recipe

recipe：a way of doing something that will produce a particular result.方法，秘诀，诀窍，原因

a recipe for success/happiness/failure/disaster/chaos

1.Good ideas with great execution are a recipe for success.

2.Ambition without action is a recipe for failure.

3.Eating nutrition-rich food is a recipe for good health.

nutrition-rich

4.In a country where one chamber of the legislature is based on population and the other on territory, this division is a recipe for gridlock, poor governance and, eventually, disenchantment with the political system itself.

生词：1.gridlock

legislative gridlock

recipe

2.disenchantment

recipe

《牛津英语搭配词典》中的常用搭配

1.adj.+recipe

secret/family/tasty/good recipe

2,v.+recipe

have/offer/give/find/follow a recipe

翻译： 

学好英语的诀窍是要有强烈的学习和练习意愿。

A strong willingness to learn and practice is the recipe for English fluency.

造句:Coal burning is a recipe for smog in Changchun.

The lack of parental company is a recipe for kid's addiction to the Internet.

今天还学习了一个表达原因的句型:

the genesis of … lurks in …

It may seem surprising to assert that the genesis of the next crisis is probably lurking in corporate debt. Profits have been growing strongly. Companies in the S&P 500 index are on target for a 25% annual gain once all the results for the first quarter are published. Some companies, like Apple, are rolling in cash.But plenty are not...

我们可以从中提炼出一个用来分析原因的写作句式：The genesis of... lurks in...

genesis ['dʒenisis] 指的是the origin of something 起源，也就是某现象形成的“根本原因”，而lurk是“潜伏”的意思，某一现象的诱因潜伏在...，也就是“引起...的原因是...”。

另外还可以表述为：

the factor of... lies in...