多了，说不完，只讲讲最后一条吧。这些也是我现在听的Diver Sivers的个人访谈集里面，以及他写的文章所阐述的思想——他和其他几个作者写的文章，就像连岳和槽边往事还有熊老师的得到关系专栏一样，都是很好的文章。很简单，也很容易忽视的东西，确实他们最想告诉我们的，关于人生的各种问题，其实这些就已经足够当做答案了，most of all: to love。

这篇文章没有展开说怎么做的这些——如何实施的步骤，为什么要做——做的好处，怎么解决当前困境——跳出现在，在过去和未来找到平衡点。这很多东西，大部分还是靠你个人的经历去感悟吧，要讲，能讲很多，但是也总将不明白，要不然怎么会那么多人感到迷茫。最直接的办法就是认准了就去照着做，别想太多。

三

The importance of better internal communications

链接：

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21720075-heavy-spending-infrastructure-helping-integrate-region-importance

经济学人的文章向来地道，只是，，，，

百度里面搜不到任何相关.....搜狗里也没，这就不说了。

谷歌有三篇同名标题，另外两篇是Business Matters和HRzone.

感兴趣且有条件的，自己搜索下可以看看。

可能是我每天都读经济学人的原因（虽然只有一篇），习惯了他们的的风格，甚至感觉这篇有点朴实无华，我猜机器人选这篇文章更主要是这是经济学人难得赞扬中国的几篇之一吧。

知识点：

1. promenade

a path for walking on, especially one built next to the sea:

eg：

We strolled along on the promenade eating ice creams.

2. white-elephant projects

something that has cost a lot of money but has no usefulpurpose

不要瞎直译，通过读文章可以猜出来大概意思。

类似的还有pet project，第一次见到这个词时，我还想了半天，到处查词典，但是没查到，后来看别人翻译的是面子工程，好形象啊~~

3. In an effort to make itself more attractive

多好的短语~~

4. furiously

这个词，非常好。

in a very angry way:

eg:

"Get out of here!" she shouted furiously.

5. It has outgrown its command centre

这个outgrow，类似的还有outweigh以及

       outflow

• outgas

• outgoing

• outgoings

• outgrowth

• outgun

• outhouse

• outing

链接：

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/technology/how-technology-has-failed-to-improve-your-airline-experience.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

纽约客的文章，祝好运能打开。

看飞机图片就能大概猜到是美航的事。

推荐两个人的三篇文章，纯英语学习的，建议再抽时间好好看。

说一说美联航事件

Original 2017-04-11 张海露Eric 英语学习笔记

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ykOBlZ8zvjj6NtBRlvX2bQ

美联航CEO的英文，每个字都在秀傻逼

Original 2017-04-11 Justin 孟庆伟英文写作

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ENyN1lpNCTOexfXHvrqBZw

如果我是美联航CEO，我会怎样写公开声明？

Original 2017-04-12 Justin 孟庆伟英文写作

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Skm0qJ0n5Wfmq3ebU4bADg

我基本不关注热点事件，除非有英语因素。这两位大牛，可以进他们的微公号看自我介绍，比教书匠小夏——2005年世界英语演比赛冠军夏鹏不差。

连叔写了篇文章，我当时如此留言：

不过连叔没理我，现在再回头看下，也明白了——我还是出于争是非的角度，连叔是站在公司和国际角度看问题，把握事物变化规律。

这件事，经济学人也写了篇文章，我是后来才读的，这个链接可以进去：

【Economist】United Airlines: Air rage

2017-04-15 englishmags 英文杂志

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yo5g-hkudft_7xnYy1RpWQ

知识点：

1. Streaming services are undoing the cable business.

2. Travel search engines rank airlines based on price rather than friendliness or quality of service.

3. The airline might give you a bloody lip while kicking you from your seat, 1-start!

4. You only technological hope for better service is your smartphone camera and the viral pus hof social networks.

最后一句话挺讽刺的，在网络时代可以求助于(resort to)媒体，那先前的纸媒世代呢？商业巨头一直在欺诈者着顾客。

这是篇从技术角度分析美联的文章，语言点不多，主要就是生单词，那就查出来背背就好啊，我挑出来的这几句话，是比较有意思。这篇文章本来就不难，可能只是我感觉吧，这些句子也想不到怎么好分析写=的，一读就过去理解了。

方法无他，多读尔。

五

On Growing：7 Lessons

from the story of Wechat

链接：

http://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0

这篇文章，最先读到的是中译版，不过我一向不看译文，直接跳过了，然后找原文，一看是软件创业类，暂时用不到，兴趣不大，就跳着读了下小标题。不过这次完整读一遍，不得不佩服国外对国内的互联网发展研究之透彻，总结之到位。他们把这些智慧用到了正当的商业竞争上，真正实力不容小觑。

中文版：

硅谷看微信：来自微信的7堂课（全文翻译）

Original 2017-04-14 Anu Hariharan 槽边往事

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Aqarg2HtZOYu2VKgQWUmnQ

李笑来老师吐血推荐过YC创业课，他说人生就相当于创业，不管你创不创业，都要去看下，但我还是么怎么看。资源在知笔墨这个网站上，一搜就有。

文章平实里透出观察的力度，不偏不倚，无赞美，无贬低，只是纯粹剖析了下微信的发展，都让我着实敬佩。

1.Xiaomi's MiTalk was the leader at the time with 5M registered users.

2.This move rose the tide on messaging users overall, pushing the number of registered users on the platform up to 50M by Novermber 2011, allowing Wechat to overtake Xiaomi's MiTalk as the leading messaging app in China.

3.The feature (Shake) served two purposes:

 a) give people a way to engage when they’re new to the product,

and b) it had the side benefit of creating a take-notice element to WeChat in the offline world, very much like people on Pokemon Go.

4. ..... limited a user’s social network to a certain number of close friends and connections with strong ties. Instead of exactly replicating what Path did, WeChat understood that the true motivation behind this use case and drew a parallel with an old Chinese philosophy called “circle cultures,” meaning smaller circles are much stronger at the core and as the circles get bigger, the ties get weaker.

draw a parallel with一直被=背这个短语，但是很少见有用到的地方，这里见到了，记下。

5. Where Twitter/Weibo were tools for businesses to broadcast and brand, WeChat (via OAs) became a channel for direct communication with customers.

6.  However, WeChat was the first to create a marketplace for illustrators who can earn tip money via “rewards” from WeChat users who like their stickers. Users could choose to reward any amount up to RMB 200 ($25 USD).

7. Often they use the product in the middle of the night as a “single user” to pay attention to details and identify bugs early on.

类似的句子这一段还有，足见作者对微信团队精益求精的佩服。

8.This makes receiving a Red Packet in the presence of a group of people like a lottery combined with a fortune cookie – you have no idea how much money you will receive before you open the packet, and getting more than others can be a sign of good luck. This good luck implication also makes it a perfect game among close acquaintances at a party.

实质——luck

9.To minimize the impact on user experience, WeChat limited the number of native ads shown in a user’s WeChat Moments feed to one per day (compared with Facebook’s limit of one ad every ~10 posts in News Feed).

张小龙做的最多的，就是克制，无论是小程序，还是朋友圈广告。而且相比支付宝的营销，他们多了一份理智，这里面也可能是跟他们的KPI计算有关，后面会讲到。

10. Vendors can also reward a user who redeemed a coupon by giving the user another coupon for use and sharing, thereby extending the exposure of their products and services.

Vendors：

someone who is sellingsomething

coupon：

a piece of paper that can be used to get something without payingfor it, or at a reduced price

11. While WeChat does have KPIs, these are typically shared only among department heads. The drumbeat-message engineers receive every day is “are you creating morevalue for the user?”

12. Wehat’s elevation of the QR code ..... is a label of abundant online information attached to the offline world”.

QR codes never took off in the U.S. for three key reasons:

(1) the #1 phone and the #1 social app didn’t allow you to scan QR codes.

(2) Because of this, people had to download dedicated scanner apps, and then the QR code would take them to a mobile website, which is arguably more cumbersome than simply typing in the URL or searching for the brand on social media.

(3) Early use cases focused on low-value, marketing related content and at times was merely spam.

气死他们了....

13.  While it is heartening to see users browsing the content on Moments, the team gets worried if they see too much time being spent on marketing content on Moments at any point in time because low quality content can distract users and reduce value long term.

14. To summarize, the WeChat team found ways to be scrappy, compete with their own products, built features that answered cultural needs and emphasized group interactions and most of all they have relentlessly focused on creating a simple tool that could extend into the hands of every mobile consumer. At this point, WeChat is not only an app — it is simply the internet. Which makes it easy to see why WeChat is becoming an inspiration to many hopeful startups.

总结如此犀利，之前看的可能吧的文章就把微信称作超级app。

我照抄这么多出来，都是自己在阅读过程中画出来的部分，想与人分享的部分，就这些是最精彩的部分。

这，才是学习英语的目的，不是为了考试，不是为了作业，是真正地达到自由获取信息。