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10 Jun 08

西方基本文化常识扫盲(一)——环球职业教育在线

  • 在西方社会里， 不是只要是女士， 年龄都不可以随便问。 其实， 你如果看对方是个小不点，或是十几二十岁， 问问年龄是没有关系的。 在老美看来，十几岁， 二十出头可是风华正茂的人生黄金时期，所以大胆地问。
  • 一般在美国的中国餐馆， 每一张饭桌上都会摆上一张属相表， 列出所有的属相和相应的出生年份。
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英美英语差异谈——环球职业教育在线

  • 当美国人用luggage的时候，一般是指大的皮箱或皮包。美国人说baggage car（行李车）英国人则说luggage van。
  • Pants在英国指内裤，但在美国却是长裤。(在英国，长裤为 trousers。
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Classical Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome

  • One of the joys of archaeology is that history comes alive in very specific, personal ways, through glimpses at the lives of real people
  • But through archaeology, that civilization is coming into sharper focus, as we reconstruct the past and see it in all its color: in its ideals, aspirations, achievements, and virtues; and also in its vices, superstitions, disasters, and crimes. "We need to take the good with the bad, because only then can we really understand all that they have to tell us—not just about themselves, but about ourselves, too."

History of Science: 1700–1900

  • In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm.
22 Apr 08

SparkNotes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Key Facts

  • climax  · In the strictest sense, there is no real climax
  • protagonist  · Because there are three main groups of characters,
    there is no single protagonist in the play
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Explanation for Quotation #4

  • These lines are important partially
    because they offer humorous commentary on the theme of dreams throughout
    the play but also because they crystallize much of what is so lovable
    and amusing about Bottom. His overabundant self-confidence burbles
    out in his grandiose idea that although no one could possibly understand
    his dream, it is worthy of being immortalized in a poem.

Explanation for Quotation #2

  • This is the case, she argues, because “love looks not with
    the eyes, but with the mind”—love depends not on an objective assessment
    of appearance but rather on an individual perception of the beloved.
    These lines prefigure aspects of the play’s examination of love,
    such as Titania’s passion for the ass-headed Bottom, which epitomizes
    the transformation of the “base and vile” into “form and dignity.”

SparkNotes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Context

  • His career bridged the reigns of Elizabeth
    I (ruled 1558–1603) and
    James I (ruled 1603–1625),
    and he was a favorite of both monarchs. Indeed, James granted Shakespeare’s
    company the greatest possible compliment by bestowing upon
    its members the title of King’s Men
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one
    of his strangest and most delightful creations, and it marks a departure from
    his earlier works
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SparkNotes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Themes, Symbols, & Motifs

  • early every characteristic
    presented in the play has an opposite
  • Greek
    mythology, English folklore, and classical literature
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柠檬水

  • 我的感觉是，因为店里的水质问题，净水做的不好，水本身有味道，才需要加柠檬；

    　　如果水质好，净水做好了，水应该直接就很好喝，很干净；

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Information and Much More from Answers.com

  • Shakespeare borrows the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, transforming it into a play that is
    performed at the end and using ideas of the myth for the entire play.

YouTube - Vivaldi with Christophe Coin & Sonia Prina

  • I'm very eager to hear La Fida Ninfa when it comes out. The current recording on Amazon is a God-awful production from the 50s, and I would really like to hear Spinosi's take on this opera.
19 Apr 08

Amazon.com: Vivaldi - Farnace / Zanasi, Fernandez, Mingardo, Banditelli, Prina, Forte, Bettini, Le Concert des Nations, Savall: Antonio Vivaldi,Francesco Corselli,Jordi Savall,Le Concert des Nations,Furio Zanasi,Adriana Fernandez,Sara Mingardo,Gloria Band

  • The plot is a typical 18th-century opera narrative concerning people in ancient times whose confusing doings resist concise summary, but combine family discord, high politics, hate, love, and forgiveness.
  • In fact, everybody sings with dramatic abandon and uses stunning coloratura effects.
17 Apr 08

Rome and the Barbarians

  • The ways the Romans looked on these barbarians not only as outsiders, but also as potential allies and provincials
  • through assimilation, they contributed to the successful establishment of Roman provinces.

The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization

  • The ancient Greek
    concept of a hero was different from our own culture's. First and foremost,
    the ancient Greek hero was a religious figure, a dead person who received
    cult honors and was expected in return to bring prosperity, especially
    in the form of fertility of plants (crops) and animals, to the community.
  • A key part to the narrative of the hero's life
    is that s/he undergoes some sort of ordeal. The hero, who is mortal,
    not immortal like the gods, must suffer during his or her lifetime, and,
    significantly, must die. Only after death can the hero receive immortalization
    in cult and in song.
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16 Apr 08

“小姐”乎？“服务员”乎？

  • 怎


    么猜测一个人是否在北京或者上海生活过比较长的时间？我的经验是看她/他在饭桌上怎么招呼买单，叫“小姐”还是叫“服务员”

  • 除了有某些“特殊职业”的影射外，在上海不叫“服务员”，在北京不叫“小姐”的原因更在于能提高服务的准确性。
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Italy's love affair with Berlusconi

  • "He is incredibly good at using TV to alter, hide and change reality, to give people a completely deformed impression of himself," he explains.

    "Only those who read books and newspapers know about and remember the disaster that was his five years in power," he says.

  • Mr Berlusconi, he says, has been incredibly adept at shaping reality to suit his own ends: "Italy has been living in a Truman Show for almost 20 years now.
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复旦44岁博士生猝死书桌前 已读5年2次延期_网易新闻中心

  • 郭湘分析，论文出不来，无外四个原因：对自己要求太高，不想混；假定论文题目很难，学力不够；其他事情耽误了，包括课题和兼职等；本人很懒，不想写。
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