閱讀佳句：

  • It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
  • What began years ago in misery . . . will end tonight in glory.
  • The key element of Chinese strategy is to “know your enemy”.
  • Men do the unthinkable when pushed to the brink.
  • You’ve gone over the top!
  • Absorbed in his book; death had crawled out of that cave to grab hold of my sister’s soul.
  • A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
  • Be part of something bigger than yourself
  • Why neanderthals extinction:tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark; they were too familiar to ignore but too different to tolerance；the anxious peasant was as frenetic and hardworking as a harvester ant in the summer; two sides of the same coin; there's a difference between being straightforward and being overly blunt.
  • Change is the end result of all true learning.
  • Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
  • Even the sanest man alive can be driven to lunacy!All it takes is one bad day.
  • The tribe's initial panic seemed to give way to curiosity.
  • Sometimes I wonder will god ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around, and I realize, god left this place a long time ago.
  • Sacrifice was the original ritual by which humans drew favor from the gods and made themselves holy.
  • A mansion guards the headlands above the village.

About love:

  1. Love is becoming a blank that lovers must fill in themselves.
  2. The greatest benefit we owe the artist is the extension of our sympathies.
  3. Love is a better master than duty.

About life:

  1. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  2. Do things which are right, not easy.
  3. Do not forget where you start. The most important thing is you know what not to do rather than what to do.
  4. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
  5. People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism. We hear again and again the romantic myths about how a new experience opened my eyes and changed my life.
  6. Romanticism tell us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.
  7. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
  8. One person’s bargain bin find is another person’s salvation.

About politics:

  1. The middle class can promote stability-but not always. In Latin America, the new middle classes main demand is for better services, from higher education to healthcare and policing. But that doesn’t necessarily imply public services, or a big state and support for the left. They oscillate between let me progress and protect me if I fall.
  2. Risk takers needs backers, good ideas need evangelists, forgotten community needs advocates.
  3. One of the better responses to the threat of scarcity is not to try to slice our pie thinner rather it's to figure out how to make more pies.

About mind:

  1. We have to fight the urge to check the phone.
  2. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Once you are committed to achieve something, it often means jumping out of your comfort zone by acting on tasks you don't naturally like or feel competent in performing.
  3. Information may flow globally but our attention tends to be highly local and tribal.

About critical thinking:

  1. Why not eat meat? The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?
  2. For every complex problem , there is an answer that is clear , simple and wrong.

About Science and Technology

  1. The film, made from transparent plastic embedded with tiny glass spheres, absorbs almost no visible light, yet pulls in heat from any surface it touches. New material, when combined with a mirrorlike silver film, has been shown to cool whatever it sits on by as much as 10°C.
  2. Horizon line is always at the viewer's eye level.

鄉民常用英文：

  1. facepalm：無言…
  2. #TBT：PO出舊照片時使用。
  3. Do you know the monk who talked about karma?（你知道那個在討論業障的法師嗎？）Of course I do. He said that you don’t have to care about your husband’s affair.（我知呀！他還說不用管丈夫的外遇！）That’s savage!（太狂啦！）
  4. MIA/friendly fade/ghosting：某人不想要回覆你或再繼續跟你聯絡，類似「已讀不回」或「神隱」
  5. PAW＝parents are watching：你爸媽現在很火。
  6. Don’t you think earthquakes happens way too often in this area?（你不覺得這地震太頻繁了嗎？）IMO, the excessive rainfall here caused soil liquefaction, causing the earthquakes.（我的觀察啦，應該是因為雨量太多了導致土壤液化，才會造成地震。
  7. TL,DR ＝ Too Long;,Didn’t Read：內容太長了，懶得看、閱、end，這些敷衍的詞句。
  8. for dummy = 給傻子的東西。
  9. ELI5 = explain like I’m 5： 把我當五歲解釋給我聽，表示希望對方要傳遞的訊息可以再簡單一點，要「懶人包」！
  10. DM me if you want to hang out：如果想要晃晃，請密我。
  11. boobstracted：因為看妹而分心=你真的很痴漢。
  12. dox：Search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent.肉搜

實用英文：

  1. The defect loss of the new product is less than 3%. 新產品的不良率在 3% 以下。
  2. 降低成本：lower the cost，或是 keep the cost down、reduce the cost
  3. Don't forget（about）your personal belongings.
  4. I will call your number. After you. 您先請
  5. 「表達情感」的形容詞變化：amazed by (驚訝的), annoyed by (懊惱的), confused by (困惑的), irritated by (激怒的), shocked by (震驚的), disgusted by (反感的), emboldened by (壯膽的), frustrated by (沮喪的), embarrassed by (尷尬的), fascinated by (著迷的), surprised by (驚訝的), exhausted by (筋疲力盡的), perplexed by (困惑的), upset by (煩惱的), humiliated by (羞辱的), convinced by (有說服力的), relieved by (舒緩的), alarmed by (震驚的), offended by (冒犯的), astonished by (震驚的), exuberantly curious (非常好奇)
  6. against usage: Stand against the wall. Our restaurant has a regulation against smoking. Please check the contents of the box against the bill. Lack of experience will generally count against you in an interview.
  7. EMAIL: 1）先說明此信的目的，如果是知會，可以這樣開頭：This message is to update you on…., 如果是請求批准，則可用This message is to seek your approval of….. 2）接著交代背景：Below is the background of….. 3）跟上說明已經做了什麼及取得了什麼效果：In the past two weeks, we took three actions and achieved the following: 4）然後可以講下一步的打算：Here is our plan of the next steps: 5）最後加個結束語，如果是知會，可以說：we will keep you posted on the progress, 如果是請求批准，可以講: we appreciate your approval of this plan before Tuesday July 5th (寫明時間很重要) 。
  8. 商業談判的準備及對競爭對手的行動分析時可分四個小標題： Situation Actions we took Next steps Summary
  9. Risk is the deviation from objectives. Risk is a choice, not a fate. 風險是既定目標的偏差值。每人承擔的風險取決於選擇，而非命中註定。
  10. Very+adj: little – tiny; tasty – delicious; angry – furious; afraid – terrified; hot – boiling; cold – freezing; big – enormous; dirty – filthy; clean – spotless; clever – brilliant; weak – feeble; beautiful – gorgeous; careful – cautious; clear – obvious; detailed – meticulous; deep – profound; easy – effortless; fat – obese; hungry – starving; tired - exhausted.
  11. I would like to develop these photos. 我想要洗這些照片。

縮寫：

OIC：Oh I see. BRB：Be right back BFN：Bye for now LOL：Laughing out loud ASAP：As soon as possible BTW：By the way FYI：For your information JK：Just kidding TTYL：Talk to you later

厘語：

The elephant in the room：心知肚明卻刻意迴避的事物。

IDEAS:

Thaler & Benartzi (2004) introduce a program called Save More Tomorrow, or SMarT, that has four key ingredients. First, employees are asked to increase their contribution rates starting at some point in the considerable future. Second, the plan increases the savings rate only after a nominal raise, so the paycheck amount is not lower than it was in the past. Third, the savings rate continues to increase with each raise until it reaches a preset maximum. Finally, the employees can opt out at any time. Most of these ingredients do not fit the standard notion of an incentive—they do not offer a higher interest rate or a higher matching rate by the employer. Rather, they simply create a choice architecture (Benartzi et al. 2012) conducive to higher savings rates . Yet, when SMarT program was introduced, it was quite effective: The average savings rate for the partici- pants increased from 3.5% to 13.6% over the course of 40 months-implemented in the developing countries to increase save r ates (can reduce loan interest rate as well)