晨讀的第一天，寒假第一次五點起床，心情很好~早睡才是王道~
小屁孩日記特別有趣，表達不貪多，消化了才是王道~
很幸運在eric的帶領下，和大家一起晨讀小屁孩~今天沒有分析語音，主要的問題是注意下語調，不要一直是青少年的上升調~
Review
1.the world doesn't?revolve around?me (=you are not the most important person in the world).世界不圍著你轉
2.creepy creeps 令人不安害怕的討厭鬼/奇怪的人
3. If you tune in to a television or radio station, you watch or listen to it. 調到某一頻道（電視 收音機）
? stay tuned請不要走開（別換臺）
? what am I up to 你要干什么啊（偏向壞事）You are up to no good. 你肯定要做是呢嘛壞事
4.give sb a good chuckle 讓...偷笑/低聲輕笑 ? every now and then 時不時的 entertainment 娛樂圈
5.I'm in on the secret 我知道了一個秘密！介詞的妙用
6.The game is rigged.被不正當手段操控
7.juicy steak/ story/ gossip 多汁的牛肉/ 繪聲繪色的故事/八卦
8.see sb in a whole new light. 從一個全新的視角去看 很有啟發
9.sth is a sham 是個假象
10.catchphrase=buzzword 熱詞金句
11.washed-up celebrities事業失敗的名人 ?autograph convention 簽售會 make a cheap buck 賺輕松錢
12.bump up & mushroom代替increse
13.sth is anyone's guess 誰也說不準 誰也不確定
Words and Phrases
1.revolve around
(1)?to move around (sth) in a path that is similar to a circle [v] 以...為中心，繞某物轉
The planets?revolve around?the sun. 行星繞太陽轉
(2) to have (sb/sth) as a main subject or interest [v] 圍繞...
My parents are always saying the world doesn't revolve around me （=you are not the most important person in the world）,but some time I wonder if it actually DOES.
2.creep?
creepy [adj] 令人緊張不安的;令人毛骨悚然的 make you feel very nervous or frightened ?creep [v] move quietly and slowly躡手躡腳地移動前進?
[n] a strange person who you strongly dislike討厭鬼?
Leave me alone, you?creep?! [=jerk,weirdo]
3.tune
[v] If you tune in to a particular television or radio station or programme, you watch or listen to it.收聽收看 tune in 調到這個頻道（電視/廣播）
But then I realized that if millions of people are tuning in every day to see what I'm up to (做什么，有不好的傾向) ,that's actually kind of cool.
More than six million youngsters tune in to Blockbusters every day...每天有 600 多萬年輕人收看“熱門大片”這檔節目。
Stay tuned請不要走開（別換臺）
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be up to
4.a good chuckle
chuckle: laugh quietly [v n]低聲輕笑;偷笑
I try to do sth entertaining every now and then?to give the people watching at home a good chuckle.
every now and then 時不時的
entertaining[?ent?r?te?n??] ?entertainment娛樂圈
5.be in on the secret
be in on the secret 我知道了一個秘密 ? ?let sb in on the secret 我告訴你一件事啊，別和別人說啊
英文有介詞表示動詞用途，要多多留心！
You are so on today.你今天比較興奮 ? ?You are not so on today 你今天不太對勁啊
6.Rig
(以不正當的手段)操縱，控制(選舉、工作任命或比賽等
But sometimes I wonder how much of my life is REAL and how much of it is RIGGED.
rigged 發音 [r?gd]
7. juicy
(1) [adj] 多汁的；汁液豐富的；If food is juicy, it has a lot of juice in it and is very enjoyable to eat.
a thick, juicy steak.厚實而多汁的牛排
(2) [adj] 流言或故事生動的，繪聲繪色的，尤指涉及隱私的；Juicy gossip or stories contain details about people's lives, especially details which are normally kept private
the juicy gossip 非常八卦的流言蜚語? ?juicy details 繪聲繪色的細節
If it's all fake, the least the people in charge can do is give me some juicier story lines to work with.小屁孩要求給些更有料的臺詞（Story lines臺詞）
8.light
[n] 角度；事物呈現的狀態；If something is presented in a particular light, it is presented so that you think about it in a particular way or so that it appears to be of a particular nature.
If my brother Rodrick is actually just some guy getting PAID to act like a jerk,then that makes me see him in a whole new light. 從一個全新的視角去看 很有啟發
9.sham
[n] Something that is a sham is not real or is not really what it seems to be.假象;虛偽;虛假
If this is all a sham,then I deserve to get paid for my time and effort. 小屁孩想，如果他爸媽也只是演員的話，如果這一切都是一個假象....
10.catchphrase
(常指名人常說的) 時髦話，流行語，金句 ?（同義詞 buzzword）?
On most TV shows, the main character has a catchphrase?that they say at least once per episode.
Later on I'm gonna slap my catchphrase on every piece of merchandise I can think of? and wait for money to start rolling in.
slap：put sth on the surface quickly, roughly, or carelessly.(迅速或馬虎地)涂，抹，貼
roll in [v] 紛至沓來;涌現;滾滾而來；If something such as money is rolling in, it is appearing or being received in large quantities.
造句：Duckweed（乘風破浪）, a new film directed by Han Han，has fewer catchphrases when compered with?The Continent（后會無期）.
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灰太狼的金句名言catchphrase
11.washed-up?
徹底失敗的;事業到頭的 If you say that someone is washed up, you mean that their career or success has ended.
I'll not gonna end up as one of those washed-up celebrities who sells pictures at autograph conventions just to make a cheap buck.
autograph convention 名人親筆簽名+會議→簽售會
buck是money的口語表達? make a cheap buck 賺快錢、輕松錢
12.bump up
激增快速(mushroom 迅速成長 大量涌現) ?可用來替代雅思小作文的increase
But in the last season they usually introduce a new pet or cute kid to bump up the ratings.
The VR industry has mushroomed over the past decade...在過去10年里，VR產業迅速成長。
13.sth is anyone's guess
誰也說不準 誰也不確定
it's anyone's guess how he'll cover living, 誰都不知道他要怎樣才能負擔起生活的各種花銷。
Summary
Although his parents? always tell Greg that the world doesn't?revolve around?him,which means he is not the MVP in the world,Greg wonders if it actually does.
After seeing the movie calledThe Truman Show,he has kind of suspected that he is also secretly being filmed by a bunch of?creeps.It?is anyone's guess?that whether we are Trumans.?Sometimes he is afraid that all the things around him are?shams?and he has no idea whether his life is real or?rigged. And he figured out it is cool that millions of people are?tuning in?every day to see?what he is up to.
In order to give people?a good chuckle,he comes up with some?juicy story lines every now and then.For example,sometimes he will let us know he?is in on the secret. Unlike those?washed-up ?celebrities who sell pictures on?autograph convention?to a?make cheap buck,he is kind of thinking waiting for money to start?rolling in, by selling different types of merchandise on which his?catchphrase ( buzzword ) is slapped.
