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助你迅速提高生活質(zhì)量的好習(xí)慣
habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.
能夠幫助你擺脫這些自己造成的麻煩又沒必要的煩惱的習(xí)慣
Don't dramatize.
不要小題大做。
Lots of people inflate small setbacks into life-threatening catastrophes and react accordingly.
大部分人將小挫折膨脹為一生具有威脅性的事故并做出相應(yīng)的反應(yīng)。
This habit makes mountains out of molehills and gives people anxieties that either don't exist or are so insignificant they aren't worth worrying about anyway.
小題大做的習(xí)慣讓人們感到憂慮,不是因?yàn)椴淮嬖诘氖挛锞褪且驗(yàn)椴恢档靡惶岬男∈隆?/p>
Why do they do it? Who knows? Maybe to make themselves feel and seem more important.
為什么人們要這樣?也許為了這讓他們感覺或看起來更重要一些。
Whatever the reason, it's silly as well as destructive.
不管理由是什么,小題大做是愚蠢且具有破壞性的。
【知識點(diǎn)講解】
dramatize vt.改編成劇本; 把…戲劇化;
例句:
They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
他們愛炫耀,幾乎對每種情況都添油加醋。
Don't worry too much about what she said—she tends to dramatize things.
別太在意她說的話—她往往言過其實(shí)。
The film attempts neither to dramatize nor sermonize.
這部電影既不企圖使用戲劇化的手法也不企圖進(jìn)行說教.
insignificant adj.不重要的; 微小的; 毫無意義的; 不足道
例句:
The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
總督察討厭在細(xì)枝末節(jié)上沒完沒了地糾纏。
In 1949 Bonn was a small, insignificant city.
1949年時波恩還是個無足輕重的小城市。
The levels of chemicals in the river are not insignificant.
河水中的化學(xué)物質(zhì)含量不容忽視。
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