泰晤士(TIMES)四合院儿

在香港的老同学刘苏民告诉过我，徐才厚的家刚搬到北京的时候，苏民去看他，发现家里只有电风扇，大夏天热得流汗，苏民说，我从香港给你发一台空调吧，徐才厚吓得直摆手：“不行不行，首长家里都没有装空调呢，我哪敢！”说明他当时的心态，还比较谨慎，考虑到自律问题。

Zhoudan wrote:

马云是以语言为工具，他的长处并非翻译，也不是靠翻译才做到这么大。他恰恰是不做翻译了才有今天。

wherestip wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/03/us/lance-armstrong-cited/index.html

所以依我看，一个人一生究竟是幸福还是倒霉、到头儿来究竟是“座上客”还是臭名远扬("阶下囚") 很难定断。 谁能说一个人人生的演绎与命运完全没有一点儿关系呢？

我想这并不完全是宿命论。 ...




[Edited at 2015-02-04 19:43 GMT]

J.H. Wang wrote:

环境对人的影响很大

有时候是决定性的，这个我承认。

J.H. Wang wrote:

环境对人的影响很大

有时候是决定性的，这个我承认。

On January 30, 2015, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP filed a complaint alleging violations of the federal securities laws by Alibaba Group Holding Limited and certain of its officers and/or directors. The class action was commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Alibaba American Depositary Shares between October 21, 2014 and January 28, 2015 (the “Class Period”).

Vermont man known for frugal ways donates millions
By Stephanie Gallman, CNN

Before Ronald Read died last summer, he was, on several occasions, the benefactor of another person's generosity.

One woman, worried that the same tattered baseball cap he often wore wouldn't be enough to keep him warm in the Vermont winter, knitted him a hat, Read's attorney Laurie Rowell told CNN.

His khaki denim jacket was held together with a safety pin and his flannel shirt was so old, someone once paid for his breakfast at Friendly's.

"The man ahead of him had paid for him," Rowell said, "Based on what he looked like and how he dressed."

Perhaps that's why the man known for his extreme frugality and scruffy appearance decided in the years before his death that he'd do a little giving of his own.

"The estate of Robert Read made its first distributions to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and the Brooks Library in the amounts of $4.8 million and $1.2 million," Read's attorney said in a press release.

...

wherestip wrote:

... 举个例子吧： 薄熙来 原是我在 北京四中的同一级同学。 当年上高中，他在一班，我在三班。 可是之后我们俩的努力方向和人生经历可说是有天壤之别。

所以我个人觉得做人还是踏实些、安分守己些为好。 一个人想在这辈子中作出一些事业、作出一些成就当然很好，但说到底一个人的一生真正成功与否并不在于能否成名成家、能否出人头地、或是能否成为一个百万富翁。

ysun wrote:


记得这里曾有一个专题《对翻译与人生的思考》。以上也算是我对人生的一点思考吧。

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

- Thomas Jefferson

wherestip wrote: 勿须一味追求做人上人

Yueyin,
是这样。咱俩活了大半辈子，又都在中美两种社会制度下长期生活体验过，不免在这种话题上有所感触。

ysun wrote:知足者常乐

Steve,
是的。人要往高处走，但不能不择手段、贪得无厌。俗话讲，“万贯家财三顿饭，千栋华厦一张床”。物质需求得到某种程度的满足就可以了。精神愉快、身体健康才是最重要的。

“Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe…”

“First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself…”

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection…”

“Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life…”

______ Henri J.M. Nouwen

David Lin wrote:


对了，我回来了，你们都好吗？念念。 一个多月回乡省亲的日子，好像用手在河边拿水喝，清凉爽快一时，却发觉水会很快从指缝间溜走。

ysun wrote:

我原来在北京工作时的一位同事，当时看起来是个很规矩的人。在我来美后，他从一名普通工作人员被迅速地提为副处长、处长、副局长，但后来由于贪污（据说金额不大）而被开除党籍和公职。另一位同事是我离开前不久才进公司的大学毕业生。后来她受贿近200万人民币，被判处11年徒刑。据说还有几位同事也因贪污或受贿而被判刑。这些人在掌握一定权力后，就禁不住诱惑，开始以权谋私。他们本来都有很好的工作，大有前途，现在却落到这等地步。我感到十分可惜。