可可電臺，每期節目一話題，讓英語磨練耳朵的同時學到更多有益的小知識，豐富知識的同時受益于生活。

Ways to self-improve

提升自我的實用技巧

How to improve yourself and become better?

你是一個渴望成長的人嗎？你是否總在想辦法提升自己、讓自己變得更優秀？

Read a book every day.

每天讀書。

Books are concentrated sources of wisdom. The more books you read, the more wisdom you expose yourself to. What are some books you can start reading to enrich yourself? Some books I’ve read and found useful are Think and Grow Rich, Who Moved My Cheese, 7 Habits, The Science of Getting Rich.

書籍是智慧的精華。越博覽群書，越智慧超群。剛開始應該讀什么樣的書來充實自己呢？在讀過的書中，我覺得《思考致富》、《誰動了我的奶酪》、《七大習慣》、《致富的科學》都還不錯。

Learn a new language.

學習新語言。

Singaporean Chinese, main languages are English, Mandarin and Hokkien (a Chinese dialect). Out of interest, I took up language courses in the past few years such as Japanese and Bahasa Indonesian. I realized learning a language is a whole new skill altogether and the process of acquainting with a new language and culture is a totally a mind-opening experience.

新加坡華人，主要講英語、漢語和閩南語（中國方言）。因為感興趣，過去幾年我又學了日語及印尼語等其他語言。我發現，學習新語言絕對是門新技能，而了解語言及其文化的過程讓我大開眼界。

【知識點講解】

take up 開始從事； 接受（提議）； 占用；

例句：

These files have been zipped up to take up less disk space.

這些文檔已經進行了壓縮，以節省磁盤空間。

He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport.

他并不特別想從事競技體育運動。

She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.

她具備擔當領導職責的聰明才智。

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