VOA慢速英语:Looking at the 'Dark Side' of Creativity

短语讲解：

1. He's terrorized Gotham City, he's baffled the police department and he's held us up to public ridicule.

hold up拦住, 使停顿, 耽搁
例句：The building of the new road has been held up by bad weather.
这条新路的修筑工程因天气恶劣而停下了。

2. Gloating on his own success, he may be planning some super crime and stumble on his own pride.

stumble on偶然碰见,碰巧发现
例句：I stumbled on the rare book in a second-hand bookstore.
我在一家旧书店偶然找到这本珍贵的书。

3. Just go about our normal routine and let the venomous viper trap himself.

go about到处走动
例句：It is dangerous to go about here.
在这里到处走是很危险的。

4. Professor Gino was less interested in catching cheaters than understanding them.

be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：Would you be interested in going sightseeing?
你有兴趣去旅游观光吗?

5. But on that other paper the correct answers were already lightly marked, supposedly by mistake.

by mistake错误地
例句：She put salt into her tea by mistake.
她误把盐放进茶里去了。

6. They were led to believe they could cheat without getting caught.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：An ordinary cold can soon lead to a fever.
一场普通的感冒很快便会引起高烧。

7. "What we find is that that creativity leads people to be more morally flexible, so they are much more able to come up with justification for the behavior that they're about to engage in and as a result, they are more likely to cheat.

come up with(针对问题等)想出;提供
例句：He could not come up with a proper answer.
他想不出一个合适的回答。
engage in参加; 从事; 忙于
例句：The old lady engaged herself in making clothes for her children.
这位老太太忙着为孩子们做衣服。

8. And that does not necessarily mean getting money out of cheating, but it could also be getting other types of pleasures or utilities.

get out of停止; 改掉; 戒掉; 脱离, 摆脱, 克服; 避免做某事; 从…得到, 获得
例句：Somehow we have to get the information out of him.
我们必须用某种方法从他那儿得到情报。

9. So it's not that we are trying to say that people shouldn't be creative, we are trying to say that they should be creative but they should be thinking about the fact that their creativity can be used for the wrong reasons.

think about考虑…; 捉摸…
例句：I should like to think about your suggestion before I give a definite reply.
我想先考虑一下你的建议, 然后给你一个明确的答复。