Back from my digital detox day off🥰 I love my off day from the digital world. To disconnect from smartphone and social media is refreshing. 💙
I used to not have any social media platforms when most of the people I know have them and for me, to mind with just 1 world is a lot easier.
I started my social media platforms because of my writing and photography journey, I want to share my writings and art, and perhaps aspire, inspire and help people along the way. It's my workspace, besides opportunities, there are challenges and time off is needed to re-energise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to the digital world, just like the real world. For the digital world, you just have to know when to switch on and off and to focus and work on the advantages. Most importantly, know that your real life should be your main priority no matter what.
Countless studies showed strong correlations between social media usage and depression and anxiety which may affect your mental health. Dependence on digital devices may also change the way our brains operate for the worse.
That's why digital detox is crucial. Many benefits you can reap from practising digital detox. It helps you to reduce screen time, reduce stress and anxiety, be more personable, build relationships, stop comparing yourself to others, change the way you seek validation, better mental health and physical health, better sleep, posture, hormonal and cellular health, be more engaged with real-world activities and so much more!
So how you can start to digital detox? Create a schedule that works for you and follow it. Establish a device-free space or just put your smartphone aside or out of sight. Work on yourself and pick up a new skill or hobby. Focus on building a relationship with yourself and the people who matter.
It's important to do it at your own pace. Digital detoxing can make you feel more refreshed and live a better and positive life. Pick a time for you to step away from your phone screen and appreciate what you have in front of you - other than the tech devices.
It's time for us to reconnect more with people and the real world. Together we improve our overall wellbeing. 💪
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Đề Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2 - passage 2:
BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SKYSCRAPER DESIGN
Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries
A. The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by Professor Alan Short is the culmination of 30 years of research and award-winning green building design by Short and colleagues in Architecture, Engineering, Applied Maths and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
'The crisis in building design is already here,' said Short. 'Policy makers think you can solve energy and building problems with gadgets. You can't. As global temperatures continue to rise, we are going to continue to squander more and more energy on keeping our buildings mechanically cool until we have run out of capacity.'
B. Short is calling for a sweeping reinvention of how skyscrapers and major public buildings are designed - to end the reliance on sealed buildings which exist solely via the 'life support' system of vast air conditioning units.
Instead, he shows it is entirely possible to accommodate natural ventilation and cooling in large buildings by looking into the past, before the widespread introduction of air conditioning systems, which were 'relentlessly and aggressively marketed' by their inventors.
C. Short points out that to make most contemporary buildings habitable, they have to be sealed and air conditioned. The energy use and carbon emissions this generates is spectacular and largely unnecessary. Buildings in the West account for 40-50% of electricity usage, generating substantial carbon emissions, and the rest of the world is catching up at a frightening rate. Short regards glass, steel and air-conditioned skyscrapers as symbols of status, rather than practical ways of meeting our requirements.
D. Short's book highlights a developing and sophisticated art and science of ventilating buildings through the 19th and earlier-20th centuries, including the design of ingeniously ventilated hospitals. Of particular interest were those built to the designs of John Shaw Billings, including the first Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US city of Baltimore (1873-1889).
'We spent three years digitally modelling Billings' final designs,' says Short. 'We put pathogens• in the airstreams, modelled for someone with tuberculosis (TB) coughing in the wards and we found the ventilation systems in the room would have kept other patients safe from harm.
E. 'We discovered that 19th-century hospital wards could generate up to 24 air changes an hour-that's similar to the performance of a modern-day, computer-controlled operating theatre. We believe you could build wards based on these principles now.
Single rooms are not appropriate for all patients. Communal wards appropriate for certain patients - older people with dementia, for example - would work just as well in today's hospitals, at a fraction of the energy cost.'
Professor Short contends the mindset and skill-sets behind these designs have been completely lost, lamenting the disappearance of expertly designed theatres, opera houses, and other buildings where up to half the volume of the building was given over to ensuring everyone got fresh air.
F. Much of the ingenuity present in 19th-century hospital and building design was driven by a panicked public clamouring for buildings that could protect against what was thought to be the lethal threat of miasmas - toxic air that spread disease. Miasmas were feared as the principal agents of disease and epidemics for centuries, and were used to explain the spread of infection from the Middle Ages right through to the cholera outbreaks in London and Paris during the 1850s. Foul air, rather than germs, was believed to be the main driver of 'hospital fever', leading to disease and frequent death. The prosperous steered clear of hospitals.
While miasma theory has been long since disproved, Short has for the last 30 years advocated a return to some of the building design principles produced in its wake.
G. Today, huge amounts of a building's space and construction cost are given over to air conditioning. 'But I have designed and built a series of buildings over the past three decades which have tried to reinvent some of these ideas and then measure what happens. 'To go forward into our new low-energy, low-carbon future, we would be well advised to look back at design before our high-energy, high-carbon present appeared. What is surprising is what a rich legacy we have abandoned.'
H. Successful examples of Short's approach include the Queen's Building at De Montfort University in Leicester. Containing as many as 2,000 staff and students, the entire building is naturally ventilated, passively cooled and naturally lit, including the two largest auditoria, each seating more than 150 people. The award-winning building uses a fraction of the electricity of comparable buildings in the UK.
Short contends that glass skyscrapers in London and around the world will become a liability over the next 20 or 30 years if climate modelling predictions and energy price rises come to pass as expected.
I. He is convinced that sufficiently cooled skyscrapers using the natural environment can be produced in almost any climate. He and his team have worked on hybrid buildings in the harsh climates of Beijing and Chicago - built with natural ventilation assisted by back-up air conditioning - which, surprisingly perhaps, can be switched off more than half the time on milder days and during the spring and autumn.
“My book is a recipe book which looks at the past, how we got to where we are now, and how we might reimagine the cities, offices and homes of the future. There are compelling reasons to do this. The Department of Health says new hospitals should be naturally ventilated, but they are not. Maybe it’s time we changed our outlook.”
TỪ VỰNG CHÚ Ý:
Excessive (adj)/ɪkˈsesɪv/: quá mức
Skyscraper (n)/ˈskaɪskreɪpə(r)/: nhà trọc trời
Ingenious (adj)/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/: khéo léo
Culmination (n) /ˌkʌlmɪˈneɪʃn/: điểm cao nhất
Crisis (n)/ˈkraɪsɪs/: khủng hoảng
Gadget (n)/ˈɡædʒɪt/: công cụ
Squander (v)/ˈskwɒndə(r)/: lãng phí
Reliance (n)/rɪˈlaɪəns/: sự tín nhiệm
Vast (adj)/vɑːst/: rộng lớn
Accommodate (v)/əˈkɒmədeɪt/: cung cấp
Ventilation (n)/ˌventɪˈleɪʃn/: sự thông gió
Habitable (adj)/ˈhæbɪtəbl/: có thể ở được
Spectacular (adj)/spekˈtækjələ(r)/: ngoạn mục, đẹp mắt
Account for /əˈkaʊnt//fə(r)/ : chiếm
Substantial (adj)/səbˈstænʃl/: đáng kể
Frightening (adj)/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/: kinh khủng
Sophisticated (adj)/səˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd/: phức tạp
Pathogen (n)/ˈpæθədʒən/: mầm bệnh
Tuberculosis (n)/tjuːˌbɜːkjuˈləʊsɪs/: bệnh lao
Communal (adj)/kəˈmjuːnl/: công cộng
Dementia (n)/dɪˈmenʃə/: chứng mất trí
Fraction (n)/ˈfrækʃn/: phần nhỏ
Lament (v)/ləˈment/: xót xa
Panicked (adj): hoảng loạn
Lethal (adj)/ˈliːθl/: gây chết người
Threat (n)/θret/: mối nguy
Miasmas (n)/miˈæzmə/: khí độc
Infection (n) /ɪnˈfekt/: sự nhiễm trùng
Cholera (n)/ˈkɒl.ər.ə/: dịch tả
Outbreak (n)/ˈaʊt.breɪk/: sự bùng nổ
Disprove (v)/dɪˈspruːv/: bác bỏ
Advocate (v)/ˈæd.və.keɪt/: ủng hộ
Auditoria (n)/ˌɔːdɪˈtɔːriə/ : thính phòng
Comparable (adj)/ˈkɒm.pər.ə.bəl/: có thể so sánh được
Contend (v) /kənˈtend/: cho rằng
Liability (n)/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/: nghĩa vụ pháp lý
Convince (v) /kənˈvɪns/: Thuyết phục
Assist (v) /əˈsɪst/: để giúp đỡ
Các bạn cùng tham khảo nhé!
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[時事英文] 2020熱門英文單字
2020榜上有哪些熱門英文單字呢?
來看看柯林斯辭典(Collins Dictionary)怎麼說吧。
音檔: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJFFrpDlYS7/
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"Lockdown" has been declared the word of the year for 2020 by Collins Dictionary, after a sharp rise in its usage during the pandemic. It "encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people", Collins said.
1. declare 宣布
2. word of the year 年度熱詞
3. a sharp rise in its usage 使用率飆升
4. encapsulate (v.) 概括、濃縮
5. the shared experience of billions of people 億萬人的共同體驗
世界著名的英語辭典——柯林斯辭典率先宣布,「封城」因為在新冠疫情期間使用率飆升,成為2020年的年度熱詞。柯林斯辭典在宣佈「封城」為本年度熱詞時表示,該詞「概括濃縮了億萬人的共同體驗」。
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Lexicographers registered more than 250,000 usages of "lockdown" during 2020, up from just 4,000 last year. Other pandemic-linked terms on the 10-strong list include "furlough", "key worker", "self-isolate" and "social distancing" as well as "coronavirus".
6. up from… 從
7. furlough (n.) (員工或軍人的)休假,探親假 ; (v.) 准許…休假;強制…休假
8. key worker (n.)關鍵工作人員*
9. self-isolate (v.) 自我隔離
10. social distancing (n.)社交距離**
11. coronavirus (n.)冠狀病毒
詞典編纂者在2020年記錄人們查詢了超過25萬次「封城」,而去年只有4,000次。在十強名單中,其他與流行病相關的術語還包括「休假」、「關鍵工作人員」、「自我隔離」和「社交距離」以及「冠狀病毒」。
*A key worker/ critical worker is a public/ private-sector employee who is considered to provide an essential service, e.g., doctors, nurses, teachers, etc.
**social distancing: http://bit.ly/2WBRJGs
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Non-virus related words to make the list reflect the social and political upheavals of 2020. Following the death of the unarmed black man George Floyd in the US the abbreviation "BLM", for the Black Lives Matter movement, features having registered a 581% increase in usage, according to Collins.
12. social and political upheavals 社會和政治的變化
13. the Black Lives Matter movement 「黑人的命也是命」維權運動
14. an increase in usage 使用量增加
其他和病毒無關的排行單字則反映了2020年的社會和政治變化。其中如美國黑人喬治・佛洛伊德死亡後,柯林斯表示「黑人的命也是命BLM」一詞的使用量增加了581%。
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"Megxit", the term modelled on the word Brexit which was used for the withdrawal of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from royal duties also makes the list. Social media also plays its part with "TikToker", describing someone who shares content on the platform TikTok and "mukbang" - a term originating in South Korea which describes a host who broadcasts videos of themselves eating large quantities of food.
15. be modelled on 以~為原型
16. the withdrawal of…from… 從~撤出
17. make the list 列清單;(組成)排行榜上
18. share content 分享內容
19. mukbang (大胃王)吃播
20. broadcast videos 播放影片
「抖音創作者」也在社群媒體佔有一席之地,其描述在抖音平台分享內容的人;而「吃播」這個詞起源於南韓,描述了播主播放自己吃大量食物的影片。「梅根脫英」是一個以英國脫歐一詞為原型的術語,該詞在排行榜上,並曾被用來形容薩塞克斯公爵和公爵夫人從王室職務中撤離一事。
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Helen Newstead, language content consultant at Collins, said: "Language is a reflection of the world around us and 2020 has been dominated by the global pandemic. "Lockdown has affected the way we work, study, shop, and socialize. “With many countries entering a second lockdown, it is not a word of the year to celebrate but it is, perhaps, one that sums up the year for most of the world."
21. a reflection of ~的體現、反映、表達
22. be dominated by 被~主宰
23. the global pandemic 全球疫情
24. enter a second lockdown (來到)第二次封城(抗疫)
25. sum up 總結
柯林斯辭典的語言內容顧問海倫·紐斯特德說:「語言是我們周圍世界的體現,2020年已經被全球疫情主宰。封城影響了我們的工作、學習、購物和社交方式。隨著許多國家第二次封城抗疫,這當然不是一個值得慶祝的年度熱詞,但卻算是能最好概括和總結今年的詞。」
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文章來自《BBC》
完整報導: http://bbc.in/37DQNay
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【國際新聞英文】https://bit.ly/36ucwRZ
如何學習英文單字: https://bit.ly/3oFKFnS
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How would you sum up 2020?
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