What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
( Robert Waldinger, TED 2015)
TED Talk link：
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness/up-next
vocabulary
1. hindsight 後見之明
the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened => foresight
→ With hindsight, I should have seen the warning signs.
*Hindsight is 20/20. 事後諸葛*
2. tenement 公寓大樓
a large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city
→ She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.
3. schizophrenia 精神分裂症
a serious mental illness in which someone’s thoughts and feelings are not based on what is really happening around them
→ Both schizophrenia and mood disorders show evidence of decreased activity in frontal lobes and abnormal function of the system for directed attention.
4. lifelong 終身
continuing or existing all through your lifet
→ She became a lifelong friend of ours.
5. glamorous 迷人的
attractive, exciting, and related to wealth and success
→ She led an exciting and glamorous life.
6. millennials 2000年左右出生的人；千禧世代
a person who was born around the time of the millennium, that is around the year 2000
→ Millennials have grown up with the internet and can't imagine a world without it.
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