English Review by Following the review scripts.

Unit1 Identity

Words

Words in use

• She said exactly what she thought, without thinking about the consequence.
• In general, shyness is a personality trait that is partly biological and partly environmental.
• International travel has grown to the point that many hotels find it necessary to empoly multilingual staff members.
• I can only ascribe the uncommon behavior of the strangers I meet to my being a foreigner.
• I have categorized my social media contacts into family, close friends, and work colleagues.
• The city hopes historic districts will foster a sense of community, which can be lacking in young and fast-growing places.
• Laughing at the same joke would help us to show affiliation with others, and this may be why it is especially infectious.
• Once you graduate from school, you’ll start to feel fierce rivalry as you compete for a good job.
• The survey was distributed to over 1,000 people, but unfortunately, only about half of the participants completed it correctly.
• Is there any correlation between gender and personality traits?
• When I don’t understand something even after the teacher has explained it twice, I feel frustrated.
• This psychology journal has an interesting article about a very comprehensive study carried out on a group of 500 volunteers.
• The applicant was rated very high in technical skills, but rather low in social skills.
• The results of my research suggest / suggested that identity is important in all cultures in the world.
• Fast-food chains will tempt you with more efficient takeout options.
• Sharing family photos in the workplaces helps co-workers become and remain connected.
• Thinking people make decisions based on logical evidence.
• Feeling people use emotions and feelings to guide their choices.
• People who draw conclusions based on their ideas and concepts of the world are known as intuitive.
• Sensing people rely on concrete information; for example, evidence that can be seen, heard, or felt.
• People with a strong judging identity are most comfortable with rules and specific guidelines. They see the world as an orderly place that always operates the same way.
• If you are some who thinks any situation can have many different outcomes, that there is no stable structure in place, and so anything is possible, you are probably a perceiving person
• Extroverted people are outgoing and sociable. They are interested in other people and the world around them.
• People who focus on their own inner world are introverted. They often prefer to spend time alone or without distractions from the outside.

English to Chinese

Although sustained sibling rivalry can result in behavioral problems and issues with relationship-building later in life, milder forms have been shown to have a beneficial impact on development in childhood.

尽管持续的兄弟姐妹竞争会导致行为问题和日后人际关系的建立问题，但较温和的形式已被证明对认同的发展有有益的影响。

Confirmation bias is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their existing beliefs or hypotheses.

确认偏见是指人们倾向于认同那些证实其现有信念或假设的信息。

We all have the potential for stubborn tendencies, but in people with a strong fear of change, stubbornness can become a dominant pattern.

我们都有潜在产生顽固倾向的可能，但在强烈恐惧改变的人们中，顽固可能成为主导行为模式。

The view of self in a profession consists of beliefs, values, motives, and experiences, which are used to define and guide individual growth and practice.

职业层面的自我由信仰，价值观，动机和经验组成，其用于定义和指导个人的成长和实践。

The scope of the study was broad: it took into account such variables as age, gender, hours per week spent online, and years of online use.

这项研究的范围很广：它考虑了年龄，性别，每周上网时长以及上网年限等变量。

I was surprised by the outcome of the study, which suggested that the majority of people exaggerated information about themselves, held information back, and in some cases, even posted information that wasn’t true.

我对这项研究的结果感到惊讶，它表明了大多数人夸大了自己的信息，隐瞒了信息，在某些情况下，甚至发表了不正确的信息。

People may procrastinate when they are confused by the complexity of a task or when they’re overly distracted or fatigued.

当人们对复杂的任务感到困惑、注意力不太集中或太过疲劳时，人们可能会拖延。

Each person’s experience is different, but over the course of the lifespan, self-esteem seems to rise and fall in predictable, systematic ways.

虽然每个人的经历不同，但在人的一生中，自尊心似乎以可预测的、系统性的方式起伏。

Chinese to English

一个人的身份特征是可以被赋予的、努力获取的或主动选择的

Identity traits can be ascribed, achieved or chosen.

被赋予的是你与生俱来的特征，例如你的种族、出生地、以及某人的孩子或手足。

An ascribed trait is one that you are born with; examples include your ethnicity, your birthplace, and being the child and possibly the sibling of certain people.

俱乐部会员或政党成员的身份则是你所选择的。

An identity such as a club membership or affiliation with a political party is chosen.

举个例子，你的母语是被赋予的特征（理由是你出生在讲这种语言的家庭和国家），还是你所获取的特征（理由是你通过学习，更加精通这门语言），抑或是你所选择的特征（设想你在一个多语言的国家长大，而你更倾向于使用其中的一种语言）？

Is speaking your native language, for example, ascribed (because you were born into the family and country where that language was spoken), achieved (because you studied the language and became more proficient), or even chosen (if you grew up in a multilingual country, but preferred one language over another)?

身份特征可以是正面的（如聪明，忠诚），也可以是负面的（如固执，犯罪），但对人们影响更大的是他们与别人身份特征的异同。

Although traits can be positive (intelligent; loyal) or negative (stubborn; criminal), people are more affected by how similar or different their traits are compared to those of other people.

两个球队之间的友好竞争不一定是件坏事，但是，如果对抗过于激烈，或者在更大的社会问题上出现分歧、导致紧张，后果可能会更加严重。

A friendly rivalry between two sports teams isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when rivalries are taken too far or tensions arise over differences about larger social issues, the consequences can be more serious.

Unit2

General Review

Writing

A Story of an Ideal

Constructing this suburban named “Micky Town”, which seemingly was abandoned by the whole world, was my dream when I was young.
I wanna refresh it, make it more like a fantasy castle, which contains real mysterious characters, such as Micky Mouse, Tang Ducky, and Little Fly Elephant, etc, of each sweet girl which should be treated like a real princess.

需要进一步翻译的句子

I think it’s really important to get this right the first time as opposed to opening up too early

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Friday pumped the brakes on the possibility that wide swaths of America would reopen at the beginning of May

only places that have seen low levels of COVID-19 and have implemented sufficient surveillance techniques to detect and contain further outbreaks would be able to consider opening up by then.

while White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow expressed hope the country could begin reopening on a rolling basis in four to eight weeks.

But the strength of the economy has been at the center of Trump’s reelection argument, and he has been fixated on certain financial markers even amid the pandemic

Non-compliance may in turn prompt the entire deal to unravel—in the past week Saudi Arabia almost scuttled the deal when one country, Mexico, balked at its terms. America’s ability to intervene is limited, despite Mr Trump’s assurances. The president said that America would help “pick up the slack” for Mexico, by reducing its own production further. But it is unclear how that additional cut will materialise, if at all.

The company slashed prices for oil headed to Asia in May, according to S&P Global Platts, a price-reporting outfit, even as it let prices rise for other destinations. That suggests a keen interest in defending Saudi market share in Asia, the world’s main driver of oil demand.

The global oil-price war is not over, but on hold.

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