时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.52]12.18 Holes in His Mind


[00:06.29]Major James Nesmeth had a dream of improving his golf game — and he developed a unique method of achieving his goal. 


[00:14.35]Until he devised this method, he was just your average weekend golfer, shooting in mid- to low-nineties. 


[00:21.86]Then, for seven years, he had not touched a club, for he had been in a Vietnamese prison, as a prisoner of war.


[00:28.94]Ironically, it was during the seven-year break from the game that Major Nesmeth came up with his amazingly effective technique for improving his game 


[00:38.31]— a technique we can all learn from. 


[00:40.82]In fact, the first time he played golf after his hiatus from the game, he shot an astonishing 74! 


[00:48.10]He had cut 20 strokes off his average without having swung a golf club in seven years! 


[00:54.75]Unbelievable. Not only that, but his physical condition had actually deteriorated 1 during those seven years of imprisonment 2.


[01:04.22]What was Major Nesmeth’s secret? Visualization 3.


[01:07.82]During the entire time he was imprisoned 4, he experienced no physical activity. 


[01:13.04]During the first few months he did nothing but pray for his release. 


[01:17.61]Then he realized he had to find some way to occupy his mind or he would lose his sanity 5


[01:23.93]That’s when he learned to visualize 6.


[01:26.76]In his mind, he selected his favorite golf course and started playing golf. 


[01:32.64]Every day, he played a full 18 holes at the imaginary country club, as if he saw himself dressed in his golfing clothes. 


[01:41.68]He smelled the fragrance 7 of the trees and the freshly trimmed grass. 


[01:46.47]He experienced different weather conditions — windy spring days, overcast 8 winter days, and sunny summer mornings. 


[01:55.08]In his imagination, every detail of the tee, the individual blades of grass, 


[02:01.07]the trees, the singing birds, the scampering 9 squirrels and the lay of the course became totally real.


[02:07.93]He felt the grip of the club in his hands. 


[02:10.98]He instructed himself as he practiced smoothing out his down-swing and the follow-through on his shot. 


[02:17.07]Then he watched the ball arc down the exact center of the fairway, 


[02:21.99]bounce a couple of times and roll to the exact spot he had selected, all in his mind. 


[02:27.89]It took him just as long in imaginary time to play 18 holes as it would have taken in reality. 


[02:34.46]Not a detail was omitted.


[02:36.75]Seven days a week. Four hours a day. Eighteen holes. Seven years. 


[02:42.77]Twenty strokes off. Shot a 74.




1 deteriorated
恶化,变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化,不久便去世了。
  • His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化,日甚一日。
2 imprisonment
n.关押,监禁,坐牢
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
3 visualization
n.想像,设想
  • In 2D visualization and drawing applications, vertical and horizontal scrolling are common. 在二维的可视化及绘图应用中,垂直和水平滚动非常普遍。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Ophthalmoscopy affords the only opportunity for direct visualization of blood vessels. 检眼镜检查法提供直接观察血管的唯一机会。
4 imprisoned
下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁,合并执行。
  • They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。
5 sanity
n.心智健全,神智正常,判断正确
  • I doubt the sanity of such a plan.我怀疑这个计划是否明智。
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
6 visualize
vt.使看得见,使具体化,想象,设想
  • I remember meeting the man before but I can't visualize him.我记得以前见过那个人,但他的样子我想不起来了。
  • She couldn't visualize flying through space.她无法想像在太空中飞行的景象。
7 fragrance
n.芬芳,香味,香气
  • The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.苹果花使空气充满香味。
  • The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房间里充满了薰衣草的香味。
8 overcast
adj.阴天的,阴暗的,愁闷的;v.遮盖,(使)变暗,包边缝;n.覆盖,阴天
  • The overcast and rainy weather found out his arthritis.阴雨天使他的关节炎发作了。
  • The sky is overcast with dark clouds.乌云满天。
9 scampering
v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑,惊惶奔跑( scamper的现在分词 )
  • A cat miaowed, then was heard scampering away. 马上起了猫叫,接着又听见猫逃走的声音。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • A grey squirrel is scampering from limb to limb. 一只灰色的松鼠在树枝间跳来跳去。 来自辞典例句
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AAMIH
anear
astlers
atomic dipole moment
automatic exposure compensation
autoteraploid
Aymores
bank club
Barra do Bugres
barycentric refinement
be overcome with fear
big gray wall
blade pitgh
cervicofacial actinomycosis
cesium(element)
comeuppances
concentric curriculum
damm
dow
down comforter
encoun-tered
fashion dual character
female lamb
fibroma of vagina
filicopsidas
finite arc sine distribution
flexion torsion
formaldehyde treating of gasoline
Frademicina
Gelidocalamus stellatus
goldhagen
guitaba
headless computer
herschell effect
highway tunnel
igneous breccia
in league
Indian berry
issue value
Kayumba, L.
lake baykals
landre
leaf-shapeds
Leshukonskoye
local acceptance
mader
malaria aestivo-autumnalls
mecador chart
mental health
mixed boundary value problem
moonish
moustaphas
multi-shaft arrangement
nasaa
nunation
odai
on-delay time
original beam
Osolē Shet'
P. P. von Mauser
palmar flexion crease
paracaine
park rangers
partial carry
perfect competitive market
phrenopathic
pieve
polar sequence
Policy of Protection in Shipping
PONA number
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postmodernising
Pravoberezhnyy
privileged instruction operation
racecadotril
renoviction
reserved for land expropriation
scenic resort
situation analyzer
sky battle
socioeconomic grade
specific inventory
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spot fine
Superfund program
sweep pattern
t-boner
tactism
taper-shank drill
telecine studio
tilt-boat
to the west of
trailing switch machine
transverse springs
tricholoma irinums
Trukese
vertical motion
viand
vibrating rod oiler
Voigt model
Vyshnevolotskaya Gryada
whip shitties