Well hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! Now learning powerful words is really great for your English vocabulary but if you can't use them effectively, there's just not really much point is there?

大家好啊，我是Emma，欢迎来到Emma的美味英语！学习一些非常有力的单词对你们的英文词汇来说是非常好的，但是如果你的使用方式不是很有效的话，那么就没什么太大意义了，对吧？

And when I say use them effectively, I mean use them correctly in your sentences with the right supporting words to help it sound natural and relaxed and real. For many English nouns there are actually only a small number of verbs that can frequently be used with them, words that just sound right when they're used together in sentences and we call these combinations of words 'collocations'.

我说的有效地使用的意思就是要在句子中正确的使用，并且和正确的词汇搭配，帮助它听起来更加自然、更加放松，也更加真实。英文中的很多名词只有很少的动词可以和它们经常在一起搭配，只有很少的动词和它们搭配在一起在句子中使用的时候听起来是正确的，而我们将这些组合称之为单词的“固定搭配”。

Now learning English collocations is so helpful if you want to sound more natural and intelligent when you speak and today we will focus on a particular set of intelligent words that will help you to talk about personal challenges. So these words are going to be incredibly powerful in job interviews, in a professional context, when you're sitting exams, the times when you need to reflect on your personal life experiences.

如果你想要在说英语的时候，听起来更加自然，显示自己很聪明的话，学习英语固定搭配非常的有用，今天我们会侧重于一些特定的听起来显示出你很聪敏的词汇，这在你们谈论个人挑战的时候非常有用。这些词汇在工作面试、职业场合、参加考试，以及需要反思自己的生活经历的时候是非常强有力的。

So if you're ready to expand your vocabulary, stick around! . . . . . .

所以如果你准备好了扩充自己的词汇量的话，那就坚持看下去吧！

Before we get started, a super quick reminder to turn on the subtitles down here if you need to and if you feel like doing something lovely today then help me to translate this video so that other people in your country can watch it and can learn from it too and of course, it's going to be excellent English practice for you. I think it's fair to say that most of us are trying to improve ourselves in some way.

在我们正式开始之前，快速地提醒大家一下，如果大家需要的话，可以打开下面的字幕，如果你们今天想要做点好事的话，那就帮助我把这个视频翻译一下吧，这样你们国家的其他人就可以看到这个视频并从中进行学习了，当然了，对于你们而言也是非常好的英语锻炼。我觉得说我们其中的大部分人每天都在以某种方式自我提升是很恰当的。

That's what you're doing here watching me, isn't it? Now we are always trying to learn new skills and get better at things or try to tweak and improve our personal qualities a little to try and become better versions of ourselves.

那就是你们为什么在这里看我的视频的原因，是吧？我们总是努力学习一些新的技能，让自己事情做得更好，或者是试着稍加改进，提升我们的个人品质，变成更好的我们自己。

That's why we set goals, that's why we're conscious or we're aware of the things that we're trying to improve. And this is called personal development.

那就是为什么我们会设定目标，那就是为什么我们会有意识，或者是我们会意识到我们正在努力提升的方面。这就叫做自我发展。

So I want to know what are your personal goals right now? What are you working on in yourself?

所以我很想大家大家现在的个人目标呢。你们现在在努力做什么呢？

For me, I'm trying to get conversational in Spanish and I'm really trying to work on my management and my leadership skills. See my team has grown really quickly over the last twelve to eighteen months and you know, I want to be the best leader that I can be for my team so I really want to improve these skills.

对于我而言，我正在努力让自己可以用西班牙语对话，我也在努力提升我的管理和领导技能。我的团队在过去的十二到十八个月内发展得非常快，我想成为我们团队最好的领导者，所以我真的想要提升这些技能。

So what about you? What are you working on? My aim in this lesson is to help you expand your vocabulary around this topic and to help you to feel more confident when you're using sophisticated language in English.

那你呢？你们正在努力做什么事情呢？我本节课程的目标是帮助你们扩充关于这个话题的词汇量，帮助你们在使用更加复杂高级的英文的时候感觉更加的自信。

This vocabulary, it really is essential if you need to use English professionally or if you're planning to use English at university. These are all great words and expressions to learn.

如果你们想要更加专业地使用英语，或者是想要在大学中使用英语的话，词汇量真的非常重要。这都是很棒的可以学习的词汇和表达。

When we're trying to improve ourselves, we've recognised that there's a problem, something's not working or something's blocking us from getting to where we want to go and we call this thing that's blocking us an obstacle. Now it can be a physical thing like a tree that's fallen across a path but it can also be a problem that prevents you or stops you from achieving something that you want to do.

当我们试着提升我们自己的时候，我们会意识到存在着问题，有些方面进展不顺，或者是有什么东西在阻挡着我们去往想去的地方，我们将这些阻挡我们的东西称之为障碍。它可以是物理的实体，比如说路上倒下的一棵树啊，但是也可以是一个阻碍你实现你想要实现的目标的问题。

So say you really want to apply for a job but in the application they said that you need five years of working experience. You only have two. So this is an obstacle, right? It's a problem. It's blocking you.

比如说你想要申请一份工作，但是在申请的时候他们说至少需要五年的工作经验。但是你只有两年的经验。所以这是一个障碍，对吧？这是个问题，它在阻碍着你。

It's not completely impossible to get around that obstacle but you've got to work a little harder to make it happen, right? So 'obstacle' is a countable noun, you can have an obstacle or you can have five obstacles and it's most commonly used with the verbs hit, face and overcome.

障碍并不是完全不可避开的，但是你需要努把力才可以，对吧？所以呢，‘障碍’是个可数名词，你可能遇到一个障碍，或者是五个障碍，一般都和动词 ‘hit’、‘face’，或者是 ‘overcome’ 搭配。

All of these verbs have slightly different meanings.?We hit a significant obstacle when we found out we had no budget left.

这些动词的意思之间存在着细微的差异。我们遇到了重大阻碍，因为我们发现没有剩下任何预算。

So by using 'hit', we're highlighting that moment that the obstacle stopped us, right? I can't even imagine the obstacles you face in daily life.

通过使用 ‘hit’，我们强调的是阻碍我们的障碍发生的那一刻，对吧？我甚至无法想象你在日常生活中所面对的障碍。

So here the verb 'face' is highlighting that moment that you deal with the obstacle like you're looking at it and you're standing there ready to take it on. She had to overcome many obstacles on her journey to become CEO.

这里的动词 ‘face’ 强调的是你处理阻碍的时刻，比如说你正看着障碍，你就站在那里，准备迎难而上。她在成为 CEO 的路上战胜了很多阻碍。

And 'overcome' here, it highlights that moment you got past the obstacle. It's not blocking you anymore. We use these same verbs with the noun 'challenge' too.

这里的 ‘overcome’ 强调的是你成功度过了障碍的时刻。它不再是你的阻碍了。名词‘挑战’我们也会使用同样的动词。

And really that's just a synonym of 'obstacle'. When I created my online English learning community, I had no idea how many challenges I'd face along the way.

其实它是‘障碍’的近义词。当我开创我的线上英语学习社区的时候，我完全不知道我在这个过程中会遇到多少的挑战。

We've really overcome lots of challenges to reach the point where we are today. We express this same idea by saying that we we get over hurdles or we overcome hurdles.

我们其实战胜了很多挑战，才达到了今天的高度。我们越过了障碍其实也是表达的同样的意思。

One of the biggest hurdles that we had to overcome with our community was connecting them across different time zones. So what about you? Have you had to overcome any challenges in your job or in your personal life?

我们的社区需要克服的最大的障碍之一就是将不同时区的人联系起来。那你呢？你在工作或者是个人生活中克服过什么挑战吗？

I want you to practise using this language in the comments below this video. Fears and doubts are things that hold us back.

我想要大家在视频下方的评论处用这个来进行练习。恐惧和怀疑会让我们停滞不前。

Often they are the reason why we don't feel very confident at all. Our fears are our thoughts that we have when we're frightened or we're worried about something, we fear that something bad will happen.

经常它们就是我们感到不自信的原因。我们的恐惧就是我们在害怕或者是担心某件事情的时候的那些想法，我们害怕某些不好的事情会发生。

And a doubt is a feeling of not being certain about something, being unsure about what will happen. So we have doubts about our ability to do things, about our choices, the decisions that we've made.

怀疑就是对于某件事情的不确定感，不确定会发生什么。所以我们会怀疑我们做事情的能力，怀疑我们的选择，怀疑我们所做的决定。

I have some doubts about our ability to complete this project by Christmas. In fact, you can use self-doubt here to make it clear that the doubts you have are with yourself.

我对于我们在圣诞之前完成这个项目表示怀疑。其实呢，在这里你可以使用自我怀疑来表明你拥有的疑虑是关于自己的。

Now we often use the verb 'overcome' again with 'doubt' and with 'self-doubt' and we use it to say, you know, when we stopped feeling uncertain. It's also really useful to practise the verb 'doubt' as well. There were so many times when I doubted my ability to lead a team.

我们经常会将‘克服’和‘怀疑’和‘自我怀疑’一起使用，我们是用来指当我们不再感觉到不确定的这种情况。练习动词‘怀疑’也是非常有用的。我经常会怀疑我带领一个团队的能力。

Let's focus on fear for a minute or two. We all have to deal with fear, right? We have to learn how to manage fear.

让我们暂时关注一下恐惧这件事情吧。我们都要面对恐惧，对吧？我们要学习如何应对恐惧。

It's a really natural and a really normal part of life. If we're lucky enough, we find a way to harness fear in some situations.

这是非常自然，也是生活中非常平常的一部分。如果我们足够幸运的话，我们会找到一种方式来在某些情况下利用恐惧。

Have you heard of that expression? Now we use the verb 'harness' when you find a way to use that fear to your advantage.

你听说过那个表达吗？当我们找到一种方式充分利用恐惧的时候，我们会使用动词‘利用’。

The energy from that fear gives you the power to do something courageous or challenging and we actually often use that verb 'harness' with an emotion. We use it to say that we bring that emotion under control and then do something positive with it. So for example. You might harness your team's enthusiasm which means, you know, you want to make the most of their enthusiasm and get the best out of them.

恐惧的能量给予了你力量来做一些非常勇敢、或者是极具挑战性的事情，我们其实经常会把动词‘利用’和情感搭配在一起使用。我们会使用这个词来说我们控制住了情感，并利用它做了一些积极的事情。比如说。你可能充分利用了团队的积极性，那也就是说，你懂得，你想要充分利用他们的积极性，发挥最大的效用。

We all have fears but what about those moments when we find the courage? We face our fears. We let our fears come right up to us and we stand our ground and we deal with those fears, right?

我们都会恐惧，但是当我们找到勇气的那些时刻呢？我们直面自己的恐惧。我们让自己的恐惧朝自己迎面冲来，我们站在那里，面对挑战，对吗？

I got called up on stage and at that moment, I was forced to face my fears. Okay, let's not dwell on our problems and our fears for too long, we all like a happy ending, don't we?

我突然被叫上了讲台，那一刻，我被迫去面对我的恐惧。好的，让我们不要花太长时间逗留在我们的问题和恐惧上，我们都喜欢美好的结局，对吧？

So how can we flip these negative situations and begin to make them more positive? Well, let's focus on some vocabulary that will help you to do that.

所以我们该如何关上这些负面的情境，开始让它们变得更加积极呢？好的，让我们关注一下一些能够帮助你这么做的词汇吧。

You're all familiar with the word 'opportunity' right? You can be given an opportunity.

你们都很熟悉‘机会’这个词，对吧？你们都可以获得机会。

You can receive an opportunity. You can get an opportunity.

你们可以收获一个机会。你们可以得到一个机会。

But what if you want to emphasise your role in getting that opportunity? It's much more powerful to say that you took the opportunity or you grabbed the opportunity.

但是如果你想要强调你在得到那个机会的时候发挥的积极作用，该怎么办呢？说你抓住了机会的话，是更加有力的。

It tells us that you were in control of the situation. I grabbed the opportunity to introduce myself to the CEO.

它告诉我们你控制住了整个情况。我抓住了机会，向CEO介绍自己。

Now an even stronger word is the verb 'seize'. So this is when you take something really eagerly.

那么还有一个语气更加强的词是‘抓住’。当你真的非常积极主动地抓住一个东西的时候，就应该使用这个词。

I want to make sure our team seizes these opportunities in the future. You can create an opportunity as well and this suggests that you made it possible through your actions to have that opportunity.

我想要保证我们的团队在未来抓住这些机会。你们还可以创造机会，这就意味着你们通过自己的行动才让这个机会成真。

You can take advantage of an opportunity. And that's when you take that opportunity and use it for your own gain.

你们可以充分利用一个机会。那就是当你们抓住机会，并且为自己所用的时候。

When my boss announced his resignation, I took advantage of the situation and presented my paper at the conference in his place. Good way to take advantage of a situation.

当我们的老板宣布他要辞职的时候，我抓住了机会，代替他在大会上宣读了论文。这是充分利用一种情况的很好的方式。

How many times has something or someone changed the way that you think about something or changed your point of view? Well, it sounds much more intelligent to say "change your perspective" or explain that something shifted your perspective.

有多少次某件事情或者是某个人曾经改变过你看待某件事情的方式或者是改变过你的观点呢？如果说“改变你的观点”或者是解释某件事情改变了你的观点的话，听起来是非常聪明的呢。

So your perspective is a more intelligent way to talk about your way of thinking about things. And the verb 'shift' is used to say that something moved slightly.

所以你的观点是谈论你思考某件事情的方式的更加聪明的方式。动词‘转变’是用来描述某件事情发生了细微的改变。

Working with high school students helped him to shift his perspective on the attitudes and work ethic of young people. Okay, we have to talk about the word 'potential' here, one of my favourite words because it's full of possibility. It talks about the possibility to achieve something in the future.

和高中学生一起工作帮助他改变了自己对于年轻人态度和工作伦理的观点。好的，我们需要谈论一下动词‘潜力’了，这是我最喜欢的单词之一，因为它充满了可能性。它谈论的是在未来达成某件事情的可能性。

And the future is full of possibility. It's full of potential. And when something that was once possible but is now true or real, we use the verb 'realise' with 'potential' here.

未来本身就充满着可能性。充满着潜能。当某件事情曾经是可能的，但是现在变成真的了的话，我们就会使用动词‘实现’和‘潜能’搭配。

I realised his potential as soon as he came into the interview. We also use this verb with 'dream'.

当他来面试的时候，我马上就发现了他的潜能。我们也会将这个词和‘梦想’搭配。

My boss helped me to realise a long-term dream; to present at an international conference. So this is a much more professional way of saying that, you know, you made your dreams come true.

我的老板帮助我实现了一直以来的梦想；那就是在国际会议上进行宣讲。所以这是说自己的梦想成真的更加专业的表达方式。

So can you tell me about a time that you seized an opportunity or you realised a dream? I'm really excited to see you using some of these words and collocations in the comments below.

你能告诉我有没有这样的情况，你抓住了一个机会或者是实现了一个梦想呢？看到你们在评论区使用这些词汇和固定搭配我会很激动的呢。

I'll be coming down to check them out and give you some feedback on them soon. Now I always make a point of giving feedback and writing comments for the first few days after my videos have been published so if you want feedback on your sentences then write them now right when we're first watching this video.

我会下去检查的，还会给你们一些反馈意见。我一直非常强调在我的视频发布的几天之内给予反馈和写评论，所以如果你们想让自己的句子得到反馈的话，那就在我们第一次看这个视频的时候，把它们写在下方吧。

And make sure that you're subscribed with the notifications on so that you don't miss out on any of my future lessons and opportunities to get feedback. If you want to keep practising with me, you know where to go.

一定要订阅我的频道，接收通知哦，这样你们就不会错过任何我接下来发布的课程，也不会错过得到反馈的机会呢。如果你们想要继续和我一起练习的话，你们知道要去哪里的。

I'll see you in there!

我会在那里等待着大家的！

出处：头条号 @英语东