(#1) Week of Mar 26 - 英语阅读训练组

民主的结果就是没有动静嘛，来个武断的：Peter Hessler, 关于中国的三部曲
River Town
Oracle Bones
Country Driving （个人觉得这个最好看，虽然其他也不错）

电子书就不放了，到处都有的。

个人觉得还满好看的，内容较长但是每个小段又不太长，难度很小，内容关于中国所以看懂应该很容易了。生活英语能讲成这样已经很牛了。
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参与形式：copy自己觉得好的句子，注明page number贴出来。同时最重要的，作为练习，必须把这个句法应用在自己生活的场景里面，也写出来。几乎天天都有汇报进度的话，会比较容易坚持。参见隔壁战拖组，凡是一个人单打独斗的，至少是帖子都没有follow下去，计划是否完成旁人就不知道了。跟组的看起来是坚持的要好些。

跟战拖组一样，每人一周只许占1楼，所有讨论集中在一个贴（这里）。一周内每日更新在自己的楼里，每完成一周一个学分。自己选的书或者指定书都可以，但是4周内必须完成（否则也太慢了）。全部学时完成的，还有1学分奖励。


3/26 周一开始吧，争取4周完成一本。任选1本开始就可以。不过大家都读同一本，争取match进度也不错，免得没有监督难以维持。这点暂时随意吧。

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暂时就是这些规矩。有其他书推荐的话，下一个学习组里面用。其他建议welcome

<River Town> week 1
3.28 （p1~10）
1. The city rushed past, dim and strange under the stars.
2. 1949 Communist Liberation
3. such memories were always vague.
4. he left not long after we settled in.
5. a small city by Chinese standards
6. Three Gorges Dam
7. KMT was on the verge of destroying MZD's forces.
8.Against all odds the Communists had marched to safety      
9.Commemorate the anniversary of the march.
10. The history department would perform, resplendent in clean white shirts and red ties
11. the shirts were stained with sweat
12. in the brutal heat of the Chinese summer
13. It struck me as a particularly appropriate way to honor the history of Chinese Communism, to march a thousand miles and end up bankrupt in Yan’an.
14. President Li had been able to bail them out
15. On the spectrum of Chinese higher education
16. She said with conviction that the women there would be beautiful
17. He was chauffeured to the college gate in a black Audi
18. a short pudgy man puffing in the September heat
19. But he worked the microphone brilliantly—at first softly, calmly, like a lecturer talking to a group of children; now louder, slowly quickening the gestures, a slender hand waving out over the crowd, almost as if scolding them; and finally he was shouting, arms pumping, eyes flashing, loudspeakers booming, the speaker and his audience now equal, united as comrades, patriots, servants of humanity; the crowd rising and erupting into cheers and a mad rush of applause.
20. Boat horns echoed across the narrow river valley, and motors sputtered against the current, and barges clanked as they unloaded sand onto rumbling trucks at the water’s edge.
21. in Fuling much was learned by rote

4.1 (p11~20)
. Waral dи,22. It was only water and lights—the brilliant lights and the dark water, the deep black mirror of the Wu River streaked with red and yellow and white.
23. the motor coughcoughcoughing in the darkness of the valley.
24. I realized that there was more to the routines of the college than I had first imagined.
25. Those years seemed to sit lightly on Professor Liang.
26. she was capable of veering away from the political cant that most of them rehashed
27. And simply having the first American teachers in Fuling was enough to trigger these uncertainties.
28. Their intelligence was still raw—it smelled of the countryside, of sweat and muck, of night soil and ripening rapeseed and everything else that composed the Sichuanese farmland.

4.2 (p21~22)
29. Otherwise it is similar to any other small Chinese city—loud, busy, dirty, crowded; the traffic twisted, the pedestrians jostling each other; shops overstaffed and full of goods, streets covered with propaganda signs; no traffic lights, drivers honking constantly; televisions blaring, people bickering over prices; and along the main streets rows of frightened-looking trees, their leaves gray with coal dust, the same gray
dust that covers everything in the city.
30. Their jobs are difficult enough without cutthroat competition
31. and usually there is a wife or a brother tending the land
32. But never is there any shortage of these men, and there is something eerie in their silent ubiquity.
33. They are quiet men—even the most grisly wreck sometimes fails to inspire them to words—and they never interfere.
34. In hot weather they are drenched in sweat; in winter their bodies steam.
35. There is still an old section along the banks of the Wu River, where beautiful ancient structures of wood and stone are topped by gray tiled roofs. But this district is shrinking, steadily being replaced by the nondescript modern buildings that already dominate the city.

真不错，大赞，这本才看完不就，看你摘抄又可以笑一遍~~~~~

回复 3# 小K


    嗯，没有蓝色高亮而又被摘出来的句子，基本都是看笑了的……

<River Town>  #1 Week of Mar 26  （p1-p150 epub）

1. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996- stars flickering above the Yangtze River, their light too faint to reflect off the black water.


2. He was chauffeured to the college gate in a black Audi.


3. But he worked the microphone brilliantly - at first softly, calmly, like a lecturer talking to a group of children; now louder, slowly quickening the gestures, a slender hand waving out over the crowd, almost as if scolding them; and finally he was shouting, arms pumping, eyes flashing, loudspeakers booming, the speaker and his audience now equal, united as comrades, patriots, servants of humanity; the crowd rising and erupting into cheers and a mad rush of applause.


4. Boat horns echoed across the narrow river valley, and motors sputtered against the current, and barges clanked as they unloaded sand onto rumbling trucks at the water's edge.


5. Perhaps by my standards they were politically brainwashed, but compared to the past they were remarkable free.


6. Otherwise it is similar to any other small Chinese city - loud, busy, dirty, crowded; the traffic twisted, the pedestrians jostling each other; shops overstaffed and full of goods, streets covered with propaganda signs; no traffic lights, drivers honking constantly; television blaring, people bickering over prices; and along the main streets rows of frightened - looking trees, their leaves gray with coal dust, the same gray dust that covers everything in the city.  


7. There is still an old section along the banks of the Wu River, where beautiful ancient structures of wood and stone are topped by gray tiled roofs. But this district is shrinking, steadily being replaced by the nondescript modern buildings that already dominate the city.


8. The buildings could be the buildings of any Chinese city whose development has swallowed its history.


9. The problem is the air, the coal dust that blankets the city and chokes the greenery.


10. Erhu means "two strings" - that is all. It is a simple name for a simple musical instrument: a cylindrical wooden sound box covered by python skin and topped by an upright handle with two strings stretched taut along its length.


11. The Chinese had spent years deliberately and diligently destroying every valuable aspect of their traditional culture, and yet with regard to enjoying poetry Americans had arguably done a much better job of finishing ours off.


12. I found that I couldn't read literacy criticism, because its academic stiffness was so far removed from the grace of good writings.


13. There was Marxist critics, Feminist critics, and Post-Colonial critics; and almost invariably they wielded their theories like molds, forcing books inside and squeezing out a neatly-shaped product.


14. But along with this power there is a fragility, because it is always tempting to misappropriate the force of a great writer. It's natural to want Shakespeare on your side - and if he doesn't fit perfectly, you can twist his words to serve your purpose. Or, if he absolutely refuses to come to heel, you can expel him from the canon.
15. We're all refugees here. They've escaped from their classes on Building Chinese Socialism, and I've escaped from Deconstructionism.

.google  и16. On the day she played her long black hair was pulled back smooth past her shoulders, and her eyes shone bright with tears, and her breath came out white in the cold classroom.

17. The blossoms appear in late March or early April, two brief pink-flowered weeks that give the mountain its first name.


18. Southward the mountain falls away steeply to valleys of terraced cropland, and near theWu River the Land is broken by the settlements of the East River district: thecollege, looking small with the distance; the ceramics factory, its stacksspewing yellow dust into the air; the long concrete pier and the old ferriesthat traverse the Wu.


19. But the Heavenly Kingdom was already fading into history,and Shi Dakai’s five thousand years would be cut short.


20. But Maolacked the vision and experience necessary to run a country effectively, andpower inspired him to build a cult of state-worship
around his image.

21. Thisbit of history fascinatedme: how many languages had been sacred and forbidden to outsiders?

22. Often I’dgaze across the Wu River at the maze of streets and stairways, listening to thedistant hum of daily life, and I’d think about the mysteries thatwere hidden in the river town.

23. If Iwent to town and blew my nose, the tissue was streaked with black grease.

24. InSichuan, things are further complicated by the provincial dialect,which is distinct enough that a Chinese outsider has trouble understanding thelocals in a place like Fuling.

25. Most ofthe attention wasinnocent curiosity, but it made the embarrassment of my bad Chinese all the worse.

26.But Icouldn’t image doing that for seven hours a week and maintaining my sanity, and I lookedat the pathetic stack of flash cards on my desk and thought: This is hopeless.

27. Theyhad no idea how to steer me in the right direction.

28. Thecharacters in my book’s lessons had always been elusive, odd-shaped scratches of black thatdrifted in and out of my head, calling up arbitrary allusions that were

misleading.

29. But ata certain point it was as if some of the scratching stoop up straight andlooked me in the eye, and the fanciful associations started slipping away.

30. I grewto hate budui: its sound mocked me. There was harshness to it; the bu was a risingtone and the dui dropped abruptly, building like my confidence andthen collapsing all at once.

31. I wasaccustomed to havingmy ego soothed; I wanted to be praised for my effort. I didn’t mindcriticism as long as it was candy-coated.

32. I waslike Alice in Wonderland, eating the currant-seed cakes and finding her world turnedupside down.

33. Every banquethad a leader, a sort of alcoholic alpha male who controlled the directionof the Baijiu.

34. It wasalways Dean Fu’s job to convey such commands to the waiguoren, and occasionallyhe served as a filteras much as a translator.

35. There wasa great deal ofpatriotism in Fuling, and sports always made these feelingsparticularly intense.

36.Eventually the White Crane Ridge shifted from a navigational tool into an oracle of themysterious and vital cycles of the natural world.

37. Little isknown about them, and nothing more will be learned after their relics areflooded forever.

38. Buttoday the river is full of boats, with the racket of engines growing louder every year, andthe dolphin, deafenedby technology and blinded by evolution, is already having troubleavoiding danger and finding mates. Ten-thousand-ton ocean vessels might finish off thespecies.

好嘞，我报名参加。发现这个帖子有点晚了。
准备读River town.1st Update. April 1, 2012
1~20页 已读完。
2nd Update. April 2, 2012
第二天又看完16页。
3rd Update. April 3, 2012. Page 47
。

   

4th update. May 3, 2012

Page 75

A cold wind runs down the corridor of the river valley, and the workers huddle around their snack table, shivering and drinking hot tea.

They watch the Yangtze closely, measuringits level every day.

He holds the pills tightly, taking one every night.

Undoubtedly they dream of theriver rising, because wheneverit covers the carvings they can return to the indoors work of their governmentoffice in town.

Undoubtedly the dream of the conference comes to its end,because whenever it is finished they can return to their house have a rest.

For them, the appearance of thestone carp augurs nothing more than long cold days of exile out one the river.

Page 76, passage 1

To a certain degree this is appropriate,because a number of inscriptions were made bygovernment officials who for variousinfractions had been exiled toFuling.

inscription 铭文，碑文，题字

for various infractions infraction 违反

And while Fuling sometimes represented the end of apolitical career, the ridge is testimony that other pursuits could flourishhere.

Poetry and calligraphy were the traditional pastimes of thelonely exile, and many of the local officials left inscriptions that are works of beauty.

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第二周什么时候开始哦？上周没赶上，准备参与这周