很多时候，标题是最难以确定的。就像在翻译的时候，文章的内容可能只要一点时间，但是花在标题上的时间却可以多上一倍。有时想想，觉得标题这玩意真的没什么太大的含义，它就像脸上的化妆品，无非是让人多点兴趣来看看罢了，一旦洗去铅华，该丑的还是丑，美的还是美。所以就不花时间去想标题了，反正这几个字天生就是丑八怪，不看也罢。

最近的生活确实有了些变化，好坏暂且不论，但是影响却的的确确存在着。又要开始躺在床上看天亮的日子了，心里当然郁闷，但是也难免有些熟悉的感觉。仿佛回到了几年前。晚上睡不着，倒是可以思考很多问题，只不过现在要使睡不着，那该想的就得是论文还有工作了。这两样东西，可真的是哪一样都不省心。其实，不省心的事情又何止它们俩，生活当中的每一件事，都是需要大智慧的。大智慧从何而来？无疑答案是肯定的，从先人的无数个不眠之夜来。一位诗人在诗中说道 we believe in old proverbs full surely, for wisdom has traced what they tell. 先人说的话，不可不听。先人说，凡是既来之则安之。这句话确实有道理，只不过很多时候大家把这句话当成了一个消极遁世的借口，不再奋斗，不再抗争。对我来说，这句话的意思应该是凡事来了，就该坦然面对。安字应作坦然解。还别不同意，阐释学步时有句口号么，一个文本对一千个人就有一千种解释。这就是我的解释，坦然面对。心里的那些不愉快，其实都来自自己。这次，我不能再被自己打败了，一定要振作起来！

与坚持看完这段牢骚的你分享一首歌词：

Switchfoot - This Is Your Life

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
And today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Is it everything you've dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
and you had everything to lose

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Is everything you've dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
and you had everything to lose

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Are you who you want to be
This is your life
Is everything you've dreamed it would be
When the world was younger
and you had everything to lose
You had everything to lose

END

  When you write an article, your reader always expects a proper introduction, narration, and then a conclusion. Aristotle defines introduction as a means of framing the audience in a certain kind of mood. This definition somehow makes its importance very clear to us: a good beginning is half done. And probably that's why i've been sitting in front of the computer watching the second hand sweeping across the dial of my watch for a thousand times without a good beginning. So I decided, what the hell, I'll just type down whatever pops into my head.

 

 Well, that's another problem. I don't know it's the beer or the walk I just took, I have about 100 different things going on in my head now. They are related in some way, I know. What I don't know is how they are related. So I'll start with the walk I took tonight, for it's what started everything else--or perhaps a better word would be "trigger".

 

This afternoon I got a call from FJTV wanting me to be a translator/anchor, which is an opportunity I've always been longing for. So I immediately set out on a little adventure to find some books to prepare myself for this job. I call it an adventure because I've been away for too long to remember the all-too-fast-changing streets in xiamen. Anyway, I got on the bus and went to xiamen university all right. What happened there wasn't--people at the bookstore told me they were short of that book and suggested I go to another store of theirs. Ok, I told myself, i'll go. So I got on a taxi and went across half a city to the other bookstore, the ride cost me nearly 30, which must be wrong. The ride would later be the beginning of a series of mini-crisis. Just read along. On the taxi the driver clearly took me as someone new to the city, and he was so nice as to introduce this beautiful city to me. How nice, and how strange that was. Strange because I found most of his introduction genuinely helpful--I don't know a squat about what he was talking about. When i got off the taxi, I was feeling better for this over-charged ride. It's worth the money, anyway. Then I went on to find the store, and i failed after going around the block for a zillion of times--in the cold winter night, I was sweating. As I was running around wondering where the hell this little bookshop was hidden, it suddenly struck me that this was my own city, a city in which i was born and raised until 15. But here I was, behaving completely like a stranger. I stopped, looking at the traffic for a while, and decided to go home. On the way back, I began to think about my spring break.

 

This spring break was kind of special to me. I spent most of it teaching in fuzhou, and this is the first spring break in two years I spent with a special someone in my heart. Seen from any angle, this break should have been state-of-the-art: I made good money (in exchange for my health, though), and in new years' eve i have someone to think about. Well, it was right to a certain degree. Somehow, it didn't feel right. for the whole week I had absolutely no place to go, and no friends to spend some time with. I felt very lonely, for everyone I called was away or busy. And to top them off, sometimes I sent a message to her, and i had to wait for several hours to get a reply. I spent most of my time with Aristotle, a guy who's been dead for over 2000 years and probably didn't even care about spring festival. All things aside, it sucks. The reason was simple: I felt lonely. After working very hard for such a long time, why is it that nobody cared about me at this time of the year? (and this is, of course, with the exception of my parents, who have always been there for me.) Sometimes I felt this inner pain when I looked at my cell phone waiting for it to ring. And most of the time it wouldn't ring--no message, no call, nothing at all. Most of the time I had to send a message to others and waited for a long time to get a reply. How pathetic that is, you may think. And you have every right to think that way. Anyway, when I started writing this article I thought I was going to finish it, but I guess I just couldn’t do it. You who make it to the end, thanks. Have a nice day tomorrow.

一样的世界，千万种活法。与钱一样，时间太多或太少都会成为一种烦恼。现在我总觉得要是一天有48个小时该有多好，花10个小时睡觉，5个小时工作，20个小时念书，其他时间娱乐娱乐。可惜这不可能，所以只好每天依旧在睡眠和事务中感叹时间的宝贵。也许别人念研究生很轻松，可是我不一样，我要考博，我要做到最好。问题在于，是不是花了那么多时间就一定能考上？修辞的问题自己到底真的懂了多少？不敢仔细想，就怕越想越累。最近连工作也觉得累了，似乎没有原来的那种激情，学生依旧很可爱，可是怎么就是笑不出来了呢？

 

真想放自己一个大假，自己一个人跨上包，去荒岛上生活一段时间，然后再约上一堆朋友，到最热闹的地方去疯一把。生活在两个极端里，或许就不会再烦闷了吧？

I'm very happy to see that we finally have a place where everyone can chitchat. This site, in my opinion, can be of tremendous help to anyone involved in the debating competition. So bravo FLTRP. As a newcomer to this blog, I would like to open a discussion on the importance of rhetoric. Rhetoric, as everyone knows, has been closely related to public discourse since ancient Greece. Debating is a kind of public discourse, which falls into one of the three rhetorical settings by Aristotle, namely deliberative oratory. I think rhetoric ought to play a very important role in debating, and in these two years I've been trying to see if the debaters have realized its importance. I should say that, based on what I have drawn from my observation, the result is not very good. It seems to me that debaters have been too occupied with the desire to win to imploy some more "subtle" tactics. For example, in debating the goal is to convince your audience, so you need to establish a connection with your audience, which in this case, is the adjudicator. And while this seems to be a quite obvious point, a lot of debaters have neglected it. Establishing a good image and using it as a means of arousing your audience's emotion has been a very important aspect in public discourse. The way you talk, the way you handle "facts", even the way you dress are all key elements.

There are three rhetorical terms that I'd like to share with you:
logos: refers to proofs available in the words, arguments, or logic of a speech. It's the study of inference making or reasoning, a study closely related to logic.
pathos: "putting the audience in the right frame of mind" this term is often used to refer to the affective or emotional appeals that give persuasive messages their power to move an audience into action.
ethos: the persuasive potential of the speaker's character or personal credibility. This proof should develop from what the speaker says in the course of his speech.

It's my personal understanding of debate that, for both the proposition and opposition sides, it should be much more about defining the motion in such a way as to lead the debate in a favourable course, or to follow a very clear and rigid set of procedures so as to win over the other party. Debating should not only be of winning, but also be of true persuasion, of true character, and of personal advancement.

You who are reading this short passage may strongly object to what I have said above, so I'd very much like to know what you think of rhetoric and debat. Thank you very much, and have a nice day.

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Guys, here's an article that I would like u to read and gimme ur opinions:

 

If you like to read this, please give feedback on the following question: what do you think is the author's motive in writing this article? Is it really just dubbing, or is there something else?

 

Dubbing of Foreign Films: Don't

To the Editor:

Re "Will Dubbing Fly in the U.S.? Read My Lips"  (Business Day, Feb. 19): Could we just stop trying to Americanize everything?

 

I wish foreign films were more popular in this country because more of them would be imported. And while I appreciate the desire of film companies to increase profits, in the United States, we have plenty of good American films.

 

We don't need "Americanized" foreign films.

 

I recently rented a dubbed version of "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman"（饮食男女） but could not finish watching it.

 

The voices sounded like the Brady Bunch, which ruined the integrity and authenticity of the film. Not only was it bizarre seeing American sounds coming from Asian lips, but the ability of the dubbers was nowhere near that of the actors.

 

Furthermore, I don't believe the issue is just dubbing.

 

Many foreign films are made in a more thoughtful rhythm, as opposed to most American films, which are fast paced. I go to see foreign films because they are foreign.

 

JESSICA ZANE

Brooklyn, Feb. 19, 1996

How time files! 这句话经常听，自己也常说，可似乎从来没有很切身的体会。今天订完票才猛地意识到，离上次去北京已经整整一年了。这一年对我来说几乎没什么事情发生，不知对那帮远方的朋友来说，生活有了怎样的变化。

 

最近对自己的生活感到十分地厌倦。每天都做着同样的事情，一周七天，连周末睡个懒觉都成了奢侈。这样的生活方式最容易让人忘记时间的存在，总觉着一周还没开始就结束了。总想着要多看点书，多运动，多跟为数不多的几个朋友联系联系，可是总找不到时间。朋友笑我说有女朋友的时候不记得兄弟，怎么现在没女朋友了，还是不记得兄弟。我只能苦笑：不是故意的，真的是忙完了什么都不想干了。这样的生活方式，我知道，过久了会很糟糕的，可是又有什么办法？有时候想，要是八年前我不来福州，或许现在就不会忙了，当然，或许也就成了废人一个。我好象应该庆幸我成为了一个比较“有用”的人，这八年时间没有白费，这一大堆的钞票没有白烧，可是在得到的背后，我又失去了多少？我是不是在拿自己的生活来换前途？现在的我已经没有自己的生活，家对我来说是一个模糊的概念，厦门对我来说就更加模糊。一有闲工夫就看电影，而看电影也只为了英语，而非爱好。曾经的那个在天台和朋友们通宵聊天喝酒的河马已经不在了，现在的河马是一个没有爱好，没有生活的机器人。

 

每个人都在寻找着自我救赎的途径，我的途径在哪？或许我应该安排一个时间好好想想--如果到了那个时间我没有其他事情的话。。

what ultimately defines a relationship is not another relationship, but it is indeed the best remedy. The only problem is, when you're done recovering from the previous pain, what should you do? Should you continue this relationship or simply just put an end to it?

 

I see relationship as something that gives you hope when you are down to the bottom; something that, even when the first moments of passion have faded away, will lead you home to comfort and happiness. It is as simple as that. We may have invented one thousand different terms for "relationship", but its very core has always remained the same, which a most common word will be more than enough to describe: love. A relationship without love is no longer meaningful, but rather empty, and this emptiness is reflected in your own soul. All the things you said about dating and "that" is simply some kind of rhetoric the party animals employ. This world is not all like that. This is still a world where being a good guy will pay off big.

 

Every cloud has its silver lining, and sooner of later we will find it. Just make sure this time that the silver lining won't turn into something else. To do that both of us need to try our very, very best. We may be lost now, but we will find our way back to happiness. During this time, I, as your friend, will always cover your back. There is nothing to worry about.