3.19-3.25英语训练总结

本周是TED素材，The power of time的最后一周，本周重点句子、词组及单词

1.And it isn't just ephemeral things like values and personality.You can ask people about their likes and dislikes,their basic preferences.

ephemeral adj.临时的，短暂的; preferences n.选择权

2.It bedevils our decision-making in important ways.

bedevil  vt.使痛苦、困扰

3.Bring to mind rignt now for yourself your favorite musician today and your favorite musician 10 years ago.

Bring to mind 回想；musician 音乐人

4.I put mine up on the screen to help you along. 我把我的答案放在大屏幕上作为提示.

5.In a perfectly rational world,these should be the same number,but we overpay for the opportunity to indulge our current preferences because we overestimate their stability.

rational  adj.理性的；indulge  vt. 满足，纵容；stability  n. 稳定性

6.We're not entirely sure,but it probably has to do with the ease of remembering versus the difficulty of imagining.

entirely adv.完全地 ;ease n轻松，舒适.  versus  prep.与.......相对

7.They're usually talking about their own lack of imagination,and not about the unlikelihood of the event that they're describing.

unlikelihood  n.不可信;   describing  adj.描述的

8.The bottom line is,time is a powerful force, it transforms our preferences,it reshapes our values. it alters our personalities,we seem to appreciate this fact,but only in retrospect.only when we look backwards do we realize how much change happens in a decade.

transforms vt.改变    reshapes vt. 重塑   alters vt. 转换   appreciate  vt.感激     in retrospect 回顾，回想； look backwards  向后看

9.It's as if,for most of us,the present is a magic time,it's a watershed on the timeline.

watershed n.分水岭，转折点

10.The person you are right now is as transient,as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been,The one constant in our life is change.

transient  adj.短暂的；fleeting  adj.飞逝的 ；temporary  adj. 暂时的；constant  n.不变的事情