4月28日ted筆記(how to achieve your most ambitious goals)

Be to do with=be sth to do with=have sth to do with,和…相關

What stands between us and achieving our most ambitious dreams has far less to do with possessing some magical skill or talent(skill和talent都可作不可數(shù)名詞)and far more to do with how we approach problems and make decisions to solve them.

marginal= slight微不足道的

Marginal efforts can add up every day and finally make a huge difference.

be done= be no longer doing sth or dealing with it, or be no longer interested in it,不再做某事请敦,后跟介詞with夺颤,相當于be finished

Joe says he is done with chasing girls.

rip有“刻錄”的意思= use a program to copy material from a CD or DVD onto a computer’s hard drive.

Joe ripped a CD of Wu Bai’s songs and put them on his iPad.

hold onto someone or sth= keep or retain someone or sth,保持…祠肥,hold onto,pv倍阐,vt

Joe holds onto his ambitious goals no matter how much difficulty he is faced with.

in someone’s favor= in support of someone; in some way that helps or benefits someone.相當于to someone’s benefit.?

The schedule of the match is in Joe’s favor and against his rival.

Improve the odds of sth提高…的可能性

Making friends with actors and directors will improve the odds of making an appearance on the silver screen.

trailhead= a place where a trail begins.小徑入口,可數(shù)

Joe parked his car close to a trailhead at the foot of the mountain and went hiking.

frontcountry vs backcountry逗威,在遠足(hiking)領域峰搪,frontcountry指的是那些大家常去的地方,backcountry指的是邊遠的凯旭,鮮有人至的地方

flick though= look quickly through a book, magazine, etc.,快速翻閱概耻,pv,vt罐呼,如果用于翻閱社交軟件的情景則相當于scroll through

In Joe’s free time he either flicks through WeChat moments feed or scrolls through Twitter feed.

Parkour= the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area鞠柄,typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing.? 跑酷,不可數(shù)

slacklining= the activity or sport of balancing on a strip of webbing that is fixed above the ground but not stretched tight.走軟繩弄贿,不可數(shù)

Yarn=spun(原型是spin春锋,spin有“紡織”的意思,vt)thread(線差凹,可不可數(shù)都可)used for knitting, weaving, or sewing,紗線期奔,不可數(shù);stitch危尿,(編織的)一針呐萌,可數(shù)

Several boulders at the mountaintop are covered in yarn. Perhaps it’s Joe who did the knitting one stitch at a time.

escapade= an act or incident involving excitement,daring谊娇,or adventure肺孤,冒險行為,可數(shù)

Joe garners a lot of attention for his bold escapades in Southeast Asia.

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