(#6) Week of April 30 - 英语阅读训练组

阅读小组训练第六周开始了，有关此次训练活动的初衷，请猛戳这里
上周发起了阅读训练小组素材推荐的活动，我把版里已有的/训练小组同学正在阅读的，都总结到了素材推荐的一楼，欢迎大家继续推荐，请猛戳这里

参与的形式还是不变，希望已经参与的同学继续坚持并保持/提升阅读速度，观望的同学速速加入。


欢迎大家交流阅读感受。


上周的阅读占楼还没有填好的同学，请速速填楼。

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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。
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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

<Oracle Bones>  (226-335/773)#6 Week of April 30

27.The cracks were interpreted by the king and other diviners, and echoes of their statements can be found inthe inscriptions.

28.The artifacts have been completely disengaged from the act of creation, like a book sent from heaven.

29.The rituals involve a substantial bureaucracy, and the names of many differentdiviners can be found on the bones.

30.Each occupied her own separate world within theOvernight City.

31.She often talked about issues of morality, although she had difficultyarticulating her values.

32.I had never been in a Chinese city that felt as divided as Shenzhen. The fencesplit the factory world, but the social partitions were even more dramatic.

33.It sounded like he was preparing for a game with obscure rules and frighteningly high stakes.

34.Having grown up as a member of a minority in the People’s Republic, Polat wasnaturally attuned to ethnicdifferences,and this sense had been further sharpened by years of trading.

35.I lived in an apartment where nothing had happened, in a city that was bestdefined by what no longer existed.

36.In the old parts of Beijing, that low pitched hum,rising and falling as the birds soared across the sky, was the mark of abeautiful clear day.

37.The city reflected a vision of a holy body: certain temples and landmarkscorresponded to the head, hands, feet, and other organs of the god Nezha. Overthe centuries, the city expanded, but it never lost its original layout.

38.Old Beijing was becoming a city of words: an imaginary place that residentsinvoked when they went from one point of modernity to another.

39.But the national interest was a murky concept in Chai nar, where power wasbeing decentralized. Often local authorities were the ones who really mattered,and they could twist the “nationalinterest” to serve their own ends.

40.The metal is cool and roughened by the centuries-the bumps and irregularities that give ancient bronze its character.

41.At the heart of Sichuan lay the Chengdu Basin, a fertile region of rivers andplains that naturally sustained a largepopulation.

占个楼啊.....《The road less travelled, spiritual growth in an age of anxiety》

The book finished in 1990s
chapter 1 thinking

Rich versus poor, black versus  white, pro-life versus pro-choice, straight versus gay- all are social ,political, and economic conflicts fought under the banner of some ideology or deeply held belief.

to think well is a laborious, often painstaking process until one becomes accustomed to begin thoughtful.

When challenged, they show very little awareness of -or become easily frustrated by - the dynamics involved in truly thinking and communicating well.


I would paraphrase Shakespeare to ask, to think or not to think.

Another s making assumptions in thinking,  through the use of one-dimensional logic, stereotypes, and labeling.

Because of our sins of laziness, fear and pride, we don't put our brain to full use.

We've been endowed with the combination of these frontal lobes and freedom, which enables to learn through out a lifetime.

The left brain is deductive, the right brain is intuitive.
the left side is thee analytical brain, with the ability to take wholes and break them up into pieces, while the right side is the intuitive brain with ability to take pieces and makes whole out of them.
Women seem to be more right-brained and men more left-brained. that's why in matters involving sex and romance, men seems to be more likely to be interested in parts, such as breasts, legs, and penises. Women tend to be more interested in the whole pictures.

Simplism and Society
Various institutions of society, in their failure to teach or demonstrate how to think well, set people up for thinking simplistically.

there are positive norms, of course, such as those that promote the work ethic and encourage civility in our encounters with each other.

But when you go beneath the surface, you'll find that they are negative precisely because they discourage our growth.

Rather than update their vision, both men and women in our society engage in simplistic thinking in order to conform to negative norms.

When we deny ourselves autonomy, it is no wonder we become confused and uncomfortable.
But when we use simplistic formulas based on the formal -or fashionable -thing to do, internal if not external chaos is the usual result.

We indeed go down blind alleys when we rely strictly on assumptions, labels, and stereotypes and think about people in a simplistic way.

Many assumptions we draw from labeling keep life at the level of superficiality.

After all, if we're not thinking for ourselves, we are easy targets for control and manipulation.

If we choose to think for ourselves, we must be braced for backlash.
我们必须支撑可能的反弹？ 承受可能的反弹
We risk being seen as eccentrics or malcontents. We may be presumed to be on the fringes of a mainstream society, regarded as different and abnormal in the worst sense of the world.

Let us take the Oedipus complex. An adult with an unresolved Oedipus complex cannot be healed unless he first intellectually knows what an Oedipus complex is- if he can be healed at all.

To become healthy adults we first must resolve the Oedipal dilemma of giving up our sexual feelings for our parents.

You don't understand the agony I'm in, just how terrible this is.

It is hard to move on when you can't renounce anything.






额叶        frontal lobe;皮层        cortex

1. I was well aware of Edgar Snow, whose history is a cautionary tale to any Missouri native who writes about China. Back in the 1930s, Snow had been a favorite of Mao and Zhou Enlai's, and eventually the American came to swallow much of their propaganda whole. During the Great Leap Forward, when tens of millions of Chinese starved to death, Edgar Snow toured the nation and reported that rumors of famine were untrue.
2.On our way out, the owner gave us fifty yuan in coupons, by way of apology. "I won't go back there," Master Luo said, once we were out on SUisong Road. "The food's terrible." But he carefully folded the coupons and put them in his pocket.

3. Every time I asked a question, he responded with some anecdote from the Chairman's life. He told me he was from Changsha-Mao's actual home region. When I inquired about his former career, the actor said, "You know, the most famous photograph of Chairman Mao was taken by Edgar Snow."  "I've heard that," I said. "But what were you doing before you became an actor?"


PS: 最近看的主要是中文，所以摘得很少。。。

我最近太忙了。。很少读书。。  真惭愧