和谐英语

VOA常速英语:Cleverest are Often Quickest to Cheat

2011-12-03来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. It seems for the past few years, the news has been filled with stories of people who cheat: bankers bilking investors out of millions of dollars, politicians who cheat on their wives and constituents.

fill with (使)充〔挤〕满
例句:The hall was filled with persons welcoming him.
大厅里挤满了欢迎他的人。
cheat on对…不忠实
例句:It is rumored that he cheats on his wife.
据传他对他老婆不忠。

2. Then, she put them in situations where they could profit from cheating - where just bending the rules a little bit put a few extra dollars in their pockets.

profit from得益于
例句:He hoped to profit from his investments.
他希望从投资中获利。

3. “What we find is that creativity leads people to be more morally flexible," she says, "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.”

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。
come up with (针对问题等)想出;提供
例句:He came up with good ideas for the product promotion.
他想出一个推广产品的好方法。
engage in参加; 从事; 忙于
例句:He engaged in a serious study of the problem.
他对这个问题进行了认真的研究。

4. After studying people at work, Gino found that fostering creativity in workers also opens up opportunities for that moral flexibility where people are tempted to bend the rules in their favor.

open up变宽; 展现; 揭示
例句:The chance meeting with the president opened up new possibilities for him.
与总统邂逅提供给他新的机会。

5. 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
例句:It is not easy to get out of a bad habit.
改掉坏习惯是不容易的。

6. 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。