【英语时差8,16】本性难移（上）

If you think back to when you were a teenager or even younger, you may grimace¹ at things you said, did, and thought. Thank goodness, you might say, I’m no longer the same crazy kid I once was. Except that in many ways, you’re more or less the same. At least as far as your personality goes. According to some research, our personalities² are set as early as the first grade. And they stay pretty much the same throughout our lives. People do change, of course. We change our minds, develop new interests and drop old ones. But through it all, according to the research, our personalities–those basic dispositions³ that govern how we interact with the world–are less changeable than we may like to believe.

1 grimace   

v.做鬼脸，面部歪扭

参考例句：

• The boy stole a look at his father with grimace.那男孩扮着鬼脸偷看了他父亲一眼。
• Thomas made a grimace after he had tasted the wine.托马斯尝了那葡萄酒后做了个鬼脸。

2 personalities   

n. 诽谤，（对某人容貌、性格等所进行的）人身攻击； 人身攻击；人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
• Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。

3 dispositions   

安排( disposition的名词复数 )； 倾向； （财产、金钱的）处置； 气质

参考例句：

• We got out some information about the enemy's dispositions from the captured enemy officer. 我们从捕获的敌军官那里问出一些有关敌军部署的情况。
• Elasticity, solubility, inflammability are paradigm cases of dispositions in natural objects. 伸缩性、可缩性、易燃性是天然物体倾向性的范例。