VOA慢速英语:Do You Think You Can?

短语讲解：

1. Willpower is a limited resource that you can use up.

use up 用光，用完，耗尽
例句：We have to use up the equipment first.
我们不得不先用这个机器。

2. The group that ate chocolate cookies worked twice as long on figuring out the puzzle.

figure out 解决；算出；想出
例句：Then figure out one practical solution you can take for each of those pieces.
接着想出一个实用性的方法用于解决每一小部分的问题。

3. Other experiments that support this theory have found that willpower is like a hungry child in need of a “sugar fix.”

in need of 需要…时
例句：It connects those who want to give with those in need of receiving.
它帮助那些希望捐赠的人和需要赠品的人取得联系。

4. Dweck also said that people who believed willpower is limited were always looking for signs that they were running out of willpower, or they thought they needed the sugar fix.

run out of 用完
例句：Filthy water runs out of the pipe every day.
污水每天从管道中流出来。

5. Instead, focus on one goal at a time.

at a time 一次；每次；在某时
例句：Female sheep produce one or two lambs at a time.
母羊一次生一至两头羊羔。