Entertainment and distraction is the enemy of creation and learning. They will keep you in mediocrity.
语音讲解:
今日发音练习重点:
言之有物:
1. 词链儿:
entertainment and distraction
娱乐和分心
creation and learning
创造和学习
→词汇:
动词——名词
entertain—entertainment
distract—distraction
create—creation
learn—learning
2. 词链儿:keep you in mediocrity
让你(保持)平庸
keep sb in XX 让某人在XX之中
keep sb from XX 让某人远离XX
Regular exercise can keep you in good health.
定期运动能让你保持良好的健康状况。
We're keeping you in our thoughts.
我们一直想着你。
影视片段《剧集版超能陆战队》
I'm trying to repay that trust by keeping you in the loop.
我想让你知情,借此来回报你的信任。
影视片段《金装律师》
3. 词汇:
mediocre adj. 平庸的
mediocrity n. 平庸; 平庸之人; 碌碌无为者
His school record was mediocre.
他在学校成绩平平。
His acting career started brilliantly, then sank into mediocrity.
他的演艺生涯开场时轰轰烈烈,然后就变得庸庸碌碌。
Surrounded by mediocrities, he can seem a towering intellectual.
在周围一群泛泛之辈的衬托之下,他就像一个鹤立鸡群的智者。
活学活用:
请用 keep somebody in XX 随意造句
《Focus On Learning and Creating Rather Than Entertainment and Distraction》:你学习的质量决定了你成功的质量,然而大多数人花在娱乐和电子产品上的时间与金钱比花在学习上还多。
世界上最成功的人往往都是终身学习者,他们完全明白他们的教育水平直接决定了他们的生活质量。如果终其一生我们都只是娱乐的奴隶,我们就会难以体验到充实的生活。
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