(#13) Week of June 18 - 英语阅读训练组

阅读小组训练第十三周开始了，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。



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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

占楼报名，前段时间回国了....
Road Less Travelled,
Page 85
There is still another pain of consciousiness so great and so important that it warrants even deeper consideration.

Page 86
Man is the only creature to be aware of  his mortality.

human dilemma

In our death-denying and youth-worshiping culture.

naturally associated with our reluctance to deal with death is our reluctance to deal with old age.

aging is the process of strping away--eventually a striping away of everyting

I saw no way to help them without converting them to a vision of old age as something more than a meaningless time of watching themselves simply rot away

Life is not soley their own show.

Page 87

I think you neeed that pride for your many accomplishment

live with a curse or a blessing

Page 88
in the struggle to face aging and ultimately death, some even kill themselves because they do not go deeper into what they preceive as the indignity of dying.

that death is not a taker away process but a giver of meaning.

Learning adn growth
page 95

we  are not here to necessarily to be happy, fulfilled, or comfortable all the time, then what are  we here for?I believe the reason we are here is to learn, which is to say, to evolve. By "evolve" I mean to progress.
pro-gress(move forward) re-gress(move backward)

"Those things that hurt, instruct" Franklin

page 96

Experience is deemed to the best way to learn, although it is clearly not the only way.

page 87
the ultimale goal of leanring is the perfection of our souls.

an operating definition, imperfect though it might be.

page 99
asking dozens of questions about language  acquistion that behaviorism in no way could answer
Helen Keller

page 100
there is a critical periods in childeren's development, when deprivation or neglect of some areas of need can limit their advancement if no approriate intervention takes place.

passive leanring during the learning process of ego boundaries.

when a stranger comes into its room, the child will start screaming in teeor or toherwise become agitated.

page 103

found a cornerstone of emotional intelligence, on which most other emotial skills depend, is a sense of self-awareness.


the impedeiments to develop emotional intelligence are formidable in a culture that emphasizes lef-brain (intellectual) over right-brain (intuitive) reasoning.

an inablabilty to handle frustation or recognise distressing feelings has led many children on the path of destructive behaveior-including eating disorders and bullying or other anti-society behavior-because they lacked guidance from mature adults about managing their emotions.

Growth with will

page 104
some one seem to have been born with strong will while others seem to be weak-willed
We do not actually konw whether there are difference in the strength of will or whtehre they are generic or to what extent they are developed or learned.

I believe that a strong will is one of the two greatest things that can be bestowed upon a human being.

it may backfire and create a Hitler-for example, but because a weak will prettly much gurantees failure.

Page 105

It is not simply a matter of how much experience you have but what you do with it.


Page 108

We have all heard about people so self-centered that they wonder how the world would mangage to survive without them

I have previously spoken of a narcissism as a thinking disorder(让我想起了我室友).
page 112

while growing out of narcissism- our self-centeredness and often excessive sense of improtance- is more than anything else what life is about, it is equally vital that we also simultaneously learn to come to terms with just how improtant and valuable we are.

page 113

I had to keep my attention absoultely glued on the road.

his little Volkswagen was carrying extremely valuable cargo.

page 118

Unlearning and flexibility

until suddenly my daughters burst into tears, yelled that she conceded the stupid game, and ran weeping up the stairs.

page 120
Mature mental health demands the ability to be flexible. We must be able to continually strike- and restrike- a delicate balance among conflicting needs, goals, duties and responsibilities.

page 121
To learn something new, we so often have to empty our selves of the old

Learn as advanture

page 124

a classic example of an individual operating under illusion of perfectionism.

Tammy had unkonwingly developed self-imposed, unrealistic standards and tried to live up to exaggerated expectations she thought others had of her.

The seeds of perfectionsm had been planted early-and were costly.

she finds it difficult to acknowledge ther reality of her limitations.

page 125

her self-image had been centered primarily around what other people thought or expected her

She realized she had a chocice after all.
As she stopped talking so much about "them" and started owning her own feelings, using "I" statement, she felt a sense of personal power she had never known.


In hindlight, Tammy was able to discern that she had at least passively complied with her own predicatmetn.


page 129,
three factors play centeral role in our leanring: attitude, temperament, and values. ????

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
(6)Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor----he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron----remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. (7)Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. (8)Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. (9)Only a man of Colonel Sartoris’ generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.

(10)When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. (11)On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. (12)February came, and there was no reply. (13)They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her convenience. (14)A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. (15)The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.

<Country Driving>  (355-450/589) #13Week of June 18th

33.It occurred tome that with a little organization, these kids could be shipped outto Xiaxie every morning to play on the jungle gyms. But there was no overlapbetween the towns, and moving from one to the other, at least in the economicsense, wasalmost as absolute as crossing an international border.

34.Millions of people need to find work, and countless factories need them to workhard, and nosubtleties of language can soften the hard calculus of supply and demand.

35.In the span of nine months the place had changed so profoundly that I couldsense it with my eyes closed.

36.But over time I realized that it’s actually a system, and in a place likesouthern Zhejiang it’s highly functional. Gifts are standardized and portable,which makes them a kind of currency. A carton of Chunghwa can be received byone businessman, given to another, and then passed on to a cycle, who might inturn bestow it upon a higher-up. If only Chunghwa cigarettes could talk!