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How to stop useless complaining

如何停止毫無意義的抱怨

Be Less Judgmental

少點挑剔

This includes yourself. Everyone makes mistakes and being critical leads to complaining. Should of, would of, and could of are phrases that’s better left out of your vocabulary. Let go of control. It is simply impossible to be in control of every situation, sometimes it is best to lower the stress and simply roll with the consequences.

這也包括對你自己。每個人都會犯錯挑剔招致抱怨。也許，大概和可能最好從你的詞匯表中抹去。放手吧。想去控制每件事真的不可能，有時候最好的辦法就是減少壓力，接受結果。

List your strengths to build confidence and, on a better day, list your weaknesses and how to downplay them. Compliment yourself and others. Acknowledge a job well done, or a nicely fitting suit or dress.

把自己的優勢列出來增加信心，或者更好的是列出自己的缺點看看如何改進。贊美自己和別人。無論是工作圓滿完成還是穿了合身的衣服裙子。

【知識點講解】

downplay vt.貶低，輕視； 不予重視； 將…輕描淡寫；

例句：

Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.

芬蘭人是非常謙虛,淡化自己的成績.

The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.

1982年馬島戰爭失敗后,阿根廷暫時擱置了爭議.

One more argument downplay protectionism can be discounted.

我們不能輕信任何有意低估保護主義的說法.

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