#话说端午#五月初五。“端”为“始”,“端五”即“初五”,历法五月正是“午”月,因此“端五”渐变为“端午”,又名“重午”或“重五”。英译the Dragon Boat or Duanwu Festival, or the Double Fifth Festival。感谢屈原,不仅留下香草美人的《离骚》(Li Sao),还部分贡献了三天假期。展开全文
There are two equal and eternal ways of looking at this twilight world of ours: we may see it as the twilight of evening or the twilight of morning; we may think of anything, down to a fallen acorn, as a descendant or as an ancestor. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton查看全文>>展开全文 原微博
#开心一笑,生活舒心# Lawyer: You say you were about thirty-five feet away from the scene of the accident? Just how far can you see clearly? Witness: Well, when I wake up in the morning I see the Sun, and they tell me it's about ninety-three million miles away.查看全文>>展开全文 原微博
谁喜欢work?举手![泪]没人举手。看看名人们怎么说:Work:The province of cattle. (Dorothy Parker) The only really dirty four-lettered word in the language. (Abbie Hoffman) What expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. (C. Northcote Parkinson)查看全文>>展开全文 原微博
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. ...History is a good teacher, though, and observing many companies over a long period of time can teach us principles that will help us with strategies for the years ahead. --Bill Gates展开全文 原微博
#乔布斯#Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions draw out your own inner voice, and have the courage to follow heart and intuition展开全文
A little girl did not like the look of the barking dog. "It's all right," said a gentleman, "don't be afraid. Don't you know the proverb: Barking dogs don't bite?" "Ah, yes," answered the little girl. "I know the proverb, but does the dog know the proverb, too?"展开全文 原微博
sight unseen 是个固定短语,意为"在没有见到物或人的情况下", 比如可以说He bought an MP3 player sight unseen. They engaged a conference hall sight unseen. 旧时代我家乡有很多包办婚姻,很多丈夫都是洞房里掀起老婆的红盖头时才第一次睹其真容,这就是不折不扣的to marry sb. sight unseen /展开全文 原微博