可可电台，每期节目一话题，让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识，丰富知识的同时受益于生活。

Ways to self-improve

提升自我的实用技巧

How to improve yourself and become better?

你是一个渴望成长的人吗？你是否总在想办法提升自己、让自己变得更优秀？

Get out of your comfort zone.

走出舒适区。

Real growth comes with hard work and sweat. Being too comfortable doesn’t help us grow–it makes us stagnate. What is your comfort zone? Do you stay in most of the time? Do you keep to your own space when out with other people? Shake your routine up. Do something different. By exposing yourself to a new context, you’re literally growing as you learn to act in new circumstances.

真正的成长需要付诸努力与汗水。太安逸并不利于成长，而只会让我们搁浅。你的舒适区是什么？你是不是常常赖在里面？跳出舒适区和别人在一起时，你会不会保留自己的空间？打破常规，尝试不同。通过接触新领域、适应新环境，你就能获得成长。

Put someone up to a challenge.

和别人一起挑战。

Competition is one of the best ways to grow. Set a challenge (weight loss, exercise, financial challenge, etc) and compete with an interested friend to see who achieves the target first. Through the process, both of you will gain more than if you were to set off on the target alone.

竞争是成长的最佳途径之一。设定一项挑战（减肥、健身、经济目标等），和感兴趣的朋友相互竞争，看谁先实现目标。相对于单独行动，这么做更能两全其美。

【知识点讲解】

more than 不只是； 很； 超过； 在…次以上

例句：

Their replies were no more than grunts of acknowledgement.

他们所谓的回答不过是表示承认的咕哝罢了。

Jovial ladies chivvy you into ordering more than you can eat!

热情的女招待会一再推荐，最后点的餐多到吃不下!

Father had no more than a superficial knowledge of music.

父亲对音乐只懂一点皮毛。

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