内容正文:
Understanding Ideas
It's all about ME!
1. Men and women are almost equal in terms of how satisfied they are.
in terms of
used to show what aspect of a subject you are talking about or how you are thinking about it
1)The data is limited __________________________________. 这份资料在质量和数量上都很有限2)They have found that, ____________________________, the sky is the limit. 他们发现,就收入和事业成功来讲,多高都有可能的。3)___________________________________________________________.就薪金而言,这个工作倒是挺不错的,但也有一些不利之处。
in terms of both quality and quantity
in terms of both salary and career success
The job is great in terms of salary, but it has its disadvantages
self-critical: tending to looking at and judging your own faults or weaknesses.Highly effective people are self-critical. They have enormous self-belief and they set high standards for themselves.
高效率的人挑战自我,他们信心十足,他们高标准地要求自己。We have to be aware of what we do wrong, be self-critical, and calmly find the right solutions.
我们必须意识到在哪里做错了,要自我反省,保持冷静的寻找解决的方案。
2. Japanese people are the most self-critical, with over one in ten “not at all satisfied.”.
3. As a song in Ugly Betty puts it, “It's a pretty person's world.”
put: to express or state sth in a particular way
to put it simply
to put it another way
He was too trusting─or, to put it another way , he had no head for business.
他太轻信人了——或者换个说法,他没有商业头脑。
As Thomas Edison puts it, Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
正如托马斯爱迪生说过, 天才是百分之一的灵感,百分之九十九的汗水。
To put it simply, external beauty is also important and cannot be overlooked.
4. People who pretend to be someone they are not tend to misjudge themselves.
pretend: to behave in a particular way, in order to make other people believe sth that is not true
pretend to do sth.
She didn't love him, though she pretended to .
她并不爱他,虽然她装出爱的样子。
当他爸爸回家的时候,他假装正在读书。
When his father came back, he pretended to be reading books.
5. I only used to have five identical pairs of trouser and five identical shirts.
identical : ~ (