要更細心更專心
-----
-----
parlay
Meaning
1: to bet in a parlay
2 a: to exploit successfully
b: to increase or otherwise transform into something of much greater value
Example sentence
The young actor parlayed his popularity as a teen heartthrob into a successful film career.
parlay something into something
to use or develop something such as money or a skill to make it more successful or worth more
She hopes to parlay her success as a model into an acting career.
potlatch
A ceremony at which gifts are bestowed on the guests in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
Our social media, the potlatch takes the form of outtweeting and out sharing the field, overloading the network with fragments of oneself as users seek a ranking.
I want to play around with the idea that the orgy of bonus-giving that is a way of life among Wall Street investment banks (and related institutions) is a perverse form of the potlatch, the ceremony among Northwest Coast Indians in which leaders (Big Men) give away enormous quantities of food and goods to another tribal group.
ab initio
This is a book I really recommend. It's really great. If you still feel confused about your life, you should read this book and rearrange your life.
The following is Chinese version.