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发帖数: 141625 | 1 小人书好像还不是说人性贪，是有点调侃阶级斗争似的。旧打字机可能算不上特权，算
一种自我意识和工具。奶牛鸭子提的要求也不是压迫人，和压迫阶级不太一样。不过反
正各有各的引申。嗯，丧钟为谁而鸣，为你也为我，大家都差不多，只不过站位不同，
就变成敌人或朋友了。
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发帖数: 481 | 3 我更喜欢George Orwell的散文。1984和Animal Farm都政治性太显豁了。 |
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发帖数: 7173 | 5 同时上Newsweek 和 BBC Top 100 的书有24 本：
The Lord of the Rings
Pride and Prejudice
His Dark Materials
To Kill a Mockingbird
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
The Wind in the Willows
War and Peace
Gone with the Wind
Middlemarch
The Grapes Of Wrath
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
The Great Gatsby
Brideshead Revisited
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Lord Of The Flies
Ulysses
Brave New World
On The Road
Midnight's Children |
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发帖数: 2808 | 6 :(
only:
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
5 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (didn't understand the book
11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighierithough)
28 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
29 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
30 The Histories by Herodotus
33 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
48 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
51 King Lear by William Shakespeare
52 Othello by William Sha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 389 | 7 来自主题: LeisureTime版 - 大苏尔游记 //旧文一篇，是前年用英文写着玩儿的。感谢夏安mm推荐我上次Yosemite的文给一个旅
游专栏的编辑。后来因为Yosemite有人写了，编辑问我还有没有别的游记，于是就自己
翻译了这篇。
//应Bos要求，把原文附在后面。中间还有一段关于Bohemian的胡言乱语，发给编辑的
时候觉得跑题太远，自己删掉了。。。
去年十二月真是湿冷。接连五日的暴雨终于过去时，我们的房子已赫然被一汪小小的池
沼环绕。前院的西红柿淹死了，拖着湿淋淋的黑叶子；猫们一动不动地挤在阴湿的窝里
，对着一面被雨水洗褪了色的红墙发呆。整个圣芭芭拉城都糊在雨里，仿佛一幅打湿了
的水彩——天空的铅灰、大海的苍白、瓦屋顶的酡红、路边灌木的深绿相互侵染，使每
一种颜色都愈加阴暗。
直至月晦，天始转晴。困在家中这么多天，眼看新年将至，我想我太需要一次远行了。
于是我们就出发。新历的除夕早晨，我们跳上车，沿着北1号高速公路驶去。这一趟来
去共花了十来个小时，经过北加州沿海的大苏尔地区（Big Sur），目的地是一个夹在
太平洋弯曲的海岸线与大苏尔巍峨群峰之间的小城。它有一个有趣的名字，“海边的卡
梅尔”(Carmel-by-th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3382 | 8 The 'Tiger Mom' Superiority Complex
A new book from Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld seeks to explain why some groups
succeed in America, and some fail. But when does cultural pride cross over
into racism?
By Suketu Mehta Monday, Feb. 03, 2014
From time to time, every Indian American finds an email in his or her inbox,
wearing a font of many colors, like the one my grandfather once sent me: "
Take a Pride--Being an Indian. 38% of Doctors in U.S.A. are Indians. 36% of
NASA employees are Indians. 34% of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12367 | 9 Rank名次 Title of Great Novel书名 Year出版年份 Author作者（国别）
1 Don Quixote堂吉诃德 1605，1615 Miguel de Cervantes塞万提斯（西班牙）
2 War and Peace战争与和平 1869 Leo Tolstoy列夫•托尔斯泰（俄罗斯）
3 Ulysses尤利西斯 1922 James Joyce詹姆斯•乔伊斯（爱尔兰）
4 In Search of Lost Time追寻逝去的时光 1913-27 Marcel Proust马塞尔•普
鲁斯特（法国）
5 The Brothers Karamazov卡拉马佐夫兄弟 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky陀思妥耶夫斯基
（俄罗斯）
6 Moby-Dick白鲸 1851 Herman Melville赫尔曼•梅尔维尔（美国）
7 Madame Bovary包法利夫人 1857 Gustave Flaubert福楼拜（法国）
8 Middlemarch米德尔马契 1871-72 George Eliot乔治&... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7173 | 10 大概是按BBC 评选的大众喜闻乐见的小说，Big Read top 100.
1.The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2.Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3.His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7.Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8.Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10.Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront
11.Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12.Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront
13.Bir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5909 | 11 CREATIVE WRITING
BY ETGAR KERET
The first story Maya wrote was about a world in which people split
themselves in two instead of reproducing. In that world, every person could,
at any given moment, turn into two beings, each one half his/her age. Some
chose to do this when they were young; for instance, an eighteen-year-old
might split into two nine-year-olds. Others would wait until they’d
established themselves professionally and financially and go for it only in
middle age. The heroine of Maya... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 12 也是以前几个id推荐的New Yorker的一个短篇小说，我当时打印了，到现在还没看……
发信人: megguan (🐳), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 18:29:04 2013, 美东)
吃！
今年最喜欢的书是george saunders的小说集tenth of december (最喜欢的是书里最后
一篇的同名小说；也在new yorker上登过)；今年最喜欢的电影是american hustle,
gravity还有一代宗师；最喜欢的歌是网络大俗歌what does the fox say?!
发信人: xiaobug (none), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: Re: 朝三暮四包子题
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 31 19:33:00 2013, 美东)
同喜欢这本书。那天和 aixiaoke 讨论了一下。他的小说我看得很压抑，想起了白先勇
的 芝加哥之死
原文链接（带图）：
http://www.newyorker.com/fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3006 | 13 如果你真的关心事实，就会在读过原文之后再开口。TS Eliot说得非常明确而且用词非
常粗鲁：
Vers libre does not exist, and it is time that this preposterous fiction
followed the elan vital and the eighty thousand Russians into oblivion. |
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发帖数: 4631 | 14 不知道有没有人想过，英语里有多少词汇是关于精灵鬼怪的。
1895年，一个叫Michael Aislabie Denham 人出版的一本叫The Denham Tracts的书里
有这么一段：
What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards
, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this
festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts,
boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears,
black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests,
Robin-Goodfellows, hags, nig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4631 | 15 不知道有没有人想过，英语里有多少词汇是关于精灵鬼怪的。
1895年，一个叫Michael Aislabie Denham 人出版的一本叫The Denham Tracts的书里
有这么一段：
What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards
, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this
festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts,
boggles, bloody-bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears,
black dogs, specters, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests,
Robin-Goodfellows, hags, nig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25262 | 16 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka%C2%80%C2%99s
The Kitchen Network
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.
By Lauren Hilgers
Chinatown employment agencies can get immigrants kitchen jobs in a few
hours. Credit Photograph by Annie Ling
In a strip mall on a rural stretch of Maryland’s Indian Head Highway, a
gaudy red façade shaped like a pagoda distinguishes a Chinese
restaurant from a line of bland storefronts: a nail salon, a liquor store,
and a laundromat. On ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 17 本篇发表于《Gettysburg Review》2003年夏季刊，李翊云从1978年一个反革命女孩的
死刑，写到她当时在幼儿园看到的反革命分子死刑前的游街，写到1991年她作为北大入
学生到河南信阳参加一年军训的经历。原文的排版更好看些：
http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/past_selections/deta
What Has That to Do with Me?
Yiyun Li
This story I am going to tell you, it is a true story.
The year was 1968. The girl was nineteen, the secretary of the Communist
Youth League for her class in a local high school in Hunan Province, China.
You probably don’t know much about Hunan, but I am sure you have heard... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1889 | 18 文章里说一万。
谢谢推荐，我觉得这篇文章引出了很多很多可以讨论的东西。何伟不愧是老写手。。。
内衣店，中国，诶及，工厂，妇女地位，西方援助，甚至日韩的援助资金这些看似遥
远的元素都能顺畅地无缝链接。而这些其实都是一个个小窗口，背后的宏大叙事和背景
（包括中国在非洲不可忽视的巨大存在，中国和西方完全不同的价值取向反映在国家层
面的外交和个体层面的做生意等等）尽管只蜻蜓点水地带过，但让人不禁深思。
最有意思的我觉得是下面这段：
But, whenever I visit, I can’t help thinking: Here in Egypt, home to eighty
-five million people, where Western development workers and billions of
dollars of foreign aid have poured in for decades, the first plastic-
recycling center in the south is a thriving business that employs th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25262 | 19 是的，展开说的话，说的比这文章还长。你引的这段，也比较深刻。
就是说西方的大力援助不如一个没有读过书的中国商人影响那么大。问题是，大家的目
的不同，西方援助是建立再国和国之间，而中国商人不会想这些，只是大家相互能赚到
钱就行，大家都有各自的利益。。
你说，对自己切身有利益的，99% 都会去干。。
不想西方托着大旗，喊着口号的援助方式。。
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发帖数: 25262 | 20 原文：
Are Western Values Losing Their Sway?
London — THE West is suddenly suffused with self-doubt.
Centuries of superiority and global influence appeared to reach a new summit
with the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the countries, values and
civilization of the West appeared to have won the dark, difficult battle
with Communism.
That victory seemed especially sweet after the turn of China toward
capitalism, which many thought presaged a slow evolution to middle-class
demands for individual righ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3587 | 21 Happy New Year 歌词
No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Sometimes I se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2042 | 22 Most bestest movie of the eighties. |
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发帖数: 4559 | 23 Diane和Eli的扮演者都是。Jackie是歌剧演员。
其他还有好多客串。
“New York is our country’s national theater,” Ms. Margulies said. “And
theater actors are struggling. You can’t pay your mortgage by doing theater
. But we have the largest talent pool I’ve ever seen here to choose from.”
Appropriately, “The Good Wife” shoots at Broadway Stages in Greenpoint,
Brooklyn.
Another plus for theater actors is the production team’s willingness to
work around stage commitments. Ms. King described this as a scheduling “
nightmare” t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 24 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: 民调显示近2/3民众认为主流媒体发fake news
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed May 24 10:15:03 2017, 美东)
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news
, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological
spectrum.
According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided
exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake
news in the mainstream media.
That number include... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10682 | 25 http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/polaroids-ansel-adams-andy
Six Artists in Sixty Seconds
From Warhol to Wegman, a fine-arts history of Polaroid.
By Christopher Bonanos
We think of Polaroid instant film as something for ordinary snapshots, but
it often became a medium for serious artists. From the beginning, no less an
artist than Ansel Adams recognized its potential. Aided by his
proselytizing, Polaroid soon caught the eye of prominent photographers. Some
used it just for lighting tests ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14685 | 26 From Fu Ying's interview:
"...Eighty-seven percent of Chinese surveyed in a poll by the Pew Research
Center in 2010 said the government is on the right track. .." |
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发帖数: 29495 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 Travel 讨论区 】
发信人: renaissance (ole), 信区: Travel
标 题: 2012的Cancun之行（4）
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jun 29 15:04:33 2012, 美东)
06-22-2012
虽然昨天很是疲劳，但是今天还有节目，是这次出行的重头戏，2012，前来造访玛雅人
的金字塔，chichen itza “奇琴尼扎”是墨西哥著名的玛雅古城遗址之一. 摘抄一下
维基百科。
奇琴伊察是一处庞大的前哥伦布時期的考古遗址。奇琴伊察由玛雅文明所建，坐落在今
墨西哥境内的猶加敦半岛北部猶加敦州[3]，也是世界新七大奇迹之一。在从公元前6世
纪到玛雅古典时期（公元2世纪到10世纪早期）的时间里，奇琴伊察是玛雅的主要城市
，而在中部低地及南方的的城市衰败后，奇琴伊察更到达了其发展和影响力的顶峰。到
了后古典时期，奇琴伊察的建筑主题中明显增加了中部墨西哥托尔特克的风格。这一现
象的最初被解释为来自中部墨西哥的直接移民甚至入侵，但当代的多数说法认为这些非
玛雅风格是文化传播的结果。1221年的起义和内战，如考古发现的烧... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 28 http://www.starla.org/articles/maker.htm
1. CHEAP TRICK: "I Want You To Want Me"
"They were really popular in Chicago and this song was on the radio once
every hour for months. I remember sitting in my backyard waiting for it to
come on. I think Robert Zander has an amazing voice. I'm from the whiny
school of singing myself. I like the version on ' Live At Budokan'. How many
albums are there with 10,000 Japanese girls screaming all over the place?
Think about it, they had something for everyone ... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 29 www.jonsavage.com/film
Bernard Sumner
[interview, April 1994]
Bernard onstage
Bernard Albrecht Sumner
I first met Ian at a gig at the Electric Circus. It might have been the
Anarchy tour, it might have been The Clash, or one of them punk groups. Ian
was with another lad called Ian, and they both had donkey jackets, and Ian
had “HATE” written on the back of his donkey jacket. I remember liking him
. He seemed pretty nice, but we didn’t talk to him that much. I just
remembered him. Later on, about... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3010 | 30 在说长串数字，比如电话号码，密码的时候，还习惯两位两位说，比如8976就说eighty
-nine, senventy-six |
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发帖数: 1272 | 31 效率极低人群之七大习惯(牛津大学通过对1050名在校大学生最新调查研究结果，后附
英文原版！！超值分享)
与通常所列举的应该培养的有益习惯不同，本文在此举出的是我们最好避免的7种习惯。
就像寻找对你有益的习惯一样，寻找妨碍你的习惯同样重要。这7种习惯中大多数
都可能会轻易成为你日常生活的一部分，使你难以察觉它的存在（或者它如何影响到你
）。我曾经略微尝试了这些习惯，结果毫无疑问，那些重要的事情没有几个可以完成。
同时我也要添加说明的是，这只是在生活中你可能形成的影响效率的主要的7个习惯，
我很确定绝不仅仅是这些。
1、缺席。
也许你曾经听过伍迪·艾伦所说的这句话：
“百分之八十的成功来自于出席。”
更多的出席——这是在生活中你可以保证更多成功所做的最大也是最简单的事情之
一，无论是在你的社交生活中，你的事业上还是你的健康方面。如果你想要改善你的健
康状况，一个最重要也是最有效的事情就是在每次你该出席时出现在健身房里。
也许天气会不好，也许你会不想出门，也许你有一大堆其他必须要做的事情。但是
，如果即使你在积极性不高时仍然继续出现在健身房里，那将比你呆在... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7299 | 32 这是严禁的学术研究!
Homosexuality among Serial Killers: Statistics
Source, "over 43%": "Homosexual Rape and Murder of Children", published in
Journal of the Family Research Institute, Vol. 18 No. 1, Feb 2003.
Technically, 69% of the serial killers in this study were homosexuals (i.e.,
people who were self-described homosexuals or people who had engaged in
homosexual behavior immediately prior to, during, or after committing their
murders). The lower statistic of 43% cited above is the proportion who were... 阅读全帖 |
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m**c
发帖数: 7299 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: msgc (为了下一代免遭变态残害), 信区: Military
标 题: 43%杀手 69% 的连环杀手是GAY/homosexuals
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 14 15:25:34 2012, 美东)
这是现在被严禁的学术研究! GAY最骄傲的就是堵住人的嘴,掩盖事实真相,欺骗无知人
的同情........
Homosexuality among Serial Killers: Statistics
Source, "over 43%": "Homosexual Rape and Murder of Children", published in
Journal of the Family Research Institute, Vol. 18 No. 1, Feb 2003.
Technically, 69% of the serial killers in this study were homosexuals (i.e.,
people who were self-described ho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9527 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 Parenting 讨论区 】
发信人: platinumegg (蛋,纯铂金的), 信区: Parenting
标 题: Strongest Dad in the World
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jan 25 23:34:30 2013, 美东)
Strongest Dad in the World by Rick Reilly
(The last line touches me so...Had to re-post when I saw this photo ♥)
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for
their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
mara... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 703 | 35 这种所谓的"科学期刊" Journal of the Family Research Institute,连web of
science 都不收录,Family_Research_Institute 做为一仇恨同志的极端主义组织搞得
伪科学研究,毫无可信力. 只要有人出钱,你要什么结论,这种低水平的研究就能有什么
样的结论.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Institute
至于JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY 的文章"CHICKEN KILLS HAWK - GAY MURDERS DURING
THE EIGHTIES IN AMSTERDAM", 更是指向由于种种社会原因造成同志成为一大部分的受
害者（包括直人谋杀同志）。“In nine years (1980 up to 1989) one out of eight
murder cases involved a homosexual victim.”. AMSTERDAM 十年所有的谋杀案中
仅有13%的是有同志造成的。这也仅是在同志高密度的阿姆斯... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2883 | 36 近年来与其他族裔比较加国华人在凶案中死于异族的比例
相信一定有华人一看文章标涉及“族裔”就要指责我“挑拨事端”了，不过且慢，我这
可是仿效美国FBI的做法，你们应该指责FBI挑拨事端而不是我。也就是说，你们想要无
视种族区别，以此感觉自己跟主流种族没有族裔的差别而得到某种自我安慰，可是这种
共产主义式的平等理想被现实粉碎了。事实是你认为没有差别，人家主流种族们认为有
差别的，而且做了大量有关研究。我不过是仿效主流罢了。
言归正传，FBI的最近一项有关异族之间的暴力犯罪数据中显示：
According to the most recent (2011) FBI statistics, of the 2,695 murders in
which the victim was black, 91% were committed by people of the same race.
Whites and white-Hispanics were the perpetrator in only 193 (7%) cases. 。。。
The same pattern of intra-raci... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1124 | 37 The 2012-2013 Compensation Handbook for Church Staff, Christianity Today's
bi
-annual survey of compensation levels based on 4,600 participating churches,
shows senior pastors' salary and benefits at an average $82,938 this year.
This represents a 2.7 percent increase from the $80,745 average reported in
2010.
While a salary in the $80,000 range looks good on paper, actual take-home
pay for pastors may be much different, perhaps far less. The average base
salary of a full-time senior pastor rang... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 38 Dr. Clement makes a very interesting and important distinction. Chopping and
blending your veggies with a high speed blender should not be confused with
juicing as it does NOT provide you with the same health benefits as juicing
. Remarkably, blending your veggies using a blender can kill up to 90
percent of the nutrients in 90 seconds, primarily due to oxidation,
according to Dr. Clement. He explains:
"I had a colleague at the University of Miami set up a 29-dollar blender. He
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发帖数: 334 | 39
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\bar{X} 10,000
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发帖数: 555 | 40 1. A Little Book of Ping-pong Verse, Boston: Dana Estes, 1902.
This charming volume was published at the height of the Ping-Pong craze
that began in 1900. Among the eighty-three selections included are "The
Rubaiyat of Ping-Pong", "The Ping-Ping Ankle", "The Ponger and the
Pingstress", and sixteen different poems entitled "Ping-Pong".
How does the nimble little ball
Enjoy each "Ping" and "Pong"!
It also loves to take a fall
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发帖数: 1924 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Detective 讨论区 】
发信人: agouamao (阿狗阿猫), 信区: Detective
标 题: Re: 阿甘进见毛泽东, 畅谈越战
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 15 15:20:40 2010, 美东)
The chapter you posted is from a version for kids.
As an adult, I suggest this verison:
HERE I AM, HALFWAY ROUN THE WORLD AGAIN, THIS TIME in Peking, China.
The other people that play on the ping-pong team are real nice fellers what
come from ever walk of life, an they is specially nice to me. The Chinamen
is nice, too, an they is very different sorts of gooks f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11017 | 44 Lost in Translation
I will never hear or see this word again without thinking of this joke.
Today's word is..........Fluctuations
I was at my bank today; there was a short line.
There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady who was trying to
exchange yen for dollars.
It was obvious she was a little irritated. . .She asked the teller, "Why it
change? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I only get hunat
eighty? Why it change?"
The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctua... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7797 | 45 Grandma Still Drives -- PRICELESS
Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes
Dear Granddaughter,
The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a
'Honk if you love Jesus' bumper sticker ..
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a
thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting.
So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.
Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4329 | 46 大家来学习以下
真的超有内涵的
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard
to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in
and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like
a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like
meringue.
Woody... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 594 | 47 1.
An elderly gentleman...
Had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor
and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that
allowed the gentleman to hear 100%
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said
, 'Your hearing is perfect.. Your family must be really pleased that you can
hear again.'
The gentleman replied, 'Oh, I haven't told my family yet.
I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed m... 阅读全帖 |
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