Not giving a fuck ## Eric Day2分享

## Eric Day2分享

Chapter 1（Part2)

✅实用表达

️ Meanwhile, our credit cards are **maxed out**.

信用卡刷爆了的地道表达就是max out。

️ You will see every adversity as an injustice, every change as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal **slight**, every disagreement as a betrayal.

我们熟悉slight是“轻微”的意思，在这里表示“冷落、蔑视”。它也可以作为动词使用，例如He felt slighted.

️ a calm that **weathers** all storms.

weather显然在这里不是“天气”，在这里表示”渡过“。这种用法在书中出现了4次。下次想表示“经受过”除了用suffer，go through外，就可以用weather。例如经济学人就长用到weather the crisis, weather downturns, weather high unemployment.

️ people who are indifferent are **lame** and scared. They’re couch potatoes and Internet **trolls**.

lame表示“没劲” “无聊”，可以替换boring。

troll这个词本意是长得很丑的怪物，现在常用来表示“喷子”。网上的那些垃圾人就可以叫Internet trolls.

️ Her pension is** on its last legs**.

on one’s legs是一个习惯表达，表示大势已去，玩完了，没戏了。例如This relationship is on its last legs. 这段关系已经快玩儿完了。

️ This is a total mind-fuck. So I'll give you a minute to unpretzel your brain and maybe read that again.

这里的unpretzel你可能不认识，不过没关系，根据语境可以踩到它的意思应该是“解开”的意思。大脑一下子混乱，需要厘清思路。和后面出现的unravel差不多。

️ first-world problems

当你为头发缺少光泽而苦恼时，非洲贫困国家的人却在忍饥挨饿，为明天的粮食发愁，相比之下，你的烦恼是那么无足轻重，这种琐碎的小问题就叫first-world problem（第一世界问题）。

️ And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.

这段话建议背下来。这段话来自Robert Frost的经典诗歌The Road Not Taken。Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.