20170807英语学习笔记

dreadful: 担惊受怕，恐惧

ace: 扑克牌A.

ace in the sleeve 王牌

ace team 天龙特工队，顶尖团队

ace HR 顶级人才团队

ace the exam/homework/project

seems...but

novel=new,innovative

beat procrastination 战胜拖延症

the theory goes like this 背后的理论是这样的（解释理论的最好的句子）

constantly 坚持不懈地，一直地

at a later point in life. 在生命的最后部分

daily decisions. 日常决策

附原文:

2017年8月7日至8月11日学习材料 治疗拖延症的新方法

Close your eyes. Imagine yourself finishing that tedious months-long project you have been dreading. Think about the papers you are preparing on your desk, documents you need to print, the conversations you will need to have to finish the project and even what you will wear on presentation day or how it will feel to finally ace the project – the more vivid the picture is in your mind, the better. The exercise seems simple, but some recent research suggests that visualizing yourself in the future could be a novel way to beat procrastination. The theory goes like this: most of us are not particularly good at picturing how our immediate actions will affect us long-term. But if we are constantly picturing ourselves at a later point in life, and how our daily decisions affect this future person, it can help us make better immediate decisions because it is easier to imagine the long-term consequences.

Tedious：乏味的

Dread：恐惧

Ace：搞定

Visualize：视觉化

Procrastination：拖延症

Consequence：结果

Britain's highest pub, which regularly gets snowed in at its isolated location in the Yorkshire Dales, is up for sale. The 17th Century Tan Hill Inn has panoramic views and is on sale for £900,000. The pub, 1,700 feet above sea level, was named the highest in the British Isles in the 1976 of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Landlady Louise Peace said: "It is a very, very demanding job. I really do wish the next owner the best." The listed inn has exposed beams and stone-flagged floors and is about five miles from the village of Keld in Swaledale. Ms Peace, 52, said: "I have never had two days the same since I became landlady 12 years ago. "This place gives you laughs, tears, peace and hell at times but there's never a dull moment."

Up for sale: 挂牌出售

Panoramic：全景的

Demanding：费力的

Listed：挂牌的

Exposed：露出的

Beam：大梁

Flagged：铺设地板的

Dull：无聊的

pub=bar(US.)  pub/bar food

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