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英文慣用語介紹: (我們會用此 做英文練習)

英文諺語 

Every minute counts

Every minute counts 分秒必爭

Every minute counts, and every moment counts.

Meaning

Time is very important.

Examples:

Every minute counts , as the test is very important

分秒必爭,因為這個測驗非常重要。

Every minute counts, and Every moment counts.

Fig. time is very important. (Used especially in situations where time is very limited.)

Examples:

Doctor, please try to get here quickly. Every minute counts.

When you take a test, you must work rapidly because every minute counts.

When you're trying to meet a deadline, every moment counts.

start from scratch這個短語的含義     (epochtimes.com)

例句-

He started from scratch with a small chicken restaurant down south. But he worked hard, had some luck and now Kentucky Fried Chicken is sold around the world.

“肯德基炸雞店”的創辦人白手起家，從南方的一家路邊小餐館做起。他既勤奮又有運氣，發展成今天行銷全球的肯德基炸雞。

scratch這個詞在start from scratch這個習慣用語裡意思。整個短語的意思是“從零開始”，“白手起家”。

start from scratch  白手起家
---

to start from the very beginning; to start from nothing.

Ex:
1. I built every bit of my own house. I started from scratch and did everything with my own hands.

2. So these images are entirely unlabeled, so i have to start from scratch.

這些圖片完全沒有標題，我必需從零開始。

現場發放    英文會話/英文歌曲講義 

會話單元(一) 
送禮   Gift 

會話單元(二)
購物對話
Use polite questions when shopping

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Most Dangerous Jobs in The World          infotainworld.com

What are the most dangerous jobs in the world?

There really are several methods to recognize professions that are dangerous. Different methods have been used to identify which jobs are more deadly. One method is count the number of fatalities during work. Mostly these deadliest jobs are outdoor jobs where workers have to perform his/her duty in tough, stressful and risky environment. You have to deal with job stress while risking your life. These most dangerous professions are not a piece of cake for a rookie. One need a special training and preparation to do these most hazardous jobs.

Garbage Collectors

Garbage collectors have to be one of the most hazardous jobs. Handling with sharp objects,  contaminated and biological waste, Hanging on the backs of trucks and Lifting  all day long. These Garbage collectors have no respect in society. People treat them like jokes while they risk more, get paid less, and are called as “garbage men”. Being a garbage collector is considered one of the most dirties job out there.

According to a study by Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Center, Florida Garbage collectors ranked 3rd most dangerous jobs in United states. There are some astonishing stats of injury among garbage collectors. On average collectors are injured seven times more than other workers.

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver

The trucking industry is considered as the lifeblood of the country. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers usually do transportation of goods from different locations. Being a truck drive isn’t as easy as it looks. Despite the fact that they may enjoy the scenic countryside but driving for long hours on the road is most difficult and stressful thing to do. Accidents are the main cause of deaths in this job. Long hours driving, sleeplessness, slippery roads, snow falling, Busy roads, and harsh weather conditions are the major reasons of traffic accidents.

Lineman & Power Workers

Lineman and power workers are responsible for installing, maintaining and repairing of high power distribution and power lines.

Playing with “hot wires” is a normal thing for a Lineman. This is one of the most daring job in the world. Being a lineman is not the job of faint hearts. Working on high power lines, falls, burn and electrocution are constant danger for power workers. Better safety equipment has reduced the fatalities and injuries. The invention of fire proof clothes also cut down the injuries to a large extent.

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Aircraft Pilots and Staff Engineers

Pilots are highly trained specialists who fly aircrafts or helicopters to transport out different variety of tasks. These aren’t regular airline pilots. As the third most dangerous occupation in the world, these commercial pilots and independent operators involved in crops-dusting, seed spreading for reforestation, monitoring traffic, testing new aircraft, tracking criminals flying passengers and cargo to areas not served by regular airlines, help firefighting and rescuing injured people.

Commercial pilots face other types of job difficulties. This include test pilots who do experimental flight to check the airplane performance is one of the dangerous thing to do. Crop duster pilots can be exposed to toxic chemicals, potential risk of hearing loss may occur due to long expose to noise and many more.

Fishers and Fishing related Workers

Forget the idea of leisurely fishing. Fishing for a living is a dangerous job to do. Fishing has consistently ranked as the most deadly occupation since 1992. There is a heavy dose of danger in this job. Workers in this occupation face life-threatening hazards, harsh weather, vessel casualties, transportation and diving incidents, slippery ship decks, falling overboard and much more. These fishermen find themselves in unsafe circumstances at every turn. All these factors increases this profession mortality rate. These sea-faring workers ranked second for the most dangerous occupation in the world.

Q:

What are the most dangerous jobs in the world?

How to deal with job stress while risking your life?

What are your opinion about garbage collectors?

What do you think about aircraft pilots?

What do you think that working a job as a firefighter?

What are the smart ways to make money?

What are the ways to make money on the side?

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週日(2/19)1.英語會話 2.三峽老街介紹(一) 3.我們睡覺是為了要遺忘! 下午4:30--6:30

板橋區文化路一段421巷11弄1號 (陽光甜味咖啡館)

新埔捷運站1號出口 旁邊7-11巷子進入20公尺 看到夏朵美髮

左轉       

聚會時間下午4:30pm--6:30pm

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Conversation Sentences(1)--部分

Selena : Hey Billy, can I talk to you for a minute?     

         

Billy :   Sure, what's up?    

         

Selena : I wanted to let you know about a book club I joined a couple months ago. I know you do a lot of reading so I thought you might want to come with me next month.   ---完整英文會話講義 我們會現場發放 

三峽老街介紹(一)     goteamjosh.com

Sanxia Old Street (三峽老街) otherwise known as San Jiao Yong Old Street (三角涌老街) is located in the Sanxia district of New Taipei City and is a popular old street for the residents of northern Taiwan. The street is about 260 meters long, but don't tell that to the people going on the weekends who will ultimately have to endure a massive traffic jam to get there!

The Sanxia area is steeped in history and there are several other notable attractions in the area that make the old street a worthwhile day trip out of the city. The street has a similar history to that of the Daxi Old Street (大溪老街) in Taoyuan and was once an economic powerhouse due to its location next to the Dabao River.

Sanxia had a long history of trade and exporting goods (mostly wood) from the mountains nearby to other parts of the island and to China which brought with it quite a lot of prosperity. When methods of transportation improved and transport by way of boat became less useful the town started to decline, merchants moved away and the economy suffered.

The buildings we see today are a reflection of the former prestige of the town - Much like Daxi, Hukou and other old streets throughout the country, the facades of the buildings on the street were built in the baroque (巴洛克式風格) style. Sanxia stands out from the rest however due to the fact that the facades of the buildings were built uniformly in red brick and that both sides of the street have an arched sidewalk. The street was renovated by the local government in 2007 in an attempt to attract more tourists but that doesn't take away from the fact that the buildings on the street are said to be an excellent example of the architecture of the Japanese colonial era.

I’m not particularly a huge fan of crowds so I usually visit the street during weekdays - If you visit on weekdays like I do you won't get the full “old street” experience and not all of the stores will be open, but what you will get is the opportunity to take some great photos of this historic relic dating back to 1685.

I've been to Sanxia Old Street dozens of times and I've found that I now enjoy walking along the road and checking out the wood carvings on the houses as well as the small alleys you might not notice if it were full of people.

On days when the street isn't that busy, the locals seem to be much more willing to have a chat and explain the history than they would if there were thousands of people walking along the road. On my last visit for example I was walking around alone shooting some stuff and I ran into an old man wearing a fedora who struck up a conversation with me. He told me I should pay close attention to a few things along the road and showed me an ancient “door bell” that was beside the door on his house. The door bell was a carved horse and was actually a bell that you would have pulled a string to ring which I never would have noticed on my own or even if I did think it was historically significant.

These days the street is full of vendors selling traditional handicrafts, antiques, tea and kitschy things that tourists would buy. There are also tea houses, restaurants, shaved ice dessert places and the streets most popular product: A type of hard and sugary croissant called a “bulls horn” (牛角) that I can't say I'm particularly fond of. Whenever I visit the street I find that I don't spend any money and for me, I think that is a problem. The government invested a lot of money into the rejuvenation of the old street, so I think that it should be more than something that people just walk through once in a while.

我們睡覺是為了要遺忘!

We sleep to forget things, new study finds            Mihai Andrei February 3, 2017

Sleep is as mysterious as it is vital for our wellbeing. Over the decades, researchers have proposed several mechanisms through which sleep rejuvenates us, but we still don’t fully understand the big picture. Now, two recently published studies come up with an interesting explanation: we sleep to forget some of the things we learn during the day.

We store memories in networks in our brains. Whenever we learn something new, we grow new connections between neurons, called synapses. In 2003, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli, biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed something very interesting: during the day, we learn so much and develop so many synapses that things sometimes get fuzzy. Since then, the two and their collaborators have made quite a few interesting additions to that study.

For starters, they showed that neurons can prune out some synapses, at least in the lab. But they suspected the same things happens every day, naturally, in our brains — probably during sleep. So they set up a painstaking experiment, in which Luisa de Vivo, an assistant scientist working in their lab, collected 6,920 synapses from mice, both awake and sleeping. Then, they determined the shape and size of all these synapses, learning that the synapses in sleeping mice were 18 percent smaller than in awake ones. That’s quite a big margin. “That there’s such a big change over all is surprising,” Dr. Tononi said. This was a big tell and helped direct their efforts.

After this, they designed a memory test for mice. They placed the animals in a room where they would get a mild electrical shock if they walked over one particular section of the floor. They injected some of the mice with a substance that had been proved to prevent the pruning of new synapses. The mice that experienced this were much more likely to forget about the section and after a good night’s sleep, they tended to walk over the section again, while mice that slept normally remembered better.

Then, Dr. Tononi and his colleagues found that the pruning didn’t strike every neuron. Some 20% were unchanged, likely well-established memories that shouldn’t be tampered with. In other words, we sleep to forget — but in a smart way. Another interesting consequence might concern sleeping pills. These pills might interfere with the brain’s pruning process and might prevent the brain from forming memories properly.

Q:

What do you think the viewpoints that “we sleep to forget things”?         

How long about your sleeping hours?

How much sleep do we really need?

Why seven hours of sleep might be better than eight?

What are the factors that affecting sleeping patterns?

How to get rid of bad memories?

英文慣用語介紹: (我們會用此 做英文練習)

英文諺語 

Every minute counts

Every minute counts 分秒必爭

Every minute counts, and every moment counts.

Meaning

Time is very important.

Examples:

Every minute counts , as the test is very important

分秒必爭,因為這個測驗非常重要。

Every minute counts, and Every moment counts.

Fig. time is very important. (Used especially in situations where time is very limited.)

Examples:

Doctor, please try to get here quickly. Every minute counts.

When you take a test, you must work rapidly because every minute counts.

When you're trying to meet a deadline, every moment counts.

start from scratch這個短語的含義     (epochtimes.com)

例句-

He started from scratch with a small chicken restaurant down south. But he worked hard, had some luck and now Kentucky Fried Chicken is sold around the world.

“肯德基炸雞店”的創辦人白手起家，從南方的一家路邊小餐館做起。他既勤奮又有運氣，發展成今天行銷全球的肯德基炸雞。

scratch這個詞在start from scratch這個習慣用語裡意思。整個短語的意思是“從零開始”，“白手起家”。

start from scratch  白手起家
---

to start from the very beginning; to start from nothing.

Ex:
1. I built every bit of my own house. I started from scratch and did everything with my own hands.

2. So these images are entirely unlabeled, so i have to start from scratch.

這些圖片完全沒有標題，我必需從零開始。

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周六(2/18) 1.被遺忘的性格2. 旅遊安全/巴士車禍 4:00pm--6:00pm

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被遺忘的性格

The majority of people are neither introverts nor extroverts, but 'ambiverts' 

 (businessinsider.com  Tanya Lewis)

Some people like to unwind by partying with friends, while others prefer a quiet night alone. But a third group of people tilt either way, depending on their mood.

There's a name for these introvert-extrovert hybrids: ambiverts. And as many as two-thirds of us fall into this category, some research suggests.

Extroversion and introversion lie on a spectrum. But while we mostly hear about the extremes, experts have recently taken an interest in those in the middle, who could have an advantage in the workplace.

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung popularized the concepts of extroversion and introversion in the early 1920s. Jung also identified a third group at that time, but didn’t give it a name. Psychologists didn't start using the term "ambivert" until the 1940s.

According to psychologists, extroverts like surrounding themselves with people and being the center of attention. They often get bored or restless when left on their own. On the other hand, introverts prefer being alone, or with just one other person or a small group of people. They find being around crowds draining.

But ambiverts share traits of both extroverts and introverts, and can move effortlessly between the two categories.

"It is like they’re bilingual," Daniel Pink, an author and host of Crowd Control, a TV series on human behavior, told The Wall Street Journal. "They have a wider range of skills and can connect with a wider range of people in the same way someone who speaks English and Spanish can."

If you want to know if you're an ambivert, you can take this test, developed by Pink, who has studied ambiversion.

Not only do ambiverts exist, but they may be better at certain types of jobs, especially sales, studies suggest. For example, a 2013 study looked at 340 representatives at a call center. The researchers had the employees fill out a personality test, then kept track of their sales revenue for the next three months. Those employees who brought in the most revenue per hour scored exactly halfway between extrovert and introvert on the personality test.

Ambiverts may also be better at introverts and extroverts at understanding other people's emotions, an ability that could make them better parents and spouses, according to Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Ambiverts sometimes find it hard to know which side of their personality to follow, which can leave them feeling stuck, Grant said.

To the majority of us who fall into this middle category, Grant offered this advice: "Read each situation more carefully," he told the Wall Street Journal, "and ask yourself, 'What do I need to do right now to be most happy or successful?'"

Q:

Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert person?

Pros and cons of an introvert person?

Pros and cons of an extrovert person?

In your opinion, what types of jobs suit for an introvert person?

In your opinion, what types of jobs suit for an extrovert person?

Is it good being the center of attention?

Do you prefer to surround yourself with people, or being alone?

旅遊安全/巴士車禍

Tour bus crashes in Taiwan, killing at least 32         uk.reuters.com

At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed near Taipei on Monday night, with television footage showing the bus careening towards a road barrier before flipping on its side.

Of 44 people on the bus, 30 were pronounced dead at the scene and two died in hospital, the fire department said, adding that 12 people were still being treated in hospitals around Taipei, the capital.

Many of the passengers were elderly, although the age range was early 20s to late 60s, according to city authorities.

The trip had been arranged by the Tieh Lien Hua Travel Agency, according to Taiwan's tourism bureau.

An official with the agency said the tourists were "likely" all from Taiwan, but that it was still looking at passenger information.

"We are making efforts to help with the emergency response and will fully cooperate," Chou Chi-hung told Reuters by telephone.

It was unclear what caused the crash. Local television showed a video of the bus shot from behind flipping onto its side and skidding towards the hillside after it hit a road barrier when negotiating a highway interchange curve.

Ambulances and fire trucks were lined up along the bend of the road as rescue workers used a crane to lift the battered bus from its wheels, after all the passengers were pulled from the wreckage.

"Prosecutors need to get on the site," said cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung on live TV.

Also In World News

The crash is the latest accident involving tour buses in Taiwan. Earlier this month, another Taiwanese tour bus carrying Chinese tourists crashed into a bridge in southern Taiwan, injuring some passengers.

It followed a grisly murder-suicide last year in which 24 Chinese tourists were killed after the driver set their moving bus on fire.

Q:

What do you think the news reported that tour bus crashes in Taiwan, killing at least 32?        

What are the pros and cons tour bus travel?

How can I find out if my tour bus is safe to ride?

How to avoid a car accident?

What are tips to avoid driving tired?

What to do when a bus on fire?

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