It's a warm beautiful day out there, but why you sighed alone in your study with a notebook written with your wishes and expectations of a great life？ Why do we tend to frown on things instead of taking great pleasure in what we are doing and have been engaged into？ The answer is quite plain to see.We are insecure about the current life, thus growing anxious about the future days full of variables.The sense of uncertainty almost engulfed our bravery, numbed our sensual feelings, and deprived our power to dream beyond those in hand, the possibilities we dare not to envision. Those fears stemmed from our long-held education as well as the parenting profoundly affected by our traditional values.The saying goes that your being too carried away by great joy will incur the bad luck imposed by the God of Fate giving humans the lesson of feeling content with the present, leading to dire consequences or the contributing factor to one's failure.
So, despite all the rewards earned from strenuous work and persistence in achieving great success, we should remain modest and humble ourselves in front of others who could be likely to undermine your plans out of jealousy or discourage you from where you are heading to. Something really awkward is right here：We cannot help but feel or take some comments or judgments too personal though they didn't mean us no harm. In the world of comparison and contrast, it is commonplace the standard of distinguishing one winner from other underachievers helped us get stuck in the train of thoughts ranking ourselves in certain categories or labelling yourselves as the sociopath just because you hate jumping on the bandwagon,like wearing the pairs of socks in the same color, talking nonsense regarding some ridiculous topics in making the presentation which your Prof. dozed off all the term, feeling lifeless with his own syllabus and materials chosen by himself. I am a proclaimed "Narcissist"or "Attention Freak", and never cease to be a spotlight in crowds and act indifferently to careless stares I have been intensively longing for. Who am I lying to？Probably, that explains why I can be traumatized like so only by a grump bus driver scolding me for putting the EasyCard tattoo early before my stop on the sensor machine deducting the fare.What he said made sense but I still felt hurt ,right？Why？I have a hard time swallowing my pride when confronted with dissents.Well, being humble,again, along with understanding others on occasions really got on my nerves.Nothing can tame me but some wake-up calls with links to the matter of life and death really urged me to stay out of the comfort zone and to shift the perspectives where I thought I might be right all the time.
英文電影經典臺詞整理：好上手表達句
1.There's nothing I can do but watching the time tick away.我只能眼睜睜看著時間流逝，對現況愛莫能助。
2.People tend to chew me up and spit me out.(=People just take me for granted.)人們都會把你利用完後，把你踢開。
3.When it comes to dating the opposite sex, it's better not to rush it or act too eagerly for the relationship.That'll make you look too desperate.提及和異性交往，最好別表現太操之過急，或很急迫想跟對方在一起，這樣讓你自己看起來很沒行情。
4. You don't have to hide from me because I am on your side.你不用躲著我，我是站在你這邊的。
5.Tell your mom that she can expect a visit from me this week.轉告妳母親，我這週會去拜訪她的。
6.Stop grilling the innocent child whose family just got murdered.在他們全家經歷了謀殺案後，別在拷問這個不知情的孩子了。
7.We cannot handle the truth so that grabbing some scapegoats might make things easier to process.That's how we got guys behind bars for years without valid excuses.我們不能面對事實時，抓幾個代罪羔羊來結案好像簡單點。這也是為什麼有這麼多人沒有合理實證下，還蹲牢房坐冤獄好幾年。
8.That's exactly what you have to do. Please don't put me in such difficult position.你就得這麼做，不要讓我難為。
9.Why did you look so distraught when running out of the villa that night？Driven by the sense of guilt？那晚你為什麼看起來這麼急躁地離開那棟別墅。因為罪惡感所故？
10.You happened to be in New York on business when the terrorist attacks arose in Paris the night before your flight.That's really close and you literally dodged a bullet在你搭機前晚巴黎剛好經歷恐怖攻擊，剛好你在紐約洽公。
11.Look at me！I am still one piece together after the bungee jumping. It totally gave me the adrenaline rush and so much thrills.如你所見，我在高空彈跳後毫髮無傷。這真的給我腎上腺素激升和超級興奮的感覺。
[ Is it too late to apologize for something we've done before？]
Let me get straight with this. If you don't mean it, don't bother showing anyone the gestures which might suggest or denote your generosity or kindess. What's the word for that？ Yes, Phony. Jane, a reserved but intelligent girl wearing braces, always impressed others with her bright smiles, closely navie she wasn't consicous of. What's more, it's beautiful for her to fit in different groups of discussion, mingling with strangers or old acquiantance in the same party without any issues bothering her or others. She's the center of life on social occasions, beloved by the crowds. Little did I know that she's never shown the dark side of her human nature until the day someone forwarded the conversation between my friends and she on Line, the group chat for some bunches of besties or close pals from school(definitely not taking the co-workers into consideration regarding private chats.) or some friends' friends there. I couldn't believe my eyes at those filthy languages, among those I was accused of being the black sheep or bossy person when it comes to a new party or some gatherings in our leisure time. That really killed me when I saw those in person and couldn't take it as the truth： The girl always greeting me with " Hey, I miss you so bad. How's everything going？" all the time now backstabbing for a long time.
{Hitting on people when wandering in the city is reaching for the stars？}
Street experiments are really fun and you can have the first-hand experience with someone walking past you or even ignoring you with something on their minds, darting toward somewhere with vacant stares on their botox-injected faces. Here comes some good news：Greeting others first might be a good way of receiving positive responses in various situations.Complicating things in life is never my forte. Striking a conversation with some irrelevant topics shall be a soft start for the first-time talk. And, please note that your attitude really matters.
As usual, I was heading to the language center for my morning sessions in which participants are a group of inquisitive learners either intending to work abroad with American Dream, sorry, no longer existing(hates to tear their picture-perfect plan apart)or attending courses for rumor exchanges, what's worse, killing time during such scorching summer days.(why not？The air-conditioning is available and they are people covering the utility fee on the two words：Bill Shock.Oh, we need to go back to the moment this morning at the station station where passengers scanning their suspicious eyes on all living creatures as the warning of self-defense,(the truth is I have been really paranoid about standing too close to the platform and it's likely for some psychopath shoved you down meanwhile the train was unstoppable and so ready to make a big juice human pizza out of you. Yes, I am a person of crowdphobia and easily intimidated by squeaky noises coming from any direction.
Interestingly,a beefy guy carrying his backpack just took his canned drink from the vending machine looked pretty amiable so that anyone near could say hi to him without being taken as a perpetrator or some pedophiles out there.When the moment our eyes locked, he smiled and greeted me with "Ni Hao"(meaning as "how's going" in Chinese)and we shared some cultural insights in terms of our experiences living outside Taiwan. Raised in a diverse upbringings, Edo is currently learning Chinese in Taiwan where his Italian father and Taiwanese mother are spending summer break together. What I am going to say might urge you to engage in the working holiday program.Yes, you nailed it.Edo's parents met in Australia while his father relocated to Perth office for some architecture &property development project while his mother was flying to Australia for the working holiday adventures Believe it or not, they just loved each other at the first sight.Their romantic encounter so melted me away.Did you feel the same way？Who can expect such wonderful talk in only sixteen-minute ride on my way to work？Yeah,it's not like reaching for the stars, and you should treat yourself like one because there's something special about you and something unique about others. Don't let your preoccupation get in your way getting to know others.Check my story, and my hunch never failed me.Go give it a shot in a polite and genuine way. You will have fun as I did.
生活有大小節日，所以常有朋友互相準備禮品，別看西方國家的朋友都很豪邁和熱情，遇到這種情況也會有中式客套出場，比如" You don't have to"(你真是太費心了)，" Sorry for causing you so many troubles"(真抱歉給您添麻煩)，" You may come all the way to the shop for this special select, right？"(你肯定是跑了老遠去買這個精挑細選的禮品) ，" That's exactly what I need."(這就是我最想要的禮物呢！)， " I don't know how to describe my gratitude for you."(真不知道怎麼謝謝你)都可以表達你收到禮品的驚喜心情溢於言表，而收到的朋友也相當開心！但英文中常提到的Indian Gift(a gift that the receiver is bound to return to the giver because the latter will, for sure, demand that the gift be returned sometime in the future. Also called Indian present)，就是當收到禮物時，必須要回贈等值禮品，而在現在社會帶有"關說送禮或有所求"的概念。有一回，學生突然上課前買了杯飲料放在我桌上，當下挺開心學生這麼懂事了解老師上課的用心付出。下一秒，班上同學立刻表示希望老師可以幫他翻譯學校的作業，後來我戲稱這是"鴻門飲"，可讓我收到心驚膽跳啊！下次不知道又有何事相求？其實源頭是印地安人見到歐洲新移民時，主動贈送禮品以表友善，但因為在部落的傳統就是禮尚往來，後來還被這些移民族群誤解"相當陰險的交易手段"。所以同學學習語言，更要去認識其中的文化意涵，才能精準掌握用字和拿捏使用的時機和語調喔！
Elbow One's Way 推擠(手肘)出人群
EX.：In China, there're millions of commuters elbowing their ways to board or disembark the trains every morning so that you may get injured and stuck in the huge crowds like that.(在中國地區，每天早上都有好幾百萬的通勤乘客上下車，要不是被推擠到受傷，就是卡在像沙丁魚般的人群中動彈不得。)
Get On Sb's nerves(惹怒某人)
EX：Angela kept checking me from the head to toe with hostile attitude. Rumor has it that I will get promoted to the managerial position which she has been dying for. No wonder her eyes are green with envy toward everyone all the time.
(安潔拉老是用一種敵意的眼神從頭到尾打量我。有謠言指出：因為我即將要升到經理職位是她不擇手段也想要的目標。難怪她看每個人都是一副忌妒到不行的臉。)
What's The Rush？(你到底在急什麼啊！)
A：Get out of my way and get my car key RIGHT NOW！
(別擋住我的路，快去拿車鑰匙！)
B： What got into you？ And what's the rush,uh？(你在發瘋喔！到底在急著做什麼啊！)
A：Are you blind or what？ I need to rush my wife to the hospital now because her water broke two minutes. The baby cannot wait to see the world.
(你是沒帶眼睛出門還是有事啊？我急著要送我老婆去醫院，她羊水二分鐘前才剛破了。小寶寶迫不及待要看看這個世界了。)
Has/Have The Tantrum(鬧脾氣)
EX.：During our laid-back afternoon tea time, I really considered Alice's three-year-old daughter a total drag, for she had the tantrum all the time and totally ruined our lovely moments of classmate reunion.
(在休閒的午茶時光，愛麗絲的三歲女孩真的是個大拖油瓶，因為她老是哭鬧不停，根本毀了我們的同學聚會美好時光。)
Safe And Sound平安健康的(狀態)
Recently, there have been so many missing jets en route to various countries and we should cross our fingers, hoping those passengers to return safe and sound in spite of the slim chance.
(最近有許多飛往各國卻中途失蹤的客機，我們要為這些乘客祈禱，即使希望渺茫，但希望他們平安歸來。)
Carried Away太得意忘形
EX.：Janice, please don't be too carried away for scoring so high in the math test because you just failed the English and Geography tests.
(珍妮絲，妳不要數學考高分在那邊囂張，妳的英文和地理考試已經被當掉了！)
Don't Push Your Luck別用光你的好運(要求更多更好的事情)
Mom：Jennifer, you'd better return home before 10pm. after the count-down party
Daughter： No way, the party won't reach the climax until 11pm. and you expect me to leave so early？ Have a heart, okay？ You were my age before and should totally understand what I'm doing now, right？
Mom：Girl, I can relate to you but as a mother, I can't let you out like that without worries. And don't push your luck, your curfew is either 10pm. or 9pm.. You call！
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