5Fifth:How Listening to Silence Changes Our Brains
5Fifth:How Listening to Silence Changes Our Brains
1 literally 字面意义上的,确实如此(表强调)
2 shelter – in – place 居家
3 a fleeting declines 少 – inescapable 多 负态度
表示某个东西到处都是,且是负态度,可以用 inescapable
fleet n 舰队 v 快速
4 nuisance 令人讨厌的人或事物
5 let sth slip away 让某物溜走 = lose sth(是眼睁睁看着溜走的,有挽回机会但是不珍惜)
let the time slip away = waste time
6 across disciplines / fields / subjects 跨学科
discipline 不可数 – 纪律 可数 – 学科
7 neuroscience to psychology to cardiology
记三个前缀:
神经方面的 心理的 心脏的8
写作句式——呈现论点
there’s growing consensus that …… 人们越来越认同……
呈现论点的句式
9 health and cognition 健康和认知——对应身体和内心(body and mind)
10 stiff 僵硬
11 fight-or-flight response 面对还是回避
12 reflect on his experiences 反思他的过去经历/复盘(注意 reflect 是中性词)
一系列事件—reflect on
13
写作句式——表达某观点有道理
sb have an essential point 某人说得对 有道理 = sb is correct
e.g. Judging from my personal experiences, I believe the latter one has an essential point.
14 middle schoolers 中学生
15 lag behind 落在后面
16 the costs of noise are increasingly clear 代价变得越来越明显—问题越来越严重
17 the prerequisite to all wisdom prerequisite – 先决条件 / 前提
一切智慧的前提
18 counterintuitively 反直觉地
intuition 直觉 – intuitive adj – intuitively adv 直觉上的
counter- 相反的
19 In an age of so much noise, silence deserves our attention.
写作句式
In an age of sth(A), sth(B) deserves our attention.
AB 两者必然相反
e.g. In an age of international exchange, our domestic culture deserves our attention.