(#7) Week of May 7 - 英语阅读训练组

阅读小组训练第七周开始了，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。


欢迎大家跟贴交流阅读感受。


上周的阅读占楼还没有填好的同学，请速速填楼。这周占楼的同学，哪位顺手麻烦给我上几个星期加个学分，我自己没发加学分。Thx

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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

这个星期花了好多时间在 <浪潮之巅>上，这个看得慢了，下个星期争取看完。


<Oracle Bones>  (336-474/773)#7 Week of May 7

42.Their memories lie beneath a shellthat has hardened with time.

43.Clearly they take pleasure in depicting important powers, forces, presences inan abstract way.

44.In fact, the need for Western-style heroism-decision, action-might naturallyproduce war. Historians have long theorized that Europeans educated in the Greekclassics were particularly willing to rush headlong into the First World War.

45.When I ask how ancient China and the West developed such different worldviews, Keightley points to the landscape.

46.The Chinese tended to look farsightedly into the past, whereas Westerners,especially during the periods such as the Renaissance, thought more about thefuture. In the Western view, event the ancient past had lessons that could serve modern progress.

47.The city had suddenly been bathed in a soft light.

48.They had adopted the competiveness and nationalism, which were the bluntest andmost obvious characteristics of Western athletics, but they had missed out onall the subtleties.

49.The scandal was a grim reminder that despite its claims of internationalism,the Olympics draws on the culture of only a tiny sliver of the world

50. There’snot going to be any dark-horse pope coming in to run the Olympic Games.

51. But onceit began, civilization progressed by leaps and bounds.

Sliver棉片，裂片

1.And the people who suffer the most are those with the least power: the farmers. Their loss of land helps subsidize China’s urbanization, and they have no legal recourse—it’s hard enough to overthrow a single village Party Secretary, not to mention the whole system.

2.In any case, most peasants are so intent on migrating, or coping with the transition to private enterprise, that the last thing they worry about is changing the constitution.


3.Libertarians favor unfettered markets and oppose government regulation, not in the name of economic efficiency but in the name of human freedom. Their central claim is that each of us has a fundamental right to liberty—the right to do whatever we want with the things we own, provided we respect other people’s rights to do the same.


4.But his face was strikingly handsome, weathered like a slab of local walnut, and he had thick black eyebrows. He told me that he was in his seventies, and I asked which year he’d been born. “Sha shei zhidao?” he said with a snort. “Who knows that?”

Harbach 1944

János Pilinszky

At all times I see them.
The moon brilliant. A black shaft looms up.
Beneath it, harnessed men
haul an immense cart.

Dragging that giant wagon
which grows bigger as the night grows
their bodies are divided among
the dust, their hunger and their trembling.

They are carrying the road, they are carrying the land,
the bleak potato fields,
and all they know is the weight of everything,
the burden of the skylines

and the falling bodies of their companions
which almost grow into their own
as they lurch, living layers,
treading each other's footsteps.

The villages stay clear of them,
the gateways withdraw.
The distance, that has come to meet them,
reels away back.

Staggering, they wade knee deep
in the low, darkly muffled clatter
of their wooden clogs
as through invisible leaf litter.

Already their bodies belong to silence.
And they thrust their faces towards the height
as if they strained for a scent
of the faraway celestial troughs

because, prepared for their coming
like an opened cattle-yard,
its gates flung savagely back,
death gapes to its hinges.


The Coming of Light

Mark Strand

Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.
You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,
stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows,
sending up warm bouquets of air.
Even this late the bones of the body shine
and tomorrow's dust flares into breath.

占楼就算加入了吗？自然科学和人文社科类的先不读，估计速度很慢，也很难坚持。先从小说开始吧，不过小说的语言也是很诡谲的。。。先读手里的实体书。
The Great Gatsby
Start Date: May 10th
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May 10th
摘抄：
P5: I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon.

P6: I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. PS: 断句易出错

     I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever.

     If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

     It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men.

以上典型的开篇，絮絮的自述，文艺句子只能膜拜~

P8: There was so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.

      I was going to become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’  实用
P10: He had been one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

       The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. 很活泼的景色描写


练习：上面的句子不可能拿来应用了，还摘了许多短语，有时间直接写。

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May 11th

P11-12: We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosecolored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.

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May 12th


P12-21


短语：paralyzed with happiness/ arise to my lips/ eyes fasten on the finger/ more acute than of old/ excuse herself/ exchange a glance devoid of meaning/ vanish into air/ put ... out of mind/ take her face in her hands/ adj. + emotions possess sb/ return to the subject/ look at sb absently/



句子：It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.


Things went from bad to worse.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.


The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.


Tom was God knows where.


In a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.

占楼， 还是The road less traveled
page  49-

page 49
To become healthy adults we first must resolve the Oedipal dilemma of giving up our sexual feelings for our parents.
It's a similar problem in dealing with masochists[受虐狂]. The root of their neurosis is the desire to be miserable.
It is as if they has a built-in motive for failure.
That is sort of price many pay for a thinking disorder.

Thinking and listening

given our almost addictive reliance on assumptions- and on the illusions that coexist with them- we often miscommunicate with others, creating great chaos.

We remain oblivious to the basics of good communication.

Many people think that listening is a passive interaction. It is just  the opposite.

An essential part of listening well is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices, frames of reference, and desires in order to experience as far as possible another's world from the inside, stepping inside his or her shoes.

Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener.
True communication is under way and the duet dance of love has begun.

Often, we have a present agenda in mind and wonder as we listen how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over with as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us.
Many of us are more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don't want to hear.

While it is true that one's capacity to listen well may prove gradually with practice, it never becomes an effortless process.

a vital element of the capacity to listen well is being alert for those lapses when one is not truly listening.提高聆听能力的关键是对自己错过的内容保持警觉 And my acknowledge that my attention had wandered actually reassured them that most of time I was listening.

page 53
Freedom and thinking

There is a distinction between private thought and "public" action.
simplistic think in our society. 过于简单的思考
He believes we should erect a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast to bring balance to the Statue of Liberty.
we can not separate(separate) freedom from responsibility.

Time and Efficiency

In this simplistic approach, we often overlook various aspects of our lives that are desperate for attention until they become full-blown crisis.

as natural as brushing my teeth


Page 57 Paradox and thinking with integrity

I am astonished by the number of well-educated people who offer or seek simple-minded explanations for complicated phenomena ranging from riots, homosexuality, and abortion to poverty, illness, evil
to think and ultimately to act with integrity, we have to integrate the multiple reasons and dimensions of our incredibly complex world.

Once a mind is truly stretched, it never returns to its former dimensions.

chapter 2.

page 65, the conscious mind makes decision and translate them into action.  
The unconscious mind resides below the surface, it is the processor of extraordinary knowledge that we aren't naturally aware of.
Consciousness and competence

Although we can pinpoint various capabilities and talents that allow us to meet the demands of life or to develop deftness in problem-solving sills, general competence is a much complex capability.

page 78, I wrote that the ego is the governing part of our personality and that its development - the maturation of this governor - can be delineated in three overall stages. The first stage, that of early childhood.
there are glimmerings of self-consciousness by the age of nine months, and the capacity for self-awareness very gradually increases throughout childhood.

adolescents are frequently spontaneous, sometimes dangerously so. At other times, however, they seem to be nothing but a mass of affectations as they self-consciously try one new...
page 80
the observing ego,

the transcendent ego. With a transcendent ego, we become more aware of our broder dimensions, better prepared to decide realistically when, where and why to express the essence of who we are.
We may develop the capacity to live with, perhaps even laugh at, our limitations.

page 82
"I love you, horns, but this is not a situation for joyful expression. It is one that calls for angers. So beat the drums."

Perhaps the best measure of a person's greatness is the capacity for suffering.

She lives in a state of constant annoyance.

How to accept your superiority.
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was she not then doomed to a life of loneliness? And if she was not so ordinary- if she was, in fact, extraordinary.

page 87
The consciousness of death

同问：占楼就算加入了吗？

同问：占楼就算加入了吗？
kang1415926 发表于 2012-5-11 22:41

占楼算是加入了，但是要在这个星期结束前 列出摘抄 或者写一些读书心得体会，或者说从书上看到的东西如何应用到日常生活和学习上 这样才可以加学分

欢迎加入

这周朗读回味了《To Kill a Mockingbird》

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

There are just some kind of men who – who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.(——About ethics, I can not agree more.)

The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption – the evil assumption – that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.

"Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women – black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.(This is the highlight of this book in my mind.)

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”