The Blue Days

Everybody has blue days.

These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy（脾气暴躁的）, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can't rise to the occasion. Just getting started seems impossible. On blue days you can become paranoid（偏执狂的） that everyone is out to get you. This is not always such a bad thing. You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate（逐步增强） into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!

On blue days you feel like you're floating in an ocean of sadness. You're about to burst into tears at any moment and you don't even know why.Ultimately, you feel like you're wandering through life without purpose. You're not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting, "Will someone please shoot me!" It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day. You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best, find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple（疙瘩） on your nose. You could forget your date's name or have an embarrassing photograph published. You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname, or just have a plain old bad-hair day. Maybe work is a pain in the butt. You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes, your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy. You might have a splitting headache, or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toenail. Whatever the reason, you're convinced that someone up there doesn't like you. Oh what to do, what to do?

相关单词：miserable

miserable解释：adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

miserable例句：

It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。

Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

相关单词：utterly

utterly解释：adv.完全地，绝对地

utterly例句：

Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。

I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。

相关单词：exhausted

exhausted解释：adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

exhausted例句：

It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。

Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

相关单词：insignificant

insignificant解释：adj.无关紧要的，可忽略的，无意义的

insignificant例句：

In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季，这种作用是不明显的。

This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。

相关单词：frustrated

frustrated解释：adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

frustrated例句：

It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。

The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

相关单词：frenzy

frenzy解释：n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动

frenzy例句：

He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。

They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。

相关单词：escalate

escalate解释：v.(使)逐步增长(或发展)，(使)逐步升级

escalate例句：

It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。

Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。

相关单词：pimple

pimple解释：n.丘疹，面泡，青春豆

pimple例句：

His face was covered with pimples.他满脸粉刺。

This is also a way to prevent the pimple.这也是防止疙瘩的一个途径。

相关单词：afflicted

afflicted解释：使受痛苦，折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 )

afflicted例句：

About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。

A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。

相关单词：butt

butt解释：n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

butt例句：

The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。

He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

相关单词：chronic

chronic解释：adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

chronic例句：

Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。

Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。