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本周六 7/20聚會 時間: 6:30pm~9:00pm
地點: 快提café 新北市板橋區文化路一段387巷10號
(沿著新埔捷運站1號出口左方向走約100公尺 看到信義房屋旁的巷子進入)
電話詢問 Billy Tel: 0976217450 (02) 22540821
四階段流程:
Session1. 情境對話: going to movies
Session2.英文諺語介紹: A leopard can't change its spots.
Session3. 英文主題:Hey, good lookin', your job outlook lookin' good
Session4. 中文主題: 達文西給青年的七個忠告
美麗臉孔漂亮前景
Hey, good lookin', your job outlook lookin' good
(By Melissa Stanger)
Beautiful people seen as more valuable employees and harder workers
When interviewing for a job, an attractive jobseeker will generally be more favorably regarded by an employer than a less-attractive candidate.
Studies have shown that attractive people are usually hired sooner, get promotions more quickly and are paid more than their less-attractive co-workers.
Attractive people earn an average of 3 percent or 4 percent more than people with below-average looks, according to Daniel Hamermesh, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the book "Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful."
Researchers have studied the concept of beauty as a factor in a person’s success many times, and in multiple ways. Beautiful people tend to bring in more money for their companies, and are therefore seen as more valuable employees and harder workers, according to an article in Psychology Today by Dario Maestripieri, a professor of comparative human development, evolutionary biology, and neurobiology at the University of Chicago. A door-to-door insurance salesman is better able to sell to customers who find him attractive, said Maestripieri, because the customers will be more likely to buy if they think it will increase their chances to have sex with him. Maestripieri calls this principle “the pleasure of dealing with good-looking people.”
“Good-looking people are more appealing as potential sex partners,” Maestripieri said, “and (so) other people choose to interact with them, to spend time near them, talk with them, buy insurance from them and hire them as employees.”
However, Hamermesh believes that it's not just sex appeal that makes attractive people more successful. He writesthat attractive people tend to have desirable personality traits, like higher self-confidence — likely a direct result of their good looks — that appeal to employers.
“Beauty may just reflect reflect self-esteem. Perhaps people’s self-confidence manifests itself in their behavior, so that their looks are rated more highly, and their self-esteem makes them more desirable and higher-paid employees,” he writes. “Another possibility is that beauty and the attractiveness of one’s personality are positively related, and that it is the general sparkle of one’s personality, not one’s beauty, that increases earnings.”
Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston also conducted a study on beauty’s effect on success. They limited their study to how facial appearance affects excellence in a job interview. The study found that people with facial blemishes and “disfigurements” — birthmarks, scars, blemishes — were more likely to be rated poorly by their interviewers. The interviewers tended to recall less information about these candidates, which negatively impacted their evaluations.
“The more the interviewers attended to stigmatized features on the face, the less they remembered about the candidate’s interview content, and the less memory they had about the content led to decreases in ratings of the applicant,” said Juan Madera, a professor at the University of Houston and co-author of the study.
Even with the bias against the less fortunate-looking, Hamermesh said there are still ways to succeed despite one’s looks. “First, don't go into an occupation where looks matter a lot,” he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "Don't be a TV broadcaster; be a radio broadcaster. Don't be a movie actor. Most important, go into fields that you enjoy, and that you have an advantage in doing. Accentuate your strengths, and try to avoid those things where you are relatively disadvantaged.”
Tina: Well, Billy , I guess I am. Why do you ask?
Billy: I have just gotten a pair of pre-sale "Now you see me" movie tickets from a friend and was thinking of inviting you along for the opening premier. Are you interested?
Tina: Yeah, definitely! Thanks for inviting me!
Billy: No problem.
Well, let's see. The movie starts at 9 PM. We should get there at least 1 hour earlier because there'll be a big line. I could pick you up at your house at 7, if that's OK with you.
Tina: 7 o'clock? That's fine with me.
Billy: Okay good.
Tina: So I'll see you tomorrow at 7 then?
Billy: Yeah. That's great. I'll see you tomorrow night, Tina.
A leopard can't change its spots.
積習難改 / "江山易改，本性難移"
----- The phrase "a leopard can't change its spots" is used to describe a person's character, particularly if they have some bad habits.
Examples:
I doubt very much that marriage will change Aaron for the better.
A leopard can't change its spots.
Jason promised me that he would stay out of trouble at school, but don't believe him. A leopard can't change its spots.
Katie used to have a reputation for gossiping and spreading rumours. I've heard she's changed now, but I don't trust her: a leopard can't change its spots.
A leopard can't change its spots
Meaning:
A person cannot change who they are (their character), no matter how hard they try.
Origin:
This idiom comes from the Old Testament (Jer. 13:23). The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah tries to persuade an evil shepherdess to become good but when he realises that it is impossible to convince her, he says: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
Examples:
The shopkeeper tried to be friendly to his customers but a leopard can’t change its spots and he was still very rude.
Similar idioms:
you can’t teach an old dog new tricks----
something that you say which means it is difficult to make someone change the way they do something when they have been doing it the same way for a long time
Examples:
You're never going to teach your father at the age of 79 to use a computer. You can't teach an old dog new tricks, you know.
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