Psych101(part1)--Day1

学习笔记，有错必纠
学习书籍：《Psych 101》-- Paul Kleinman

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Psych 101

INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?

psyche -The Greek word for “spirit,soul,and breath”
logia -The Greek word for “the study of something”

Psychology is the study of mental and behavioral processes.

Essentially, those who work in the field of psychology try to give meaning to the questions,“What makes you tick?” and “How do you see the world?”

These very simple ideas encompass many different and complicated topics, including emotions, thought processes, dreams, memories, perception, personality, illness, and treatment.

While the roots of psychology date back to the philosophers of Ancient Greece, it wasn’t until 1879, when German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt created the first laboratory completely devoted to the study of psychology, that the field really began to take off.

Since then, psychology has expanded exponentially into a truly diverse science, often overlapping with other types of scientific studies such as medicine, genetics, sociology, anthropology, linguistics,biology, and even subjects like sports, history, and love.

So put on your thinking cap, make yourself comfortable(perhaps recline on a couch), and prepare to be enlightened; it’s time to start learning about yourself in ways you never knew possible.

Whether this book is a refresher course or you’re learning all of this for the very first time, let’s begin. Welcome to Psych 101.

• 中文解释

原文	翻译
What makes you tick?	什么事能让你生气?
It wasn’t until…that…	直到……才……
refresher course	进修课程
take off	v.起飞;出去;拿掉;移送

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Daily Sentence

I have lost friends, some by death … others through sheer inability to cross the street.

——Virginia Woolf : The Waves

• 中文解释

我失去过一些朋友，一些是因为他们的去世……另外的只是因为懒得走过几条马路。

——弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙

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后记：开个每日英语系列，希望真的是每日，捂脸捂脸