Part Three

How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You

11 Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust

11.1 Learn from the Spilt Milk and Let It Go

• sawdust:锯屑
• dinosaur：过时、落伍的人或事物
• curator:馆长；监护人；管理者
• astute:adj. 机敏的；狡猾的，诡计多端的
• sobering:使清醒的；使冷静的；严重的
• netted:v. 赚，得到（net的过去分词）
• wipe out of
• tailspin:慌乱
• in a daze :茫然
• stew:忧虑
• fret:使烦恼；焦急；
• file into:排队进去
• down the drain : 浪费掉；徒劳；堕落
• fussing and hair-pulling:大惊小怪,
• snort:轻蔑或愤怒地发出哼声；
• hackneyed:陈腐的；平庸的
• Don’t cry over split milk
• it is trite 老一套的
• commonplace 老生常谈
• platitude 陈词滥调
• the essence of 真髓

Mongolian idiot

唐氏综合征（Down Syndrome）的人，也称21-三体综合征

overhead

各种各样的日常开支，或与公司的主营业务无关

• net some profit 净赚

• slip through :从。。。中滑走，流走

• bank crash ：银行倒闭

• the savings of a lifetime: 一生的积蓄

a tailspin of worry

a state of confusion or panic

on a smaller scale

在小范围内

It is easier to teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching

教人容易，做人难

• have the previlege of doing : 有幸做
• attend some school under some teach:去。。。上学并以。。。为师

stew and fret about something

为。。。烦恼焦心

• lie awake ：醒着躺在那里
• for fear that ：恐怕

live over

to go back and live a part of one’s life again in order to do things differently
重新来过

it has something to do with

• swept something into ： 扫入
• with a crash ：形容瓶子打碎时，碎成一滩的场面

write off

勾销；取消；很快地写好

solid geometry

立体几何

stick with somebody

紧跟某人，用来形容一个回忆的时候，就是指它令人难忘

distilled wisdom

智慧的结晶

all ages

万世的，也可理解为全年龄的

naive

理论上，i头上有两点，表示a和i分开发音，不构成音节，这个词源自法语

11.2 Why Waste the Tears?

• in the shins 小腿
• picturesque:独特的
• ulcers : 溃疡
• blow to ego 打击自我
• puffed - 膨化; 疏松的;
• in token of - 表示; 以表示; 作为;
• under trying : 难对付的

Don’t cross your bridges until you come to them

不要为还未到来的问题烦恼

kick you in the shins

迎头一击

you’re merely trying to saw sawdust

徒劳的努力

underdog

弱者，比赛前不被看好的那一方

still on my feet

还站得住

that was about all

差不多就那样了

take it on the chin

指拳头中遭到头部攻击