[영자신문으로 영어공부] How Competitive Are You?

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오늘의 기사 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/learning/how-competitive-are-you.html

How Competitive Are You?

요약

This page quotes parts of Jessia Grose's essay. She shows her concerns about her kids saying "Everything is a competition." She wants her kids to achieve what they want, but worries if they would go too far with the idea of competition and defeating others. 

주목할만한 문장

- Do you enjoy competing against others for things like grades?
- Comparison is the thief of joy.
- ...makes me want to take a step back.
- A way to push back on that is to reframe losses as having value, because they can teach us where to direct our emergy toward improvement.
- I suspect that will be a forever project.

단어

- worthwile: useful, important to be a suitanle reward for the money or time spent or the effort made.
 ex) Does competition make things feel more exciting and worthwhile do you?

- ensure: to make something certain to happen
 ex) The airline is taking steps to ensure safety on its aircraft.

- jostle: to knock or push roughly against someone in order to move past them, get for space
 ex) racing down a path, jostling each other out of the way

- admonition: a piece of advice that is also a warning ro someone about their behaviour.
 ex) the principal's admonition against bullying

- stymie [스타이미]: to prevent something from happening or someone from achieving a purpose
 ex) These goals were frequently stymied by the same strong historical consciousness ../ ...will stymie good intentions.

- rack up: to gradually get more points, profits, etc
 ex) He has racked up 450 points in three months.