Language notes (W5)

<Janet, the most energetic speaker I have ever seen>

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Well….today I want to share with you about a wonderful speech I listened tonight. This speech is about Janet Hsieh’s story. She is very tall, thin, and beautiful. In addition to her beauty, she has a lot of colorful experiences which makes me really surprising! For example, she studied in MIT and wanted to be a MSF(無國界醫生), but she stopped her learning because she decided to take the job of becoming a model. The reason of her decision is that she thinks she can continue her study at the age of her fifties or even sixties, but can’t be a model when she is old. How amazing that she easily gave up her original goal and try another completely different thing. She has done many crazy things and still continues to challenge herself. When an audience asked her whether she once did something regretful, she replied that her motto is that never feel regretful about what you have done because every experience must teach you some lessons.
    I learn from her that only focusing on one thing and always having enthusiasm with everything. By the way, I like to listen to speeches because I always learn and be touched form those speakers. They give me power to have a dream.


(1) 那場我聽的演講：a speech I listened to.
(2) 讓我感到驚訝：... makes me really surprised. (surprising是用來形容事物的)
(3) 請注意時態的一致性，例如文中Janet gave up 和 tried another thing都應該是過去式。
(4) that 後接的子句應完整，不能僅有Ving(這樣好像只是個名詞)，因此可修改為：I learn from her that we should always focus on one thing while having enthusiasm for everything else.
(5) 被感動：be touched by...