为什么托福考试，光努力还不行?

下面让我们来看看，

如果遇到有关“怀疑人生”的题目，

有哪些语料可以参考呢

1. horribly unhappy and radically imbalanced life 

非常不开心，完全不平衡的生活 
例句：“Success” isn’t just having lots of money. Many people with lots of money have horribly unhappy and radically imbalanced lives. 

2. low-frequency people for long periods of time

长时间低效率状态

例句：To be successful, you can’t continue being with low-frequency people for long periods of time.

3. crappy  糟糕的，差劲的 
例句：You can’t continue eating crappy food, regardless of your spouse’s or colleague’s food choices. 

4. cut-back 削减 
例句：You need to cut-back on spending all of your money and time on crap and entertainment. 

5. fumble 吞吞吐吐 
例句：but paused the interview after he fumbled an answer about the Tories’ voting record on gay equality. 

6. omission 疏漏 
例句：The omission comes as Cameron hopes to convince voters that the conservatives have changed on issues of civil equality. 

7. weed out 剔除 (无用的人和物) 
例句：Everything else has slowly been weeded out. 

8. on issues of 在……的问题上 
例句：The omission comes as Cameron hopes to convince voters that the conservatives have changed on issues of civil equality.

9. core essentials 核心要素 
例句：When your days are filled with only those core essentials that mean the world to you — and you’re succeeding in those few areas — you absolutely will dominate in “all” areas of your life. 

10. mean the world to you

对你来说是整个世界，表示非常重要 
例句：When your days are filled with only those core essentials that mean the world to you — and you’re succeeding in those few areas — you absolutely will dominate in “all” areas of your life. 

11. live intentionally and congruently 有目的的，一致的生活 
例句：You are living intentionally and congruently. 

12. momentum 动力，势头 
例句： You have momentum and balance. 

13. revert back to 回到 
例句：It’s so easy to revert back to small and mediocre thinking. 

14. on a daily basis 每天=everyday 
例句：However, as you come closer to living on a daily basis with your values and ideals, amazing things start to happen. 

15. evolve and progress 发展和进步 
例句：Hence, most people won’t be successful. Most people won’t evolve and progress. 

16. the point of no return 只能进不能退的地步 
例句：Once you pass that point of no return, nothing will stop you.

17.conservative parties保守派 

例句：I think we’ve probably gone a bit further and faster than some conservative parties in other countries and there won’t be any turning back.

1. have everything to do with 与…关系密切 
例句：When it comes to work, health, and life in general, I regularly see two fundamental issues that have everything to do with effort. 

2. state of mind (某一特定时刻的)情绪，心态

Your state of mind is your mood or mental state at a particular time. 
例句：Many people either don’t want to put in the work required to achieve their desired outcome while many of those that at least move past that entitled state of mind excuse a lack of results because at least they “tried”. 

3. a sizable percentage of 相当比例的 
例句：a sizable percentage of the population just doesn’t put in serious enough work to mark any real effort. 

5. do a good enough job 把一件工作做好 
例句：No one wants to tell kids they didn’t win or do a good enough job, so rather than have that hard conversation parent to child or teacher/coach to student, as a society, it’s easier to just tell everyone that they are winners in their own way. 

6. inflicting on 使某人遭受 
例句： The damage this is inflicting on people is very real. 

7. the merits of ……的优点 
例句：Why? It’s harder to take a job that requires one to prove oneself and rise up based on the merits of your effort and outcomes. 
In the final analysis, the merits of the exam system outweigh its demerits. （注意：此处的翻译不能直译，要将词意与语句结合考试的好处要多于它的坏处。） 

8. made it acceptable 使其可接受的 
例句：We’ve somehow made it acceptable as a society for people to be comfortable with not working hard. 

9. be preferable to 比…更好 
例句：Certainly, it is preferable to put in the effort rather than not, but that too is incomplete. 

10. is part of the process 过程的一部分 
例句：Of course, discussing issues or areas they may need us to change direction or help find another way to achieve our desired outcome is part of the process. 

11. a helpful analogy 一个有用的比喻 
例句：A helpful analogy: when you buy an airline ticket, you expect to get where you are going. 

12. a prerequisite for 这是一个先决条件 
例句：It is a prerequisite for you to spend your hard earned dollars with that company that they will put in the effort to do things the right way and get you there. 

13. marvel 惊讶 
例句：Would you marvel at the pyramids if they were half completed? Clearly those that built them worked very hard. 

14. a fundamental requirement for success 成功的基本要求 
例句：This happens all the time and continued effort, even if you miss the mark, is a fundamental requirement for success. 

1. steal from 从…偷窃;从…用诡计获得（某物）;偷偷地离开 

例句：Many stolen from George Orwell and Umberto Eco.

2. guru 专家;领袖;权威;个人的宗教教师 
例句：Clickbait gurus Upworthy suggest writing 25 headlines for every story.

3. be intrinsically motivated to 自觉地去做 
例句：Some people are intrinsically motivated to keep their living space army-quarters clean.

4. at the root of ~的根源 
例句：Cliche is at the root of audience dissatisfaction, and like a plague spread through ignorance.

5. synergy 协同，配合，企业合并后的协力优势或协合作用 
例句：The BBC Academy warns against ecosystem, exponential, step change, synergy and raft.

6. step change 阶跃变化，步骤变更 
例句：The BBC Academy warns against ecosystem, exponential, step change, synergy and raft.

7. patronize 以高人一等的态度对待;光顾，惠顾 
例句：Trying to write for an imaginary wider audience risks patronizing those readers who might care.

8. inadequate failure 表意：无法胜任 
例句：I care about the environment I live in, but not so much that I feel like an inadequate failure when you come over. You’re my guest, after all! 

9. curate an image 表面工作 
例句：This isn’t a guide for those freaks. It’s for those of us who want to clean our homes just enough to curate an image 

10. strike a balance 权衡得失 
例句：How does one strike a balance between his family and work?

11. virtuoso lifestyle 艺术大师的生活方式 
例句： Your guests will have to accept that you’re just about that virtuoso lifestyle, I guess! 

12. get haunted by 被困扰
例句：Your guests can confidently sit on your furniture, touch various surface areas and use your toilet without getting haunted by the Ghosts of Shits Past

13. default spot 标准场所 
例句：A self-serving but useful rule, the Open Door Policy creates an environment in which it’s understood that your home is the default spot for friends and acquaintances to gather. 

14. humble ambitions 极小的野心，小目标 
例句：most of the biggest and impactful companies started out with much more humble ambitions. 

15. fine print 细则；小字；极小的字体 
例句：It’s worth reading the fine print and doing a bit of thinking about the numbers. 

16. verbally abusive cheater 

verbally abusive指语言暴力 cheater 指出轨 
例句：It wasn’t the only reason they got divorced — he was a verbally abusive cheater — but it was

the first sign that something was seriously wrong. 

17. litmus test 试金石，最后的检验 
例句：Money is a litmus test for your relationship, 

18. under-rated 被低估 
例句：What is the most under-rated pleasure? 

19. starkly evident 主要证据 
例句：These limitations became starkly evident in a 2007 study that compared the accuracy of mammography before and after the implementation of computer-aided diagnostic devices. 

20. over the edge of the cliff 悬崖边 
例句：You’re already over the edge of the cliff, but you haven’t yet looked down