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5 days ago
翻检Gmail旧邮，找到这篇文章。这是去年冬天，我为一位禀赋卓异、志攻译术的学弟写的推荐信。（我英文不好，写得很累。也请有打算给我机会锻炼这方面文笔的先生女士们另请高明。） 8 Dec. 2008 To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, As a lecturer of English at Fudan University, I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. C for the last three years. He has been a top student in his class and an asset to our Department of Translation and Interpreting. I would like to avail myself of this opportunity to recommend Mr. C for your graduate program. I feel confident that Mr. C will continue to succeed and accomplish much more in his studies in an English-speaking country. He is a dedicated student, and his grades have been hitherto exemplary. In class, he has, with his learning and erudition, which is already phenomenal for his age, proven to be amazingly proactive. In my course, Classical Chinese: Selected Readings for Student Translators, for instance, his presentation about Buddhist influence on ancient and medieval Chinese letters has clarified a few ...
7 days ago
摘要 ：你长不了（liǎo）了（le）。 关键词 ：Toto, 长宁区 昨晚，和朋友BCD在CBD吃了晚饭，想找个地方打牌。去“仙踪林”，被告知“ 现在 不可以打了”。B说：“麦当劳”吧，五角场的就可以打。正巧，五十步外，有一家。 进门，急急忙忙买了4杯热巧克力，自知“不登大雅”，幸好店内客稀，就在角落坐下，取出两盒“姚记”。不知何处冲过来一个清洁员大叔，用上海普通话说：“这里 四 不可以打牌 滴 。这里 四 麦当劳，不 四 你们打牌 滴 地方。”当头一棒，满座皆闷。 我想想很委屈，“麦当劳”这个 小丑 ，翻脸如翻书啊，虽然30块热巧克力不是我埋单。而天生的敏感让我觉得，大叔似乎话太多了。什么叫“不四你们打牌滴地方”？！“ 你们 ”是什么人？无非看我等青衫朴素，以为是底层群众——当然，也确实是。但，我是个社会公认的读书人（虽然实际不是）啊！越思越想，正是 怒从心头起，恶向胆边生 。我便拿了杯子，去到柜台。 “您要续杯？” “店长是谁？” 一句话出口，霎时间，柜台后所以的人都把头转向我，肯定是以为我走运，吃出“ 小强 ”了。 一个脸上有 刀疤 的叔叔接待了我。请注意，刀疤是男人社会身份的重要标记，说明 ①他阅历丰富； ②他吃过苦头，不会轻易与人争执； ③他肯定烟酒牌戏都在行，对急欲过过牌瘾的人，会很理解。 所以，这样一个人接待我，我心中暗喜。 我跟他说我要打牌，他说不可，这是店中规定。我于是做了一番陈述： ①为何不在柜台显眼处明示？（他说这是“不成文”的规定。） ②清洁员大叔来“明示”我们不可打牌时，那句“不是你们打牌的地方”是人身攻击。（他说对不起，代表本店道歉，并答应批评清洁员大爷。此时，C来助威观战。） ③不论是你店长，还是清洁员大爷，你们都代表了“麦当劳”，一家著名 国企 （i.e., 国际企业）。现在的实情是，“麦当劳”伤害了一个读书人的尊严。（尽管C试图阻止我，我还是掏出了从没用过的那张 小红证 ，顿时全场雷翻。我出门前可是犹豫再三，要不要带工作证呢。看来，以后不用多想了。他还是说对不起啊对不起。） ...
14 days ago
Dear John Doe, It is a great pleasure for me to hear from you, though quite unexpectedly. I believe that your industry will be rewarding sooner or later. Just "keep walking," as the liquor ad famously runs. As a Fudan undergraduate, I began backward (Your English now can't be poorer than mine then.), so much so that only one fellow girl student of mine ranked behind me in terms of the score of the Municipal Matriculation Examination of English of the year 1998, when we were enrolled in this University. But today, I am a Fudan lecturer, and she, far more amazingly, works in HK SAR with a prestigious banque. With strenuous efforts, both of us turn out to be no losers. Yes, I know it clearly that my course is very difficult for many first-year English majors. But I have to be cruel only to be kind, because I want you to become GREAT. This is my long-cherished dream as a green-hand educator. Now I regret misspending many of my collegiate days, youthful ...
16 days ago
居然买了35块钱二手书！ Cavazzoni, Ermanno. The Voice of the Moon . Trans. Ed Emery. London: Serpent's Tail, 1990. (RMB 5 yuan) （I cannot find any pic of this book's cover online. Above is one of a poster of the movie based on the novel. Its director is none other than the legendary Federico Fellini.） Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking . New York: Vintage-Random House, 2006. (RMB 6 yuan) McEwan, Ian. Atonement . London: Vintage, 2002. (RMB 9 yuan) Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club . New York: Ballantine, 2006. (RMB 5 yuan) Toole, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of Dunces . New York: Wings, 1995. (RMB 10 yuan)
21 days ago
最近在学校看到一幅书法作品，写的是李太白的《 将进酒 》，就想起来月初看京戏前在市百一店七楼顺风大酒店吃晚饭时看到的那幅字，一样的内容，四屏，悬在金碧辉煌的大堂——啊呀，自认为审美眼光异常挑剔的我，已经很多年没看到这么好的活人写的字了。不愧是传说中市领导同志也常来光顾的饭店呀。请同桌饭友用手机拍了下来： 那天给葛兆光老师送书，被他表扬字写得挺好。其实，我就职填表格的时候，就被人事处阿姨（她是看过多少表格的人！）表扬过了：“你字写得很好啊。练过的吧？而且你这表上是随便写写的，我看出来啦。” 扪心自问，我的字算什么呢？实在是如今读书人和书法家已经分道扬镳，或者说是“ 分工细化 ”了，我的字在底层教工里算是不太丑罢了。 可我还是很想把字写好啊。现在饭后散步，都要去三公里外的沈秋明先生故居走一遭。一到门口，无比自卑。所以，我下决心了：以后要少改作业，多练字！！！ 请大家监督我！
