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Is your cursing and cussing out of control? Stop the profanity with this behavior modification plan.

You Will Need
Introspection
Word substitutes
Visualization

Step 1: Realize why you're cursing（诅咒通常是用来发泄愤怒和沮丧的，可以试着学会用其他方法来处理）

Realize why you’re swearing: it’s often just a lazy way of expressing rage or frustration. Learn other anger management coping skills and you may not be so tempted to curse so much.

Step 2: Hear how unattractive it is（当别人诅咒或破口大骂的时候，注意看一下，客观地了解这种做法非常不好）
Pay attention the next time someone else lets a few choice words rip. Is that really how you want to sound to others?

Step 3: Learn some new words（寻找一些文雅的词来抒发自己的情绪）
Scan a thesaurus for satisfying stand-ins for your favorite swear words. A good vocabulary allows you to be as cutting and colorful as you want to — without the foul language.

Try using silly substitutes, like “fudge” and “fiddle-dee-dee.” You’ll feel so stupid, you’ll probably swear off swearing.

Step 4: Imagine an audience（设想一下，如果被你诅咒的人是婴儿或牧师，你会怎样？）
The next time you’re on the verge of a four-letter tirade, ask yourself if you’d use this language around a young child, an elderly person, or a clergy member. That should stop the swearing.

Step 5: Go ahead（尽量避免使用脏话）
Go ahead and drop the F-bomb — if you’re in pain. A group of researchers concluded that cursing intensifies our fight-or-flight response, making us better able to withstand pain by minimizing our perception of it. Guess that explains all the swearing in hospital delivery rooms!

Often, people who speak more than one language report that they always curse in their native tongue.

重点词汇

【重点词汇】

1.Is your cursing and cussing out of control?
你是不是无意识地在诅咒和咒骂呢？

cuss vt. 乱骂，咒

如：She's so cussed she always does the opposite of what you ask.
她这人真是牛脾气，总是与你的要求背道而驰。

He's an awkward/queer old cuss.
他是个笨手笨脚的[古里古怪的]家伙。

2.Scan a thesaurus for satisfying stand-ins for your favorite swear words.
从同义词词典上找一些你比较喜欢的替代词。

stand-in n. 替身

3.A good vocabulary allows you to be as cutting and colorful as you want to — without the foul language.
庞大词汇量会让你更少地使用脏话。

foul language 下流话，粗话，脏话

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