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Much as with your natural talent, the way to find your passion is to touch on a lot of different areas and see what resonates for you.
如同寻找自己的天赋所在一样，找到自己兴趣所在的方式也是通过涉足不同的领域，看哪些能和自己长生共鸣。
点拨：
The way to do sth.做某事的方式
《庄子•养生主》英译之二：庖丁解牛
The cook was cutting up an ox for ruler Wenhui. At every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every tread of his foot, and every thrust of his knee, zip, whiz, the sounds of ripping and slicing all were in perfect rhythm. As if he danced in Mulberry Grove ball or performed at Emperor Yao’s concert.
Wenhui remarked, “Ah, excellent! How to get such a skill!”
The cook laid down his knife and replied, “What I am fond of is the Way, which is much more than skill. When I began cutting up ox, what I could see was the ox itself. Three years later, I did not see ox as a whole. Just now I feel it by spirit instead of eyes. Even my sense stops its use, my spirit goes where it wants. Conform to the natural structure, I stab into the crevices and pierce the cavities as what they are, and evade every ligament and tendon, much more a main joint. A good cook changes his knife once a year, because he uses it for slicing; a mediocre cook changes his knife once a month, because he uses it for hacking. Now my knife has been in use for nineteen years, and has cut up thousands of oxen. But its blade looks as if it were just whetted. Why? There are interstices between bones, there is hardly thickness of the blade. When the blade without thickness enters the interstices with enough space, it slips as free as it’s let be. That is why it looks as if it were just whetted after nineteen years in use. Nevertheless, whenever I come to a complicated joint and find the obstacle, I alert myself in a tremble, keep my eyes on it, begin slowly, and move my knife with a great subtlety, till it is cut up and drops down like a clod of earth. With the knife in hand, proudly I look around. At last I wipe out my knife and take it in sheath.”
Wenhui said, “Good! From the cook’s words, I know how to nourish the life.”
【For the life should be】
There is a goal in my soul
I hold it in silence
The world calm down
Listening to the heat beating song
It seems so far away
and with uncontrolled change
It's the natural truth
For you, for me
May be better for my own life
Stay in thought right now
The moment I can touch
The moment I can sing along
For you, for me
Maybe just for my own life
Take step by step
Ever you know or not
Accepted or just walk away
My heart is still there
Might not for you, or for me
Just for the life should be
That is natural truth
----12-23 杭州
It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.
I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.
Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste.
Sometimes you are resistant and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are the underdog: you can’t win but at least you can keep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your parents’ control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself.
If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.
It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.
I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.
Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste.
Sometimes you are resistant and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are the underdog: you can’t win but at least you can keep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your parents’ control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself.
If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.
NOBEL Prize #nobel##诺贝尔奖#
Three U.S-based economists won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for work on drawing conclusions from unintended experiments, or so-called “natural experiments.”
David Card of the University of California at Berkeley was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.
“completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.”
“Card’s studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens’ methodological contributions have shown that natural experiments are a rich source of knowlege,” said Peter Fredriksson, chair of the Economic Sciences Committee. “Their research has substantially improved our ability to answer key causal questions, which has been of great benefit for society.”
Last week, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persistent attacks, harassment and even murder.
Ressa was the only woman honored this year in any category.
The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was recognized for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”
The prize for physiology or medicine went to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
Three scientists won the physics prize for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan won the chemistry prize for finding an easier and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make compounds, including medicines and pesticides.
