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“ScalersTalk 口译进阶小组”的前身是“ScalersTalk 交传小组”，成立于 2015 年 2 月，现阶段，小组继续专注高级阶段的交替传译与同声传译训练，在巩固语言基本功的同时训练各类口译技能，从而为承担正式场合的口译打下坚实基础。 96 周起，小组全面引入 CATTI 新版二口教材的训练，时间为每天晚上 8 点到 9 点，训练期间播放录音、记笔记，在空白处按暂停键后做口译，用 QQ 发群语音，然后对照文档，查找漏译和错译的部分，标出口译时较为困难的词汇和表达，随时发到群里；每天早上 6 点到 7 点训练复述。
第 153 周训练材料为交替传译和复述，本日志整理的是复述材料Building Resilience: 5 Ways to a Better Life 的部分内容。
In case you hadn't noticed, life is difficult, complex and unpredictable. You can't change this. It's the nature of things. But you can prepare yourself for the next unwelcome surprise. How? By building resilience. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from life's inevitable disappointments, failures, and pains. Let me use an analogy here. If cars didn't have shock absorbers, every ride would be a miserable experience. The ride through life without shock absorbers - that is, resilience - would be the same. So, without building resilience - your own internal shock absorbers - it's not possible to lead a happy and productive life.
In case you hadn’t noticed 幽默的开场，引出一件众人皆习以为常的事
It's the nature of things. 这就是事物的本质。
resilience: the ability of people or things to feel better quickly after something unpleasant, such as shock, injury, etc. 韧性
bounce back迅速恢复活力
shock absorbers: a device on a vehicle, especially a car or an aircraft, that reduces the effects of travelling over rough ground or helps it to land more smoothly（尤指汽车或飞机上的）减震器
First, get some perspective. Step back and assess your situation with as much objectivity as you can. "How bad is this problem?" "Have I overstated it?" Sometimes my patients think an unhappy occurrence is much more serious than it really is - usually because it's amplified by evoking a painful childhood issue. Often, getting perspective is as simple as asking yourself this question: "What's the worst thing that can happen?" Usually, you'll discover the worst thing isn't that bad - and isn't even likely to happen.
get some perspective 换个角度考虑问题
step back 退一步想
assess your situation with as much objectivity as you can 尽可能客观地评估现状
overstate: to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is 言过其实
occurrence = event; incident; happening
amplify: to increase the size or effect of something 放大或增强（某事物）
evoking a painful childhood issue 唤起某人儿时的痛苦回忆
Second, compare the undeserved bad things that have happened to you with the unearned good things that have happened to you. When I ask my patients to do this, they invariably conclude that the unearned good in their life far outweighs the undeserved bad. I'd say the ratio is at least 10 to 1. In my own case, I didn't earn the incredibly good fortune of my grandparents moving to America, or that life-saving penicillin was available to me in my childhood when I was sick. I could go on and on. And so could you. In light of this, maybe things aren't so bad after all. In fact, they're probably pretty good.
undeserved: If you describe something such as a reaction, treatment, or result as undeserved, you mean that the person who experiences it has not earned it and should not really have it. 不恰当的; 不应得的
unearned: not gained by working 非劳动所得的; 不劳而获的
outweigh: be greater in weight, value or importance than (sth) 在重量﹑ 价值或重要性上超过（某事物）
in light of this 如此看来，因此
Third, toughen up. Life hits you from all directions - health, personal relationships, work challenges, family issues. To deal with them, you need to build up your mental toughness. The earlier in life one starts this process, the better. That's why parents who coddle their children and protect them from every hurt and failure are not doing them any favors. Nor are colleges that provide students with so-called “safe spaces”. To toughen up, you need to push yourself. How do you know what you're capable of if you don't do that? I was a sickly child. I saw myself as physically fragile. But the grueling hours in medical school and treating patients with serious illnesses during my residency showed me I was much tougher than I thought. You, too, probably have more strength than you realize. Find out. Finding that strength will give you resilience.
toughen up: to make someone stronger 让自己变得坚强
coddle: to protect someone or something too much娇养；溺爱；悉心呵护
grueling: extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination使人精疲力尽的；艰辛的；让人受不了的
residency: a period of advanced training in a medical specialty that normally follows graduation from medical school and licensing to practice medicine 住院医师实习期
