PART1 Words and Expressions

1.deploy

verb.? ① (technical術語) to move soldiers or weapons into a position where they are ready for military action 部署，調度（軍隊或武器）

? 例：At least 5000 missiles wre deployed along the border. 沿邊境至少部署了5000枚導彈。

? ? ???? ?②（formal正式) to use something for a particular purpose, especially ideas, arguments 利用，調動（尤指想法、論據等）

? 例：to deploy arguments 利用論據

原文：Long-term memory doesn't have the same limitations---in fact, no one has ever found the upper limits of long-term memory--- but it takes much longer to deploy.

仿寫練習：You can deploy your idea to deal with this problem.

2.hone

verb.① to develop and improve sth,especially a skill,over a period of time 磨煉，訓練（尤指技藝）

例：She honed her debating skills at college. 她在大學時便練就了辯論技巧。

? ? ? ?② to make a blade sharp or sharper 磨（刀）；把（刀）磨快

原文：For my dissertation I had honed a psychological research tool called "the think-aloud protocol" that was designed specifically to study such mental processes.

仿寫練習：I run every day to hone my stamina.?

3.audacity

/?:'d?s?ti/ noun. brave but rude or shocking behaviour 魯莽；大膽無禮

例：He had the audacity to say I was too fat. 他竟敢說我太肥胖。

原文：That someone would have had the imagination and the audacity to suggest it in the first place.

仿寫練習：He had the audacity to hit me.

4.sloppy

adj.① not done carefully or thoroughly 馬虎的，不仔細的，草率的

例：sloppy thinking 不認真思考

????? ② sloppy clothes are loose-fitting, untidy,or dirty （衣服）寬松的，不整潔的，邋遢的

?例： Ann was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater. 安穿了一件邋遢的棕色毛衣。

? ? ? ③ expressing feelings of love too strongly and in a silly way 癡情得可笑的，肉麻的

?例：The film is a sloppy romance. 這是一部肉麻的愛情片。

? ? ? ④ not solid enough 不夠結實的，軟塌塌的

例：sloppy jelly 軟塌塌的果凍

原文：Today teachers offer those same performances--sloppy and marred by missed notes.

仿寫練習：Your work is sloppy.

5.harness

noun.① a set of leather bands used to control a horse or to attach it to a vehicle it is pulling (馬 的)挽具，馬具

? ? ? ? ② a set of bands used to hold someone in a place or to stop them from falling (把人固定在一處或防止其墜落的）系帶

?????? 例： a safety harness 安全帶

【IDM】in harness ( 尤指休息或假期結束后)做正常工作

? 例：I felt glad to be back in harness. 我很高興又回來正常工作了。

verb.① to put a harness on a horse or other animal; to attach a horse or other animal to sth with a harness 給（馬等）上挽具；用挽具把....套到....上

? ? ? ? ② to control and use the natural force or power of something 控制（利用）自然力等

?例：We must harness the skill and creativity of our workforce. 我們必須盡量發揮全體職工的技能和創造力。

原文：The answer is that the most effective and most powerful types of practice in any field work by harnessing the adaptability of the human body and brain to create,step by step, the ability to do things that were previouslly not possible.

仿寫練習：We attempt to harness the sun's rays as a source of energy.

PART2 Thoughts

今天第一次嘗試讀全英文的書，但是讀的不是特別明白，我自己還是不能更清楚的了解框架，讀著讀著就跑到細節上了，好在這本書是在講述例子。

我對今天的理解就是有兩點：第一，就是要堅持，只有持續練習才能有突破。第二，就是要有大量的練習。這也是在闡述一個由量變到質變的過程吧。其他的沒有讀太懂，有空再回看看。

不過今天在書中學到的了很多關于網球類的詞匯：

tennis outfits? 網球套衣?????????????? racket 球拍

court shoes 網球鞋???????????????????? serve （動詞）發球

sweatband 防汗帶??????????????stroke 擊（球），打法???? backhand strokes 學習基本的反手擊球法