Not giving a fuck ##Eric Day 3分享

## Eric Day3分享

Chapter 2 （Part1)

✅内容补充

作者说他写这本书是想提醒大家: It’s ok to feel bad. It’s important to feel bad. You should allow yourself to feel bad. 这个观点是佛教的核心观点，也是The Road Less Travelled by一书的主要观点。

这一章本来应该是这本书的chapter1，后来调整到成chapter2。作者说这是他最喜欢的一章。

✅实用表达

️ the dog shit caked to the bottom of the social totem pole.

cake在这里表示“凝集成块“

totem pole本身的意思是“图腾柱”，常用来表示一个人的地位。例如我在家里的地位比狗狗还低，我就可以说I’m low man on the (family’s) totem pole.

️ The prince began to notice that this life of suffering **wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be.**

not all that it was cracked up to be是一个习惯表达，表示没有预想的好。

️ We **are wired to **become dissatisfied with whatever we have and satisfied by only what we do not have.

be wired to表示“倾向于“也可以说be hard-wired to, 类似的表达还有be conditioned to, be indoctrinated to, tend to

️ Problems are a **constant** in life.

注意constant在这里是名词，表示“常量” “永恒不变的东西”，类似的表达还有norm。

✅学点语法

️ **There lived** in a palace a king who was going to have a son.

除了there be句型外，there后也可以跟其它动词，常见的有there lived, there remains, there entered, there followed.

️ the prince** ended up** blaming his father for the very things his father had tried to do for him.

end up是个极其实用的表达，表示“到头来” “最终”。它可以这样用: 1) end up+ing 2)end up +名词，例如Eric could have ended up a billionaire. Eric本来可以成为亿万富翁的。 3) end up +介宾短语 例如Eric ended in prison. Eric最终入狱了。

️ he should probably **go do** something else instead.

口语中常会见到两个动词放在一起的情况，一般第一个动词是come或者go，例如这里的go do。可以理解为go to do。

例如常见的表达，我去弄口吃的，就可以说：I’m gonna go grab a bite.

️ Or maybe you even** go so far as to** question your entire interior design philosophy based on your throbbing foot.

go so far as to很好理解，但是我们想不到用它，那就来造个句吧！例如This reading group is helpful, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s great.