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How to stop useless complaining

如何停止毫无意义的抱怨

Be Less Judgmental

少点挑剔

This includes yourself. Everyone makes mistakes and being critical leads to complaining. Should of, would of, and could of are phrases that’s better left out of your vocabulary. Let go of control. It is simply impossible to be in control of every situation, sometimes it is best to lower the stress and simply roll with the consequences.

这也包括对你自己。每个人都会犯错挑剔招致抱怨。也许，大概和可能最好从你的词汇表中抹去。放手吧。想去控制每件事真的不可能，有时候最好的办法就是减少压力，接受结果。

List your strengths to build confidence and, on a better day, list your weaknesses and how to downplay them. Compliment yourself and others. Acknowledge a job well done, or a nicely fitting suit or dress.

把自己的优势列出来增加信心，或者更好的是列出自己的缺点看看如何改进。赞美自己和别人。无论是工作圆满完成还是穿了合身的衣服裙子。

【知识点讲解】

downplay vt.贬低，轻视； 不予重视； 将…轻描淡写；

例句：

Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.

芬兰人是非常谦虚,淡化自己的成绩.

The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.

1982年马岛战争失败后,阿根廷暂时搁置了争议.

One more argument downplay protectionism can be discounted.

我们不能轻信任何有意低估保护主义的说法.

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