美國叔叔說英語Fear
4min2017 NOV 6
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Today we are going to talk aboutfear (恐懼).You know,Halloween (萬聖節)is coming up, and I’ll talk more about that later this month, but for now let’s just talk about fear in general.Who here hasn’t been afraid?If you raised your hand, I’m afraid you didn’t understand the question or just not telling the truth because truth be told, we’ve all been afraid of something, at one point or another in our lives.In fact, fear is what keeps us alive. Have you ever heard of thefight or flight instinct (戰鬥或逃跑本能)in animals?It means that we either fight back against what we are afraid of, or we run away from it so that we can live to fight another day.So it seems that sometimes it’s right to fight, and sometimes it’s better to take ourselves out of dangerous situations.“The only thing to fear is fear itself.”That phrase was made famous in 1932 byFranklin D. Roosevelt(富蘭克林·羅斯福)during his first speech at President of the United States.It means that we should not be afraid ...