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分享一个知识点： Reader question: Could you explain “comfort zone” in this passage: The term “comfort zone” has always struck me as wonderfully descriptive, the perfect words for a place where all feels safe and right with the world. But contentment comes at a cost – comfort zones sometimes evolve into boring, same-old-same-old traps where nothing changes, including you. My comments: I think it’s quite well explained in that very passage. Anyways, the term “comfort zone” is on the lips of motivational speakers all the time. Get out of your comfort zone, they say. By that they mean to encourage people to enrich their lives by taking on new challenges. First, comfort zone. No idea who coined this phrase, but it’s a good one, descriptive indeed. One’s warm bed in a cold winter morning, for instance, is a comfort zone. Young readers have no idea what I’m talking about, and rightly so. Imagine life in the 1970s before heating systems and air conditioners were installed. I was in primary school then, and getting out of the warm bed for school in a chilling winter morning was always a test. I coil just recalling the experience. Today, in Japan and metropolitan China as well there are a lot of shut-ins, teenagers or young adults who shut themselves indoors all the time. Some don’t leave the house for weeks on end. What do they do? Well, they watch television and play computer games. | 
