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The red carpet is unfurled and the crowds are gathering on the French Riviera for the start of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.红地毯被展开，人群聚集在法国的里维埃拉，为第62届戛纳电影节。
　　Festival jurors led by actress Isabelle Huppert will attend Wednesday’s gala opener, Disney and Pixar Animation’s 3-D adventure "Up."
　　电影节的评审由女演员伊莎贝尔@于佩尔带领，将出席星期三的盛大揭幕，迪斯尼和皮克斯动画的三D片。
　　It’s the first animated film to open the world’s most prestigious film festival. The next 12 days will see plenty of weightier fare, including movies by Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodovar and Ang Lee.
　　这是第一次由动画片开幕的世界最负盛名的电影节。在未来12天将看到大量的重量级电影，包括昆汀@塔伦蒂诺，拉斯@冯@特里尔，简@坎皮恩@阿尔莫多瓦和李安的电影。
　　The lineup looks strong, but festival organizers and industry attendees are apprehensive about how the worldwide recession will affect the glamorous, big-money event.
　　阵容看起来强劲，但电影节组织者和行业参与者担心如何世界性的经济衰退将影响到这次迷人，大量资金的活动。
　　The festival runs through May 24, when the top prize — the Palme d’Or — will be announced.
　　 电影节持续到5月24日，届时最高奖-金棕榈奖将公布。

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LONDON (AP) — Two British Sunday newspapers said LaToya Jackson believes her brother Michael Jackson was murdered by a group of conspirators trying to get hold of his fortune.
　　（伦敦美联电） -两份英国周日报纸说拉托亚@杰克逊认为她的弟弟迈克尔杰克逊是被谋杀的，阴谋试图抓住他的财产。
　　LaToya Jackson said she knows who is responsible for her brother’s death and is determined to see them brought to justice, the News of the World reported.
　　LaToya Jackson说她知道谁为她弟弟的死负责，并决心看到他们绳之以法，《世界新闻报》报道。
　　According to the published interviews with The News of the World and The Mail on Sunday, she did not name any of the people she believes were involved and did not offer any evidence to support her claim that foul play was involved in the singer’s sudden death on June 25.
　　根据已公布的采访的消息，她没有说任何人的名字，并没有提供任何证据来支持她的说法。
　　"I feel it was all about money," she was quoted as saying by the News of the World. "Michael was worth well over a billion in music publishing assets and somebody killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive."
　　“我觉得是钱， ”《世界新闻报》转述她的话。 “迈克尔的价值远远超过了10亿的资产，他死了比活着有更高的价值。 ”
　　
　　She reportedly said the conspirators used powerful prescription drugs to keep Michael Jackson submissive and under control and also kept him away from his family.
　　她说，阴谋者使用强大的处方药让迈克尔@杰克逊顺从和被控制，也让他远离他的家人。
　　She also claimed, the newspapers reported, that roughly $2 million (1.23 million pounds) worth of cash and jewelry was taken from Michael Jackson’s rented mansion and has not been accounted for.
　　她还声称，大约200万美元的现金和珠宝从Michael Jackson的租用大厦中被拿走，一直没有下落。
　　
　　LaToya Jackson also was quoted as saying her brother did not want to perform the 50 London shows he had agreed to, but was pressured into that agreement.
　　LaToya Jackson还称她的弟弟不想表演50场伦敦表演，但被协议的压力。
　　The shows, to mark Michael Jackson’s return to concert performing, had been scheduled to begin Monday at London’s 02 Arena.
　　该节目，标志着迈克尔@杰克逊音乐会演出的回归，已定于周一在伦敦的02体育场。
　　Officials are waiting for the return of toxicology reports before determining the cause of Michael Jackson’s death.
　　官员正在等待毒理学报告，然后再确定迈克尔杰克逊的死因。

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by Michael Noer and Nicole Perlroth
　　Wednesday, November 11, 2009
　　provided by Forbes
　　
　　The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.
　　
　　"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." — Napoleon Bonaparte
　　
　　Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than a religious figure. Can one really compare the influence of a journalist to that of a terrorist? And is power unexercised power at all?
　　
　　In compiling our first ranking of the World’s Most Powerful People we wrestled with these questions — and many more — before deciding to define power in four dimensions. First, we asked, does the person have influence over lots of other people? Pope Benedict XVI, ranked 11th on our list, is the spiritual leader of more than a billion souls, or about one-sixth of the world’s population, while Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke (No. 8) is the largest private-sector employer in the United States.
　　
　　Then we assessed the financial resources controlled by these individuals. Are they relatively large compared with their peers’? For heads of state we used GDP, while for CEOs, we looked at a composite ranking of market capitalization, profits, assets and revenues as reflected on our annual ranking of the World’s 2000 Largest Companies. In certain instances, like New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller (No. 51), we judged the resources at his disposal compared with others in the industry. For billionaires, like Bill Gates (No. 10), net worth was also a factor.
　　
　　Next we determined if they are powerful in multiple spheres. There are only 67 slots on our list — one for every 100 million people on the planet — so being powerful in just one area is not enough to guarantee a spot. Our picks project their influence in myriad ways. Take Italy’s colorful prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi (No. 12) who is a politician, a media monopolist and owner of soccer powerhouse A.C. Milan, or Oprah Winfrey (No. 45) who can manufacture a best-seller and an American President.
　　
　　Lastly, we insisted that our choices actively use their power. Ingvar Kamprad, the 83-year-old entrepreneur behind Ikea and the richest man in Europe, was an early candidate for this list, but was excluded because he doesn’t exercise his power. On the other hand, Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin (No. 3) scored points because he likes to throw his weight around by jailing oligarchs, invading neighboring countries and periodically cutting off Western Europe’s supply of natural gas.
　　
　　To calculate the final rankings, five Forbes senior editors ranked all of our candidates in each of these four dimensions of power. Those individual rankings were averaged into a composite score, which determined who placed above (or below) whom.
　　
　　U.S. President Barack Obama emerged, unanimously, as the world’s most powerful person, and by a wide margin. But there were a number of surprises. Former President George W. Bush didn’t come close to making the final cut, while his predecessor in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton, ranks 31st, ahead of a number of sitting heads of government. Apple’s Steve Jobs easily made the list, while Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star governor of California (alone, the world’s fifth largest economy) did not.
　　
　　

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乐观、豁达是每个人都应该具备的品质。生活中会有一些挫折，可既然你还活着，也许就是上天给你最好的恩赐。与死神檫肩而过之后，留下的一点点伤痛又算得了什么呢？
　　
　　Sweet-Pea Summers
　　
　　Each summer in the late 1960s, my two sisters and I would ride the Greyhound bus from Arizona to Arkansas to stay with our father.
　　
　　A World WarⅡ veteran, Dad had many medical problems, any one of which could cause many people to lose more than their sense of humor, but not him.
　　
　　I have vivid memories of Dad waking us up in the morning. Before he’d put on his legs for the day (he had lost his legs after his discharge), his wheelchair was his mobility.
　　
　　Holding his cane, which was his extended arm, he would roll through the house yelling, "Up, up, up! Get up and face the day! It’s a beautiful day! Rise and Shine!" If we didn’t get up right away, he would repeat his song in rhythm with his cane hitting the end of our beds. This was no performance put on for our benefit; every day was truly a beautiful day to him.
　　
　　Back in the sixties, there was no handicapped parking or wheelchair-accessible ramps like there are now, so even a trip to the grocery store was a difficult task. Dad wanted no assistance from anyone. He would climb stairs slowly but surely, whistling all the way. As a teenager, I found this embarrassing, but if Dad noticed, he didn’t let me help.
　　
　　Those summers always ended too soon. He would drive us back to Arizona every year, stopping at the checkpoint for fruit and vegetables at the New Mexico-Arizona border. When asked if he had any fruits or vegetables, he would reply,"Just three sweet peas."
　　
　　Our father has been gone for a long time now, but not the lesson that he taught us: You are only as handicapped as you let yourself be.
　　
　　

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Joe: Kathleen Kelly, hello. This is a coincidence巧合
　　Would you mind if I sat down?
　　Kathleen: Yes, yes, I would. Actually I’m expecting someone. Thanks.
　　Joe: Pride and Prejudice.
　　Kathleen: Do you mind?
　　Joe: I bet you read that book every year. I bet you just love that Mr. Darcy and your sentimental 多愁善感的heart just beats wildly at the thought that he and, well, you know whatever her name is, are truly honestly going to end up结束;告终together.
　　Waiter: Can I get you something?
　　Kathleen: No, no, he’s not staying.
　　Joe: Mochachino,(一种饮料，巧克力、咖啡和牛奶混合摇成)
　　decaf, non-fat.脱脂的
　　Kathleen: No, you are not staying.
　　Joe: I’ll just stay here until your friend gets here. Gee,惊讶时所发声音is he late?
　　Kathleen: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is Elizabeth Bennet. She is one of the greatest and most complex复杂的
　　characters 人物;角色ever written, not that you would know.
　　Joe: As a matter of fact, I’ve read it.
　　Kathleen: Oh, well, good for you.
　　Joe: I think you’ll discover a lot of things if you really knew me.
　　Kathleen: If I really knew you, I know what I would find instead of a brain, a cash register,收音机 instead of a heart, a bottom line.残忍，无情
　　Joe: What?
　　Kathleen: I just had a breakthrough.突破; 突破性进展
　　Joe: What is it?
　　Kathleen: I have you to thank for it, for the first time in my life when confronted 使面对; 遭遇with a horrible,可怕的;极可憎的insensitive 感觉迟钝的person I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I said it.
　　Joe: Well, I think you have a gift 天赋;才能 for it. It was a perfect blend 混合 of poetry and meanness.无聊卑劣
　　Kathleen: Meanness, let me tell you something about meanness…
　　Joe: Don’t misunderstand me. I’m just trying to pay you a compliment..称赞;恭维
　　Joe: Look, I am not a 22-year old cocktail waitress.
　　Kathleen: That is not what I meant.
　　Joe: And when I said the thing about the Price Club and the cans 罐头 of olive oil橄榄;橄榄树,that’s not what I meant.
　　Kathleen: Oh, you poor sad multi-millionaire. I feel so sorry for you.
　　(Someone comes into, Kathleen raises her head and looks forward.)
　　Joe: Take a wild guess that’s not him either. So who is he, I wonder? Certainly not I, gather the world’s greatest living expert专家;能手on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg俄国间谍夫妇，后在美国被捕，被判无期徒刑，死在牢中,but somebody else entirely different. And will you be mean to him too?
　　Kathleen: No, I will not. Because the man who is coming here tonight is completely unlike you. The man who is coming here tonight is kind and funny and he’s got the most wonderful sense of humor.
　　Joe: But, he’s not here.
　　Kathleen: Well, if he’s not here he has a reason because there’s not a cruel or careless疏忽的;粗心的 bone in his body. But I wouldn’t expect you to understand anybody like that. You with your theme park multi-level 多级别的homogenize 均质化；使均匀 the world mochachino land. You’ve deluded不切实际地欺骗自己ourself into thinking that you’re some sort of benefactor恩人bringing books to the masses. But no one will ever remember you Joe Fox and maybe no one will remember me either, but plenty of people remember my mother and they think she was fine and they think her store was something special. You are nothing but a suit.外套，暗喻没有良心的商人
　　Joe: That’s my cue.线索; 要点Have a good night.
　　
　　

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Number 1
　　YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.
　　It took me a long time to learn this rule because at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism inferred that you didn’t necessarily have to like the people that you worked for, and should maintain an arms length relationship to them. As a result, I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Some years ago I realised that I was deluded. In looking back, I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. Affection, trust and sharing some common ground is the only way good work can be achieved. Otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle
　　
　　Number 2
　　IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE NEVER HAVE A JOB.
　　One night I was sitting in my car outside Columbia University where my wife Shirley was studying Anthropology. While I was waiting I was listening to the radio and heard an interviewer ask ‘Now that you have reached 75 have you any advice for our audience about how to prepare for your old age?’ An irritated voice said ‘Why is everyone asking me about old age these days?’ I recognised the voice as John Cage. I am sure that many of you know who he was – the composer and philosopher who influenced people like Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham as well as the music world in general. I knew him slightly and admired his contribution to our times. ‘You know, I do know how to prepare for old age’ he said. ‘Never have a job, because if you have a job someday someone will take it away from you and then you will be unprepared for your old age. For me, it has always been the same every since the age of 12. I wake up in the morning and I try to figure out how am I going to put bread on the table today? It is the same at 75, I wake up every morning and I think how am I going to put bread on the table today? I am exceeding well prepared for my old age’ he said.
　　
　　Number 3
　　SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
　　This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties an old geezer named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible.
　　
　　Number 4
　　PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.
　　Early in my career I couldn’t wait to become a professional. That was my complete aspiration in my early life because professionals seemed to know everything – not to mention they got paid well for it. Later I discovered after working for a while that professionalism itself was a limitation. After all, what professionalism means in most cases is limiting risks. So if you want to get your car fixed you go to a mechanic who knows how to deal with transmission problems in the same way each time. I suppose if you needed brain surgery you wouldn’t want the doctor to fool around and invent a new way of connecting your nerve endings. Please doc, do it in the way that has worked in the past.
　　
　　Unfortunately in our field, in a so-called creative activity – I’ve begun to hate that word. I especially hate when it is used as a noun. I shudder when I hear someone called a creative. Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is desirable in our field, is continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. Professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
　　
　　Number 5
　　LESS IS NOT NECESSARILY MORE.
　　Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realise that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. However, I have an alternative to the proposition that I believe is more appropriate. ‘Just enough is more.’
　　
　　Number 6
　　STYLE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
　　I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvellous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It’s absurd to be loyal to a style. It does not deserve your loyalty. I must say that for old design professionals it is a problem because the field is driven by economic consideration more than anything else. Style change is usually linked to economic factors, as all of you know who have read Marx. Also fatigue occurs when people see too much of the same thing too often. So every ten years or so there is a stylistic shift and things are made to look different. Typefaces go in and out of style and the visual system shifts a little bit. If you are around for a long time as a designer, you have an essential problem of what to do. Incidentally, it’s popular for designers to claim they have no style but this is generally not true. Most good designers have developed a vocabulary, a form that is their own. It is one of the ways that they distinguish themselves from their peers, and establish their identity in the field. How you maintain your own belief system and preferences becomes a real balancing act. As a career progresses the question of whether you pursue change or whether you maintain your own distinct form becomes difficult. We have all seen the work of illustrious practitioners that suddenly look old-fashioned or, more precisely, belonging to another moment in time. And there are sad stories such as the one about Cassandre, arguably the greatest graphic designer of the twentieth century, who couldn’t make a living at the end of his life and committed suicide. But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now expect that they formerly didn’t want? And how to respond to that desire in a way that doesn’t violate your sense of integrity and purpose.
　　
　　Number 7
　　HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
　　The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relative pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don’t know how – that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had perfect pitch. This was interesting enough in itself. But then they discovered something even more fascinating. If you took a bunch of kids and taught them to play the violin at the age of 4 or 5 after a couple of years some of them developed perfect pitch, and in all of those cases their brain structure had changed. Well what could that mean for the rest of us? We tend to believe that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind, although we do not generally believe that everything we do affects the brain. I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed. That is why your mother always said, ‘Don’t hang out with those bad kids.’ Mama was right. Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
　　
　　Number 8
　　DOUBT IS BETTER THAN CERTAINTY.
　　Everyone always talks about confidence and believing in what you do. I remember once going to a class in Kundalini yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a more practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one’s openness to the world as passionate belief is. They are sort of twins.
　　
　　Number 9
　　SOLVING THE PROBLEM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING RIGHT.
　　Ultimately, if we’re lucky, we begin to understand that always being right is a delusion. There is a significant sense of self-righteousness in both the art and design world. Perhaps it begins at school. Art school often promote the Ayn Rand model of the single personality resisting the ideas of the surrounding culture. The theory is that as an individual you can transform the world, which is true up to a point but as someone once said ‘In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world.’ One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
　　
　　Schools encourage the idea of not compromising and defending your work at all costs. Well, in our work the issue is usually all about the nature of compromise. You just have to know when compromise is appropriate. Blind pursuit of your own ends which excludes the possibility that others may be right does not allow for the fact that in design we are always dealing with a triad – the client, the audience and you.
　　
　　Ideally, making everyone win through acts of accommodation is desirable. But self-righteousness is often the enemy. Self-righteousness and narcissism generally come out of some sort of childhood trauma, which we do not have to go into. It is a consistently mischievous element in human affairs. Some years ago I read a most remarkable thing about love, that also applies to the nature of co-existing with others. It was a quotation by Iris Murdoch from her obituary. It read ‘ Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.’ Isn’t that fantastic! The best insight on the subject of love that one can imagine.
　　
　　Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully’ I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that ‘it doesn’t matter.’ ‘It doesn’t matter that what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn’t say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don’t get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn’t matter.’ Wisdom at last. A week or two later I read a joke that I haven’t been able to get out of my head. A butcher was opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired ‘Got any cabbage?’ The butcher said ‘This is a meat market – we sell meat, not vegetables.’ The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher is opening the shop and sure enough the rabbit pops his head round and says ‘You got any cabbage?’ The butcher now irritated says ‘Listen you little rodent I told you yesterday we sell meat, we do not sell vegetables and the next time you come here I am going to grab you by the throat and nail those floppy ears to the floor.’ The rabbit disappeared hastily and nothing happened for a week. Then one morning the rabbit popped his head around the corner and said ‘Got any nails?’ The butcher said ‘No.’ The rabbit said ‘Ok. Got any cabbage?’ My last rule is based on an article I wrote in the AIGA Journal some years ago and also refers to the sense of public responsibility I mentioned in my opening remarks.
　　
　　Number 10
　　TELL THE TRUTH.
　　The rabbit joke is relevant because it occurred to me that looking for a cabbage in a butcher’s shop might be like looking for ethics in the design field. It may not be the most obvious place to find either. It’s interesting to observe that in the new AIGA’s code of ethics there is a significant amount of useful information about appropriate behaviour towards clients and other designers, but not a word about a designer’s relationship to the public. In daily life we expect a butcher to sell us eatable meat and not to misrepresent his wares. I remember reading that during the Stalin years in Russia that everything labelled veal was actually chicken. I can’t imagine what everything labelled chicken was. We can accept certain kinds of misrepresentation, such as fudging about the amount of fat in his hamburger but once a butcher betrays our trust by knowingly selling us spoiled meat we go elsewhere. As a designer, do we have less responsibility to our public than a butcher? Our meat is information. Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public not designers or clients. ‘Do no harm’ is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. Incidentally, if we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.
　　
　　

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　　Friday July 13 2:37 PM ET
　　Tiananmen Hosts Triumphant China Olympic Party
　　
　　By Jonathan Ansfield
　　
　　BEIJING (Reuters) – Tens upon tens of thousands of people flooded into Tiananmen Square on Friday as Beijing erupted in joy after winning the vote to host the 2008 Summer Olympics (news – web sites).
　　
　　The vast square was a sea of people into which President Jiang Zemin (news – web sites) plunged, pumping hands and grinning as he savoured a moment of personal triumph in a rare moment of spontaneity by a Chinese leader.
　　
　　The long, wide Avenue of Eternal Peace leading to it was jammed as people celebrated not just the Olympics, but what they see as a milestone in China’s long efforts to take its place on the world stage as a great nation.
　　
　　“The world has recognized us,” said university teacher Zu Danliang, 38, as fireworks exploded in a colorful blaze overhead and blue lasers shot into the sky.
　　
　　The revelers included housewives in pajamas, off-duty soldiers, punks with dyed yellow hair and children of all ages, their shouts of joy punctuated by bursts of firecrackers.
　　
　　“At last, victory for Beijing” said 16-year-old student Lin Youfang. “This means the motherland has become a superpower.”
　　
　　The Avenue of Eternal Peace was jammed with honking cars, delirious passengers waving red flags hung out of taxi windows and doors, yelling and singing the national anthem as the huge area became a carnival of monstrous proportions.
　　
　　Police on Tiananmen Square, often a sullen and menacing presence as they watch vigilantly for any sign of protest, broke into smiles, stood back and watched the fun.
　　
　　CHINA TAKES WORLD STAGE Victory was so, so sweet for a city set up for cruel disappointment eight years ago by an over-zealous state propaganda machine when Sydney narrowly defeated Beijing by just two votes in the race to host the 2000 Games.
　　
　　In living rooms and dormitories, bars and restaurants, Beijing residents had huddled around televisions sets and radios to follow the voting in Moscow.
　　
　　The state broadcaster China Central Television repeatedly flashed “We’ve Won” in huge red characters on its screens.
　　
　　At a Beijing sports bar, real estate agent Shi Li, 26, calculated the effect on his job prospects of the first Olympics to be awarded to the world’s most populous nation of 1.3 billion people.
　　
　　“Winning the bid will be a huge career prospect for me,” he enthused. “I believe I will be running my own real estate agency by 2008.”
　　
　　Beijing won easily over Toronto, despite international criticism over China’s human rights record, in a vote will go far toward satisfying a deep Chinese yearning for international recognition of its economic might and sporting prowess.
　　
　　Yet not everyone was thrilled by the result. Peking University student Sun Rongrong expressed a widespread fear that billions of dollars in Olympic-related construction projects would fill the pockets of corrupt officials.
　　
　　“I’m a bit worried because such a huge opportunity will introduce a lot of chances for corruption,” said Sun, 22. “The ordinary people may not really be the ones to benefit.”
　　
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　　In Shanghai, revelers spilled into Nanjing Road, a fashionable shopping thoroughfare, tossing paper fans and plastic water bottles into the air.
　　
　　Volleyball star Chen Wena gave voice to a swelling feeling of nationalistic pride.
　　
　　“It’s our turn. This is our time,” she said.
　　
　　“We’ll let the whole world know everything about China. We are overjoyed.”
　　
　　At Caesar’s Palace bar in a theme park in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, party-goers sprayed each other with beer.
　　
　　Screaming to make himself heard above the thumping din of rock music, shipbroker Pei Du said: “This is going to bring China closer and closer to the world.”
　　
　　TAIWAN URGES PEACE
　　
　　Official media had dropped the euphoric propaganda that convinced many Chinese they had the 2000 Games all sewn up at a time when Beijing was desperate to claw back international acceptance after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
　　
　　A more sober tone in the media this time was also designed to protect Chinese leaders from the embarrassment of another failure.
　　
　　In the end, the vote was likely to give a boost to Jiang and other reformist leaders.
　　
　　Its effect was magnified by China’s impending admission to the World Trade Organization (news – web sites) and the kudos of playing host later this year to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (news – web sites) (APEC) forum, which brings together the region’s leaders, including President Bush (news – web sites).
　　
　　The three events add up to a huge psychological boost for China, whose economy is powering ahead despite the global slowdown.
　　
　　Many in Taiwan were praying for a Beijing win, trusting that the threat of a Western boycott of the Olympics would diminish the menace of war across the Taiwan Strait.
　　
　　After the vote, a Taiwan government spokesman called on Beijing to abandon the threat of military force.
　　
　　Taiwan “hopes communist China can abandon the use of force in both the Taiwan Strait and the Asia-Pacific region in the pursuit of world peace,” Su Tzen-ping told a news conference.
　　
　　Since their civil war split in 1949, Beijing has regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province that must be returned to the fold, by force if necessary.
　　
　　
　　

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Love Letter No. 1 – First Encounter
　　
　　Hi (Name):
　　
　　Just thought I’d write you a short note to tell you haow much I enjoyed meeting you at (place). I can’t recall when I had a more pleasant time. Everything felt so natural, and you were very easy to talk to. It’s hard for me to identify what it is about you that attracts me so. I suppose it might be the combination of your great sense of humor, your charming personality and your good-looks. Whatever it is, I can sense its presence. You could call it chemistry, or better yet, the possibility that we are on the same wavelength.
　　
　　(Name), I really hope that our first (encounter/meeting/date) was not our last because I felt very special when I was with you. I truly want to give our friendship a chance to grow.
　　
　　Well, I guess I’ve said enough for the time being. (Name), have a wonderful (week/day) and, hopefully, I’ll see you again real soom. If you get a chance, (write/call) me and tell me your thoughts.
　　
　　Until I hear from you, take care of yourself.
　　
　　Always,
　　
　　(Name)
　　
　　Love Letter No. 2 – Destiny
　　
　　My dear (Name):
　　
　　There are things in life that are inevitable; I am powerless to control them. The Sun will rise and set, the tide will come in and go out, the seasons will change, the birds will fly South for the winter and return in the spring, and the caterpiller will transform itself into a (beautiful/handsome) butterfly. Somehow, I feel reassured by this because many other things in life are so transient – so momentary.
　　
　　(Name), from the moment we met, I knew that our friendship would develop into something lasting and precious, just as I am sure that the caterpiller will one day become a (beautiful/handsome) butterfly.
　　
　　Dearest, I believe that our love is (blessed/ordained) by God. It is a union of two spirits destined for everlasting happiness. Thus, you have truly become the star of my life which brings me light in this dark world, and warmth when I need it. You offer me the promise of renewal, the joy of living, the peace of mind that comes from sharing and caring, and that shoulder to lean on in times of stress. You are my Swallow from Capistrano – my precious butterfly, and I will cherish you and love you forever.
　　
　　(Name)
　　
　　Love Letter No. 3 – Proclamation
　　
　　Dearest (Name):
　　
　　 Just as a poet needs inspiration to write a masterpiece
　　
　　 I need you …
　　
　　 Just as an artist needs a subject for his work of art,
　　
　　 I need you …
　　
　　 Just as a teacher needs a pupil to mold into greatness,
　　
　　 I need you …
　　
　　 Just as a composer needs a theme to create a timeless melody,
　　
　　 I need you …
　　
　　 For without you, (Name), my life would be empty of all inspiration. There will be no work of art for me to gaze at; no person of greatness before me; no timeless melody to listen to. My life will exist in shades of gray instead of vibrant colors, and I will be less than whole.
　　
　　 In the past, the proper words have escaped me, and my innermost feelings have been kept locked away in the depths of my heart. No more – for through this letter, I proclaim to you, (Name), my undying love and eternal devotion.
　　
　　 Yours forever,
　　
　　 (Name)
　　
　　Love Letter No. 4 – True Love
　　
　　Dearest (Name):
　　
　　 It is very important for me to express to you how much you really mean to me. I wish I could do this in person while holding you in my arms and gazing into your eyes. But since we are physically separated by miles of emptiness, this expression must come in the form of letters such as this.
　　
　　 (Name), I know it is difficult for you, as it is for me, to be separated for so long. Life seems to be full of trials of this type which test our inner strength, and more importantly, our devotion and love for one another. After all, it is said that "True Love" is boundless and immeasurable and overcomes all forms of adversity. In truth, if it is genuine, it will grow stronger with each assault upon its existence.
　　
　　 (Name), our love has been assaulted many times, and I am convinced that it is true because the longer I am away from you, the greater is my yearning to be with you again. You are my (enchanted Princess/Charming Prince), and I am your devoted (consort/Prince/Princess). I cherish any thought of you, prize any memory of you that rises from the depths of my mind, and live for the day when our physical separation will no longer be.
　　
　　 Until that moment arrives, I send to you across the miles, my tender love, my warm embrace, and my most passionate kiss.
　　
　　 Love always,
　　
　　 (Name)
　　
　　Love Letter No. 5 – Wholeness
　　
　　Dearest (Name):
　　
　　I have lived for a long time (responsible for/dependent upon) no one, answering to no one and committed to no one except myself. During this period of my life, I considered the World mine for the taking and truly believed that I was living life to the fullest. Then, you came into the picture, and all of a sudden, I realized that I was deceiving myself.
　　
　　(Name), I am an incomplete (man/woman) in need of wholeness. I find that my life is not all that I thought it was. In fact, it is terribly lacking in many things, the foremost being love. Now, through some great fortune, I have found that love and along with it the one person who can make my life truly complete.
　　
　　(Name), you are that person, and I have somehow fallen hopelessly and undeniably in love with you. To be honest, I never thought I would ever utter those words, but now, they come forth effortlessly and with great sincerity. I’ll be forever greatful to you for showing me just how shallow my life was. At last, I have a chance to give it depth and purpose.
　　
　　I wanted to tell you this in person, but I knew that the proper words would escape me. I wrote you this letter instead. Please call me after you read it, and we’ll talk.
　　
　　Until I hear from you, I remain totally yours in thought and spirit.
　　
　　Love,
　　
　　(Name)
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　
　　

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01、《新娘大战》(Bride Wars)
　　02、《墨水心》(Inkheart)
　　03、《蔷花红莲美国版》(The Uninvited)
　　04、《其实你不懂他的心》(He’s Just Not That Into You)
　　05、《鬼妈妈》(Coraline)
　　06、《跨国银行》(The International)
　　07、《黑色星期五》(Friday the 13th)
　　08、《街头霸王：春丽传奇》(Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li)
　　09、《守望者》(Watchmen)
　　10、《地球奶爸》(Race to Witch Mountain)
　　11、《灾难先知》(Knowing)
　　12、《怪兽大战外星人》(Monsters Vs. Aliens)
　　13、《速度与激情4》(Fast and Furious)
　　14、《七龙珠：进化》(Dragonball Evolution)
　　15、《独奏者》(The Soloist)
　　16、《X战警外传1：金刚狼》(X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
　　17、《星际迷航11》(Star Trek)
　　18、《天使与恶魔》(Angels & Demons)
　　19、《博物馆奇妙夜2：决战史密森尼》(Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian)
　　20、《终结者4：救世主》(Terminator Salvation)
　　21、《飞天总动员》(Up)
　　22、《无良杂牌军》(Inglourious Basterds)
　　23、《变形金刚2：卷土重来》(Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
　　24、《冰河世纪3：恐龙的黎明》(Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
　　25、《一号公敌》(Public Enemies)
　　26、《哈利·波特与混血王子》(Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince)
　　27、《爆笑绝唱》(Funny People)
　　28、《特种部队：眼镜蛇崛起》(G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra)
　　29、《茱莉与朱丽叶》(Julie & Julia)
　　30、《创造伍兹托克》(Taking Woodstock)
　　31、《死神来了4》(Final Destination: Death Trip 3D)
　　32、《玩具总动员()3D》(Toy Story 3D)
　　33、《孤岛疑云》(Shutter Island)
　　34、《绿色地带》(Green Zone)
　　35、《艾米莉亚》(Amelia)
　　36、《电锯惊魂6》(Saw VI)
　　37、《阿童木》(Astro Boy)
　　38、《狼人》(The Wolfman)
　　39、《圣诞颂歌》(A Christmas Carol)
　　40、《生命终点》(The Last Station)
　　41、《福尔摩斯》(Sherlock Holmes)
　　42、《新月之茧》(New Moon)
　　43、《变性女郎》(The Danish Girl)
　　44、《人性因子》(The Human Factor)
　　45、《九》(Nine)
　　46、《死不瞑目》(The Lovely Bones)
　　47、《天神下凡》(Avatar)
　　48、《公主与青蛙》(The Princess and the Frog)

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An old man on a boat holding a roped tied to the arm of a dead person submerged in water with one hand and gesticulating to people on the bank with the other.
　　船上的一个老人用绳索绑在死者的手臂上，向堤岸上的其他老人打着手势。
　　The body is that of one of the three 19-year-old heroes who sacrificed their lives to save two boys from drowning in the Yangtze River in Jingzhou, Hubei province, on Oct 24. Media reports say the old man is an employee of a local company that specializes in fishing out bodies from the river.
　　这是一个19岁的英雄的尸体，他们牺牲自己的生命拯救在长江溺水的两个男孩（在湖北省荆州，10月24日）。媒体报道说，这个老人受雇于一个本地公司，这个公司专门从事从从江里打捞尸体的。
　　拍摄照片时，这个老人的雇主正在和长江大学的教师谈判，关于“救助的价格”，这些青少年是长江大学的学生。雇主曾告诉船夫，让尸体留在水里，直到老师们凑够“打捞费”：每个尸体1.2万元。
　　When the photo was taken, the old man’s employer was negotiating the "salvage price" with teachers of Yangtze University, where the teenagers were students. The employer had told the boatman to keep the bodies in water until the teachers pooled in enough money to pay the "salvage fee": 12,000 yuan for each body.
　　当3名学生全部淹死的时候，他们的同学曾乞求船夫寻找他们。船夫拒绝作出让步，即使学生们跪在地上并哭喊。他们只有在老师们到达现场，并答应支付后才去。
　　After the three students were swept away by strong currents and drowned, their schoolmates had begged the boatmen to look for them. The boatmen refused to budge even after the students fell down on their knees and cried for help. They got going only after the teachers reached the spot and promised to pay.
　　
　　Posted online yesterday was another photo that showed the "salvage company" boss counting money given to him by the teachers.
　　昨天发布到网上的照片，是另一张显示“打捞公司”的老板在数老师们给他的钱。
　　Imagine how the families of the three students would have felt seeing their loved ones being humiliated after death.
　　想象一下三个学生的家属的感觉，当看到自己的亲人死后被羞辱时。
　　I wept tears of anger when I saw the photographs.
　　我出于愤怒哭了，当我看到照片时。
　　Almost all the netizens who have posted their comments on the incident on the web have expressed anger, too. But, as always, a few "cool-minded" and cold-hearted people have said the "salvage company" did not violate any law.
　　几乎所有对此事件作出评论的网民，都对此表示愤怒。但是，一如既往，一些“清醒”和冷酷的人说“打捞公司”并没有违反任何法律。
　　Do the bodies of heroes deserve to be treated like logs and held to ransom? How could the boatmen be so heartless? Couldn’t they have pulled out the bodies and then bargained for the money?
　　英雄的尸体就应该被要挟？那个船夫又于心何忍？难道他们不能拉出，然后再讨价还价？
　　At a press conference held on Saturday, the Jingzhou municipal government echoed the words of the cold-hearted netizens: The company had not violated any law.
　　在上周六举行的记者招待会上，荆州市政府重复了冷酷无情的网民的话：该公司并没有违反任何法律。
　　We are talking about the sanctity of a human body here. We are talking about the law of the heart, not the market. Isn’t it a crime to drag a dead person in icy waters with his friends and teachers looking on helplessly? Isn’t it a crime to humiliate a human being after death? If such a way of treating the body of a hero is not counted as a crime, then where can we find justice in this world?
　　我们正在谈论人的神圣。我们正在谈论的是心中的法律，而不是市场。这难道不是一种犯罪？在冰冷的水域中拖着一具尸体，让他的同学和老师们眼睁睁地看？如果这种对待的英雄的尸体难道不算是犯罪？那么我们在哪里可以找到这个世界上的正义呢？
　　As if that was not enough, the company had the audacity to ask for 300 yuan as"tips"to buy cigarettes and bottled drinks
　　这还不够，该公司大胆地要求300元，为购买香烟和瓶装饮料的“小费”。
　　Ironically, the local public security bureau has decided to detain the boss for 15 days and fine him 1,000 yuan for asking for 300 yuan in "tips", not for forcing out 36,000 yuan for pulling out the bodies.
　　讽刺的是，当地公安局已决定扣留老板15天，并罚款1000元，因为他要了300元的“小费”，而不是为拉出尸体而要的3.6万元。
　　According to reports, the company seems to monopolize salvage operations in the area, and hence its exorbitant charges. Have we thought about pressing charges against him for extortion?
　　据报道，该公司似乎在该地区垄断了打捞作业，因此收费过高。我们想过指控他勒索吗？
　　More saddening is the fact that many people today have drowned the last iota of their conscience in the icy waters of the market and self-aggrandizement.
　　更令人痛心的是，今天很多人在市场的冰冷水域里淹没了他们的良心。
　　Chinese people’s values have changed dramatically over the past few decades.
　　中国人民的价值观发生了巨大变化，在过去几十年中。
　　For many of them, pursuit of wealth is the only aim in life. They would readily abandon all moral concerns for just a few yuan. But this pursuit has dug a big hole in human and social consciousness.
　　对许多人来说，对财富的追求是人生的唯一目的。他们会轻易地放弃道德，为几元钱。但这种追求，在人类和社会意识中挖了一个大洞。
　　The Jingzhou incident has its bright side because the heroic students have moved the entire nation with their deed.
　　荆州事件有光明的一面，因为英勇的学生用他们的做法感动了整个国家。
　　The incident may not be the order of our society today, but it has shown that even when the majority of the people are out to make money by any means, there still are heroes ready to part with their lives to save others.
　　这一事件可能不是我们今天的社会秩序，但它表明，即使在大多数人为钱可以作任何事，仍然存在着英雄，准备用生命拯救别人。
　　The irony of the Jingzhou incident, however, is that money has held heroism hostage. This should sound a shocking alarm for every person in this country.
　　荆州事件中具有讽刺意味的是，这笔钱绑架了英雄。这应该是对这个国家中每个人的令人震惊的警报。

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In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.
　　
　　
　　On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
　　
　　
　　The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
　　
　　
　　Before long, the young violinist was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Please come to claim it soon.”
　　
　　
　　Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, “Yes, it’s you. You did come here. I knew that you’re an honest man and would certainly come here.”
　　
　　
　　The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr. George Sang?”
　　
　　
　　The man nodded. The violinist asked, “Did you lose something?”
　　
　　
　　“Lottery. It’s lottery,” said the man.
　　
　　
　　The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang’s name was seen. “Is it?” he asked.
　　
　　
　　George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.
　　
　　
　　The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.
　　
　　
　　Later someone asked the violinist: “At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn’t you take the lottery ticket for yourself?”
　　
　　
　　The violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won’t be happy forever.”
　　
　　
　　Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us. If we bear ourselves in a deceptive and dishonest way, we may succeed temporarily. However, from the long-term view, we will be a loser. Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.
　　
　　假如没了诚信 我一天也不会快乐
　　在繁华的纽约，曾经发生了这样一件震撼人心的事情。
　　
　　
　　星期五的傍晚，一个贫穷的年轻艺人仍然像往常一样站在地铁站门口，专心致志地拉着他的小提琴。琴声优美动听，虽然人们都急急忙忙地赶着回家过周末，但还是有很多人情不自禁的放慢了脚步，时不时地会有一些人在年轻艺人跟前的礼帽里放一些钱。
　　
　　
　　第二天黄昏，年轻的艺人又像往常一样准时来到地铁门口，把他的礼帽摘下来很优雅地放在地上。和以往不同的是，他还从包里拿出一张大纸，然后很认真地铺在地上，四周还用自备的小石块压上。做完这一切以后，他调试好小提琴，又开始了演奏，声音似乎比以前更动听更悠扬。
　　
　　
　　不久，年轻的小提琴手周围站满了人，人们都被铺在地上的那张大纸上的字吸引了，有的人还踮起脚尖看。上面写着：“昨天傍晚，有一位叫乔治-桑的先生错将一份很重要的东西放在我的礼帽里，请您速来认领。”
　　
　　
　　见此情景，人群之间引起一阵骚动，都想知道这是一份什么样的东西。过了半小时左右，一位中年男人急急忙忙跑过来，拨开人群就冲到小提琴手面前，抓住他的肩膀语无伦次的说：“啊！是您呀，您真的来了，我就知道您是个诚实的人，您一定会来的。”
　　
　　
　　年轻的小提琴手冷静地问：“您是乔治-桑先生吗？”
　　
　　
　　那人连忙点头。小提琴手又问：“您遗落了什么东西吗？”
　　
　　
　　那位先生说：“奖票，奖票”。
　　
　　
　　小提琴手于是掏出一张奖票，上面还醒目地写着乔治-桑，小提琴手举着彩票问：“是这个吗？”
　　
　　
　　乔治-桑迅速地点点头，抢过奖票吻了一下，然后又抱着小提琴手在地上跳起了舞。
　　
　　
　　原来事情是这样的，乔治-桑是一家公司的小职员，他前些日子买了一张一家银行发行的奖票，昨天上午开奖，他中了50万美元的奖金。昨天下班，他心情很好，觉得音乐也特别美妙，于是就从钱包里掏出50美元，放在了礼帽里，可是不小心把奖票也扔了进去。小提琴手是一名艺术学院的学生，本来打算去维也纳进修，已经定好了机票，时间就在今天上午，可是他昨天整理东西时发现了这张奖票，想到失主会来找，于是今天就退掉了机票，又准时来到这里。
　　
　　
　　后来，有人问小提琴手：“你当时那么需要一笔学费，为了赚够这笔学费，你不得不每天到地铁站拉提琴。那你为什么不把那50万元的奖票留下呢？”
　　
　　
　　小提琴手说：“虽然我没钱，但我活得很快乐；假如我没了诚信，我一天也不会快乐。”
　　
　　
　　在人的一生中，我们会得到许多，也会失去许多，但守信用却应是始终陪伴我们的。如果以虚伪、不诚实的方式为人处世，也许能获得暂时的“成功”，但从长远看，他最终是个失败者。这种人就像山上的水，刚开始的时候，是高高在上，但逐渐逐渐地它就越来越下降，再没有一个上升的机会
　　

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From garlic-sautéed garden snails in Paris, guinea pig in Ecuador or deep-fried scorpion in Beijing, there’s a taboo snack for every taste bud. For wannabe “Fear Factor” contestants, or if you’re just on the hunt for gross gastronomical delights, here’s a list of icky delectables from around the world.
　　If Oscars were awarded to countries with the most bizarre foods, China would dominate. From animal aphrodisiacs such as deer penis to traditional herbal brews, China boasts some unusual ingredients. In Beijing, the heart of shocking street snacks can be found in the quirky culinary market of Donghuamen. The Night Market, located just west of the popular shopping street Wang Fu Jing, boasts dozens of stalls selling some of the world’s weirdest foods: silkworms, scorpions, starfish, centipedes — you can find it and try it here. Check out this video of me choking down all of this extreme cuisine.
　　

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gaze – means long steady look 注视；凝视
　　stare – suggests to look fixedly,be wide open 盯着；目不转睛地看
　　peer – means to stare very carefully or hard,esp.as if not able to see well 窥视
　　gawk – gape or stare stupidly 呆呆地看着
　　peep – means short,quick look,often one takes secretly 偷看
　　glance- 盯着
　　She threw them a furious glance and went to the doorway.

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(IHT: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/07/opinion/edunoki.php)
　　
　　Ko Unoki
　　FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
　　
　　TOKYO The other day I received the results of a DNA test administered by the Genographic Project, a joint project by the National Geographic Society and IBM, whose goal is to analyze human DNA samples and understand the route which mankind took in populating the world.
　　
　　After submitting my DNA – obtained by simply swabbing the inside of my mouth – along with about $100, I received two months later information about my paternal ancestors.
　　
　　I’ve always been interested in trying to find the origins of my ancestry. I am a Japanese male, born in Japan. Both of my parents are ethnically Japanese and as far as I know, all my recent ancestors for at least the past three centuries were born in Japan.
　　
　　The Genographic Project, which I happened to stumble upon while surfing the Internet, gave me an opportunity to satiate my curiosity about my ancestral origins.
　　
　　The results of the DNA test told me that my earliest human male ancestor was born in Africa about 50,000 years ago.
　　
　　About 45,000 years ago, another male ancestor came from somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula or present- day Iran.
　　
　　Five thousand years later, it seems, another ancestor was born in Central Asia. Then, some time 35,000 years ago, my most recent identifiable ancient ancestor was born in an isolated region of central China while the Ice Age was in full swing.
　　
　　China, according to the Genographic Project, is where my genetic journey ends, or rather, where my most recent ancestor comes from. I now know that genetically I am related to more than half of all present-day Chinese males and that there is someone at the moment living in China with whom I share a common ancestor dating back some 1,000 years.
　　
　　Despite knowing all this, however, I have no idea when or how my paternal ancestor came over to the Japanese islands. Perhaps he was a merchant who came over from China to trade with the native Japanese and decided to settle permanently in Japan.
　　
　　In the city of Fukuoka, where my father’s family comes from, there is an area called Tojin-machi, or Tang- Town, Tang referring to China’s ancient Tang dynasty. I wonder if, many centuries ago, my ancestor came over from China and set up shop in this particular area of Kyushu.
　　
　　Or maybe he was some kind of swashbuckling pirate who roamed the coasts of China and Japan and was eventually shipwrecked on Japanese shores.
　　
　　I could go on and on speculating. Interestingly, the research of the Genographic Project tells us that most of the paternal ancestors of the present-day ethnic Japanese come from all over Asia. Many, however, do not have the same gene that I have which indicates an origin of somewhere aside from central China, such as Southeast Asia or the Korean Peninsula.
　　
　　Some conservative elements in Japanese society take pride in the alleged homogeneity of the Japanese "race," and ardent nationalists and racists look disparagingly upon other ethnic groups. Such DNA test results should make them think twice about what they say or think about other peoples – or about themselves, for that matter.
　　
　　If we employ notions of racial superiority, look down upon other ethnic groups or consider them as "others," we are in effect insulting our ancestors, who traveled far and wide over tens of thousands of years under unimaginably harsh conditions to get to where we are now.
　　
　　We may be Japanese according to notions of ethnicity and citizenship, but genetics tells us beyond doubt that we are all related to the peoples of China, Korea and the rest of Asia. And, ultimately, all of us in the human race are Africans.
　　
　　

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1.And so I find that we have descended and degenerated ,from some far ancestor-some microscopic atom wandering at is pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perhaps-insect by insect,animal by animal,reptile by reptile, down the long highway of perfect innocence,till we have reached the bottom stage of development-named as the Human Being.
　　2.Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, one of the essential pleasures of the human race.

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　　话说如今理财不单单是土豪们的专属，车粉的零花钱也可以生钱！哇咔咔。。。
　　曾记得那些年的工资封存在银行，可怜兮兮的0.35%活期年利率，年费一扣除，还剩几何？难道我们一直甘愿做苦逼一族？
　　作为21世纪新车粉，爱关注喜爱的车，但钱囊羞涩，楼主不甘心啊，不甘心啊。。。
　　众所周知，股票风险大，信贷有危机。
　　“余额宝”横空出世，惊煞世人，4~5%年利率，每天赚一笔，月月有累积。
　　更加给力的是：
　　最近从百付宝看到百度也开始推出理财，大土豪百度进军理财市场，未来理财值得期待啊啊啊！楼主时刻关注前期活动，获利颇丰。
　　二期活动惊喜继续，一分钱得五元话费+一千元大礼包。抽奖得迪奥。
　　猛料继续：据可靠消息开始年利率可以达到8%，让lz震惊了。相信百度土豪主可以创造理财传奇。。。活动页面图片大家看看哇，不容错过。。。错过后悔一万年。。。
　　
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Kim Kardashian: reality star, knockout, legal adviser. The brunette stunner is talking up the importance of protecting one’s assets (no, not those assets).
　　金#卡戴珊：真人秀明星，法律顾问。这位褐发尤物大谈保护自己的资产（不，不是这些资产）的重要性。
　　Her advice: Get a prenuptial agreement, which is reportedly what her sister Khloe’s newly minted taller half, Lamar Odom, just did after much back-and-forth over cash and perks.
　　她的建议是：获取一份婚前协议。
　　"I think it’s important, especially if you are successful and have your own stuff," Kim tells Hollyscoop. "You just want to know what’s mine is mine and yours is yours."
　　“我认为这是重要的，尤其是如果你是成功的，有自己的东西，”金告诉Hollyscoop。 “你想知道什么是我的，什么是你的。”
　　Speaking of prenups, is Mel Gibson trying to convince stork-awaiting squeeze Oksana Grigorieva to sign one?
　　说到婚前协议，梅尔#吉布森是不是试图说服奥克萨耶娃签署一份呢？
　　That’s the word from the National Enquirer, which maintains the image-dinged Oscar winner, whose not-quite-finalized divorce from wife of nearly 30 years Robin is expected to cost him hundreds of millions of dollars, has offered a sweet deal to the soon-to-be mother of his eighth child.
　　这是《国民问讯报》的话，坚称这位奥斯卡奖得主，已提供了一个甜蜜的协议给他第八子的母亲。
　　He supposedly proposed paying the Russian warbler $5 million a year for up to 10 years should they get hitched and then split (rumors of a Christmas wedding have been denied).
　　"But Oksana wants all or nothing," purports a source. "The same thing happened when she was engaged to Timothy Dalton [the father of her 12-year-old son”> and she walked away … Oksana was offended by it — and now she’s telling Mel the same thing."据称他支付这位俄罗斯女人每年500万美元（10年），如果他们搭顺风车，然后分手（传闻中的圣诞婚礼已被否认）。
　　“但奥克萨要全部或什么都不要，”有个来源说。 “同样的事情发生在她与提摩西#道尔顿[她12岁儿子的父亲”>订婚的时候，她走了…奥克萨被它触犯了-现在她告诉梅尔同样的事情。”
　　Gibson is said to be "seriously conflicted" by Oksana’s ostensible refusal.
　　据称吉布森“严重地矛盾”，对奥克萨表面上的拒绝。
　　"He’s such a God-fearing Catholic, he’s adamant that getting married to her is the right thing to do," says the mole. "But she’s stubborn. She’ll give him up before she’ll sign. She’s done it before."
　　“他是一个虔诚的天主教徒，他坚持认为，和她结婚是正确的事情，”一个间谍说。 “但是她很固执。她会在签字之前放弃他。”
　　But Mel’s rep pooh-poohs the prenuptial disagreement talk to Gossip Cop, explaining there’s no wedding on the horizon, therefore there’s no contract conflict.
　　但梅尔的代表对婚前分歧不屑一顾，在与《闲话警匪》谈论时，说明目前没有婚礼，所以就没有合同上的冲突。

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Wondering how to tactfully escape from a bad date? "O" columnist Jancee Dunn polls the experts and gives her own perspective on how to handle a not-so-great date
　　想知道如何巧妙地摆脱坏约会？ “O”专栏作家Jancee邓恩调查专家，从她自己的角度处理不那么伟大的约会。
　　What should I do if I go on a date, and early on it’s clear the evening is going to be a huge flop? Do I stick it out? Is it kinder to make up an excuse and end the evening early?
　　我应该怎么做，如果我去的约会显然将是一个巨大的失败？我要坚持到底？还是友好地找一个借口早早结束？
　　 A: End it, but have the courage to be kind and honest. He may not think it’s a bust, so let him down gently. But don’t lie or fake an emergency text message. If you’re sharp enough to sense a flop, you’re smart enough to find ways to say you don’t feel right about the evening.
　　答：结束它，但有诚实的勇气。所以温柔地让他失望。但是，不要说谎或假造紧急短信。如果你足够锐利到感觉到失败，你有足够的智慧找到办法，说你这个晚上感觉不对。
　　 If he’s a nice guy but the sparks aren’t there, stay put. Who knows? You may end up becoming friends, or he may be the perfect guy for someone else you know.
　　— Lisa Caputo, chairman and CEO, Citi’s Women & Co.
　　如果他是一个好人，但没有火花，流下来。谁知道呢？你们可能最终成为朋友，或者他可能对于你认识的人来说是完美的。
　　-丽莎@卡普托，董事长兼首席执行官
　　 I second that. The right conduct is not to cut and run. The Golden Rule applies: Stick it out, and do your best to make sure your companion has as good a time as possible. Maybe your first impression was wrong. If you leave early, you’ll never know if you missed a life-changing surprise.
　　— Jack Marshall, president, ProEthics
　　正确的行为是不缩减并逃跑。黄金规则：坚持到底，并做到最好，以确保您的伴侣尽可能地过得愉快。也许您的第一印象是错误的。如果您提早离开，你将永远不会知道你是否错过了一个改变生活的惊喜。
　　-杰克@马绍尔 ProEthics总裁
　　I once cut a blind date short with mumbled excuses. By chance, I ran into him again at a party when we were both more relaxed. As Jack says, a life-changing surprise. Six months later, we were married.
　　— Jancee Dunn
　　 我曾经用借口缩减相亲。一个偶然的机会，我再次碰到了他，在一次聚会上，我们都更加放松。像杰克说的，一个改变生活的惊喜。 6个月后，我们结婚了。
　　- Jancee邓恩

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