1-gobble 狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃

Next up is a house made of wood-the wolf blows that down too, and gobbles up the pig inside.

2-huff and puff 气呼呼，气喘吁吁

Finally, the wolf comes to a house full of bricks- but the wolf now fails to blow it down, despite all his huffing and puffing.

3-cauldron 金属大锅

So he tries to climb down the chimney, straight into a steaming cauldron.

4-line 字行，台词，对白

In a typical experiment on the processing of metapho, participants are asked to read sentences and to signal-with the press of a button-when they comprehended each line.

5-let off steam 发泄怒气，宣泄情感，释放精力

6-fume 愤怒

Phrases such as : I was fuming … I had to take a moment to let off steam, otherwise my boiler burst, take less time to comprehend than " I was fumiy…".

7-compelling 引人入胜的，扣人心弦的

8-leaden 乏味的，沉闷的

These strategies can only work if the facts you present are already compelling; they can't turn a leaden message into gold.

9-polish 修改，润色，改进

But if you have an appealing argument that you then polish with these principles of powerful persuation, you will be well on the way to changing your audiences' hearts and minds.