w******l
发帖数: 463 | 1 the heavy footstep is kind of a startling and oscillating noise. I mean I
can feel his floor/my ceiling shaking.
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发帖数: 463 | 2 I googled by keys words "heavy footstep upstairs"
seems like it's a commom problem.
People have tried many methods, living the tv on, living the fan on, even
some white noise generator. But nothing seems to work. The above sounds are
wide spectrum/low frequency white noise. Footsteps are startling pulses,
like sharp tones, can't be buried by white noise ......
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发帖数: 940 | 4 来自主题: SanFrancisco版 - 低回报时代 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d5733486-c42d-11e0-ad9a-00144fea
简而言之，大公司和asset manager手上有太多钱（4 trillion USD），他们只有不断
的买美国短期国债。这样把利率搞的很低。如果再考虑一些主权基金（更是没有好办法
投资），那就更容易理解了。
从这个意义上讲，股票是很便宜的。spy的yield都有每年1.8％。
Cash-rich investors choose crazy Treasury returns
By Gillian Tett
Why does money keep flooding into the short-term Treasuries market, or T-
bills? It is a fascinating question, given last week’s US rating downgrade
– and the fact that yields on three-month bills are now a mere 0.01 per
cent. The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3388 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 TVChinese 讨论区 】
发信人: Frosty07 (寒霜), 信区: TVChinese
标 题: 都孩子妈了，看步步最后两集还哭。。。
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 23 21:42:42 2011, 美东)
昨晚，发现一下35集都uploaded了，就抱着laptop一下看完了。
看到最后两集开始抽，最后，居然一旁打呼的老公让我给抽醒了。。。。-_-!! 迷迷瞪
瞪问我怎么了，我抽着小声说，都死了，都死了，吓得老公一翻身坐起来，“谁死了？
！”清醒了大半。。。。
给想看全集的mm：
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发帖数: 2056 | 6 http://naturalsociety.com/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-health-uni
Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
November 2, 2011
Despite the assurance of Japanese government officials, radioactive material
from the Fukushima disaster has spread far beyond the evacuation zone. In
fact, not only has a great deal of Fukushima radiation been detected in
Tokyo way beyond the evacuation zone, but United States researchers are now
revealing that radioactive cesium has been detected in US soil in levels
that indicate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1829 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ShowMeMoney (ShowMeMoney), 信区: Military
标 题: 米国硅谷有名的社交网站从赤贫到巨富再到赤贫的转变
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jul 14 09:19:40 2012, 美东)
Onetime social media darling Digg reportedly sold for a paltry $500,000
By Patrick May and Peter Delevett
Mercury News
Posted: 07/12/2012
In a remarkable Silicon Valley rags-to-riches-to-rags saga, the onetime
social media darling Digg was sold Thursday for a reported $500,000, an
embarrassingly paltry sum given that Internet rock star Kevin Rose's ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61 | 8 Since Google Glass launched to our awe and horror, the company's co-founder,
Sergey Brin, hasn't been spotted without a pair. He's placed himself atop
the project, publicly, and inside Google's secret labs. Maybe it's because
he's fucking the Glass marketing manager, Amanda Rosenberg.
According to a startling report by AllThingsD's Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher,
Brin and his wife of six years, Anne Wojcicki, are no more, now that he's
found himself a girlfriend at Google. AllThingsD also reported ... 阅读全帖 |
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w****o
发帖数: 2260 | 9 你们的那点儿钱和国内同胞比比，就是NOTHING！
Murder suspect posts $35M bail, upsetting victim's family
https://www.yahoo.com/news/murder-suspect-raises-unprecedented-35m-bail-via-
friends-064405022.html
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A Chinese real estate scion charged with
orchestrating the murder of her children's father was released from a San
Francisco Bay Area jail Thursday after posting $35 million bail, a highly
unusual financial transaction that startled and angered the victim's family
and friends.
Tiffany Li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6896 | 12 The woman was startled at first, but soon she shined a warm smile to Joe and
fished out a baozi from her purse. Just as Joe was about to take it from
her, a shadow appeared from nowhere and grabbed the boazi from the woman. "
Thank you, ma'am.", Joe heard the shadow murmur.
From the broad shoulders and heavy build, Joe recognized that this was
Winner2012. Word on the street was that Winner2012 was a former Navy Seal
suffering PTSD from his last tour to Afghanistan. Everybody called
Winner2012 "L... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1116 | 13 惊天大揭秘，东部大地震后的惨象 （有图慎入）
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=&sid=2004187
3.6 magnitude earthquake shakes D.C. area
WASHINGTON - A 3.6 magnitude earthquake woke the Washington metro region
Friday, rattling homes and startling people.
The U.S. Geological Survey says it happened at exactly 5:04:49 a.m. about 3
miles under the earth's surface.
Officials warn there could be aftershocks in the coming days.
There were no reports of injuries or damage, but transportation crews are
inspecting bridges in Maryland and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 598 | 14 Texas water scandal: state agency and officials hid radioactive
contamination for years
by Tony Isaacs
(The Best Years in Life) Newly released documents and emails from the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) show the agency's top
commissioners directed staff to lower radiation test results for years in
defiance of federal EPA rules. In addition, top state officials and the EPA
knew about the agency violations but choose to take little or no action.
The startling revelations came as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 565 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: jjwjj (), 信区: USANews
标 题: Re: BLM: NBA rookie shot to death
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 28 17:05:46 2016, 美东)
NBA player Bryce Dejean-Jones was killed early Saturday after police say he
“kicked open the front door” to a Dallas apartment and the man sleeping
inside woke up and shot him.
Dejean-Jones, a guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, broke into a unit in the
Camden Belmont Apartments, just east of U.S. 75 and Fitzhugh Avenue, about
3:20 a.m.
The commotion startled t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9094 | 16 Good call. I found another post below:
Following the directions on each package, the team mounted the devices onto
a car's front bumper. Using a road closed to the public, they drove the car
at speeds ranging from 30 to 45 miles per hour while recording sound and
data.
"We tested them strictly from an acoustical point of view," explains
Scheifele. He found that the whistles typically produce a signal either at a
frequency of 3 kilohertz (kHz) or 12 kHz. Both, as it turns out, are
problematic.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30 | 17
你个小屁孩， 给你扫扫盲：
C/P
Horrifying details heard in Williams murders
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - Whether his victims fought him off or complied with every
perverted command he gave them, convicted sex killer Col. Russell Williams
showed no mercy to the two women who begged for their lives before he
brutally murdered them, court heard Tuesday.
WARNING: Graphic details from this court case may disturb some readers.
Williams, 47, sat silent, his head bowed low as the Crown laid out the
gruesome final hours of Cp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1539 | 18 猴子工资第3了！！
Baseball's Average Salary Drops to $2.49M
2 hours, 11 minutes ago
Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo!
By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK - Just a few days into the season, baseball already has produced a
startling statistic: The average salary dropped for the first time in nearly a
decade.
Not that major leaguers will be sweating to make their mortgage payments.
Despite the 3 percent drop from the start of last season, players on opening
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发帖数: 6301 | 19 Arizona State’s Eric Jacobsen is a 6-foot-10 man accustomed to having his
outstretched arm affect an opponent’s perimeter shot with his hand near the
release.
Not so on Saturday when he defended 7-foot-2 Zhou Qi during a Suns draft
workout at Talking Stick Resort Arena.
“Usually, my hand is up by the ball but I was getting up to his face and
the ball was way up there,” Jacobsen said, looking toward the practice
court ceiling.
Zhou Qi (pronounced “Joe Chee”) can touch the rim from his tiptoes. In... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19210 | 20 Top 5 Rules for Riding on the Sidewalk
http://www.commutebybike.com/2008/07/09/top-5-rules-for-riding-
The subject of riding bikes on the sidewalks continues to be a hotly debated
topic. Despite your stance on the subject, the fact remains that it’s
going to happen, so I want to share the top five rules that must be followed
when choosing the sidewalk over the road.
Fear is, by far, the biggest motivator for choosing the sidewalk over roads.
Some commuters refuse to ride in the road no matter wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19210 | 21 This is what would happen if you ride on sidewalk!
http://www.mpi.mb.ca/en/Rd-Safety/Cycling/Traffic-Skills/pages/
Riding on sidewalks (Manitoba, Canada)
It is against the law to ride on sidewalks unless the diameter of your rear
wheel is 410 mm (16 in.) or less. Several studies have proven that cyclists
on sidewalks face a far greater collision risk than cyclists on the roadway.
The main danger points are intersections where you may surprise motorists
by appearing unexpectedly due to your speed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3211 | 22 小伙伴周六晚上住我家，我们早上4：50起床，6点半到，因为100mile的人是7点开始，
其他的是8点，所以看见路上驼着车往那边奔的估计都是干介似儿去了。看着大家一个
赛一个的精瘦，那老婆们是一个赛一个的zun4，我低头看看自己的大肥腿肥大腿大腿肥
，还有我的翠花在众多碳架子，碳车把，碳轮子里显得很低端，俗气不上档次，介时候
小伙伴儿纠正了我“应该是低端，俗气，贱！”泥马介什么破小伙伴啊！。。。顿时倒
地不起。。。
7点了，大家陆续在startling line排好队，我还在美美的看我的翠花，忽狼一个mm说
“your chain is off!" 神马？！泥骂！！wtf！！！介不似临阵掉链子似什么？？！
我这还是第一回掉链子，赶紧推到旁边让人家给弄上。。。这个汗呐。。。
早上有点冷才54度，最高82度，简直就是perfect weather。据说前年 downpour,去年
是100度，看来我运气真好啊！我有点没活动开，上来就爬了个坡子，有点喘，看着各
位大叔大妈，gg，jj都嗖嗖的超过了我，看来我还是保持自己的速度吧，不然后面没劲
儿了就二了。
第一个休息站25mile，排队上厕所... 阅读全帖 |
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b*******n
发帖数: 473 | 24 To those who love nature, happy Moon Festival!
【 以下文字转载自 Poetry 讨论区 】
发信人: banzimian (板子面), 信区: Poetry
标 题: Meeting a Squirrel
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 12 03:47:09 2011, 美东)
Meeting a Squirrel
At the old park I wandered and met you.
A casual weekend afternoon is this.
Why all the haste? my darling,I asked you,
In running through rose bushes, grass and trees.
So busy you were I saw, thereupon,
I mumbled gentle words about your dance.
It startled me, you quickly turned around.
Attached to the bark... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9013 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: THR (???), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: WSN们不要怕垃圾食品
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 15 23:45:55 2011, 美东)
STUDY: Skinny Women And Overweight Men Earn The Most
Journal of Applied Psychology
Women have another reason to hit the gym, while men may have another reason
not to.
The Journal of Applied Psychology found that women who are 25 lbs. below
average weight take home an additional $15,572 each year.
On the other hand, men who are 25 lbs. below average weight take home $8,437
les... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5241 | 26 http://www.cnbc.com/id/100879850
Everyone knows that fish oil is good for you, right? It's a rich source of
omega-3 fatty acids, which are marketed to reduce the risk of just about
everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's.
But a startling study shows men who have the highest levels of these
compounds—the kinds found in fish but not in vegetable sources—have a
higher risk of prostate cancer. Men with the very highest levels had a 71
percent higher risk of high-grade prostate cancer—the kind m... 阅读全帖 |
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B*******e
发帖数: 1009 | 27 Cam on Carolina: 'I'm just trying to get everybody on my level'
By Marc Sessler NFL.com
Published: Dec. 8, 2011 at 05:15 p.m. Updated: Dec. 8, 2011 at 09:57 p.m.
Liked: 0 | Comments: 141
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Twelve games into his startling rookie campaign, Cam Newton has developed a
zero-tolerance policy for losing. If Carolina was looking for a company man
-- some meek figurehead -- its quarterback has only brought fire.
In his first national interview in months, Newton didn't shy away ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6388 | 28 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645997/Praying-forgive
Praying for forgiveness: Donald Sterling takes a mixed-race group of girls (
including one who bears a startling resemblance to V. Stiviano) to a black
church
One of his female friends bore a remarkable resemblance to his alleged
former lover V. Stiviano, the woman who recorded the remarks that cost
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发帖数: 11693 | 29 求科普
我goo来一篇文章,连美国军队也用med-low的scopes？别告诉我你是这样认为的，我举个女人比较懂的例子，她说Gucci算名牌包里top of the line的，你说no，Gucci是med-low，Hermes Birkin才是top of the line。。。忘了这里一版的男人，再举个男人比较懂的例子吧，他说BMW是车里面top of the line的，你说no，Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Bugatti才是top of the line。。。。那好吧。。。。我觉得这样的想法比较吹毛求疵～
Over the years as hunting has become such a popular sport and leisure
activity, there have been many names that claim to offer best value and best quality hunting optics and items for avid hunting enthusiasts. However, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 574 | 30
入园须知上是这么写的:
> Stay alert to your surroundings and the presence of wildlife while hiking.
> Make your presence known by keeping the wind to your back (your scent >
will alert bears), if possible hike in groups, and make noise.
> When you spot a bear, stay 300 feet or more away and never linger or take
photographs for long periods.
> Slowly back away and leave the area or take a detour. Making noise during
your retreat is appropriate. Keep children close to the group.
> Do not pursue and NEVER su... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6011 | 31 A Californian, a Texan, and a New Yorker, attending a convention in a little
town just outside Las Vegas, were standing in a seedy bar enjoying a few
drinks.
The Californian grabbed his wine spritzer, knocked it back in one gulp, then
he threw the glass against the back wall, smashing it to pieces. He told
the other startled drinkers that the standard of living was so high in
California that they never drank out of the same glass twice.
Next the New Yorker finished drinking his Manhattan, and th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15913 | 32 Timothy Stansbury died in a New York housing project stairwell in 2004
because he startled a police officer. The officer's surprise at encountering
Stansbury caused the officer's hand to clench and his weapon to fire. The
death was ruled accidental by a grand jury, though the officer was later
stripped of his gun for the remainder of his career.
Akai Gurley died in another New York housing project stairwell last fall. A
rookie officer with his finger on the trigger of his pistol tensed as he
pus... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1086 | 34 This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times
Magazine.
4 Days, 11 Pounds
Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how
best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in
calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but
many people quit that type of program in the face of glacial progress. A new
study, published in March in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science
in Sports, suggests that min... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 13580 | 35 Quoting wikipedia:
Safety and identification
Juvenile Southern Pacific Rattlesnake in CaliforniaDifferent species of
rattlesnake vary significantly in size, territory, markings, and temperament
. If the rattlesnake is not cornered or imminently threatened, it will
usually attempt to flee from encounters with humans, but will not always do
so. Bites often occur when humans startle the snake or provoke it. Those
bitten while provoking rattlesnakes have usually underestimated the range (
roughly tw |
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d**r
发帖数: 352 | 36 看到这个，笑死我了。。。
经常在那一边潜水，从没见到MAKO。不过见过巨大halibut（吓个我半死）和蓝球大
spider crab（那时不知道那东西能吃）。
I did a dive Friday morning by myself @ County Line-- which is a great dive
when conditions are good, but Friday it sucked. I swam out about 150 yards
to the first patches of kelp and then dropped down to about 16' and less
than 5' of murky viz. I hoped it would get better as I hit the reef, so I
headed out and at 25' came over the tops of some short kelp onto a patch of
sand and scared a 4'-5' shark! I think we wer... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 199 | 37 Toni was tough on me right from the start," Rafael said in his autobiography
, which is being serialised in the Telegraph. "If he saw my head was
wandering he would belt the ball hard at me … to scare me, to startle me to
attention.
"My mother remembers that, as a small child, sometimes I'd come home from
training crying. Toni never let up. Once I started playing competitive games
, aged seven, it got tougher. One very hot day I went to a match without my
bottle of water. I'd left it at home. He... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3510 | 38 by Pete Bodo from tennis.com
Some of you may take this as yet another post having to do with the recent
controversies in Madrid, but I tell you truthfully that I've been wanting to
write about Rafael Nadal for some time now. More specifically, I've wanted
to work through why I don't feel as sympathetic toward him as I once did. A
thought that occurred to me a few days ago, during the height of the
brouhaha over blue, probably holds to key to why my reaction to his opinions
and complaints over th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1741 | 39 How Rafael Nadal became the tennis version of Allen Iverson
By Chris Chase 11 hours ago
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Rafael Nadal is done, at least in terms of being a constant Grand Slam
threat, even on his favored clay. Oh, he’ll still win tournaments and
perhaps even Grand Slams, but his days of consistent dominance are over. He
almost certainly won’t be playing at 34, the age Roger Federer will hit in
two months while impressively holding firm at No. 2 in the world. And, most
importantly, R... 阅读全帖 |
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B****a
发帖数: 1526 | 40 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-grizzly-yellowston
Grizzly roams free after fatal Yellowstone mauling
By Ruffin Prevost
CODY, Wyoming | Fri Jul 8, 2011 12:21am EDT
(Reuters) - The female grizzly bear that attacked and killed a hiker when
apparently startled with two cubs will be allowed to continue roaming free
in Yellowstone National Park after officials determined the animal had acted
to protect its young.
A probe of Wednesday's fatal bear mauling, the first in Yellowstone since
1... 阅读全帖 |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 41 巨蟹座：
You may first come across him when he's laughing the "crazy lunar laugh." It's inescapably contagious. It runs up and down the scales with a deep, throaty undertone. It giggles and gurgles, then finally erupts in a loud cackle that sounds exactly like two hundred hens laying two hundred perfect eggs. In his life-of-the-party mood, youll have no trouble finding the Cancerian. Hell be the funniest one in the room, a laugh a minute. If he's not performing himself, then he'll be grinning at som... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7128 | 42 What they saw inside was startling, sources said. Gold coins dating back
thousands of years, gold necklaces as long as nine feet and weighing about 2
.5 kg, about one tonne of the yellow metal in the shape of rice trinkets,
sticks made of the yellow metal, sack full of diamonds, gold ropes,
thousands of pieces of antique jewellery studded with diamonds and emeralds,
crowns and other precious stones lay scattered in the chamber marked 'A'.
Friday threw up far more surprises in the form of 17 kg o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 31 | 46 神韵横跨5大洲，赢得全球百万观众的赞誉
还有ELF的皇后也有话说
““It was an extraordinary experience for us and the children," Ms.
Blanchett said. “The level of skill, but also the power of the archetypes
and the narratives were startling.”
“And of course it was exquisitely beautiful,” she added.
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发帖数: 62 | 47 Very well written:)
I read some Shui Hu comments on Sohu and was quite speechless at them. All
people were talking about was how rich Xi Men Qing was and how sexaully
dissatisfied Pan Jin Lian was. Conclusion: there was nothing really wrong
with them. If there was anything wrong with anybody, it must have been with
the Wu brothers -- one was short and weak, leading a worthless life; the
other must have been impotent since he declined the free sex offered by Pan
Jin Lian...so on and so forth.
Any... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21641 | 48 from Time Magazine (中间有些link caption可忽略,直接从网站倒的,这期还谈了对美
国国内战争的重认识,想想龙应台女士写的海峡两岸的事,也许得放个100-200年再回头
看)
My copy of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind — a 114th printing, now a
bit tattered — carries an inscription from my mother: "A good book is
timeless." Mitchell's novel, whose 75th anniversary has arrived amid many
reconsiderations and even more sales, may or may not be a good book. But it
has always been a popular one. Published in the summer of 1936 at the
startling Depression price of $3... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2133 | 49 来自主题: LeisureTime版 - 书籍排行榜 看amazon在不同国家的畅销榜能得出些很有意思的结果：美国书市90%都是小说，奇幻
类和儿童类携手共赢；日本的50%以上都是女性减肥美容的；中国的50%吧都是跟个人成
长教育有关的，比如杜拉拉（职场修炼小说），气场修习术，joe huang的成功传记，
世界如此险恶，你要内心强大...外加考研书籍，育儿宝典若干。当然三个市场共通的
就是都有乔布斯传。我不知道这种观察能不能反映出什么社会问题来？
其实后边还有别的观察，比如政治类书籍里中国的都是反映社会现实的，美国的全都是
特别二的，什么politics to dummy这种。哲学宗教类的中国都是挺大部头的书，《西
藏生死书》，《南怀瑾全集》，于丹《论语》...一看就是给20岁以上的人预备的，美
国这儿大部分都是小说，,
Ends (Regency Inspirational Romance)>,
Startling Joy and Perfect Peace >,外加一本装帧... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2133 | 50 来自主题: LeisureTime版 - 文学网站 话说你知道有个作家叫e.b.white吧？前儿别人发我一段他写的话挺有意思的：
“I have known many graduates of Bryn Mawr. They are all of the same mold.
They have all accepted the same bright challenge: something is lost that has
not been found, something's at stake that has not been won, something is
started that has not been finished, something is dimly felt that has not
been fully realized. They carry the distinguishing mark – the mark that
separates them from other educated and superior women: the incredible vigor,
the subtlety o... 阅读全帖 |
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