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Why we should celebrate shyness

 

有時候，確是愛在心裡口難開。

有時候，派對熱鬧，你卻斯人獨憔悴。

害羞，可能令你失去不少機會；但原來許多演員甚至鉅富，都是「怕醜仔女」！
 

怕生也有怕生的優點。不信？聽聽兩位主持 Jo 和 Kevin 笑談內歛之美。

 

Shyness is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people. (also called diffidence)  [BBC]

 

apprehension (noun 名詞)

apprehensive (adjective 形容詞)

= anxiety, worry

 

1. 憂慮

例子：apprehension about/for/over sth.   對某事的擔心

例子：I entered the room with apprehension.   我忐忑不安地進入房間。

 

2. 看法

例子：She is under the apprehension that…   她認為…

 

apprehend  = catch and arrest
(verb 動詞)

 

例子：Police have finally apprehended the murderer.

 

blush
(verb 動詞)

 

1. 臉紅
例子：to blush at the idea  因這種想法而臉紅

 

2. 羞愧

例子：to blush for sb .   為某人感到羞愧

例子：I blush to admit it   我不好意思承認這事

 

awkwardness
(noun 名詞)

► awkward (adjective 形容詞)

1. 令人為難的 / 令人不快的 = embarrassing situation that is difficult to deal with / uncomfortable
例子：an awkward situation 

 

2. 棘手的 / 不容易的 = tricky to use / difficult to use
例子：an awkward (difficult) job

 

predicament 尷尬的處境; 困境 (countable)
(noun 名詞)

= complication, plight, embarrassment

例子：to help somebody out of his/her predicament   幫助某人擺脫困境

例子：The decision will leave him in a peculiar predicament.

 

Many people may expect that shyness permeates every situation, but Moran notes that it “ebbs and flows” depending on the context.

 

permeate
(verb 動詞)

 

1. 滲透; 瀰漫
例子：The room was permeated with an awkward atmosphere.

 

2. 散布
例子：The ideas gradually permeated through the people.   這些思想逐漸深入民心。

 

Bill Gates is reportedly an introvert, which means he feels a greater need to spend time in his own company. A shy person may well crave company, while also feeling nervous and anxious about the way they are perceived. In this way it is perfectly possible to be a shy extrovert – to simultaneously fear and crave the limelight.

 

crave渴望得到 / 懇求
(verb 動詞)

 

例子：to crave somebody’s forgiveness   懇求某人的原諒

例子：to crave somebody’s permission to do sth   請求某人允許做某事

 

limelight 公眾注意的中心
(noun 名詞)

例子：to be in/out of the limelight   為／不為公眾矚目

例子：to avoid the limelight   避免引人注目

例子：to hog the limelight/attention   搶鏡頭/出風頭

 

Kevin’s classroom

ebb and flow 
(verb 動詞) / (noun 名詞)

1. (指聲音、流行式樣等) 消長, 興衰; 不斷長落, 起伏

例子：the ebb and flow of conversation   談話聲此起彼伏
例子：to ebb and flow   潮漲潮落
例子：at a low ebb / at their lowest ebb 處於低潮

 

2. 退潮

例子：the tide is on the ebb   正在退潮
例子：the ebb and flow of the tide   潮水的漲落

 

3. 衰退

例子：to listen to the ebb and flow of conversation   聽著時低時高的談話聲
例子：on the ebb正在減弱
例子：My luck is on the ebb.   我的運氣每況愈下。

   
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