2009年8月28日 星期五

Studio Classroom- August 19- [Psychology] Improve Your Business With Bricks


【Chat Room】
  • 本日討論例句成語:at its heart
  • heart: 心臟,中心,核心
  • at its heart 問題的根源,事情的核心
    - This phrase is talking about the core or the most important part of something, so in today's article, the phrase is used in connection with LSP, and the article goes on to talk about what's this process is all about or what's the core of this process.
  • [同義] the heart of the matter
    - The phrase is talking about getting into the most important part of something.
  • There are some other idioms with the word "heart":
  • take heart 用來鼓勵他人,幫忙加油打氣
    - This is a phrase we can use to encourage someone be confident or brave.
    - ex: Take heart! 振作起來,再接再勵
    [比較] take to heart 聽進去,銘記在心
    - means to take something seriously and to be affected by it
    - ex: If someone gives me tips about how to be a better tennis player, and I'll take that information to heart, so I'll try to follow the advice I was given.
  • with all one's heart 全心全意的
    - ex: I play tennis with all my heart, means I put a lot of efforts into play tennis.
    [比較] with half a heart 半心半意的,隨隨便便的,興趣不大的
    - means you're not putting for very much efforts
    = halfhearted adj.
    - discribe someon who doesn't give much of efforts

【Language Tips】

  1. fan n. 愛好者;(運動,電影的)迷
    ex:
    1. Many baseball fans stayed up all night to watch Chien-Ming Wang play last night.
    2. Marco is a big fan of sci-fi movies. He has the whole collection of "Star Trek" movies.
  2. popular adj. 受歡迎的,流行的
    popularity n.(例2)
    ex:
    1. The band "Wham" used to be very popular in the 80's.
    2. The scandal really hurt the singer's popularity.
  3. process n. 過程
    ex:
    1. The process of learing is actually more important than the result.
    2. Learning how to drive is a painful process for me.
    3. The doctor used some medicine to speed up the healing process.

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