2018.9.17号

cripple

1. The war has gripped the economy.

2. Not long ago floods crippled millions of households in Shouguang, Shandong Province.

3. Stage fright crippled him.

4. The only way to make apartheid work is to cripple the black mind.

5. *apartheid: (旧时南非)种族隔离制度  the long-awaited dismantling of apartheid. *dismantling 废除、取消、解散： Unions accuse the government of dismantling of National Health Service.

翻译：Typhoon Mangkhut crippled the electricity supply and correspondence services in Hong Kong and Guangdong.

模仿造句：The skyrocketing house price  has been crippling the young generation in China.

Cripple: emotional cripple/a country crippled by war.

2018.9.18号

count/matter: to be important or valueble

1. How you learn it counts more than how much you learn.

2. Details count/ first impressions count

3. What counts the most is not how rich you are, but how you treat wealth.

4. When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses.

翻译：重要的不是发生了什么事，而是你如何应对这件事。

What counts is how you respond to what happens, rather than what the matter is.

句型：What counts the most is no X, but Y.

            X counts more than Y.

模仿造句：Abilities matters more than attitudes in workplaces, while it is a different picture in schools.

2018.9.19号

shape=influence/have an impact on

1. Like it or not, our families shape our lives and make us what we are.

2. Over the years the building has shaped The Economist in several  ways, some good, some less so.

3. When I was a kid the Herald Tribune had shaped the values I would take through life as a writer.

reshape: The decrees will thoroughly reshape Poland’s economy.

翻译：It is believed by some that the dialects we speak shape the ways we think.

造句：The ideology we believe shapes the way we behave.