#Word&Expression#

1. loose end：部分没完成

parts of something that have not been completed or correctly done

原文：That still left one loose end, however:perhaps the taxi drivers in the studies had started out....

例句：Weve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up

2.thoroughfare n.主要大街

the main road through a place such as a city or village

原句：To start with, there is no grid of thoroughfares that can be used for orientation.

例句：The motel was off the main thoroughfare.

拓展：no thoroughfare禁止通行️

3.unfathomable a.深不可测的

too strange or mysterious to be understood

4、More to the point  说的更确切些

what is more importantWhen did she leave, and, more to the point, why

原文：the size of the hippocampus is quite flexible in at least some species of birds … / more to the point…

5.tweak v.稍稍改进

to make small changes to a machine, vehicle, or system in order to improve the way it works

原句：Everyone understood that there had to be tweaks here and there.

例：Maybe you should tweak a few sentences before you send in the report.

#Thoughts#

今天阅读部分作者通过一些实验来分析大脑适应性。盲人和聋哑人因为身体某一部分技能的丧失，使得他们在另一方面有过人之处。大脑的适应性超乎我们的想象，其实人的潜力本身就是一个未解之谜，身体的缺陷，我们可以通过取长补短的方式不断训练，改变大脑的思考方式！练习是潜移默化的，不断的练习时间会告诉我们一切皆有可能！跳出进步变缓的舒适区，学会去挑战，挑战所谓的人类极限。此时失败并非做不到而是时机不成熟而已。初来乍到的小学生，默默翻看完大家互相的点评，收获颇丰！学习的动力因环境而加深并且付诸行动，我知道自己的不足，但好在在路上。