Lesson 104

 rep a set = represent a set 表示自己屬於某個幫派的成員

What set are you repping? =What set are you representing? 

Are you repping a set? = Are you representing a set?

You're wearing a bandanna, so I would assume you are repping a set.

你戴著頭巾，所以我認為你在表示你屬於一個幫派

You're repping a set on my turf. 你在我地盤上表幫派

Lesson 103 活在當下

活在當下 有許多種表達方式，例如：

1. Carpe diem.    來自拉丁語的格言
--carpe = enjoy; make use of; seize; use
--diem = day

2. Seize the day.
--seize 抓住，所以   seize the day (抓住當天)就是把握當下之意


3. Live in the present.
-- present 目前或現在，live in the present 活在現在

Lesson 102

1.  Does the allure of distraction shock you?

是分心的誘惑力電到你嗎？

2. They’re starting straight down, completely engrossed in their cellphones.

他們開始一路全神貫注投注在手機上

3. Is Candy Crush rotting our brain?

是方塊寶石遊戲腐壞我們的腦袋嗎

4. You’re always updating and downloading information, trying to consume as much as possible.

你總是在更新及下載資訊，盡可能的消耗時間

5. I put my phone at least an arm’s distance away.

我總是把手機放在離一個手臂遠之處

6. It takes me through a way to unravel from the virtual cord that’s attaching me to my digital device.

它帶我經歷一個過程，從拆掉那個數位裝置與我之間的虛擬連線開始

7. Virgin Glactic plans to shuttle customers into suborbital space for a quarter million dollars each.

Virgin Glactic 計畫接駁顧客至未達地球軌道的太空，每趟要五十萬美金

8. The real money maker will be something called point to point travel, such as traveling by space from London to Singapore in an hour. These ships once they are tested and approved, they could zip people and packages around the globe ultrafast.

真正賺錢的是點到點的旅行，例如搭太空船一小時內從倫敦飛到新加坡，一旦這些太空船經過測試及批准，就可以超快速度在全球迅速有力地移動人們及包裹

9. Point-to-point travel is still in its infancy, and commercial space tourism has yet to find its legs. As it grows, the commercial space industry is having to overcoming the same issues its predecessors like NASA faced: fire, explosions, and losses of life.

點到點的旅行還在發展階段，太空觀光也還在起步階段，隨著發展，太空觀光業免不了要面對前輩如NASA所面對的問題：火燒、爆炸、喪失人命

10. The idea of a race to the moon must have seemed pretty daunting as well.

當時競相登陸月球的想法也似乎是令人怯步的

Lesson 101

1. A buzzword is a word or phrase, such as text neck, that becomes very popular for a period of time.

Buzzword 是流行語或某個領域的行話，例如「簡訊頸」

2. Text neck is the neck pain and damage sustained from looking down at your cell phone or other wireless devices too frequently and for too long.

「簡訊頸」是長時間高頻率的低頭看手機或無線裝置所產生的持續性痠痛或損傷

3. Sleeping in a weird position can give you pain, kinks, or stiffness in your upper back or arms.

睡姿不佳會造成上背或手臂痠痛、扭傷、或僵硬

4. When you sit down, you maybe sort of lean over your table or slump back in the chair.

坐著時你也許會在桌上托腮或猛然背躺椅

5. If you’re looking at this on a mobile device, you’re probably sitting like this: your arms are bumped by your sides, you’re a little hunched over, and your neck even has more of a bend in it.

如果你在看行動裝置，你大概會坐這樣：手臂碰兩側、有點駝背、甚至有點彎頸

6. This is probably causing some pain in your shoulders or between your shoulder blades.

這樣大概會造成肩或肩頰骨痠痛

7. When the head is in a neutral position, your ears are lined up over your shoulders. When you start to move your head a few degrees forward, you start to put more force in torque on the back or the neck.

如果頭保持中立位置，耳朵是齊肩成一直線的。當你頭開始往前傾斜幾度，就會開始施更多力矩於背上及頸部。

8. Over time, you will start to flatten out your natural curve of your neck. That can lead to pressure on disks and nerves.

時間久了，你會開始把頸部的自然曲線弄平，進而壓迫了椎間盤及神經

9. Let’s sit up straight, get good posture, and take a deep breath in. You can find that the respiratory capacity can decrease as much as 30% just based on your body position.

我們來坐直、姿勢端正、深吸一口氣。你會發現呼吸量能降30%，只因為身體姿勢改變。

10.  People complain about gastrointestinal problems. Pressure on the stomach and intestines could increase as the result of that slumped position.

人們抱怨腸胃的問題，過多的胃、腸壓力會導致胃下垂 (slump 下跌、衰退)

Lesson 100

1.      Bitcoin was created in 2009. It can be saved or used to buy merchandise

2009年誕生了比特幣，你可以用它買商品或存起來

2.      The value of a single bitcoin is currently more than 17 thousand dollars.

目前一個比特幣價值超過17000美元

3.      Bitcoin units are generated through a process called mining when computers solve complex math puzzles to create them.

用電腦解出複雜數學謎題就可產生比特幣，這個過程就叫挖礦

4.      Iceland is now the home to an extremely modern endeavor mining for bitcoins.

冰島就是極現代竭盡比特幣挖礦的大本營

5.      It takes this number of computers to stand a realistic chance of mining bitcoins and winning the blockchain battle.

要耗費如此多的電腦來確保比特幣挖礦的機會及贏得區塊鏈之戰

6.      Since January, bitcoin’s value has soared some 450%, so with returns like these you can put up with a bit of noise.

自一月起比特幣值已飆漲了約450%，所以有了這些報酬率，忍受這一點噪音又算什麼

7.      There’s one overriding reason why these bitcoin mines are in Iceland, plentiful, cheat, electricity.

比特幣礦藏之所以在冰島是有個壓倒性原因：豐富、便宜、電力

8.      Ordinary air from outside is drawn in and wafted through computers.

吸進外面的空氣再飄盪過電腦

9.      Bitcoin has most benefits that all the crypto-currencies have.

比特幣具有所有加密電子貨幣擁有的優勢

10.  Iceland is a volatile unforgiving landscape perhaps perfect for bitcoins.

冰島有多變、嚴酷的地形，也許因此而成為完美的比特幣產地

Lesson 99

1.      There’s a battle going on between 2 million Parisians and 1 million Cervera knights who commute into the city each day.

一場兩百萬巴黎人與一百萬Cervera市區通勤族的角力戰正進行中

commute into the city通勤到市區

2.      Fewer people are commuting using suburban trains because service is deteriorating.

較少通勤族使用都市火車，因為服務品質倒退中

deteriorate衰退

3.      Trains on some lines are delayed because of breakdowns and strikes.

有些火車路線延誤是因為故障及罷工

4.      Maintenance costs went through the roof.

維修成本高上天

go through the roof穿過屋頂

5.      Old bicycle rental stations are being ripped out to make room for a new higher tech bike sharing scheme.

舊自行車出租站被拆掉，為了 騰出空間，落實新的高科技單車共享計畫

6.      One cleric has called theaters a depravity.

一個神職人員稱戲院為墮落

7.      They’ve set to compete in bobsledding.

他們已準備好要參加連橇賽

8.      Facing the threat of ISIS, they demonstrated great resilience.

面對ISIS威脅，他們展現了強大的適應力

9.      Fear shouldn’t be something that handicaps your ideas.

不應該讓恐懼阻礙你的念頭

10.  She was born in the US to Nigerian parents.

她是出生在美國的奈及利亞裔

Lesson 98

1.      A road hog takes up too much of the road.

路霸占據太多馬路空間   

hog：(n) 食用豬、自私貪婪者；(v) 霸佔、自私攫取

2.      It’s not fun if someone is tailgating your vehicle.

如果有人在後面逼車就不好玩了

3.      Local governments have laws that make some acts of road rage illegal.

地方政府定有處罰在馬路上暴走的行為

4.      When drivers slow down on a road to look closely at a wreck or something else eye-catching as they’re passing, they’re rubbernecking.

當駕駛放慢車速看車禍或吸引注意的事，他們就是在伸長脖子圍觀

5.      You can lower the tailgate and sit on it.

你可以拉下車後擋板，坐在上面

6.      In the US, tailgate parties are common at large sporting events or music shows.

在美國，車尾派對是大型運動比賽或音樂表演時常見的聚會

7.      If you spend time with friends in a large parking lot before a rock concert or a big game, you’re still tailgating.

如果你只是跟朋友聚在一個演唱會或運動賽前的一個停車場，也算是參與車尾派對

8.      A tailgater is someone who drives much too close to the back of your car.

那個緊跟在你車後的駕駛就是逼車者

9.      Tailgating is sometimes the cause of many rear-end accidents.

逼車有時會造成前後車的意外車禍

10.  Road hogs sometimes drive in two lanes of traffic and may not let other motorists pass them.

路霸有時開在兩線道中間而且還不讓其他汽車駕駛越過

Lesson 97

1.      The bumper protects the front and back of a vehicle.

保險桿保護前後車部位

2.      The fender protects the front wheels.

擋泥板保護前輪

3.      If your car hits someone else’s car and causes a small amount of damage, we call it a fender-bender.

如果你的車撞到別人的，而造成小損傷，我們叫擦撞 (小車禍)

4.      Sorry, I’m late. The traffic was bumper to bumper.

抱歉我遲到了，交通擁擠堵塞

5.      It is still home to the old US airstrip.

它仍是美國的舊小型機場

6.      As the chicks passed away, carcasses lay here.

小雞死了之後，屍體就躺這裡了

7.      When we see an animal that relies on a wide swath of the ocean for survival struggling to deal with plastic ingestion, it should be a warning sign to us.

當我們看見一隻動物靠著一大片海洋生存掙扎於應付這些塑膠物的攝取，就應覺察到警訊

8.      This myriad of tiny brightly colored specks are not corals. They’re micro-plastics.

這些無數的亮色微粒不是珊瑚，而是塑膠微粒

9.      Suction them up and concentrate them.

把它們吸入並濃縮

10.  Despite being as far from civilization as you can get, civilization has imposed itself here.

儘管距離文明還遙遠，文明已影響了這裡 (impose 強加於…；施以影響) 

Lesson 96

1.      These plastics float miles to end up on the shores and inside the blubber of these seals.

這些塑膠漂流幾哩到海岸及海豹體內的油脂裡

2.      The island has over half a million acres of submerged reef.

島上有超過五十萬畝以上的海底礁石

3.      We can only fly on a charter jet from Honolulu.

我們只能坐小包機從Honolulu飛過來

4.      The birds swarm the sky in daylight.

白天的天空擠滿了鳥類

5.      It’s so pristine that you almost don’t want to touch it or disturb it.

清新到你不想去碰它或打擾

6.      You can even see a plastic mannequin’s head on the beach.

你甚至可以在海灘上看到塑膠模型人頭

7.      Albatross chicks swoop into the sea to catch their sea-life prey.

脆弱的小信天翁俯衝到海裡抓海生獵物

8.      Their bodies join a mulch of plastic debris that’s just washed ashore.

他們身體被連上了一層覆蓋物，那是才剛被沖上岸的塑膠碎粒

9.      The amount of plastic must be taking its toll on the threatened birds.

這些塑膠量必定是威脅著鳥類而造成負面影響 (付出代價)

10.  Fragile albatross chicks mistake the plastic bits floating in the sea to be fish.

脆弱的小信翁把海上漂的塑膠片誤以為魚 (mistake A to be B 把A誤以為B)

Lesson 95

1.      It makes your heart leap up.

會讓你的心跳躍

2.      His words made me shudder.

她的話讓我顫慄

3.      Refugees sleep on a flimsy tent floor.

難民睡在輕薄的帳篷地板上

4.      Fish can understand hierarchies, have processes of reconciliation, and be depressed in captivity. They can be treated with anti-depressants.

魚類懂得階級制、能進行調和、被俘虜會沮喪。可以用抗憂鬱藥治療它們。

5.      It took nine torpedoes

使用了九個魚雷

6.      Planes dropped thousands of gallons of fire retardant on the ground.

飛機丟下數千加侖的阻燃劑到地上

7.      On the personal scale, people can reduce the amount of plastics they use.

人們可從自身做起，減少塑膠用量 (scale 體重計)

8.      Use water filter bottles instead of throw-away water bottles.

使用濾水瓶罐而非拋棄式瓶罐

9.      Use reusable fabric shopping bags instead of plastic ones.

使用環保購物袋而非塑膠袋

10.  Use reusable steel drink bottles instead of single-use plastic cups.

使用環保鋼瓶而非一次性塑膠杯

Lesson 94

1.      They’ll have to be approved by a panel.

他們將需要經過評委會批准

2.      As things stand now, 23 million have Aetna insurance.

就目前情況來看，兩千三百萬人擁有Aetna公司的保險

3.      Strep throat is a common illness.

咽喉炎是一種普通疾病

4.      I have the right to turn away your request.

我有權拒絕(不理會)你的要求

5.      They got mad and stormed out.

他們就發怒、衝出去

6.      This isn’t about our artistic expression.

這跟藝術性的表達無關

7.      You can’t practice your right in a way that demeans others or excludes them from public life.

你不能為了行使權力而貶低他人或在公共生活圈裡排擠他們

8.      It would open the door to many forms of discrimination that have long been outlawed.

這樣是打開了長期剝奪他人法律權利的許多歧視現象的大門

9.      You don’t have to be a Renaissance man to buy this sort of drawbridge to the past.

不是要文藝復興式的人才能買這樣的復古移動式吊橋

10.  An additional water feature is a moat point.

還有個水景特色就是護城河

Lesson 92

1.      The laser can burn someone’s retina.

雷射可以燒傷某人的視網膜

2.      On what part of the body would you find the macula, the acqueous humor, and the sclera?

你可在身體的哪個部位找到黃斑、房水、及鞏膜？

3.      How much valuable information could be gleaned from knowing what you’re looking at?

根據你所看的事物當中，可蒐集多少寶貴資訊？

4.      The technology helps us interact with our gadgetry.

這個科技可以幫助我們使用小機件來互動

5.      It emits twin beams of infrared light into the eyes, creating patterns on cornea.

它可以射出紅外光線到我們眼睛，在角膜上造出型態

6.      You haven’t checked the rearview.

你還沒檢視前方視線

7.      Disc jockeys or DJs make an average wage of $36 per hour.

DJ可賺到平均時薪36美元

8.      I can bring it down to any sort of small loop.

我可以把它降到任何小的迴路

9.      For all my gigs, I’ve saved up to come here.

我已存了錢來到這裡，就為了我所有的音樂公演

10.  More and more people try to crack this market.  

越來越多人想要打入這個市場

 crack 猛擊；強行進入