PART 1:words & phrase

1.原句：One sunny Sunday in Chicago, several former classmates gathered for lunch, having attended their high school reunion the night before.

reunion/ri??ju?ni?n/n.[countable]a social meeting of people whohave not met for a long time, especially people who wereat school or collegetogether聚會(huì)

eg. a high-school reunion /afamily reunion

[uncountable]when people arebrought together againaftera period of being?separated團(tuán)圓

reunion with ? eg. Joseph’s eventual reunion with his brother

2.原句：there lived four little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.

character/?k?r?kt?r/n.人物、角色PERSON[countable]

ALL SOMEBODY’S QUALITIES[countable usually singular]the particular combination of qualitiesthat makes someone a particular type of person性格

eg.He has a cheerful but quietcharacter.

QUALITIES OF SOMETHING[singular, uncountable]the particularcombination of featureand qualitiesthat makes a thing or placedifferent fromall others 特性SYN?nature

eg.The whole character of the school has changed.

解析：

temper:指從感情方面體現(xiàn)出來，決定處理問題或應(yīng)付形勢的方式的性格或性情，這種性情可以是暫時(shí)的也可以長久的。

character:指對(duì)個(gè)性或人格所作出的客觀評(píng)價(jià)，常常與道德有關(guān)。

nature:指天生的、不可改變性格。

personality:主要指一個(gè)人穩(wěn)定的心理特征。

disposition:書面用詞，指人的主要愛好或思想、精神方面的重要習(xí)性、氣質(zhì)。也可指短暫的情緒。

complexion:指由思維方式、態(tài)度和情緒所決定的本質(zhì)特征。

3.原句：The mice, Sniff and Scurry, used the simple trial-and-error method of finding cheese.

trial-and-error：if you do something bytrialand error, you testmany different methods of doing something in order to find thebestn.試錯(cuò)法，反復(fù)試驗(yàn)法

by/throughtrial and error

eg. He learned everything just by trial and error.

4.原句：Hem and Haw, had very complex brains with beliefs and emotions. That made life in the maze more complicated and challenging.

complex與complicated

這兩個(gè)形容詞意義相近，但略有不同。Complex著重內(nèi)部組成成分?jǐn)?shù)量之多，complicated則不重?cái)?shù)量，而主要強(qiáng)調(diào)各個(gè)組成部分之間錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的互動(dòng)關(guān)系（如“牽一發(fā)而動(dòng)全身”）?！纠纭縏he problems of poverty are complicated.貧窮的問題是錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的。/The mechanism of jet engines is complex.噴氣引擎的構(gòu)造是復(fù)雜的。

5.原句：Although their abilities were some times clouded by the way they looked at things.

clouded(v.)If you saythat somethingcloudsyour view of a situation,you mean that it makes youunable to understandthe situation orjudgeit properly.蒙蔽

eg. Perhaps anger had clouded his vision, perhaps his judgment had been faulty.

PART 2:Grammar

PART 3: Summary

First, the author leads to the story by ?a man who gathers with his classmates. They settle into an interesting conversation with unexpected changes. ?Most of them have tried to change, but useless. They did not know a good way to handle them. Then the man tells them the story that changes the way he looks at change-Who Moved My Cheese. The mice, Sniff and Scurry, and the two Littlepeople, ?Hem and Haw, to search for cheese. With their own ways, they all find cheese. The mice use the simple trial-and-error method of finding cheese. However, the two Littlepeople rely on their complex brain to develop more sophisticated methods of finding Cheese.

PART 4: Thoughts

Everyone was trying to cope with the unexpected changes that were happening to them in recent years. And most admitted that they did not know a good way to handle them.

記得我高中還是大學(xué)就買過這本書的中文版，后來搬家時(shí)丟了，真是后悔?，F(xiàn)在重新看卻有不同的感悟，這是經(jīng)典，書中提到的情況其實(shí)現(xiàn)在的許多人也正面臨著。關(guān)于改變，有些人想通過知識(shí)改變自己的命運(yùn)，有些人想通過工作改善自己的生活，但真談到行動(dòng)時(shí)，大多數(shù)人卻望而卻步，因?yàn)楹ε挛粗ε伦兊母?，但不去做又有誰會(huì)知道結(jié)果如何呢！就像學(xué)習(xí)群，本來很擔(dān)心自己不會(huì)做、做不好，但沒想到加入后卻又意外收獲，正如《PEAK》中提到的，首先我們要走出自己的舒適區(qū)，然后通過刻意練習(xí)鍛煉，不斷復(fù)制，失敗，反饋，再嘗試。You can do it.