(#3) Week of April 10 - 英语阅读训练组

小K姐是不是太忙了，我就斗胆代劳发第三周的，希望没有冒犯。如果有什么不合适的，请大家指出来。

然后小K姐给我们几个上星期加学分啊～～～～～～～～哈哈哈

下面的内容是copy 前两周小K姐的主楼。

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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. visit 1point3acres.com for more.
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> (261-380/549 epub)#3 Week of April 10

73. There were no villages or walls,only rocks and dust and low rugged hills that were sharply shadowed by the desert sun.

74. The oasis towns appeared everyhour or two, risingsuddenly alongside the tracks and then disappearing just as quickly into therock and dirt and sand.

75. Despite the self-destruction of the Cultural Revolutionand the subsequentrush to open to the outside world, there was still a definite senseof what was Chinese, and I believed that this would help them survivemodernization.

76. My vacation was winding down, but I had no eagerness to leave. I likedthe lazy freedomof traveling, and I liked the uncertainty of my position here inXinjiang, where I had no job and even my race was in question.

77. I felt I had spent my first yearcoping with thehard part of being a waiguoren, and now I enjoyed all the benefits.

78. It results in the man’s making afull-fledged assault on the dangers of alcohol, week after week, inmind-numbing detail.

79. But even from my distance Isensed an enormous gap between the experiences of local women and men.

80. Fuling women also had theirshare of accessories that showed they were from the upper class, but on the wholethese indications were less bluntly obvious and materialistic than those of themen.

81. Alcohol was always a viable excuse forbad male behavior in Fuling.

82. While male drinking occasionallyled to aggression, I mostly disliked its tediousness.

83. Everything was further complicatedby the influence of traditional collective thinking.

84. For people in Fuling, the sense of selfseemed largely external; you were identified by the way that others viewed you.That had always been the goal of Confucianism.

85. The shift in itself was not soremarkable-irrational political purges happened the world over – but thestrange part was that so many of these victims were racked by shame, clearlybelieving that they were somehow flawed.

86. Often it seemed that in Chinathere was nointernal compass that was able to withstand these events.

87. Group mentality seemed particularlytroublesome for women, who lived under a strange combination of strictness anduncertainty. When compared to men, their traditional role in Chinesesociety was much narrower, but the new economy resulted in frighteningly vagueexpectations and demands. On the whole these changes were undoubtedly positive,but they were happening so quickly that freedom could easily look overwhelmingto somebody who was caught in the middle.

88. There are a few streaks ofsilver in his black hair.

这周换成《Hackers & Painters》

Chap 1
1. “no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.”
2. In general, people outside some very demanding field don’t realize the extent to which success depends on constant (though often unconscious) effort.
3. While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.
4. In a typical American school, standards for coolness are so high (or at least, so specific) that you don’t have to be especially awkward to look awkward by comparison.
5. There is neither admiration at the bottom, nor noblesse oblige at the top. It’s kill or be killed.
6. It was something to do together, and because the drugs were illegal, it was a shared badge of rebellion.

I am in..
“Pride and prejudice”, 262 page
Target for the rest of three days: Page 1-Page 50:(Unfinished)
“Pride and prejudice”, 262 page
Target for the rest of three days:
Page 1-Page 50:
Page 1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Page 3.My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of
beauty, but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now.
When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give
over thinking of her own beauty.

. .иPage 5.We are not in a way to know what Mr. Bingley likes,said her
mother resentfully, ‘since we are not to visit.’

Page 7.An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched

Mr. Bingley was good looking and gentlemanlike; he had a
pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters
were fine women, with an air of decided fashion.

a fine figure of a man,

Page 10 His character is thereby
complete.

I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.


Page 11 Bingley was sure of being liked
wherever he appeared, Darcy was continually giving offence.

Page 12 Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used
synonimously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride
relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.’

Page 14 In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better shew more affection than she feels.

Page 15 Of this she was perfectly unaware;—to her he was
only the man who made himself agreeable no where, and who had
not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Page 18 Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you
That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask. A
lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love,
from love to matrimony in a moment.