Dana White: This Generation Thinks You Can Build A Business From Home, It's Impossible!

📅 2026-10-05 · Dana White · 新集 · ▶ 影片 · 22 個學習點 · 4 題

他說公司不是在沙發上蓋的。練藉口和燃料的差別，以及「人在現場」怎麼講。

在 YouTube 播放，CC 可開英文字幕。建議先看「聽之前」，看完影片再做理解題。 到 YouTube 開啟 ↗

🎯 聽之前

A fight promoter argues that a company is built by showing up, not by a mood you can have from the couch. The lesson is how English talks about excuses, teams, and work that does not fit in a spare room.

  • When does he treat a hard past as fuel, and when would the same fact be an excuse?
  • Which words mark presence: show up, in the room, from home?
  • How does he talk about the people around him: loyalty, team, killers?
  • Listen for "impossible" used as a dare, not as a fact.

💬 重點句 6

先讀英文，想一下意思，再點「翻譯」。按 🔊 聽一次，然後跟著唸。

  1. You cannot build the company from the couch and call it a strategy.
  2. A hard childhood is either fuel or an excuse. The sentence you choose decides which.
  3. Loyalty is who stays when the month is bad, not who claps when the month is good.
  4. If everyone can do it from home, it is probably not the part that makes the money.
  5. He treats "impossible" as a dare, not as a weather report.
  6. A protocol is a plan you repeat. A mood is a plan you feel once.

📚 單字 10

點卡片翻面。先猜意思再翻。

🗣️ 俚語與成語 6

from home 成語
without going to a workplace · 在家（遠端）
Building it from home sounded modern and, to him, fake.
show up 片語動詞
to be present and do the work · 人到、出場
The plan was simple: show up when it is boring.
chip on your shoulder 成語
a lasting sense of having something to prove · 心裡有一根刺、非證明不可
A chip on your shoulder can start a company and also start a fight.
in the weeds 成語
deep in the daily details · 陷在細節裡
He wants the boss in the weeds, not above them.
cut the team 成語
to lay people off · 裁掉團隊
Refusing to cut the team was his version of loyalty.
killer instinct 成語
a drive to win that does not pause to be liked · 非贏不可的本能
He talks about killer instinct as if it cannot be taught.

🧩 句型練習 3

讀完範例，用自己的事造一句。寫在筆記本或手機備忘錄裡，隔天回頭唸一次。

You cannot ___ and call it ___.
你不能⋯⋯，然後把它稱作⋯⋯。用來拆穿一個好聽的說法。
  • You cannot skip the room and call it flexibility.
  • You cannot panic once and call it leadership.
✍️ Use it about a habit you have been renaming.
A ___ is either ___ or ___. The sentence you choose decides which.
一件事不是⋯⋯就是⋯⋯。你用哪一句話，它就變成哪一種。
  • A quiet month is either rest or avoidance. The sentence you choose decides which.
  • A small team is either focus or fear. The sentence you choose decides which.
✍️ Write it about a setback at work or at home.
He treats "___" as ___, not as ___.
他把「⋯⋯」當成⋯⋯，而不是⋯⋯。先引用一個詞，再給你的判斷。
  • He treats "later" as a decision, not as a calendar.
  • She treats "busy" as a boundary, not as a personality.
✍️ Pick a word people at your job overuse.

✅ 理解題 4

看完影片再作答。選一個答案會立刻顯示解釋。

  1. In this lesson, what does "from home" contrast with?
  2. If the same childhood story is "fuel," what is it not?
  3. What is a protocol?
  4. Someone "in the weeds" is…

💭 用英文想一想

挑一題，用英文寫 3 到 5 句，或對著手機錄一分鐘。不用完美，說出來最重要。

  • When is working from home a real method, and when is it a way to avoid the room?
  • Describe one fact about your past that you have used as fuel, and one you have used as an excuse.
  • Write three sentences about a team using loyalty, show up, and in the weeds.

📎 想再往下走

這集做完如果還想繼續，這兩個方向跟內容最接近。不是必要的，學習包本身就夠用。

線上課程Hahow 好學校 · CLN
職場英文大補帖｜上班族的跨國會議必修課
會議金句、怎麼聽各國口音、怎麼在 con-call 裡把重點記下來。商業訪談聽完覺得跟不上時，從這裡補。
看課程 ↗
線上課程Hahow 好學校 · 以琳老師
快速養成《深入人心英文簡報術》
把一個想法講成完整一段：架構、語調、怎麼抓住聽的人。適合 TED 和商業訪談這種「一個人講很久」的英文。
看課程 ↗

含聯盟連結：透過這些連結購買，本站會獲得分潤，你的價格不變。推薦的課是依每集主題挑的，不是誰付錢就放誰。

☕Buy me a coffee