#写在前面# 这两天的经历的戏剧性可以说顶得上过去一年。先是父母来宁多少要照顾一下，然后年底单位人心惶惶影响到个人的学习效率。备考MBA过程中又产生了困惑，本来想和过来人交流一下解决问题，结果没想到引发了“到底要不要现在考”的更根本的问题。又因为这个问题导致偶然发现了一个难得的跳槽的好时机，伴随的代价就是我要放弃现在的城市，离开此生最好的朋友，放弃已在这边很可观的金钱投入,感情投入，公司高层领导的认可，还有同事间的温情，甚至要放弃目前的安逸、有趣的生活方式。换来的是回到自己最有归属感的故乡，一个行业前五的标杆企业，一个优秀的带教人，一个自己喜欢的且距离长期职业规划越来越近的岗位。

感谢你们对我的关注和理解，也愿意帮我分担。第四章其实我很早就看完五分之四了，但是最后的五分之一就是怎么都看不懂。直到今天晚上群里的沟通后，踏踏实实的完成了chapter 4的笔记。虽然内容不多，但“天天练习就好，质量是波动曲线”嘛~ 我们一起加油相互扶持走下去(#^.^#)

words

Boil down

to heat a liquid or food so that part of it is turned into gas and its amount is reduced

这个词是把…熬稠的意思，用到文中可以说非常精妙了。这句话的妙只有结合上下文才能体会到。

Eg：What I found instead was a lot of advice that basically boiled down to this: 1.2.3…

造句：The main point of this lesson can be boiled down to this: 1,2,3…

Don’t take it personally

可翻译为“针对，过分自责”，但是这个中文义并不完全确切。举几个例子

Eg: Please. Come on. I'm gonna start taking this personally if you don't try it.

Eg: President Obama said that he doesn't take these things personally and that it seemed like the slur that Duterte used is actually a phrase that he uses a lot and has even used against Pope Francis.

造句：You can speak as casually as you can, I won’t take it personally.

Arduous

=difficult tough hard

Eg: Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the lion went on an arduous journey to the Emerald City.

造句：I will grab any chances to live in Beijing, even though I have to choose an arduous path.

Peer

同类人

通常因难以看清而盯着看，凝视，端详；If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly.

Eg：Whenever I injected humor into my rejection attempts, I felt like I was peering behind the curtain to see the real Wizard, who was harmless and even funny.

造句：The police asked the driver to stop and peered into his car’s window.

Behind

1.可以做介词、副词，表示在…后面

Eg：If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

2.抽象义“重要性次之”

Eg：Prescription drugs, illegally used to get high, are the second most abused type of drug by teens, right behind marijuana.把处方药品非法用来兴奋提神，这是青少年滥用药品的第二种最常用的方式，仅仅次于吸食大麻。

3.作表语，从落在后面转化为“滞后”、“亏欠”

Eg：He was two months behind on his rent.

4. behind作为介词，也可以指某个已经过去、对现在不产生影响的经历。

Eg：That's all behind me. 这些全都是已经过去的事情了。

5.behind某人，可以从物质上的“在其后面”（静态）或“到其后面”（动态）转义为抽象的“支持”（静态）或“转而支持”（动态）。一般用在政治话题中。

句型：

It’s rarely the case that… 很少有这样的情况

It’s rarely the case that our lives are in danger.

造句：It’s rarely the case that a person is liked by everyone.

What exactly is…?…究竟是什么？

What exactly is engineering management?