当它们的英姿连最后一点形象都被抹掉时，它们的名字则继续在一切意义上存在着，在一切活着的生物中永久地存在着。 Read more

“Eye- blocking” is a nonverbal behavior that can occur when we feel threatened and/ or don’t like what we see. Squinting (as in the case with my classmates, described above) and closing or shielding our eyes are actions that have evolved to protect the brain from “seeing” undesirable images and to communicate our disdain toward others. Read more

What if, however, men and women in the corporation no longer see success as necessarily connected to hard work? What becomes of the social morality of the corporation— the everyday rules- in- use that people play by— when there is thought to be no fixed or, one might say, objective standard of excellence to explain how and why winners are separated from also- rans, how and why some people succeed and others fail? What rules do people fashion to interact with one another when they feel that, instead of ability, talent, and dedicated service to an organization, politics, adroit talk, luck, connections, and self- promotion are the real sorters of people into sheep and goats? Read more

To begin with, the person chosen should be a female, because women outnumber men in Japan; sixty- five million women and sixty- two million men live in the Japanese archipelago. With regard to occupation, she would definitely not be employed in a large corporation but would work in a small enterprise, since only one in eight workers is employed in a company with three hundred or more employees. Nor would she be guaranteed lifetime employment, since those who work under this arrangement are concentrated in large companies. She would not belong to a labor union, because less than one in five Japanese workers is unionized. She would not be university educated. Less than one in five Japanese have a university degree, even though today nearly half of the younger generation gains admission to a university for a four- year degree. Read more

nobody claims to pass judgment on your professional capacities: we assume that your duties are a normal element in the system of unproductive activities that occupies such a large part of the national and international economy Read more

此外，俄文版的莎士比亚和英文版的陀思妥耶夫斯基的例子已经证明，伟大作家的作品，翻译版本越多越好。只有将一个作家的作品多方面地全盘呈现出来，才有可能突显他或她的多样性。翻译的版本越多，读者就越有可能在这首或那首诗中，抑或在同一首诗的这个或那个版本中，获得“新的发现”，这正是（如意大利作家伊塔洛·卡尔维诺所说）我们阅读经典最重要的原因之一。 Read more

這項技巧可用「RAIN」來描述：首先，你認出（Recognize）這種感受。然後，你接受（Accept）而非驅離它。接著，你調查（Investigate）這種感受，以及它和你身體的關係。最後，你對它不予認同（Nonidentification），也就是不執著（Nonattachment）。這是一個很好的結尾，畢竟佛陀開給我們擺脫苦惱的萬能解藥，就是擺脫對事物的執著。 Read more

沉默是对每个人观点价值的漠视，它意味着不尊重我们能够文明地提出不同意见的能力。 Read more

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