Feelings & Attitudes
People are often nervous or apprehensive before performing in front of an audience.
People who are really nervous may feel tense, which is the opposite of relaxed.
译文：在观众面前表演之前，人们通常会感到紧张或不安。真正神经紧绷的人可能会感到紧张，和放松相反。
Exercise:
1. Sometimes, taking a deep breath can help a nervous person feel more relaxed.
Someone who strongly believes in their ability to do something is often confident.
The best way to build confidence is to practice what you're going to do until you can do it with ease.
译文：坚信自己有能力做某事的人往往很自信。建立自信的最好方法是练习你要做的事情，直到你能毫不费力地完成。
Exercise:
1. The key to building confidence and reducing nervousness is effective and frequent practice.
To be indifferent means to not care one way or the other about something.
If you are indifferent to a person or project, it means that the person or project isn't important to you.
译文：冷漠意味着对某件事漠不关心。如果你对一个人或项目漠不关心，那就意味着这个人或项目对你来说并不重要。
Exercise:
1. People who are indifferent may value anything or anyone but themselves.
2. People who are indifferent are often cold and uncaring about others.
To be appreciative is to be thankful or grateful for something.
If someone does something nice for you, you should appreciate it.
译文：感激就是对某件事心存感恩之情。如果有人为你做了好事，你应该感激。
Exercise:
1. It's important to show your appreciation for someone's support or help.
2. If someone does a favor for you, you should show your appreciation by thanking them.
"To be depressed" is the opposite of "to be happy".
When someone is depressed, they feel very sad.
译文：“沮丧”是“快乐”的反义词。当一个人沮丧的时候，他们感到非常难过。
Exercise:
1. When people are depressed, they are usually pessimistic about the future.
2. When you are really sad, you may be depressed.
3. If someone does a favor for you, you should appreciate it.
4. If you don't care about anything, then you may be indifferent.
5. Someone who has practiced a lot and believes in his or her ability is confident.
6. This is how many people feel just before giving a performance? (nervous)
7. People are often nervous or apprehensive before performing in front of an audience.
8. Someone who strongly believes in their ability to do something is often confident.
9. To be indifferent means to not care one way or the other about something.
10. Depression can be caused by disappointing news or by failing to reach a goal.
Repeat & Read Sentences:
1. "To be depressed" is the opposite of "to be happy".
2. When you are really sad, you may be depressed.
3. It's important to show your appreciation for someone's support or help.
4. When people are depressed, they are usually pessimistic about the future.
5. When someone is nervous, their muscles often tense up and their heart rate increases.
Types of Character
Aggressive people often push their own ideas or try to force others to follow them.
Someone who is passive will usually not resist the efforts of others.
译文：好强的人通常会力劝别人接受自己的想法，或者试图强加于人。被动的人通常不会抵制别人的这种努力。
Exercise:
1. A passive person is often seen as weak and easy to control.
2. An aggressive person pushes or attacks and a passive person doesn't resist.
An optimistic person believes in a positive future.
Optimists see a glass as half full rather than half empty.
The opposite of an optimist is a pessimist.
译文：乐观的人相信积极的未来。乐观主义者认为杯子是半满的，而不是半空的。乐观主义者的反面是悲观主义者。
Exercise:
1. Ppessimists see a glass as half empty rather than half full.
2. A pessimist sees things with a negative light and has little hope for the future.
Sensitive people are emotional and have strong feelings about things.
It's important to be careful when dealing with sensitive people, because it's easy to upset them.
Insensitive people don't seem to be aware of or care about the feelings of others.
译文：敏感的人很情绪化，对事物有强烈的感情。和敏感的人打交道要小心谨慎，这很重要，因为他们很容易心烦。不敏感的人似乎不知道或不关心别人的感受。
Exercise:
1. He doesn't realize when she's upset because he's quite insensitive to the feelings of others.
2. It's important to know how to act around extremely sensitive people.
A mean person doesn't treat other people well or with kindness.
Mean people often enjoy making people suffer for their mistakes.
"To be kind" is the opposite of "to be mean".
译文：刻薄的人不会善待他人或者心怀善意。刻薄的人常常喜欢让别人为自己的错误而痛苦。善良是卑鄙的反义词。
Exercise:
1. Nobody ever asks him for help because he's mean and selfish.
Conceited people have a very high opinion of themselves.
They often talk about how great they are and tend to exaggerate their strengths.
Modest people don't show off their strengths, but are often very good at what they do.
译文：自负的人对自己的评价很高。他们经常谈论自己有多伟大，往往夸大自己的实力。谦虚的人不炫耀他们的力量，但往往很擅长他们所做的事情。
Exercise:
1. Conceited people often exaggerate their abilities and can fool people into believing them.
2. A person who doesn't like to fight or resist is passive.
3. Someone who sees a glass as half empty rather than half full is pessimistic.
4. A person who enjoys making others suffer is mean.
5. A person who likes to show off and talk about herself is conceited.
6. It's important to be careful when dealing with sensitive people because it's easy to upset them.
7. Mean people often enjoy making people suffer for their mistakes.
8. They often talk about how great they are and tend to exaggerate their strengths.
9. Modest people are often overlooked in a job interview because they fail to communicate their strengths.
Repeat & Read Sentences:
1. An optimistic person believes in a positive future.
2. "To be mean" is the opposite of "to be kind".
3. He doesn't realize when she's upset because he's quite insensitive to the feelings of others.
4. He was really mean to her when she disagreed with him and he told her to shut up.
