风凝灵

1、a bad apple 坏蛋

A：Oh, my God! What happened? Why are you black and blue?

B：I got beaten by Peter’s brother

A：That’s a bad apple! Let’s think up a way and teach him a lesson

甲：噢，天哪！怎么啦？你身上怎么青一块紫一块的？

乙：彼得的弟弟把我给打了。

甲：这坏蛋，咱们来想个法来教训教训他。

2、a dog in the manger 占着茅坑不拉屎的人；占有有利条件却不会利用的人

A：Give the skates to me!

B：You shut up!

A：If you don’t know how to skate, why don’t you give the skates to me? Don’t be a dog in the manger.

甲：把冰鞋给我！

乙：你闭嘴！

甲：你若不知道怎么滑冰，干吗不把冰鞋给我？别占着茅坑不拉屎了！

3、a gay dog 快活的人

A：It’s strange they should get along so well!

B：That’s nothing unusual.

A：You don’t know much about

ゆっくりと 12月のあかりが灯りはじめ

yu kku ri to zyu u ni ga tsu no a ka ri ga to mo ri ha zi me

缓慢地开始点燃了十二月的烟火

慌ただしく 踊る街を谁もが好きになる  

a wa ta da shi ku o do ru ma chi wo da re mo ga su ki ni na ru

每个人都变的喜欢这忙碌的街道

僕は走り 闭店间际 君の欲しがった椅子を买った

bo ku wa ha shi ri he I te n ma gi wa ki mi no ho shi ga tta I su wo ka tta

我奔跑着 在商店关门之前 买了你想要的椅子

荷物抱え 电车のなか ひとりで幸せだった

ni mo tsu ka ka e de n sya no na ka hi to ri de shi a wa se da tta

还抱着礼物 在电车中 我一个人沉浸在幸福之中

いつまでも 手をつないで いられるよな気がしていた  

I tsu ma de mo te wo tsu na I de I ra re ru yo u na ki ga shi te I ta

曾经有着能够永远牵手走下去的预感

何もかもがきらめいて がむしゃらに夢を追いかけた  

The destiny of wild places in the 21 century can be read in the numbers. The pressure to exploit the world’s remaining wildness for natural resources, food and human habitation will become overwhelming. But bulldozers and chain saws aren’t the only threats. A new menace has emerged from the least likely quarter; in many cases, the very people who care most passionately about empty places are hastening their demise.

Backcountry activities have become extremely trendy in the U.S., a fad that has been eagerly abetted by Madison Avenue. These days it’s impossible to turn on a television or open a magazine without being assaulted by a barrage of ads that use skillfully packaged images of wilderness

The key to understanding the development of the American attitude of the sanctity of the home is to look at how powerful the home is against the desires or even the needs of the government. This amendment (that no soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law) is absolutely clear. No matter how pressing the need is – in peace-time, no solider can be assigned to live in a home by the government without the consent of the owner. This is essence makes the individual owner of an individual home as powerful as the entire government of the United States of America. Think about this. In 1791 when

The line of demarcation between the adult and the child world is drawn in many ways. For instance, many American parents may be totally divorced from the church, or entertain grave doubts about the existence of God, but they send their children to Sunday school and help them to pray. American parents struggle in a competitive world where sheer cunning and falsehood are often rewarded and respected, but they feed their children with nursery tales in which the morally good is pitted against the bad, and in the end the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished. When American parents are in serious domestic trouble, they maintain a front of sweetness and light before their children.

Americans are grappling with same-sex marriage. The issue threatens to be a defining one in the current U.S. presidential election. Under pressure from his evangelical Christian supporters, President George W. Bush has been dancing around it for months. Although he keeps reiterating his view that marriage should be limited to the union of a man and woman, he has stopped short of a full public endorsement of a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex weddings. Much of the rest of the world is watching America’s struggle with curiosity.

In many places, same-sex marriage is simply a ho-hum issue. Across the world, the old model- marriage and then kids – has given way to a dizzying

A major source of anxiety about the future of the family is rooted not so much in reality as in the tension between the idealized expectation in the culture and the reality itself. Nostalgia for a lost family tradition, which, in fact, never existed, has prejudiced our understanding of the conditions of families in contemporary society. Thus, the current anxiety over the fate of the family reflects not only problems in the family but also a variety of fears about other social problems that are eventually projected onto the family.

The real problem facing American families today are not symptoms of breakdown as is often suggested; rather, they reflect the difficulties of adaptation to recent

　　In some societies people want children for what might be called familial reasons: to extend the family line or the family name, to propitiate the ancestors; to enable the proper functioning of religious rituals involving the family. Such reasons may seem thin in the modern, secularized society but they have been and are powerful indeed in other places.

　　In addition, one class of family reasons shares a border with the following category, namely, having children in order to maintain or improve a marriage: to hold the husband or occupy the wife; to repair or rejuvenate the marriage;  to increase the number of children on the assumption that family happiness lies that way. The point

In men, good looks is a whole, something taken in at a glance. It does not need to be confirmed by giving measurements of different regions of the body, nobody encourages a man to dissect his appearance, feature by feature. As for perfection, that is considered trivial --- almost unmanly. Indeed, in the ideally good-looking man a small imperfection or blemish is considered positively desirable.

在男性那里，好看是一种整体的感觉，是匆匆一瞥留下的印象。它不需要提供身体各部位的尺寸来确认，没有人会鼓励一个男性将自己的外表一点一点地拆分开来考察。至于外表完美，那在人们看来是微不足道的——甚至是缺乏阳刚之气的。实际上，一个男人如果在外表上有一点点瑕疵，或伤痕，反而会被奉为理想的美男子。

To preen, for a woman, can never be just a pleasure. It is also a duty. It is her work. If a woman does real work --- and even if she has clambered

For the Greeks,beauty was a virtue:a kind of excellence.Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call---lamely,enviously---whole persons 。   If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person's "inside"and "outside",they stell expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind.The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent,so brave,so honourable ,so seductive---and so ugly.One of Socrates' main pedagogical acts was to be ugly---and teach those innocent,no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was.

对于古希腊人来说，美丽是一种美德：一种优秀的体现。这样的人在今天

Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials---capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being---a productive person, a winner.

The word “winner” and “loser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.

Winners do not

All night, long after the televised cheers and hugs celebrating the arrival of a fresh new year, national-security officials manning the White House Situation Room waited for the worst. Among other worries, they feared terrorists would hijack airliners and try a repeat of the 9/11 attacks. Despite the warnings – or perhaps because of them – the holidays passed without incident. But administration officials can’t savor whatever relief they may feel. Instead, they once again find themselves fending off complaints that they overreacted and caused a national frenzy for nothing. Some conversations between suspected Qaeda terrorists, intercepted by the National Security Agency, seemingly referred to