A footprint: your footprint, or your environmental footprint is a measurement of your influence on the environment.
I picked an electric car over a gasoline one to reduce my carbon footprint.
The lecturer argued that you can lower your environmental footprint by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Do you know how to travel with a smaller carbon footprint?
Plastic bags have a large environmental footprint.
You can monitor your carbon footprint.
Where does too much shopping lead? Lots of credit card debt and huge environmental footprints.
To flatline: if something flatlines, it stays at the same level, which is usually low.
Retail sales flatlined last month due to economic uncertainty.
The company laid off 20% of its employees as profits continue to flatline.
The house prices in the city enter flatline last year.
A balanced diet will help flatline your blood sugar level.
Our happiness levels flatlined over the same 50 years.
Ruthlessly: if you do something ruthlessly, you do it in a determined way and do not care if others will get hurt.
He ruthlessly decluttered after watching that documentary on minimalism.
Let me be ruthlessly honest with you. You can’t expect to pass this course if you skip half of the lectures.
The book describes him as ruthlessly ambitious.
I’m going to be Ruth hones with you
I couldn’t stand the pressure. Everyone was ruthlessly competitive.
The first step to a simple life is to declutter ruthlessly.
Extraneous: if something is extraneous, it is not relevant or essential to a problem or situation you are dealing with.
His writing is clear and concise, with no extraneous details to distract readers.
I like how many facts and evidence you’ve provided, but i think you can cut out some extraneous details.
Her writing contains no extraneous information.
We’ve got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we’ve got to stem the inflow.
To stem ：means to stop the flow of something.
作为动词即可表示“ 遏制液体流动”的意思，又可以表示更抽象的“遏制事态的发展”。
She took a deep breath, trying to stem her tears.
She breathed in slowly and
The company adopted innovative business strategies to stem the decline in profits.
We’ve come up with a series of new measures to stem the drop in vehicle sales.
Policy makers have come up with new measures to stem school violence.
The police are trying hard to stem the raise in robberies.
A mantra: if you call a word or phrase your mantra, you repeat it a lot and believe it to be true.
I adopted “Ask questions” as my mantra when I first joined the company.
According to the self-help book, a morning mantra can help us focus on what we want to achieve for the day.
“Safety first” is my mantra for online dating.
“Always follow up” is our mantra for customer service.
“Simplify” became my mantra as i took up minimalist living.
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” has become my mantra.
“Small is sexy” is our new mantra.
- Morning Miranda! How was your weekend?
-You won’t believe it, but I spent the past two days cleaning out my wardrobe.
- Wow. The latest minimalism trend is getting to you! Have you been reading Marie Kondo’s book?
- Well I came across several videos by her and other minimalism bloggers. You know, they sort of convinced me that I should take up “less is more” as my new mantra.
- Yep, and it also means smaller environmental footprint, and more time and freedom.
- But minimalist is kinda boring, don’t you think? They only wear black and white.
- Not necessarily. Minimalism just means to free yourself from extraneous stuff. You’ve got to declutter ruthlessly and stem the inflow. But you can still keep or buy things that you truly enjoy.
