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say
But if your challenge is mental—becoming proficient at calculus, say, or learning how to play a musical instrument or speak a new language—it’s different.
??give example 舉例
[no passive] to suggest or give sth as an example or a possibility
? 比方說；假設(shè):
[VN]
?You could learn the basics in, let's say, three months.
比方說,三個(gè)月你就可以掌握基本知識(shí)居扒。
?Let's take any writer, say (= for example) Dickens...
我們隨便舉一個(gè)作家為例,比如說狄更斯…
shade
The subjects were asked to spot a small image against a background that was very similar in shade to the spot.
[C]~ (of sth)a particular form of a colour, that is, how dark or light it is
? 濃淡深淺颖低；色度:
?adelicate / pale / rich / soft shadeof red
淡/淺 / 艷/柔和的紅色
compelling
Perhaps the most compelling evidence of this comes from an experiment done in the late 1990s,
adj.that makes you think it is true
? 令人信服的:
?There is no compelling reason to believe him.
沒有令人信服的理由讓人相信他报嵌。
仿寫：She wrote a very compelling argument about alien.
irresistible
so London taxi drivers have proved irresistible to psychologists interested in learning and, particularly, in the learning of navigational skills
~ (to sb) so attractive that you feel you must have it
? 極誘人的玻熙；忍不住想要的:
?The bright colours were irresistible to the baby.
那些鮮艷的色彩逗得嬰兒直想去抓叉庐。
造句：It proved an irresistible temptation to me to buy beautiful notebooks.
疑問：
After that, Guinness World Records stopped accepting submissions for the number of pushups done with no rest periods and switched to the most pushups performed in twenty-four hours with resting allowed.為什么不用rest而是resting裹匙？
there was no change in the size of the posterior hippocampi among the prospective taxi drivers who had failed to become licensed (either because they simply stopped training or because they could not pass the tests)or among the subjects who had never had anything to do with the taxi training program. 這里的or可以用and嗎瑞凑？
詞匯：
biceps 二頭肌? triceps 三頭肌? ? delts 三角肌? ? quadriceps 股四頭肌
lats 背闊肌? ? ? pecs=pectorals 胸肌? ? calves 腓肌? ? ? abs =abdominals 腹肌
hamstring 腿筋? ? ? glutes 臀大肌? ? ? ? acidity/alkalinity 酸性/堿性? ? lactic acid乳酸
blood glucose level 血糖水平? ? ? elasticity彈性plasticity可塑性
optician眼鏡商? optometrist驗(yàn)光師? farsightedness/presbyopia遠(yuǎn)視眼? calculus 微積分
thumbtack 圖釘? ? ring finger無名指? index finger 食指? Braille 盲人用的點(diǎn)字法
感悟：
作者在這一節(jié)用倫敦出租車司機(jī)、盲人概页、遠(yuǎn)視眼患者的例子告訴我們籽御，大腦的適應(yīng)性是強(qiáng)大的，超乎你的想象惰匙。的確技掏，人體可能存在一個(gè)極限，但是還沒有任何證據(jù)證明我們已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了這個(gè)極限项鬼，這么看來哑梳，“你的潛能是無限的”這句話并非雞湯。
反思
大家的筆記都好棒绘盟，有自己畫表格總結(jié)的鸠真，有畫思維導(dǎo)圖的悯仙，有感悟?qū)懙煤芪说模羞壿嬓院芎玫幕“ィ龉P記時(shí)我在整理單詞短語方面花了大部分時(shí)間雁比，電腦上的歐路詞典不是專業(yè)版有些詞典用不了，只能用手機(jī)app撤嫩，在手機(jī)和電腦上同步印象筆記來做筆記偎捎，到寫感悟的時(shí)候已經(jīng)不想動(dòng)了，只能草草結(jié)束序攘。
作為閱讀原版書和做筆記的新人茴她，想問下大家每天只查筆記里幾個(gè)詞句嗎？還是記了很多只發(fā)了規(guī)定的數(shù)量程奠？因?yàn)槲颐刻鞎?huì)記很多個(gè)丈牢，覺得很費(fèi)時(shí)間，我是繼續(xù)把不清楚的全都弄懂瞄沙，還是控制數(shù)量放棄一些呢己沛？謝謝大家。
