跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读 第1247期

（单词翻译）

Not depressed¹ doesn't mean you're not struggling. Not burned out doesn't mean you're fired up.

语音讲解：

今日发音练习重点：

1. depressed 尾部发音为/st/，清清浊浊；

2. fired为双元音/aɪ/+/ə(r)/。

言之有物：

1. depressed adj. 抑郁的；沮丧的

depression noun. 抑郁症；抑郁；沮丧

anxiety noun. 焦虑

depression也指某物减少、衰退

a depression in trade 贸易下行

economic depression 经济萧条

2. 词链儿：be burned-out adj. 耗尽的；熄灭的

If you keep working nights and weekends, you're going to get burned out.

如果你这样日夜工作，迟早筋疲力竭。

She's probably burned out after studying all week.

一整周都在工作，她或许已精神耗尽。

burn out 动词词组 熄灭

Get the birthday girl in here before the candles on her cake burn out!

快把小寿星叫来，不然一会儿蜡烛要灭了！

★原声例句：It's very easy to burn out, or to hit a dead end.

这很容易让人筋疲力尽，或者陷入死胡同。

★原声例句：I will do some just stupid, ridiculous, absurd stuff so that I don't burn out.

我会做一些愚蠢，荒谬，荒谬的事情这样我就不会精疲力竭。

“筋疲力竭”还可表达为：

worn out

wiped out

exhausted²

drained

shattered

- Delegate more to your teams!

- My teams are burned out!

- 放手让他们干！

- 他们都累垮了。

Rose, if you don't have enough wood, the leaves just burn out.

Rose，如果没有足够的木头，叶子不会着起来的。

Look, look. The last candle's about to burn out.

快看，最后一根蜡烛要熄了。

3. 词链儿：be fired up adj. 充满激情的

How can you be so fired up at this time of the morning?

你大早上怎么这么激情似火？

It's impossible to get Martin fired up at all.

想让Martin活跃起来太难了。

活学活用：

请用 be burned out 随意造句

《TED: How to stop languishing³ and start finding flow》（如何停止颓丧，开始寻找心流）：组织心理学家亚当·格兰特(Adam Grant)说，你可能正在感到languishing疲惫/萎靡不振——这是一种精神疾病，在疫情爆发的几个月后变得非常普遍。他分解了疲惫的关键指标，并提出了三种方法来逃离那种无聊的感觉，并开始寻找自己的心流状态。