本月的目标：对这本书的理论我比较熟悉，也有一些体会，所以跟上月相比，会多一些对英文学习的关注
Words and Expressions
1. delve into the nuts and bolts
原文：I have delved into the nuts and bolts of what they do and how they do it.
delve into sth: 探究;钻研；If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.
nuts and bolts：the basic, practical details of a job or other activity
对通用的机械产品来说，螺母和螺栓是组成的基础零件，虽小，但有时候我们可能凭借这些小细节判断产品的优劣。这里nuts and bolts的意思是：具体细节，基本要素
造句：He is the one who cares about the nuts and bolts of tasks.
2. perfect pitch
pitch这个词有多种词义，在阅读中会经常碰到，但也不用刻意去背字典里的意义，读原版书多了，就会很自然掌握它的各种意思。
在这里是the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone 音高
3. up one's sleeve
原文：But Mozart has another trick up his sleeve that is, if anything, even more surprising to the people of his era.
(of a strategy, idea, or resource) kept secret and in reserve for use when needed
作为锦囊妙计的; 心中另有高招
If you have something up your sleeve, you have an idea or plan which you have not told anyone about. You can also say that someone hasan ace, card, ortrick uptheirsleeve.
He was new to the game but had a few tricks up his sleeve.
他虽不熟悉这项运动, 却自有锦囊妙计。
Introduction
你是否跟我一样羡慕天才？让我们一起揭开天才的秘密
看到作者提到perfect pitch这个例子的时候。我想起初中音乐课，我们有听声辩音课（绝对音高），最基本的练习是老师弹一个单音，告诉你是什么音（比如是1)，然后再弹第二个音，你需要准确说出这什么音。我基本上属于完全蒙圈中，没写过对几个音，但是我闺蜜简直就是天才，每个音都能写对。当时，我崇拜死她了，后来才知道她在学钢琴，但我没有意识到这是长期训练的结果，一直以为我是音肓，她有天份。
作者说完美音高不是天赋，那什么是天赋？你能创造拥有完美音高的这种能力是天赋，而且这种天赋几乎是每个人与生俱来的。这与我们的通常认知是不相符的。
“In short, perfect pitch is not the gift, but, rather, the ability to develop perfect pitch is the gift—and, as nearly as we can tell, pretty much everyone is born with that gift.
“...but the general belief was that no amount of practice would help if you didn’t have the right genes to start with.”
关于这本书
1. This is a book about the gift that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sakakibara’s schoolchildren, and Ray Allen all shared—the ability to create, through the right sort of training and practice, abilities that they would not otherwise possess by taking advantage of the incredible adaptability of the human brain and body.
2. Furthermore, it is a book about how anyone can put this gift to work in order to improve in an area they choose.
3. And finally, in the broadest sense this is a book about a fundamentally new way of thinking about human potential, one that suggests we have far more power than we ever realized to take control of our own lives.
以上是这本书的三个方面：天才的能力可以通过正确的训练获得，如何在你选择的专业领域发挥才能，意识到我们拥有无限潜能来掌控我们的人生。
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