Day 2
Part 1 Words and phrases
1.Now I was becoming exasperated.
Exasperate: to annoy or irritate sb very much使烦恼；使恼怒；激怒
e.g. Being bombarded with boring questions by somebody, I was exasperated.
2. For my fourth attempt, I resorted to fear and threat.
Resort: (1)to make use of sth, especially sth bad, as a means of achieving sth, often because there is no other possible solution 诉诸；求助于；依靠
e.g. I felt obliged to resort to violence to get my money back.
(2) a place where a lot of people go on holiday / vacation 旅游胜地；度假胜地:
e.g. In summer, people always go to a seaside resort to take their vacations.
3. It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.
Sidesteps: to avoid answering a question or dealing with a problem回避,规避(问题等)
e.g. As we can see, a great number of stars always neatly sidestep the questions that people want to know.
4. And for a while we can get by with it----at least in public.
Get by (with sth): to manage to live or do a particular thing using the money, knowledge, equipment, etc. that you have
e.g. After learning French for three months, I can get by with it.
5. I've seen unhappy marriages where each spouse wants the other to change, where each is confessing the other's "sins," where each is trying to shape up the other.
Shape up: to improve your behaviour or your work
e.g. My mother warned me to shape up, otherwise I could not go to play games.
Part 2 Thoughts
And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are. We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.
看到这句的时候，还是挺有感触的，我们所看到，所理解的总与我们是什么样的人息息相关，比如说一个和悲观的人，他会总是对各种各样的事情不满意，抱以消极的看法。只有改变他自身的态度，自身悲观的性格特征，他才能看到不一样的世界。
It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
这一段真的让自己挺有感触的，如果想要拥有好的婚姻，快乐合作的孩子，更多的自由，被信任等等，那么就从自己开始做起，而不是去期待别人为你做这些，为你而改变。被动等待不如主动改变，从自己开始，改变心态，改变不好的地方，只有这样自己才会获得想要的，拥有更好的。
Part 3 Accumulating a good sentence
A thousand mile journey begins with the first step.
千里之行，始于足下
每天脚踏实地的做好每一件事情，进步一点点，不好高骛远，空想不干，keep it up。
