Chapter 2

PART1 Words and Expressions

1.soreness

noun. a pain that is felt 酸痛的

原文：There is no soreness in your cortex the day after a particularly tough training ession.

仿写练习：I had no soreness in my arm, I'm ok.

2.baffle

verb. to confuse sb completely; to be too difficult or strange for sb to understand or expalin 使困惑；难住

例：His behaviour baffles me. 他的行为害我难以琢磨。

原文：Few cities in the world can baffle a GPS system like London can.

仿写练习：The question baffled him completely.He didn't know how to deal with it.

3.thoroughfare

noun. a public road or street used by traffic, especially a main road in a city or town大街，大道

例： No thoroughfare! 禁止通行

原文：To start with, there is no grid of thoroughfares that can be used for orientation and routing as you will find in Manhattean or Paris or Tokyo.

仿写练习：The restaurant is far from the thoroughfare.

4.tweak

verb. to make slight changes to a machine,system,etc. to improve it 稍稍调整（机器，系统等）

例：I think you'll have to tweak these figures a little before you show them to the boss. 我想你得略微改动一下这些数字再让老板过目。

原文：Sure, everyone understood that there had to be tweaks here and there when you learned something new, but these were thought to be little more than the strengthening of some neural connections and the weakening of others,

仿写练习：I tweak this article before I send to my teacher.

5.cortex

noun. the outer layer of an organ in the body, especially the brain 皮层；皮质（尤指）大脑皮层

原文：but the visual cortex and other parts of the brain are still fully functiaonal;

PART2 Thoughts

今天阅读《刻意练习》的第二章的两个小标题，第一个是伦敦出租车司机的大脑，第二个是适应性。

伦敦出租车司机的例子说明了人的大脑通过锻炼也是有变化的，只是不像肌肉会表现出来，但通过测试可以发现posterior hippocampi could be "bulked up" through practice, like muscle.

适应性是通过盲人和聋哑人的例子，来说明当你的一个能力没有了，你会更加专注的发挥另一个能力，比如盲人的听力特别好，聋哑人，在文章中我没太读明白，但是我看过一个聋哑人讲述，她心灵手巧，特别擅长剪纸和编织，看什么东西一看就会，这会不会是她的眼力神经更发达到，她能更好使用眼部神经元。

我们人类的适应性其实很强大的，有的时候真是我们自己想象不到的，目前对我自己可以很肯定的判断我是懒惰，也可以很好的听得说自己在舒适区呆久了，要改变，我要学会一点点调整。

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