Highlights from Day34

When achievement motivation goes sky-high, it can crowd out originality: The more you value achievement, the more you come to dread failure. Instead of aiming for unique accomplishments, the intense desire to succeed leads us to strive for guaranteed success. As psychologists Todd Lubart and Robert Sternberg put it, “Once people pass an intermediate level in the need to achieve, there is evidence that they actually become less creative.”

1.go sky-high：非常高涨，sky high的意思就是极高的，very high，所以这里并不需要用extremely来修饰，直接用sky high就很传神。而前面加go也可以当作固定搭配来使用。

例句：After the election, prices went sky-high. 选举后，物价飞涨。

2.crowd out：排挤，挤出，字面意义就是从某个群体出剔除出去，to force someone or something out of a place or situation.

例句：Supermarket chains have crowded out the smaller shops. 超市连锁店把小商店挤出了市场。

3.dread：惧怕，担心，to feel anxious or worried about something that is going to happen or may happen.可以与afraid或scare做同义替换。

例句：

害怕：He dreaded the prospect of being all alone in that house. 他害怕今后要独自一人生活在那房子里。

担心：I’ve got an interview tomorrow and I’m dreading it. 明天我要去面试，我正担心呢。

4.strive for：strive为努力、奋斗的意思，是个比较正式的表达，to make a great effort to achieve something. 通常的搭配为strive to do sth或者strive for/after sth.

例句：We must continue to strive for greater efficiency. 我们必须继续为提高效率而努力。

5.intermediate：中级的，中等水平的，have more than a basic knowledge of sth but not yet advanced; suitable for sb who is at this level.

比如说：an intermediate skier/student