If someone has a bad attitude it means they think something's going to go badly before it even starts or even while it's happening.

如果一個人態度不好，就意味著他在事情開始之前，甚至在事情發生的時候，就認為事情會變得很糟糕。

Here's a good example.

這裡有一個很好的例子。

Maybe you go to watch your favorite sports team and as the game is starting you say, ah, they're going to lose tonight because the best player is injured and the other team's too good.

也許你去看你最喜歡的運動隊比賽，當比賽開始時，你會說，啊，他們今晚要輸了，因為最好的球員受傷了，而且對方太強了。

That's just a bad attitude.

這只是一種糟糕的態度。

It's not a very positive way of thinking to just say, oh, we're going to lose because of that.

如果只是說 "哦，我們會是以輸掉比賽"，這種想法並不積極。

It's best to wait and see.

最好拭目以待。

Sometimes students have a bad attitude.

有時學生態度不好。

They might say, oh, I'm going to fail this class because the teacher doesn't like me and there's too much homework and I don't feel like doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

他們可能會說，哦，我要掛科了，因為老師不喜歡我，作業太多，我不想做我應該做的事情。

That's just a bad attitude.

這只是一種糟糕的態度。

As you can tell, I don't like it when people have a bad attitude.

大家都知道，我不喜歡別人態度不好。

I like it when people are a little more positive, when they have a positive attitude.

我喜歡人們積極一點，態度積極一點。

Now you might have thought as I teach this phrase, as I teach the opposite, that I would say good attitude.

現在你可能已經想到，當我教授這句話時，當我教授相反的內容時，我會說良好的態度。

And we do sometimes say that, that, oh, you should have a good attitude.

我們有時會說，哦，你應該有一個好的態度。

But often, more often we say a positive attitude.

但很多時候，我們更常說的是一種積極的態度。

I'm not sure why we don't say negative attitude, but we usually encourage people to have a positive attitude.

我不知道為什麼我們不說消極態度，但我們通常鼓勵人們要有積極的態度。

Even though the best player is injured, I still think my team is going to win tonight.

雖然最好的球員受傷了，但我仍然認為我的球隊今晚會贏。

I'm going to have a positive attitude.

我要有積極的態度。

I'm going to think happy thoughts and good thoughts about my team.

我要想著快樂，想著我的團隊。

I was going to say something else about this.

我還想說點別的。

Good attitude, positive attitude.

態度良好，積極向上。

There's another term.

還有一個詞。

It's not coming to my mind right now.

我現在想不起來了。

Maybe I'll think of it later.

也許我以後會想到。

Anyways, to review, a bad attitude would be to say something like this, oh, I don't know if I'm going to make an English lesson today.

總之，回顧一下，態度不好的人就會說這樣的話：哦，我不知道今天是否能上英語課。

Hardly anyone's going to watch it.

幾乎沒人會看。

Maybe I'll just not do it.

也許我就不幹了。

That's a bad attitude.

這態度可不好。

But a positive attitude would be to think, you know, I'm going to make an English lesson today and some people will watch it and those people will hopefully learn a little bit of English.

但積極的態度是，你知道，我今天要做一堂英語課，有些人會看，希望他們能學到一點英語。

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

但是，讓我們看看之前視頻中的評論。

It's in my back pocket here.

它就在我的口袋裡。

Let me see if I can find it.

讓我看看能不能找到。

The comment is from Emerson.

評論來自愛默生。

Oh, it's from the last lesson.

哦，是上一課的內容。

Isn't more or less outdated?

是不是多少有點過時了？

So I taught the phrase more or less in the last lesson and my response, not at all.

是以，我在上一堂課中或多或少地教了這句話，而我的回答是，完全沒有。

Almost every phrase I choose for these lessons is from real life and I heard someone use it just four days ago.

我為這些課程選擇的幾乎每一句話都來自現實生活，就在四天前，我還聽到有人用過這句話。

So no, not at all.

所以，不，完全沒有。

In fact, I did a little bit of research.

事實上，我做了一點研究。

I'm not sure if you know what Google Trends is, but Google Trends kind of identifies the things people search for.

我不知道你是否知道 Google Trends 是什麼，但 Google Trends 可以識別人們搜索的東西。

And if you look in a moment, probably right now, there should be a graph on the screen for the phrase more or less.

如果你稍後看一下，可能就在現在，螢幕上應該會出現一個圖表，表示這個短語或多或少。

And you can see it's actually going up.

你可以看到它確實在上升。

Now this doesn't mean people are actually using it when they talk.

但這並不意味著人們在說話時真的會使用它。

It simply means people do still search for that phrase more or less.

這僅僅意味著人們仍然或多或少地搜索該短語。

So to me, that graph probably means that people are still using that term.

所以對我來說，這張圖可能意味著人們還在使用這個詞。

And then Emerson as well, just so you know, yes, I do listen as I go through my day and I try to hear people using phrases and or sometimes I observe behavior and that helps me decide what I'm going to say or what I'm going to teach in the next lesson.

艾默生說，是的，我每天都在傾聽，我試著聽人們使用短語，有時我觀察他們的行為，這有助於我決定下節課要說什麼或教什麼。

So you might wonder, where did bad attitude and positive attitude come from?

那麼你可能會問，壞態度和積極態度從何而來？

Well, I want to keep that a secret, but as you know, I'm a teacher.

好吧，我想保守這個祕密，但你也知道，我是個老師。

Sometimes I see students in my classroom and sometimes they have a bad attitude and sometimes they have a really positive attitude and it can make all the difference as to how well they learn what I am teaching.

有時我在課堂上看到學生態度不好，有時他們態度非常積極，這對他們能否學好我所教的內容有很大影響。

Sometimes a good positive attitude goes a long way and sometimes a bad attitude can just be, yeah, like the worst thing in the world.

有時候，好的積極態度會讓人受益匪淺，而有時候，糟糕的態度則可能是世界上最糟糕的事情。

You know, positive energy really, really helps and if you have a bad attitude, man, it's like you're not helping yourself at all.

要知道，正能量真的非常有幫助，如果你的態度不好，夥計，就好像你對自己一點幫助都沒有。

Anyways, thanks for watching.

總之，感謝您的收看。

Are you enjoying all the leaves on the ground?

你喜歡地上的落葉嗎？

It's definitely fall here.

這裡絕對是秋天。

So anyways, I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson.

總之，過幾天我再給大家上一堂簡短的英語課。

Bye.

再見。