Her father locks every door in the house as he is paranoid about
being robbed.
她父親患有妄想症，常感到家裏會失竊，所以總是把每扇門都鎖上。
escalate ['eskleit] v. （使）逐步升級；（使）逐步擴大
Epidemics of infectious disease can escalate into pandemics， but
do not always do so.
傳染性疾病的流行能夠升級至大流行疫情，但也不總是這樣。
首先，不要逃避那些困擾我們的問題，要敢於麵對問題。
過好每一天，想象生命在今天就要終結，因為這一天終將來到。
對於那些力所不能及的事情，不要怯於嚐試，要敢於冒風險；不要躊躇不前，走出去，大膽去做。
You might get dumped， divorced， or fired， make fool of yourself in public， be afflicted with a demeaning nickname...
be afflicted with：受折磨
Your boss is picking on you， and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.
pick on：選中；挑選；批評
錯了就坦誠地承認吧
If You' re Wrong， Admit It
戴爾·卡耐基 / Dale Carnegie
Within a minute' s walk of my house there was a wild stretch of virgin timber， where the blackberry thickets foamed white in the springtime， where the squirrels nested and reared their young， and the horseweeds grew as tall as a horse' s head. This unspoiled woodland was called Forest Park—and it was a forest， probably not much different in appearance from what it was when Columbus discovered America. I frequently walked in this park with Rex， my little Boston bulldog. He was a friendly， harmless little hound； and since we rarely met anyone in the park， I took Rex along without a leash or a muzzle.
One day we encountered a mounted policeman in the park， a policeman itching to show his authority.
"What do you mean by letting that dog run loose in the park without a muzzle and leash？" he reprimanded me. "Don' t you know it' s against the law？"