【word and expression】

say

But if your challenge is mental—becoming proficient at calculus, say, or learning how to play a musical instrument or speak a new language—it’s different.

››give example 举例

[no passive] to suggest or give sth as an example or a possibility

• 比方说；假设:

[VN]

»You could learn the basics in, let's say, three months.

比方说,三个月你就可以掌握基本知识。

»Let's take any writer, say (= for example) Dickens...

我们随便举一个作家为例,比如说狄更斯…

shade

The subjects were asked to spot a small image against a background that was very similar in shade to the spot.

[C]~ (of sth)a particular form of a colour, that is, how dark or light it is

• 浓淡深浅；色度:

»adelicate / pale / rich / soft shadeof red

淡/浅 / 艳/柔和的红色

compelling

Perhaps the most compelling evidence of this comes from an experiment done in the late 1990s,

adj.that makes you think it is true

• 令人信服的:

»There is no compelling reason to believe him.

没有令人信服的理由让人相信他。

仿写：She wrote a very compelling argument about alien.

irresistible

so London taxi drivers have proved irresistible to psychologists interested in learning and, particularly, in the learning of navigational skills

~ (to sb) so attractive that you feel you must have it

• 极诱人的；忍不住想要的:

»The bright colours were irresistible to the baby.

那些鲜艳的色彩逗得婴儿直想去抓。

造句：It proved an irresistible temptation to me to buy beautiful notebooks.

疑问：

After that, Guinness World Records stopped accepting submissions for the number of pushups done with no rest periods and switched to the most pushups performed in twenty-four hours with resting allowed.为什么不用rest而是resting？

there was no change in the size of the posterior hippocampi among the prospective taxi drivers who had failed to become licensed (either because they simply stopped training or because they could not pass the tests)or among the subjects who had never had anything to do with the taxi training program. 这里的or可以用and吗？

词汇：

biceps 二头肌  triceps 三头肌    delts 三角肌    quadriceps 股四头肌

lats 背阔肌      pecs=pectorals 胸肌    calves 腓肌      abs =abdominals 腹肌

hamstring 腿筋      glutes 臀大肌        acidity/alkalinity 酸性/碱性    lactic acid乳酸

blood glucose level 血糖水平      elasticity弹性plasticity可塑性

optician眼镜商  optometrist验光师  farsightedness/presbyopia远视眼  calculus 微积分

thumbtack 图钉    ring finger无名指  index finger 食指  Braille 盲人用的点字法

感悟：

作者在这一节用伦敦出租车司机、盲人、远视眼患者的例子告诉我们，大脑的适应性是强大的，超乎你的想象。的确，人体可能存在一个极限，但是还没有任何证据证明我们已经发现了这个极限，这么看来，“你的潜能是无限的”这句话并非鸡汤。

反思

大家的笔记都好棒，有自己画表格总结的，有画思维导图的，有感悟写得很吸引人的，有逻辑性很好的，做笔记时我在整理单词短语方面花了大部分时间，电脑上的欧路词典不是专业版有些词典用不了，只能用手机app，在手机和电脑上同步印象笔记来做笔记，到写感悟的时候已经不想动了，只能草草结束。

作为阅读原版书和做笔记的新人，想问下大家每天只查笔记里几个词句吗？还是记了很多只发了规定的数量？因为我每天会记很多个，觉得很费时间，我是继续把不清楚的全都弄懂，还是控制数量放弃一些呢？谢谢大家。