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What should you do when you feel discouragement?

感到沮喪的時候應該做什么？

Consider who we are spending time with

想想我們該花時間和誰在一起

The people who we spend the most time with might be a major contributing factor to feeling discouragement. This can be a very hard one, especially if those people are family and loved ones. We have a tendency to become who we most frequently associate with, and if we spend all our time with people who are constantly negative, and feeling sorry for themselves, we can be influenced to see life through a similar lens.

和我們相處最久的那些人也許是帶來沮喪的最大因素。這聽起來不大舒服，尤其是他們會是家人或愛人。我們總會不知覺的變成身邊最親近人的樣子，如果我們一直和消極的人在一起，為他們感到難過，我們也會被影響和他們一樣去看待生活。

So what can we do? We can't simply cut loved ones out of our lives. So what we should do is simply expand our social network. Join a peer group that is positive. Start to surround ourselves with positive people as a balance. Over time we will start to take on their mindset and this will help with any feelings of discouragement we may have.

那該怎么辦呢？我們不能簡單的把愛人排除在生活之外。所以能做的就是擴大自己的社交圈。加入積極的同齡人小組。讓周圍充滿了正能量的人作為平衡。不知不覺我們就會吸取這些正能量，也能幫助我們減少沮喪感。

【知識點講解】

associate with 與…交往， 聯系； 交接； 躡足其間； 軋

例句：

Mother warned the boys not to associate with bad companions.

母親告誡孩子們別和壞人交往.

Don't associate with such people.

勿與此輩來往.

Never associate with bad companions.

別和壞人結交.

help with 幫助（某人）做…； 用…來幫助；

例句：

Jennie took in a lodger to help with the mortgage.

珍妮收了一個房客，以減輕按揭的負擔。

I have two assistants who help with the admin.

我有兩個助手協助經營。

I got roped in to help with the timekeeping.

我被拉來幫忙計時。

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