1.soul-searching 深思,真摯的自我反省
My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
我把這一年都花在了深刻的反省上,試圖找出我生活受挫的原因
2.ward off 避開
Bilingualism, says one new study, helps ward off Alzheimer's for up to four years.
一個新研究表明,雙語能幫助抵御老年癡呆癥長達(dá)四年之久