4.1-4.7英语训练总结

从周继续学习TED素材中关于克服胆怯(overcome the stage fright)的文章。

5.So your fingers don't work anymore.Your pupils dilate,your muscles contract,your spidery sense tingles,basically your whole body is trigger-happy.That condition is not conductive to performing folk music.I mean your nervers system is an idiot.Two hundred thousand years of human evolution,and it still can't tell the difference between a saber tooth tiger and 20 folksingers on a Tuesday night open mic?I have never been more terrified-until now.

pupils 瞳孔；dilate 扩大，膨胀； contract  收缩；spidery 蜘蛛一般的；tingle  刺痛；trigger-happy   高度备战状态；conductive  传导的；nervers system 神经系统;evolution  进化； saber 军刀、配剑 ； terrified可怕的，紧张的

6.So then it was my turn,and somehow,I get myself onto the stage,I start my song.I open my mouth to sing the first line,and this completely horrible vibrato-you know.when your voice wavers-comes streaming out.And this is not the good kind of vibrato,like an opera singer has,this is my whole body just convulsing with fear.I mean ,it's a nightmare.I'm embarrassed,the audience is clearly uncomfortable.They're focused on my discomfort.It was so bad.But that was my first real experience as a solo singer-songwriter.

horrible vibrato 可怕的颤音；  waver 摇曳、摆动、犹豫；  convulse 震颤，震动；  embarrassed 尴尬的，窘迫的；focused on 专注；   solo 独奏；

7.And something good did happen-I had the tiniest little glimpse of that audience connection that I was hoping for.And I wanted more.But I knew I had to get past this nervousness.That night I promised myself:I would go back every single week,and sure enough,week after week,it didn't get any better.The same thing happened every week.I couldn't shake it.

glimpse of 瞥见；hoping for 希望；get past 克服，通过

8.And that's when I had an epiphany.And I remember it really well,because I don't have a lot of epiphanies.All I had to do was write a song that exploits my nervousness.That only seems authentic when I have stage fright,and the more nervous I was,the better the song would be.So I started writing a song about having stage fright.

epiphany 顿悟，灵光闪现；exploit 开发，开采；authentic  真正的