(#9) Week of May 21 - 英语阅读训练组

阅读小组训练第九周开始了，有关此次训练活动的初衷，请猛戳这里
前几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。

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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

<Oracle Bones>  (627-end)#9 Week of May 21
62. Ancient Chinese thought was deeply conservative – the ancestor worship, the instinct for regularity, the resistance to change, the way that Confucianism idealizes the past – and such values naturally would make people less likely to modify their writing system. But that’s a chicken-and-egg theory, and the fundamental issue isn’t why the writing system remained stable. The key is how this written stability shaped the Chinese world.
63. Although China failed to industrialize as rapidly as those nations, the disparity shouldn’t be blamed on literacy problems.
64. In China, people often speak circuitously when confronted with an uncomfortable memory. The narrative emerges loosely, like string falling slack onto the floor; the listener has to imagine how everything connects.
65. When the Han Chinese talked about culture and history, it reminded me of the way Americans talked about democracy and freedom.
66. The years of awful persecution didn’t seem to weigh on him.
67. But the longer I pursued Chen Mengjia’s story, searching out old memories, the more I appreciated the survivors. That generation had wandered, too – they had fled war and famine and politics, and they had tried to reconcile Western ideas with Chinese traditions. Most of them had failed, but they hadn’t lost their dignity, and somehow a spark of their idealism had survived.
68. Writing could obscure the truth and trap the living, and it could destroy as well as create. But the search for meaning had a dignity that transcended all of the flaws.
Circuitously: 迂回地，曲折地




<Country Driving>  (12-35/589)#9 Week of May 21
1.  There are still empty roads in China, especially on the western steppes, where the highways to the Himalayas carry little traffic other than dust and wind.
2. At the time of my journey, approximately ninety million people had already left the farms, mostly bound for the southeast, and the routines of rural life were steadily giving way to the rush of factor town. But the north and the west were still home to vast stretches of agricultural land.
3. In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.