英文学习记录3.19-3.23

116. predict with 77 percent accuracy/ the prediction's accuracy 

117. attune to his needs 

attune to 使调和 adjust or accustom to

118. when he fell into one of his self-hating moods, he didn't withdraw or lash out.

withdraw: to become quieter and spend less time with other people 脱离(社会);不与人交往

lash out: 大肆宣泄

119. They simply had no experience with some of the things he was going through.

120. High school is a machine for social sorting. The purpose of high school is to give young people a sense of where they fit into the social structure. 

social sorting 社会分类

121. People have a tendency to form groups, even on the basis of the most arbitrary characteristics imaginable, and when groups are adjacent, friction will arise. 

arbitrary 随意的,任性的

adjacent 相邻;邻近的

friction 摩擦


122. Life was dominated by a universal struggle for admiration. 

struggle for 为…而斗争;拼争

clique 派系; <贬>小集团,小圈子

123. Social life absorbed his most intense energies. Fear of exclusion was his primary source of anxiety. 

124. Socialization is the most intellectually demanding and morally important thing they will do in high school.

125. He was growing secure enough in his identity to wander and enjoy people of all sorts.

social rituals 社会礼节,规矩

126. We are naturally drawn to the unusual。

127. set her up with their boyfriends' less attractive friends. 

set sb up with sb 牵线搭桥

128. The parts of the brain we use for social cognition are different than the parts that we use for thinking about objects, abstractions, and other sorts of facts.

129. No more than 5 percent of a person's emotional perceptiveness can be explained by the sort of overall cognitive intelligence we track with an IQ score.

perceptiveness 洞察力、理解力

130. When times are dark, when the suffering is unbearable...

131. Her eyes would well up.

132. As a result of hormonal surges, boys and girls begin to react differently to stress. Girls react more to relationship stress, and boys, with ten times more testosterone pumping around in their bodies, react to assaults on their status. Both have a tendency to freak out at the oddest moments. 

testosterone [teˈstɑ:stəroʊn] 睾酮

assault 攻击; 袭击

133. The only point of being a teacher is to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline.

Discipline: 训练;训导;纪律;风纪  the practice of training people to obey rules and orders and punishing them if they do not; the controlled behaviour or situation that results from this training.

134. Much unconscious learning is done through imitation. 

135. She forced them to make mistakes. The pain of getting things wrong and the effort required to overcome error creates an emotional experience that helps burn things into the mind.

136. The act of retrieving knowledge for a test strengthens the relevant networks in the brain. 

137. The pleasure you get when you work hard, suffer a bit, and then clicks. 

138. Her enthusiasm was contagious. 

139. The quickest learning comes from face-to-face tutoring. 

140. Creativity comes when two disparate fields crash in one mind, like two galaxies merging in space. 

141. She was a teacher by day and, less successfully but not less important, a singer-songwriter by night. 

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