留美老师带你每日说英文 第989期:取得高成就未必是好事

In other words, over-achievers are trying to solve a range of psychological problems through material or worldly means. 也就是说，取得高成就的人其实是企图要透过实质、世俗的方式来解决一连串心理层面的问题。 学习

留美老师带你每日说英文 第979期:宁愿骨折也不要摔手机

Imagine you have this very unpleasant choice. So, you can either watch your phone tumble to the ground and shatter into a million pieces or you can have a small bone in your hand broken. 想象一下如果你现在有一个不得不做的选择的话。

留美老师带你每日说英文 第990期:山猫有绝种的危机

In addition, the illegal fur and pet trades have made this wildcat a near-threatened species. 此外，非法的毛皮买卖和宠物交易使这种山猫有绝种的危机。 学习重点： 1.illegal 非法的 illegal (adj.) 非法的 legal (adj.) 合

留美老师带你每日说英文 第742期:跨性别的孩子

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： The policy that we wrote 10 years ago was inspired by a family with a transgender first grader. The policy is actually pretty simple, that our transgender students can access all facilities based

留美老师带你每日说英文 第740期:人口爆炸现象

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： But it turns out high birth rates and the population explosion are not permanent features of some cultures or countries. But rather a part of a four-step process the whole world is going through,

留美老师带你每日说英文 第827期:魁北克和法国的关系

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： French is the official language, croissants are still on the menu and statues of French heroes dot the squares. The heritage-listed city center even has its own mini version of the Notre Dame. 法语

留美老师带你每日说英文 第833期:错误本身并不可怕

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： I'm a big believer in the idea that so many people make mistakes, and it's not the mistake that ruins them, it's the way they react to their mistake that ruins them. 我对很多人都会犯错这一

留美老师带你每日说英文 第865期:久坐的群体有哪些

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Researchers also found that those most likely to be sitting too much were older, male, more educated but less wealthy, smokers, and those who have chronic illnesses. 研究人员还发现，更有可

留美老师带你每日说英文 第520期:身体部位的进化

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Look closely and you'll see parts that aren't there because you need them but because your animal ancestors did. No longer serving their previous function but not costly enough to have disappeare

留美老师带你每日说英文 第518期:关于药物的保存

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Most drugs lasted on an average five and half years past the expiration date. While civilians like you and I might not have access to tightly controlled storage facilities, there's always the fri

留美老师带你每日说英文 第954期:香港13岁女孩开发APP成少年CEO

I personally came up with the idea, and then we found a tech company to help us build the code. The app took 6 months to complete from September of 2016, and we launched the app last year in May. 我亲自构思了这整个方案，然后找了一家科

留美老师带你每日说英文 第956期:伦敦的地图

You can see rivers, bodies of water, trees and parks, the stations were all crammed together at the center of the map, and out in the periphery, there were some that couldn't even fit on the map. So the map was geographically accurate, but maybe not

留美老师带你每日说英文 第375期:阅读不同来源的文章

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Well, I've been reading passages and articles from different sources, including newspapers, magazines, and websites. I just picked the words randomly from those sources. 我一直都有在阅读不

留美老师带你每日说英文 第380期:恐惧转化成恶梦

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Your unconscious brain takes your abstract fears and turns them into stories in the form of nightmares.When you experience a nightmare, you wake up, and remember it like something that really hap

留美老师带你每日说英文 第416期:保护你的肠胃

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： Unfortunately, your new adult stomach can no longer handle delicious food, so you can either deal with the overwhelming cravings or diarrhea. 很不幸的，你的成人胃已经无法再接受美味

留美老师带你每日说英文 第414期:不断尝试新挑战

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： So try a new challenge, anything from a crossword puzzle, to a new language, to a new sport or a new program. 所以尝试新挑战，不论是填字游戏、新语言、新运动或新课程都可

留美老师带你每日说英文 第901期:不要公开宣布个人目标

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是： You could resist the temptation to announce your goal. You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgement brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the d

留美老师带你每日说英文 第1112期:亚马逊女战士

Were Amazons merely figures of myth, or something more? It was long assumed that they were imaginary, like the cyclops and centaurs. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and China also featur

留美老师带你每日说英文 第1113期:大脑如何让你专注

When you use your top-down attention to focus on something, your brain activates inhibitory mechanisms to block out competing stimuli. It can't do this forever, though; these mechanisms eventually tire just like the muscles in our body, and this lead

留美老师带你每日说英文 第1114期:随着年龄的增长大脑会萎缩

This number declines as we age and is likely related to our brain decaying at a rate of 5% per decade after the age of 40. 这个数字会随着我们年龄的增长而下降，而这很可能是因为我们的大脑自40岁以后，每十年就会萎缩