Reflective love sayings

**　I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 我爱你不是因为你，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

**　Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money? 爱需要有赤子情怀，赤子哪有口袋装钱呢？

**   If someone doesn't love you the way you want him to, it doesn't mean that he does not love you with all he has. 爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你，那并不意味着他没有全心全意地爱你。

**　Love is not just gazing at each other, but looking forward in the same direction. 爱不仅仅是彼此凝望，爱更要志同道合望向同一方向。

**　No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry. 没有人值得你为他流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

**　Dont' spend time with someone who doesn't care spending it with you.不要把时间花在一个不在乎与你分享的人身上。 

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奥巴马在微博上疯传的拉风出场秀，让我们看到一个总统的另外一面，那么如此自信的演讲是怎样炼成的呢？

让我们来看看，奥巴马给我们的小贴士吧~

Public speaking is a regular — and regularly feared — part of life, so it's important to refine your skills. This year, challenge yourself by learning to lecture like a pro. Here are four tips to help you polish your public speaking。

演讲是生活常事，也是常常头疼的事，所以提高演讲能力很重要。今年，挑战一下自己，学着像个演讲家那么去讲话。以下提供四条小贴士，帮助你提高口才。

1. Assess yourself. What part of public speaking makes you nervous? Where have you slipped up in the past? One reason public speaking is so nerve-racking is because there's so much to manage — your presence, your words, your delivery, and your reaction. Determine your weakest points, from stuttering to stiff hands, in order to tailor your speech improvement。

1. 自我评估。讲哪个部分会紧张？以前在什么地方出过错？演讲之所以让人神经紧张，是因为演讲过程中要掌控的东西很多——你的仪态、用词、讲话和反应。从说话结巴到手势僵硬，找出自己最薄弱的地方，对症下药。

2. Find opportunities to practice. It's hard to feel confident about speaking if it's something you rarely do, so look for the chance to polish your technique in everyday life. At a dinner party? Offer to give the toast. Working on a new project at the office? Present it at the weekly staff meeting. Public speaking is like anything else: the more you do it, the better you'll become, and the more comfortable you'll feel when the moment arises。

2. 多多练习。如果不怎么讲话，那么讲话就会没自信。所以平日里要找机会锻炼讲话的能力。在晚会上，主动祝酒。工作上，每周员工会议演示新的工作项目。演讲和其他事情一样：熟能生巧，做得多再碰到就不怕了。

3. Dress the part. Confidence is crucial, and you'll be much more sure of yourself if you know that your appearance conveys a sense of authority. It's best to err on the dressy side when you plan to speak in front of an audience — and it's crucial that your clothes fit well. Tugging at the hem of your skirt or the sleeves of your blouse will distract both you and your audience. It's important to look put-together, and the focus should be on your words, not your outfit。

3. 注重穿着。自信至关重要，如果你的外表能给人一种权威感，就会更加自信。在观众面前演讲的时候，最好在衣着上讲究——并且衣服要合身。拉拉裙子、扯扯领子，会分散你和观众的注意力。穿着要统一得体，这样观众的焦点就会在你的讲话上，而不是衣着。

4. Prepare, prepare, prepare. Begin with standard prep techniques, like writing note cards and practicing in front of your friends, but also take the time to do some research. Find out as much as you can about your audience, the context of your speech, the environment, and the tools and media that will be available. Most importantly, be sure that you're achieving what was asked of you — confirm that you're answering the right question and fulfilling the expectations of your audience。

4. 准备准备再准备。做好前期基本准备工作，比如写提示卡、排练给朋友看看，但也要花点时间去弄清其他事。尽可能弄清你的观众是些什么人，了解演讲内容的上下文，演讲的环境，确保道具和多媒体到时能用。最重要的是，确定你在做的是你需要做的准备——如看是不是准备了恰当的问题，有没有满足观众的期望值。

Above all else, learn to relax. Everyone understands the stress and pressure involved with public speaking, so know that your audience will be empathetic toward your efforts. Just remember the basics — to stand up straight, smile, and make eye contact — and be yourself, because personality and genuine enthusiasm are key to making great connections。

演讲过程中最重要的是，放轻松。大家都知道演讲时压力和紧张在所难免，所以观众会给予体谅。记住这些基本要素——站直、微笑、跟观众眼神交流，展示真实的自己，因为人格的魅力和真挚的热情是建立讲者和观众良好关系的关键。

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Think Positive Thoughts Every Day
积极地看待生活

If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view.
如果你觉得觉得缺乏前进的动力，有时候你只需要改变思维的角度。

By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, you are more likely to have the incentive to follow through on your goals. You are less likely to be held back by negative ideas that might limit your performance. 　
试着训练自己的思想朝好的一面看，这样你就会汲取实现目标的动力，而不会因为消极沉沦停滞不前。

Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective. Don't leave your future to chance, or wait for things to get better mysteriously on their own. You must go in the direction of your hopes and aspirations. Begin to build your confidence, and work through problems rather than avoid them. Remember that power is not necessarily control over situations, but the ability to deal with whatever comes your way. 　
一旦变换看问题的角度，你的生活会豁然开朗，幸福快乐会接踵而来。别交出掌握命运的主动权，也别指望局面会不可思议的好转。你必须与内心希望与热情步调一致。建立自信，敢于与困难短兵相接，而非绕道而行。记住，力量不是驾驭局势的法宝，无坚不摧的能力才是最重要的。

Always believe that good things are possible, and remember that mistakes can be lessons that lead to discoveries. Take your fear and transform it into trust; learn to rise above anxiety and doubt. Turn your "worry hours" into "productive hours". Take the energy that you have wasted and direct it toward every worthwhile effort that you can be involved in. You will see beautiful things happen when you allow yourself to experience the joys of life. You will find happiness when you addopt positive thinking into your daily routine and make it an important part of your world.
请坚信，美好的降临并非不可能，失误也许是成功的前奏。将惶恐化作信任，学会超越担忧和疑虑。让“诚惶诚恐”的时光变得“富有成效”。不要挥霍浪费精力， 将它投到有意义的事情中去。当你下意识品尝生命的欢愉时，美好就会出现。当你积极地看待生活，并以此作为你的日常准则时，你就会找到快乐的真谛。

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《基督山伯爵》---大仲马

The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by Richard Matthews

The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815? (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). It is primarily concerned with themes of justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, and is told in the style of an adventure story.

Dumas got the idea for The Count of Monte Cristo from a true story, which he found in a memoir written by a man named Jacques Peuchet. Peuchet related the story of a shoemaker named Pierre Picaud, who was living in Paris in 1807. Picaud was engaged to marry a rich woman, but four jealous friends falsely accused him of being a spy for England. He was imprisoned for seven years. During his imprisonment a dying fellow prisoner bequeathed him a treasure hidden in Milan. When Picaud was released in 1814, he took possession of the treasure, returned under another name to Paris and spent ten years plotting his successful revenge against his former friends.

作者是法国作家大仲马(1802-1870),

《基督山伯爵》是一本极其优秀的小说，其主人公非常灿烂而优雅，其经历让人难忘。其中最著名的句子出现在小说的最后一章：世界上并无所谓的快乐 也无所谓的痛苦 唯有两种处境的比较罢了 唯有经历过最大厄运磨难的人 才能真正感受到幸福的所在 尽情的享受生命的快乐吧 永远记住 在上帝揭开人类未来的图景前 人类的智慧就包含在两个词中：等待和希望.
内容介绍
法老号大副堂泰斯受船长委托，为拿破仑党人送了一封信，遭到两个卑鄙小人和法官的陷害，被打入死牢。狱友法里亚神甫向他传授了各种知识，并在临终前把埋于基督山岛上的一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。堂泰斯越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富。从此化名基督山伯爵，经过精心策划，报答了恩人，惩罚了仇人。本书充满浪漫的传奇色彩，章章奇特新颖，引人入胜。

《海底两万里》

海底两万里》写于一八七0年，是凡尔纳著名的三部曲的第二部，第一部是《格兰特船长的儿女》、第三部是《神秘岛》。
"Seabed 20,000 Miles" write in 1870, is verne famous trilogy second, first is "Captain Grant's Children", third is "Mystical Island".

这部作品叙述法国生物学者阿龙纳斯在海洋深处旅行的故事。这事发生在一八六六年，当时海上发现了一只被断定为独角鲸的大怪物，他接受邀请参加追捕，在追捕过程中不幸落水，泅到怪物的脊背上。
This work narrates French biology scholar Aaron to accept Si in the sea deep place travel story. This matter occurs in 1866, at that time marine had discovered was concluded for unicorn's big monster, he accepts the invitation participation to capture, in captures in the process to fall in the water unfortunately, qiu to on monster back.

其实这怪物并非什么独角鲸，而是一艘构造奇妙的潜水船。潜水船是船长尼摩在大洋中的一座荒岛上秘密建造的，船身坚固，利用海洋发电。尼摩船长邀请阿龙纳斯作海底旅行。
Actually this monster by no means any unicorn, but is a structure marvelous underwater ship. The underwater ship is captain Nepal touches in the ocean on a desert island the secret construction, the hull is firm, use sea electricity generation. Nepal touches captain to invite Aaron to accept Si to make the seabed travel.

他们从太平洋出发，经过珊瑚岛、印度洋、红海、地中海，进入大西洋，看到许多罕见的海生动植物和水中的奇异景象，又经历了搁浅、土人围攻、同鲨鱼搏斗、冰山封路、章鱼袭击等许多险情。最后，当潜水船到达挪威海岸时，阿龙纳斯不辞而别，把他所知道的海底秘密公布于世.

They embark from the Pacific Ocean, the process coral island, Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, enter Atlantic, sees to in many rare sea vivid plants and the water strange picture, also experienced has reached a deadlock, the aborigine besieges, with the shark fight, iceberg Feng Road, the octopus attack and so on many dangerous situations. Finally, when the underwater ship arrives the Norwegian seacoast, Aaron accepts Si to leave without saying good-bye, knows him the seabed secret announcement in the world.

书中的主人公尼摩船长是一个带有浪漫、神秘色彩，非常吸引人的人物。尼摩根据自己的设计建造了潜水船，潜航在海底进行大规模的科学研究，但这好像又不是他这种孤独生活的惟一目的。他躲避开他的敌人和迫害者，在海底探寻自由，又对自己孤独的生活深深感到悲痛。这个神秘人物的谜底到了三部曲的第三部才被揭开。In book leading character Nepal touches captain has, the mystical color romantically, extremely appealing character. Nepal touched acts according to own design to make the underwater ship, dived the navigation to conduct the large-scale scientific research in the seabed, but this was probably not his this kind of lonely life only goal. He avoids him the enemy and the persecutor, inquires about the freedom in the seabed, also deep feels deeply to the oneself lonely life sorrowful. This mystical character's truth arrived the trilogy third talent to open.

这部作品集中了凡尔纳科幻小说的所有特点。曲折紧张、扑朔迷离的故事情节，瞬息万变的人物命运，丰富详尽的科学知识和细节逼真的美妙幻想融于一炉。作者独具匠心，巧妙布局，在漫长的旅行中，时而将读者推入险象环生的险恶环境，时而又带进充满诗情画意的美妙境界；波澜壮阔的场面描绘和细致入微的细节刻画交替出现。读来引人入胜，欲罢不能。

This work has concentrated verne science fiction all characteristics. Winding tense, confusing plot, the fast changing character destiny, the rich exhaustive scientific knowledge and the detail lifelike wonderful fantasy melt in a stove. The author has a special inventive mind, the ingenious layout, in the long travel, thrusts from time to time the reader the dangerous environment which is surrounded by perils, from time to time takes into fills the rich in poetic and artistic flavor wonderful boundary; The mammoth scene description and enters the micro detail portray to appear in turn carefully. Reads fascinatingly, wants to stop but cannot.

凡尔纳作品中的幻想都以科学为依据，许多作品中所描绘的科学幻想在今天都得以实现。更重要的是他作品中的幻想大胆新奇，并以其逼真、生动、美丽如画令人读来趣味盎然。他的作品情节惊险曲折、人物栩栩如生、结局出人意料。所有这些使他的作品具有永恒的魅力。
In the verne work fantasy all take the science as the basis, in many works describes the science fantasized all can realize in today. More importantly in his work fantasy bold novel, and by its lifelike, vivid, the beautiful like picture makes one read the interest abundantly. His work plot thrilling winding, the character lifelike, the result is beyond expectation. All these enable his work to have the eternal charm.

《绿野仙踪》
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone arrives, and picks her, her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. Things in Oz are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. She's helped by the Good Witch of the North, but she's also in trouble with the Wicked Witch of the West, who seeks revenge for the death of her sister; the Wicked Witch of the East, for which she blames Dorothy.
When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog Toto, to run away. A cyclone appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the Emerald City where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them, before the Wicked Witch of the West catches up with them.

绿野仙踪是一个长篇的童话故事。这本书的作者是美国的莱曼弗兰克鲍姆。故事中的主人公是一位小姑娘，名叫多萝西。她和她的小狗多多，亨利叔叔、艾姆婶婶住在一起。一天，一场龙卷风将多萝西和小狗多多吹到了一个奇怪的世界。她们被告知要找到奥兹大王，让奥兹大王送她们回家。在旅途中，多萝西遇到了，没有脑袋的稻草人，没有心脏的铁樵夫和胆小的狮子。一路上他们互相帮助，成为了好朋友。他们共同去寻找奥兹大王。路上发生了很多奇奇怪怪的事情。最终，一位好女巫实现了他们的愿望。稻草人成了翡翠国的首领，铁樵夫成为了温基人的领导者，狮子成了百兽之王。多萝西也回到了家与叔叔婶婶团聚了。

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What kind of world is it my friend
that little children see?
I wonder if they see God first
because they just believe?

Do they see strength in caring eyes
who watch them as they play -
or maybe love through gentle hands
that guide them on their way?

Do you think they dream of future times
when they would be a king -
or just enjoy their present life
while with their friends they sing?

Do they see the acts of kindness
done for people who are poor?
Is the very best in everyone
what they are looking for?

And when the day is over,
as they close their eyes to sleep,
do they look forward to tomorrow
with its promises to keep?

If this is what the children see,
then it should be no surprise,
the world would be a better place
if we all had children's eyes.

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　　……I say to you, my friends, so even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American d
ream.

　　I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

　　I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

　　I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

　　I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

　　I have a dream today!

　　I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

　　I have a dream today.

　　I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

　　This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.

　　With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

　　With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

　　With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, knowing that we will be free one day.

　　This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning-"my country 'tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride; from every mountain side, let freedom ring"-and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

　　So let freedom ring -- from the prodigious hill tops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring; from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring -- from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

　　Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

　　Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

　　But not only that.Let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia.

　　Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

　　Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

　　When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,

　　Catholics and Protestants - will be able to join hands and to sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last; thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

　　我有一个梦

　　马丁.路德.金

　　……今天，我对你们说，我的朋友们，尽管此时的困难与挫折，我们仍然有个梦，这是深深扎根于美国梦中的梦。 我有一个梦：有一天，这个国家将站起来，并实现它的信条的真正含义：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的，即所有的人都生来平等。”

　　我有一个梦：有一天，在乔治亚州的红色山丘上，从前奴隶的子孙们和从前奴隶主的子孙们将能像兄弟般地坐在同一桌旁。

　　我有一个梦：有一天，甚至密西西比州，一个有着不公正和压迫的热浪袭人的荒漠之州，将改造成自由和公正的绿洲。

　　我有一个梦：我的4个小孩将有一天生活在一个国度里，在那里，人们不是从他们的肤色，而是从他们的品格来评价他们。

　　今天我有一个梦想！

　　我有一个梦：有一天，阿拉巴马州将变成这样一个地方，那里黑人小男孩、小女孩可以和白人小男孩、小女孩，像兄弟姐妹一样手牵手并肩而行。

　　今天我有一个梦想。

　　我有一个梦：有一天，每一个峡谷将升高，每一座山丘和高峰被削低，崎岖粗糙的地方改造成平原，弯弯曲曲的地方变得笔直，上帝的荣耀得以展露，全人类都将举目共睹。

　　这是我们的希望，这是信念，带着这个信念我回到南方，怀着这个信念我们将能从绝望之山中开采出一块希望之石。怀着这个信念，我们将能把我们国家的刺耳的不和音，转变成一曲优美动听的兄弟情谊交响曲。怀着这个信念，我们将能工作在一起，祈祷在一起，奋斗在一起，一起赴监狱，一起为自由而挺住。因为我们知道，有一天我们将获自由。

　　将会有一天，那时，所有上帝的孩子们将能以新的含义高唱：

　　我的祖国，

　　你是自由的乐土。

　　我为你歌唱：

　　我的先辈的安葬之地，

　　让自由的声音，

　　响彻每一道山岗。

　　如果说美国是一个伟大的国家，这必须要成真。因此，让自由的声音从新罕布什尔州巨大的山巅响起吧。让自由的声音从纽约州巍巍群山响起吧，让自由的声音从宾夕法尼亚州阿拉根尼高原响起吧！

　　让自由的声音从科罗拉多州冰雪覆盖的落基山脉响起吧！

　　让自由的声音从加利福尼亚婀娜多姿的山峰上响起吧！

　　但不仅如此，还让自由之声从乔治亚州的石峰上响起吧！

　　让自由之声从田纳西州的观景峰响起吧！

　　让自由之声从密西西比州的每一道山丘响起吧！在每一道山坡上，让自由之声响起吧！

　　当我们让自由之声响彻之时，当我们让它从每一座村庄，从每一个州和每一座城市响起时，我们将能加速这一天的到来，那时，所有上帝的孩子们，黑人和白人，犹太人和异教徒们，基督徒和天主教徒们，将能手挽手，以那古老的黑人圣歌的歌词高唱；

　　“终于自由了！终于自由了！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”

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In defending Christmas I have nothing to say about Jesus Christ, a terrifying and influential historical figure who, I confess, has had little impact on my life.[2] My Christmas, the Christmas I have known, revolves centrally around objects—most crucially around presents and then secondarily around things like Christmas trees, ornaments, decorations, advent calendars, etc.[3]

I have a particularly vivid memory of a childhood Christmas during which my sister would stalk[4] the Christmas tree day after day counting presents. On the final day she made a stack[5] in the middle of the room. On one side were the presents with her name on them and on the other, those with mine. She tallied them up[6]. The number was not to her liking. I can still picture the stunned calm[7] as she counted and counted again. It was clear that my pile was two presents larger than hers. I think it was the “two” that really bothered her. A difference of one is one thing, a difference of two is quite another. When there was nothing more to be done she gathered herself up, collected her faculties, and then proceeded to throw an epic and violent fit.[8] Right there. She screamed and raged, she tore paper and hurled objects.[9] She dashed her head, as only she could, on the kitchen floor, her beautiful blond curls bouncing up and down against the tile and mixing with the tears and saliva.[10] She grunted[11] things that couldn’t be understood. I say again that this is one of the clearest memories of my childhood.

In my 20s, living in that odd no man's land of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I stumbled onto[12] the L Train station in the evening during a snow storm. A smattering of people stood on the platform waiting for the train.[13] A hearty woman was singing Christmas carols in high operatic fashion as a rather more gnarled gentleman accompanied on his accordion.[14] It was probably the exact temperature in the air, and the way it carried her voice, and the sound of the accordion around and around the underground chamber[15]. The train came and no one got on it. No one said anything. We just stood there, we could do no other.

Walter Benjamin once wrote about his fear of clocks and the marching homogenous units of time they represent.[16] He wrote of fighters during the July Revolution[17] who suddenly turned their guns on the clock towers, trying to freeze the day, to get as much as they possibly could from those moments beyond the normal flow of history. There is no figure with a greater hold on the childhood imagination than Santa Claus.[18] We have given him extraordinary powers. He has mastery, for a night, that isn’t exactly a night really, over space and time itself, the very fundaments[19] for the possibility of anything else. The Greek god of time, Chronos, is an elemental god, more powerful than the Olympians, more primal than the deities who control things on land and sea and earth and sky.[20] But Santa is his own logic and purpose for one infinite night every year.

I remember that there were always advent calendars. They were their own form of torture in that they seemed to progress so very, very slowly. After the 15th, it was as if each day refused to end, refused to give way to the next morning. We wanted to destroy the night. Opening each door in the morning was a pleasure. My sister and I would do it slowly, with a sense of the sacred[21]. When I went away to college a package came at the end of November. I opened it. There was an advent calendar inside. I called my sister. She had one too. Later, my parents split up and then divorced and certain things from the past seemed now sealed in the past forever. But then late November would come and a package would come. It was only then that I noticed that the packages were from my father. I had an image suddenly of my sister and me crouched in front of the advent calendar slowly opening one of the doors as my father stood behind us, unnoticed, silently looking on. Every late November for years and years now, there is a package. And there is an advent calendar from my father.

Vocabulary

1. defense: <美>= <英> defence，辩护，支持。动词形式为defend。

2. terrifying: 令人恐惧的；influential: 有影响力的；confess: 承认。

3. revolve around: 围绕，以……为重要目的；crucially: 关键性地，及其；secondarily: 其次；ornament: 装饰物，点缀品；advent calendar: 圣诞日历，是一种可以吃的日历，共有24个小格子，里面装有巧克力，从12月1日起，小孩子每天打开一格，吃掉一块巧克力，全部吃完了以后，就到圣诞节了。

4. stalk: 跟踪，此处指姐姐悄悄点数圣诞树上的礼物。

5. stack: 垛，堆。

6. tally up: 计算，合计。

7. stunned calm: 指吃惊后强忍保持镇静。

8. 确认再没什么可做之后，她重振精神，镇定下来，开始了一场壮阔的狂怒大爆发。

9. rage: 发怒；hurl: 扔，甩。

10. dash: 使猛烈撞击；blond curls: 金黄色的卷发；bounce: 弹起；tile: 瓷砖；saliva: 口水。

11. grunt: 嘟哝。

12. stumble onto: 碰巧走到。

13. smattering: 寥寥几个；platform: 站台。

14. Christmas carol: 圣诞颂歌；in high operatic fashion: 带着浓重的戏剧腔；gnarled:（皮肤、手等）多皱纹的，饱经风霜的；accordion: 手风琴。

15. underground chamber: 此处应指火车站的地下通道。

16. Walter Benjamin: 瓦尔特•本杰明（1892—1940），德国文艺评论家；marching homogenous units of time: 不断向前的、单调的时间单位。

17. July Revolution: 七月革命，指1830年7月法国推翻复辟的波旁王朝，拥戴路易•菲利浦登上王位的革命。

18. hold: 把握力，控制力；Santa Claus: 圣诞老人。

19. fundament: 基础。

20. elemental: 基本的，基础的；Olympians: 奥林匹斯山诸神，指宙斯、波塞冬、阿波罗等古希腊神话诸神；primal: 最初的，根本的；deity: 神。

21. sacred: 神圣的，受尊敬的。

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July 14,1861

Washington, D.C.

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I've been trying to read through one newspaper article every day, no matter how long it takes. I look up approximately every third word in my dictionary. Today's news was fascinating. Hard to imagine a more dramatic headline than "Obesità! I Bambini Italiani Sono i PiùGrassi d'Europa!" Good God! Obesity! The article, I think, is declaring that Italian babies are the fattest babies in Europe! Reading on, I learn that Italian babies are significantly fatter than German babies and very significantly fatter than French babies.(Mercifully, there was no mention of how they measure up against American babies.) Older Italian children are dangerously obese these days, too, says the article. (The pasta industry defended itself.) These alarming statistics on Italian child fatness were unveiled yesterday by—no need to translate here—"una task force internazionale." It took me almost an hour to decipher this whole article. The entire time, I was eating a pizza and listening to one of Italy's children play the accordion across the street. The kid didn't look very fat to me, but that may have been because he was a gypsy. I'm not sure if I misread the last line of the article, but it seemed there was some talk from the government that the only way to deal with the obesity crisis in Italy was to implement a tax on the overweight . . .? Could this be true? After a few months of eating like this, will they come after me?

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Pulling An All-Nighter

开夜车

The only way for Santa to get the job done is to stay up all night on December 24 — and that can lead to some serious health concerns. Sleep loss has a cumulative effect, and Santa has been working hard, likely cutting back on sleep, for the entire month preceding Christmas. As people lose sleep, they have problems responding quickly to specific objects.

圣诞老人要想把工作做好，唯一的办法就是在12月24日晚上开夜车。而熬夜会引发不少严重的健康隐患。睡眠不足会产生累积效应，而圣诞老人又是个勤快人，他要在圣诞节前的一整个月都熬夜工作。如果人们缺少足够的睡眠就会导致对特定问题的反应速度减慢。

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Tart in Ymber Day, Compast and Frumenty are just some of the medieval dishes being boiled up at a Manchester library.
Tart in Ymber Day、Compast 还有Frumenty其实就是中世纪的一些菜肴，现在它们被曼彻斯特的一家图书馆翻腾了出来。

Tart in Ymber Day is a type of egg custard tart sweetened with raisins, compast is cooked rootvegetables boiled in a sweetened vinaigrette and frumenty is bulghar wheat and chicken stockcoloured and flavoured with saffron and served as a porridge type dish.
"Tart in Ymber Day"就是一种加了葡萄干的蛋挞；"compast" 则是用甜醋煮熟的根茎蔬菜，而"frumenty" 所指的就是用加了藏红花的鸡汤熬制出来的麦片粥。

The creations are courtesy of a 14th century cookbook, one of the oldest recipe compilations, stored in the library at University of Manchester.
这本14世纪的菜谱收藏在曼彻斯特的一家图书馆，它是迄今为止最古老的菜谱之一。

Alison Aucott, general catering manager, said it had been a "challenge" deciphering the book, Forme of Cury.
该校餐饮部负责人艾莉森·奥古特说，解密这本名为"Forme of Cury"的中世纪菜谱是一种挑战。

It hails back to Richard II's reign and is written in Middle English.
这本菜谱用中世纪英语写成，它的完成时代可以追溯到爱德华二世统治时期。

The dishes, which are being cooked in the catering department at the university's John Ryland's

library, will be made available to the public in the new year. The complete collection of manuscripts is also available online.
曼彻斯特大学约翰·里兰兹图书馆与该校餐饮部共同炮制出来的这些菜肴将在今年元旦与广大公众见面。所有的菜谱都将在互联网上向大家公布。

Many of them use ingredients unavailable in today's society. But out of the 150 recipes, 20 were picked and translated.这些菜谱中的许多配料如今已经很少使用了。所以烹饪人员不得不从菜谱中的150道菜中挑出了20道菜，并对它们进行菜谱翻译。

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    Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

    The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare with you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

    Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.

    However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking, to tell him that he is attentive.
If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking, as if he tries to dominate you, you will feel disconcerted. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim, since he believes in the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. Quite the contrary.

    In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.
Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific situation.

  我们的眼睛能准确地传达一些信息，所以人们常说，眼睛会说话。

   你有过类似的体验吗？在公共汽车上，你可能会看着一个陌生人，但时间不会太长。而且，如果他能感觉到有人盯着他，会觉得浑身不自在。

   日常生活中亦如此。如果别人一直盯着你看，你就会不由自主地审视自己，看看是不是有什么地方弄错了。如果一切正常，你就会对别人的这种盯梢很气愤。眼睛确实能说话，不是吗？

   过久的盯着别人看会给人一种粗鲁和侵犯的感觉。但异性之间的凝视就不同了。如果一个男人盯着一个女人超过10秒钟，还不想挪开视线的话，他的意思就十分明显了，他想引起她的注意，想让她知道他爱慕她。

   正常情况下，两人交谈时，目光接触能传达这样的意思：说者偶尔看看听者，以此确认听着是否在认真倾听。而对于听者来说，他会一直看着说话的人，以此告诉他，自己正专心致志的听着。

   假如与你说话的那个人直直的盯着你，好像要镇住你似的，你便会感到惶恐不安。一般地，说谎者往往就是看别人的时间过长，而令人起疑。因为他们以为直视别人的眼睛是诚实沟通的表现，结果恰恰相反。

   实际上，长时间的相互凝视仅适合情人之间，他们喜欢温柔的对视，用目光来传达言语无法表达的爱意。

   显然，目光交流应该根据双方的关系和特定场合来进行。

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