美語情景對話 第851期:False Praise 虛僞的稱讚

Todd: Nydja, we were talking about education and praising students. Do you think that students today are praised too much?

託德：妮迪亞，我們來談教育和稱讚學生。你認爲現在的學生是不是被過多稱讚了？

Nydja: I do. I don't think that they need as much praise for poor work. If they're doing good work, then of course they deserve it, but this false sense of success that kids are given is really messing with their heads later on in life.

妮迪亞：是的。我認爲他們做的不好就不應該得到稱讚。如果他們表現的很好，那他們當然值得得到讚揚，但是孩子們得到的這種虛假的成就感以後會對他們的思想產生不好的影響。

Todd: How so? Like how do you think it affects them later in life if they have this false sense of success as you say?

託德：爲什麼？你所說的那種虛假成就感會對他們以後的人生產生什麼影響？

Nydja: Well, when it comes time to really perform and to step up to the plate say in college or in their career in the future, they might not know how to do any of these skills. They've been propped up by, you know, compliments that are just full of air, so they might not really know how to go about doing something. They have a sense of entitlement that they should receive that promotion or that good grade in college, even though they did nothing to actually achieve it.

妮迪亞：比如他們在大學或者未來職業中需要表現或行動時，他們可能不知道如何應用他們的能力。他們一直靠稱讚支撐，他們可能不知道如何處理事情。他們有一種特權意識，認爲自己應該得到晉升或者應該在大學裏獲得好成績，雖然他們並沒有爲得到這些付出過。

Todd: Right, so do you actually ... When you were younger did you have teachers who were very strict? So if you failed, they let you know you failed?

託德：好，你小時候，老師們對你嚴厲嗎？如果你失敗了，他們會讓你知道你失敗了嗎？

Nydja: Yes. Yes. They let you know immediately. I had some teachers who weren't very nice at all, and maybe he polar opposite. Didn't cut you any break either. Let you know that you weren't heading anywhere fast unless you turned it around quick, so they were not about babying me or my classmates at all. It was very hard to get good grades because they graded hard. Very different from my experience with the people who were in school today.

妮迪亞：會，會的。他們會馬上讓我知道。教過我的老師中有一些非常嚴厲，也有不嚴厲的老師，就像對立的兩極。他們完全不會讓你有喘息機會。他們會讓你知道，如果你不迅速扭轉局勢，那你什麼都做不成，這些老師並沒有呵護我和我的同學。因爲他們評分很嚴格，所以很難得到好成績。和現在學校的學生完全不一樣。

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重點講解：
1. when it comes to 談到；涉及；
例句：Shelly can hold her own when it comes to bicycling.
一涉及到騎自行車，謝利就不會敗給別人。
2. step up to the plate 開始行動；
例句：Every time you keep quiet and refuse to step up to the plate, you have one less chance to prove yourself.
每當你保持低調,不肯出面採取行動的時候，你就少了一次證明自己的機會。
3. prop up 支撐；維持；
例句：Intelligence and wisdom is the lever propping up the society.
聰明才智是支撐社會的槓桿。
4. turn around (使)復甦；(使)好轉；
例句：’m sure our housing sale will turn around next month.
我相信我們的住房銷售下個月肯定會好轉。