最近在读Phil Knight 的自传 Shoe Dog, 作者按照时间的顺序往下写，很有故事性。读了前二十页，就很喜欢。
一. 词和短语
1. wolf down 狼吞虎咽地吃
例句：I drank a cup of coffee, wolfed down a piece of toast.
2. out of the blue 出乎意料地，突如其来地 (informal)
例句：One of them wrote to us out of the blue several years later.
3. devour 狼吞虎咽地吃；如饥似渴地阅读（书中意思）
例句：I'd moved into the library, devoured everything I could find about importing and exporting, about starting a company.
4. nook 房间的角落
例句：I thanked my father and fled the nook before he had a chance to change his mind.
我谢过父亲，在他改变主意钱赶紧逃到角落。（生动）
5. get/ have wind of sth 听到某事的风声，获得某事的风声（informal）
例句：When my grandmother got wind of my itinerary, one item particular appalled her.
6. kimono 和服
7. This time, her silence equaled consent. (equal的使用很简洁。)
8. I must have looked like an escaped mental patient.
我看起来像个精神病人。
二. 喜欢的句子
书中有一些描写作者给自己励志，描述雄心壮志的话，让人心生澎湃。
1. I want to leave a mark on the world.
2. As my young heart began to thump, as my pink lungs expanded like the wings of a bird, as the trees turned to greenish blurs, I saw it all before me, exactly what I wanted my life to be. Play. （类似汉语中因为激动而血脉喷张的意味。）
3. You tell yourself that you're running toward some goal, chasing some rush, but really you run because the alternative, stopping, scares you to death. （根本不敢停下来。）
4. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. ---Lewis Carroll （如果你想去某个地方，必须尽全力去跑。）
喜欢的句子打算背下来，在沮丧的时候给自己打气。
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