时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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  When you have a hobby, and you want to improve your skills, you have to practice. There is no substitute for practice. Those of you who come from disciplined nations will know all about this. In the Western world, I think, dedicating ourselves to long-term practice is sometimes a challenge. It isn't in the fabric 1 of our society. We are innovative 2, but not necessarily disciplined. Speaking from personal experience, and looking at myself, the practice of a hobby, whether it is a podcast or a musical instrument, a new language or a physical exercise, can be a painful process. Encouragement helps. For example, when I get positive emails from my podlisteners, I think, "Wow! People are listening! I must keep going!" Or if my violin teacher says that I sound better when I play, I feel so relieved that I am spurred on to continue practicing. My oldest son has shown some dedication 3 recently that has reminded me of all of this, and I am impressed. He has basketball practice in middle school at six thirty in the morning, four days a week. Oooooo, now that's painful! I am barely conscious at that time of the morning. I drive him to the school, still in my pyjamas 4 and slippers 5, wearing a big coat and an extra large scarf. The poor boy must think that his mother looks like a clown. The school is actually very close, but I choose to drive him because it is pitch black that early in the morning, and it is freezing cold, with snow and ice all over the place. As I watch him walk into the school building, I am encouraged that he is being consistent with his basketball. I know that he will see himself improve, and reap the rewards. When I drop him off, I see other boys appear from the darkness, and walk into school, their skinny legs only half covered by their long basketball shorts, and carrying backpacks that look bigger than they are. My heart goes out to them. Hopefully, they do it out of a love for the sport, and not just a sense of obligation. Either way, seeing them encourages me to keep going with my hobbies, and my efforts at self-improvement.

Grammar notes.

Related vocabulary: a substitute, innovative, to (be) spur(red) on, barely conscious.

1. You can substitute honey for sugar in this recipe.

2. Apple is a very innovative company; they are so successful because of their creativity.

3. We were spurred on by our teacher to finish our science project; he chooses just the right words to spur us on.

4. When we found the puppy in the snow, it was barely conscious. But after warming up in the house, he was soon running around and playing.



n.织物,织品,布;构造,结构,组织
  • The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
  • I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。
adj.革新的,新颖的,富有革新精神的
  • Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
  • He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
n.奉献,献身,致力,题献,献辞
  • We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
  • Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。
n.(宽大的)睡衣裤
  • This pyjamas has many repairs.这件睡衣有许多修补过的地方。
  • Martin was in his pyjamas.马丁穿着睡衣。
n. 拖鞋
  • a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
  • He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋,倒在床上。
学英语单词
Accident-insurance
agate jasper
An Khanh
ant-lions
anthropometrist
apogonia formosana
astacins
automatic breech mechanism
automatic ignition
axial region
baille
benzilic acid rearrangement
bite indicator
broadbeam geometry
budget-cutting
CAVD-TEST
charge correlator
Chodro
coenochyma
coir rope
comminuation
copytaker
crystal-balling
CUSUMs
danza de los montoneros (mexico)
data description skeleton
DEAB
desert polish
diabellis
double warps
dual grid tube
ecclesi-
elotes
EOF (end of file)
European perches
external definition
faisable
fine grain development
flexible bus
gamosa
gas core reactor
get back to
give a view of
glove money
head down tilt
immunotransfusion
inband
jackup
labyrinth packing
larsenite
long interspersed element (LINE)
manchu filbert
MartinIndex.
Mechnica
Medveđa
Midgard
MS-Windows
mullites
musselin
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine
neutron density fluctuation
niobite (columbite)
nonnaturalist
normalness
notch position
nylon-covered
obviosity
out-of-service
owise
physiographic geology
Pleura parietalis
Polymnia uyedalia
practical marine engineering
propylene product
purge status date
Pyrausta nubilalis
railway distribution system
refraction index profile
road intersection
senseful
show one's right
side fired kiln
silicon resin
sinjiangensis
snetterton
space power unit
square-link chain
standard for discharge of pollutants
storage address display lights
story book
temperature divertor
Trego County
treiman
Tunga
Tyconius
unpremeditate
unsized coal
Untersberg
Vishālgarh
whitworth screw thread gauge
yardperson
yaw checking anchor