(#4) Week of April 16 - 英语阅读训练组

我继续来发第四周的啦
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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> (381-549/549 epub)#4 Week of April 16

89. As a result, no rice bowl isentirely iron, and no danwei is without reform, and never is Socialism without those ChineseCharacteristics that are developing into a strange marriage of Communism andCapitalism, constantly shifting and redefining the parameters oflives like Teacher Kong’s.

90. Other cracks are spreading acrossthe iron bowl.

91. I saw precisely how I fit intothe local routines.

92. It was depressing to read abouta holiday older than Christmas whose celebration seemed to have been refined to gazing attelevised floor shows.

93. I liked the coal-stained gray of its old-fashioned houses,and the narrow cobbled streets that bustled with traffic. It was an old rivertown and therewas a certain charm in its dirtiness and inconvenience.

94. They had been preserved with such reverencethat they were heavy with the intimation of a story that I knew could only besad.

95. Sitting there with the stack ofenvelopes, I couldn’t have been thrown a more loaded question.

96. They seemed perfectly content to drink tea andplay mah-jongg while the city rose around them.

97. The man with the sausage had successfullytouched both of these sensitivities at once, and my customary passivitydisappeared immediately.

98. The strangeness and thepressures of life in a place like that were bound to change you, and somethinginside of me had stiffened long ago.

99. I felt overwhelmed by the poignancy ofthat combination of helplessness and strength.

100. It was a classic pattern in anyCommunist system, where fear and paranoia pass from one level to the next,creating a network of perfect distrust.

101. But for some unknown reason itcarried heavy connotation along the eastern river valleys.

102. Tourist like this man are partof a new class, and often their money is tangible in the way it literallysurrounds their persons: in the fine clothes that they wear, in the beepers andcell phones that are clipped to their belts, and , often, in the simplewell-fed bulk of their bodies.

103. They tried to be faithful toCervantes’s novel, applying its satirical bent to Fuling life, and they attempted to beas entertaining as possible.

104. I knew that I would alwaysremember thiswoman’s quiet pride and toughness, and the way it had gone frombeing infuriating to something whose consistency was admirable and even comforting.

105. It was like looking at a blankmeaningless smile and suddenly recognizing a lifetime of sadness concentratedin the corner.

106. That sense of transformation – constant,relentless, overwhelming change – has been the defining characteristic of Chinaduring the past two decades.

计划本周读完《The Glass Case》，短小精悍，iPad上才60页。

《Hackers & Painters》

Chap 2

1. The way to be sure you're exploring virgin territory is to to stake out a piece of ground that no one wants.

2. A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

3. Nearly all the greatest paintings are paintings of people, for example, because people are what people are interested in.

4. Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

5. Shakespeare appeared just as professional theater was being born, and pushed the medium so far that every playwright since has had to live in his shadow. Albrecht D¨ urer did the same thing with engraving, and Jane Austen with the novel.

Chap 3

1. The ideas that come to mind first will be the most plausible ones. They'll be things you've already noticed but didn't let yourself think.

2. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

3. But any idea that's considered harmless in a significant percentage of times and places, and yet is taboo in ours, is a good candidate for something we're mistaken about.

4. So parents are giving their kids an inaccurate idea of the language by not using them. Why do they do this? Because they don't think it's fitting that kids should use the whole language. We like children to seem innocent.

5. The early adopters will be driven by ambition: self-consciously cool people who want to distinguish themselves from the common herd.

6. Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.

7. This isn't just because smart people actively work to find holes in conventional thinking. Conventions also have less hold over themto start with. You can see that in the way they dress.

8. And they have for so long that by now the US car brands are antibrands—something you'd buy a car despite, not because of.

9. If you can think things so outside the box that they'd make people's hair stand on end, you'll have no trouble with the small trips outside the box that people call innovative.

10. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction. Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.

11. The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.

12. everything is ok except things that aren't.

13. How can you see the wave, when you're the water? Always be questioning. That's the only defence. What can't you say? And why?

继续读《Pride and prejudice》 Page 18-80


Mrs Bennet is so wired, she is frivolous, and she is "anxious" to "marry her daughters off well".
I suspected and finally was convinced that she is the role model of most Chinese mother.
She is seeking "Tall,Rich,Handsome" guy for her daughters.

I don't know why, these girls like to "cry" all the way.
Mr Wickham is a bad guy, but as an officer, he is young and handsome. In addition, he should be attractive for chicks.


Page 20, I have suspected it some time,but I am now convinced.
Page 23, Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy.
She had no conversation, no stile, no taste, no beauty.

Page 25, I deserve neither such praise nor such censure.

Page 37, Her figure was elegant, and she walked well;-but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.

I saw many "cry" in this book.

Page 39, I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He own it himself without disguise.
** tired of a conversion in which she had no share.

Page 55, I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability(狠毒) of his
resentments(怨恨).

Elizabeth was again deep in thought.

Page 56  -Can such abominable pride as his, has ever done him good?
         -Yes. It has often led him to be liberal and generous, - to give is money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.

I have devoted hours and hours to her amusement. But she is nothing to me now.

Page 63 Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

this is no striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure.

Allow me to say, however, that your fair partner does not disgrace you, and

implacable 狠
dread 惨剧 dreadful可怕的 惨
amuse 玩耍 amusement

marry her daughters off well

Caroline Bingley is the snobbish(势力的) sister of Charles Bingley

回复 5# luyulaile


    我也在看。。。。

   不过马上要看完了。。。看完了来交流哈。。

寻路中国
序言--He's modest but intrepid--having taken to heart the national philosophy that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission--and an utterly enjoyable guide, with a humane and empathetic eye for the ambitions, the failures, and the comedy of a country in which everybody, it seems, is on the move, and no one is quite sure of the rules.

Hessler investigates the country's lurch into modernity through three engrossing narratives.

回复 5# luyulaile


    有个地方我就没看懂。。。Mr Bennet的侄儿Mr Collins为什么可以继承它们家的房子呢。。搞得Mrs Bennett灰常想让Elizabeth嫁给他，这样他们一家就可以有住的地方了。

我才注册不久，没得大米咯。。所以消息回不起

回复 8# 橙橙


    我猜是因为她生的都是女儿，英国很多土地分封都要求 “限嗣继承地产”，只能男性继承
有些财产则可以女性继承