#Word&Expression#

1. loose end：部分沒完成

parts of something that have not been completed or correctly done

原文：That still left one loose end, however:perhaps the taxi drivers in the studies had started out....

例句：Weve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up

2.thoroughfare n.主要大街

the main road through a place such as a city or village

原句：To start with, there is no grid of thoroughfares that can be used for orientation.

例句：The motel was off the main thoroughfare.

拓展：no thoroughfare禁止通行?

3.unfathomable a.深不可測的

too strange or mysterious to be understood

4、More to the point? 說的更確切些

what is more importantWhen did she leave, and, more to the point, why

原文：the size of the hippocampus is quite flexible in at least some species of birds … / more to the point…

5.tweak v.稍稍改進

to make small changes to a machine, vehicle, or system in order to improve the way it works

原句：Everyone understood that there had to be tweaks here and there.

例：Maybe you should tweak a few sentences before you send in the report.

#Thoughts#

今天閱讀部分作者通過一些實驗來分析大腦適應性。盲人和聾啞人因為身體某一部分技能的喪失，使得他們在另一方面有過人之處。大腦的適應性超乎我們的想象，其實人的潛力本身就是一個未解之謎，身體的缺陷，我們可以通過取長補短的方式不斷訓練，改變大腦的思考方式！練習是潛移默化的，不斷的練習時間會告訴我們一切皆有可能！跳出進步變緩的舒適區，學會去挑戰，挑戰所謂的人類極限。此時失敗并非做不到而是時機不成熟而已。初來乍到的小學生，默默翻看完大家互相的點評，收獲頗豐！學習的動力因環境而加深并且付諸行動，我知道自己的不足，但好在在路上。