发表时间：2023.09.20     作者：Jingyi     来源：ShoelessCai     阅读：193

2023.9.20 9:00 AM

我所做的事情都是对的！

1.为了证明妹子一定要有自己的事业，regardless of talent

2.人类 组家庭是天经地义的，独立之后组家庭是必须的。这个世界，没有任何人拿这一点来诟病我，他们没有理由。

3.每次一到考试，就开始不自觉地做无关的事情。说明一件事，我的大脑极度害怕失败，我这个人极度害怕被别人说成很笨，最关键的问题是，极度害怕连自己都相信。

4.但是，就是必须坚持。因为，你考试学习学不进去，不是只能坑碰拐骗嘛？自信来自于哪里？来自于有增长的学习能力。

5.既然学习能力是增长的，为什么考试的时候不让自己好好考试呢？为什么不向整个世界推出自己呢？

6.关于毅力，毅力是大脑逻辑想象力之外几乎唯一可以确定和训练的。很多事情，靠毅力能解决的，为什么没意识呢？

7.因为害怕失败，害怕被说很笨。因此作出如下调整。

（A）12点之前休息，早晨6：30之前起床。摈弃 4-9 AM的作息，这件事情必须落实。
（B）每篇文章，无论难易，分析的时候一定要看懂，在看懂的过程中，找出文章结构，再来区分，哪些句子需要精读，哪些在考试的时候，是无需慌乱，无需盯着很久的。

Needless to say, 我认为一个人对社会的作用更加重要一些，这意味着。

如果有资本暗战，我相信，是赢不了的。当然，鉴于本人比较积极，因此我仍然认为不存在任何此类的资本暗战。

2023.9.20 1:27 PM

早上因为做了一篇文章只有两道题正确，我觉得非常 Upset，毕竟只有四天就要考试，而之前自己的努力，似乎一点效果都没有。还有自己注意力是否能短时间内集中，是否能快速抓住文章主旨？为什么有些人阅读的时候，可以很快抓住要旨？

后来我想到李笑来的文章，觉着本质问题还是阅读太少。无他，就是训练太少。

有意思的是，我把整篇文章都翻译下来，题目我还是看不懂！ —— in which case 我这边还能做啥？我思考思考！

01 讲课

02 原文

I once attended a Downing Street reception where Tony Blair invited questions from leading magazine editors. One woman, from a big consumer title, asked if New Labour had plans to tax one-use plastic bags that were destroying the environment. Blair pulled a mock-baffled “Hey, guys, I'm busy running the country here” face and answered in a tone of purest condescension. This was around 2005, a few years after Ireland, with little fuss at all, had introduced a small charge for plastic bags. Within a year, everyone had learnt to keep a jute sack or string shopper under their desk, and this young, adaptable, upbeat nation had cut the number of bags cluttering Irish hedgerows by 94 %？

It is such an easy, clever bit of nudge politics, which has already worked right across northern Europe. (Is it not strange that we each use 158 plastic bags a year but a Dane only four?) And yet here we are in England —— four years after Wales, two after Northern Ireland, a year after Scotland-bringing it in at last on Monday. And unlike the devolved nations, England can't just keep it simple and charge 5p for bags in all stores, but only those with more than 250 employees. Corner shops in Aberdeen have coped, yet those in London can't. The light from an explosion in deep space can take billions of years to be seen on Earth, And the gap between a social ill being identified, backed by irrefutable scientific evidence, and parliament changing the law, is often almost as long. That cigarettes are poisonous and young lungs fragile have been beyond doubt since the 1950s, yet it only became illegal for smokers to inflict their fumes upon children in cars this week. Even now, some libertarians grumble that enjoying an apres school pick-up fag is every parent's right and, besides, haven't the police got better things to do?

Yes, they have. But,stil, progress is worth defending. And improvements in our lives are rarely brought about by vast, sweeping changes but by small, incremental shifts. Those simple life-savers, the Clean Air Acts, seatbelt and motorcycle helmet legislation: all regarded as quirky and inconvenient in their time. Every generation looks upon the unthinking habits of its parents and asks: why the hell did you do that? In Mad Men Don Draper is shown taking a last swig of his beer in a picnic, then lobbing the bottle deep into the forest. According to creator Matthew Weiner this was the shows most controversial scene: horrified young people would ask him if their grandparents were really so crass? But in early-1960s America there was little stigma in dumping your trash.

Back in the 1970s being capable of driving when lashed was a prized adult skill, we let our dogs defile parks and would have thought anyone who scooped up stil-warm poop in little bags totally mad. And maybe we will look back at the plastic bag era in similar terms. How could these people use up all the oil, choke turtles and block flood defences, just to make carrying shopping home easier? A non-brand plastic bag flapping about on a tree, too high up to reach, is the ensign of our age. It is the saddest, most hopeless manifestation of a disposable age built upon laziness and greed.

In the film Americam Beauty the misfit Ricky videos a bag dancing in the wind: the peculiar poignancy comes from seeing the most unloved, worthless object on Earth appearing to express joy. “Do you need a bag?” I've come to resent that question. Because I don't want to say “yes”. But my handbag is small. I don't want to crease this book I've bought as a present. And sometimes a purchase without nice packaging feels less of a treat. But usually I say “no”. Ten virtue points for that. Twenty for remembering to carry my bags-for-life from the car.

It is irksome to forget, then watch the checkout lady unfurl dozens from the roll, pull each one open with a flourish; all that waste just to get my shopping home. Really this is just pretence of virtue. The 5p charge may reduce bags, and in Scotland usage has declined by 80% in a year; that's 147 million fewer. But the oceans are already clogged with every other type of plastic; vast islands of detritus, micro-particles of broken-up Evian bottles and biscuit wrappers absorbed by sea life and then, in due course, us.

But sometimes laws are there as much for society to declare intent as to have an effect. With smoking in cars I wonder if it is not a proxy for more sweeping legislation that would forbid low-life mums in supermarkets screaming swear words at their sobbing toddlers or pouring Coke in a baby's tippy cup. It is a way of saying, we are watching, we have standards: your parenting is being judged. We'd like to police your home; but we can't, so let's start with your car. Likewise, the plastic bag law is a displacement activity for the bigger, dreary, ecological changes that are too daunting for us to make. Those five pence pieces are tithes to the Church of Green. And dragging home our hessian totes of virtue we can feel less hopeless. The world is broken: but don't blame me.

03 问题

6. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

(A) England is following Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Holland in banning plastic bags.
(B) Small changes in our habits can bring great improvements in our lives.
(C) Looking back，we should feel angry at plastic bag habit.
(D) Future generations will not wonder why it took so long to enforce plastic bag law.

答案：C

7. Why does the author mention simple life-savers, the Clean Air Acts, seatbelt and motorcycle helmet legislation in the passage?

(A) These laws and regulations have faced much disagreement and confrontation.
(B) They represent the sweeping changes in our life habits and styles.
(C) They are considered strange and inconvenient by many people even today.
(D) These small changes have brought improvements in our lives and environment.

答案：D

8. Which of the following best explains the word crass “in the sentence” horrified young people would ask him if their grandparents were really so crass”(para. 3)?

(A) Stupid and unrefined.
(B) Obstinate and arbitrary.
(C) Bold and direct.
(D) Lazy and greedy.

答案：A

9. The author used the expression “the ensign of our age” (para. 4)         ？

(A) to symbolize the stigma brought by use of plastic bags
(B) to show the arduous task of environmental protection against plastic bags
(C) to tell how the future generations will view the current era
(D) to display her pessimistic view towards the innate weakness of humanity

答案：A

10. Which of the following best paraphrases the sentence “Those five pence pieces are tithes to the Church of Green.”(para.7)?

(A) Those five pence pieces will bring about dramatic ecological changes.
(B) Those five pence pieces show our small contribution to the environment protection.
(C) Those five pence pieces display our strong will to stop the environment pollution.
(D) Those five pence pieces will stop the world from falling apart.

答案：B

04 译文

我曾经参加过唐宁街的一个招待会，Tony Blair 邀请了主要杂志编辑提问。一位来自大消费者头衔的女性询问，新工党是否计划对破坏环境的一次性塑料袋征税。Blair 摆出一副困惑的表情：“嘿，伙计们，我正忙于管理这里的国家”，并以一种最纯粹的屈尊俯就的语气回答。这是在 2005 年左右，几年前，爱尔兰毫不大惊小怪地对塑料袋征收了小额费用。在一年内，每个人都学会了在办公桌下放一个麻袋或细绳购物者，而这个年轻、适应性强、乐观的国家已经将爱尔兰树篱中的麻袋数量减少了94%。

注意：
1.with little fuss at all 毫不大惊小怪地
2.a mock-baffled 挤出的嘲笑表情
3.a jute sack or string shopper 针织麻布购物袋
4.upbeat 积极的（向上斗争的）
5.clutter Irish hesgerows 省下爱尔兰的矮灌木

这是一种简单、巧妙的推动政治（nudge politics），已经在整个北欧奏效。（我们每个人每年使用158个塑料袋，而丹麦人只有四个，这不是很奇怪吗？）然而，我们来到了英格兰——四年前，威尔士、北爱尔兰和苏格兰终于在周一引入了塑料袋。与权力下放的国家不同，英格兰不能简单地在所有商店收取5便士的购物袋费用，而只能在员工人数超过250人的商店收取。阿伯丁的街角商店已经应付了，但伦敦的商店却做不到。深空爆炸产生的光可能需要数十亿年才能在地球上看到，而在无可辩驳的科学证据的支持下，社会错误认知与议会修改法律之间的差距往往同样长。自20世纪50年代以来，香烟有毒，年轻人的肺部脆弱这一点一直是毋庸置疑的，但本周，吸烟者在车内将烟雾强加给儿童才成为非法行为。即使是现在，一些自由主义者也抱怨说，享受四月学校接送同性恋是每个家长的权利，此外，警察难道没有更好的事情可做吗？

注意：
1.nudge politics 推动政治
2.England can't just keep it simple and charge 5p for bags in all stores 英格兰不能简单地只是在商店收取5便士……
这里的 5p 是5便士的意思。Jingyi 在录音里翻译成“某种标准”，like 4p ...
3.grumble that 抱怨说
4.apres school pick-up fag 这里指的是 ，家长接送小孩回家做苦工。与之后“警察还有更好的事情可以做吗？”产生呼应。

是的，（警察）他们有。但是，进步仍然值得捍卫。我们生活的改善很少是由巨大的、全面的变化带来的，而是由微小的、渐进的转变带来的。那些简单的救命稻草，清洁空气法案。安全带和摩托车头盔立法：在他们的时代都被认为是古怪和不方便的。每一代人看着父母不假思索的习惯，都会问：你到底为什么这么做？在《广告狂人》中，Don Drapper 在野餐时喝了最后一口啤酒，然后把瓶子扔到森林深处。根据创作者Matthew Weiner的说法，这是该剧最具争议的一幕：吓坏了的年轻人会问他，他们的祖父母真的这么粗鲁吗？但在20世纪60年代初的美国，倾倒垃圾几乎没有什么耻辱感。

注意：
1.life-savor 救命稻草
2.the Clean Air Acts 清洁空气法案
3.crass 愚钝的、粗鲁的
4.was little stigma in doing 做什么事几乎无耻辱感

早在20世纪70年代，当被鞭打时能够开车是一项宝贵的成人技能，我们让我们的狗弄脏公园，并会认为任何用小袋装铲屎的人都是疯了。也许我们会以类似的方式回顾塑料袋时代。这些人怎么会耗尽所有的石油，窒息海龟，堵塞防洪堤，只是为了让购物更容易回家？一个非品牌的塑料袋在树上飘扬（flapping about on a tree），太高了够不着，这是我们这个时代的旗帜。最可悲的是，这是对可降解时代不抱希望的表现，在懒惰和贪婪之上。

注意：
1.the ensage of our age 我们这个时代的旗帜

在电影《美国女人》中，格格不入的 Ricky 拍摄了一个袋子在风中跳舞的视频：看到地球上最不受欢迎、最没有价值的物体，产生喜悦时，会产生一种特殊的辛辣（讽刺）。“你需要袋子吗？”我向来讨厌那个问题。因为我不想说“是”。但是我的手提包很小。我不想把我买来当礼物的这本书弄皱。有时候，如果没有很好的包装，购买就感觉不那么愉快。但通常答案都是“否”。如果做到这一点，可以得10分，如果车上备有可循环袋子，获得20分。

注意：
1.the misfit Ricky 格格不入的 Ricky
2.poignancy 辛辣
3.crease this book 弄皱这本书
4.feel less of a treat 不那么愉快

忘记这件事是令人厌烦的，然后看着收银台的女士从卷上展开几十个针织袋子，用力拉开每一个；所有这些浪费时间的操作，只是为了把我的购物带回家。真的，这只是美德的伪装。5便士的费用可能会减少袋子的使用量，在苏格兰，使用量在一年内下降了80%；减少了1.47亿。但海洋已经被其他类型的塑料堵塞了；巨大的垃圾对称的岛、破碎的依云瓶子、饼干包装被海洋生物吸收，然后在适当的时候被我们吸收。

注意：
1.irksome 令人厌烦的
2.displacement 流亡

但有时，法律对社会来说既要宣布意图（declare intent），也要产生效果。对于在车里吸烟，我想知道这是否代表了更全面的立法，禁止超市里的低收入妈妈对哭泣的蹒跚学步的孩子大声咒骂，或者把可乐倒在婴儿的饮料杯里。这是一种说法，我们在观察，我们有标准：你的育儿方式正在被评判。我们想监督你的家；但我们做不到，所以让我们从你的车开始。同样，塑料袋法（plastic bag law）是对更大、沉闷、生态变化的一种替代活动，这些变化对我们来说太可怕了。那5便士是对格林教会的十分之一。把麻袋装的美德带回家，我们会感到不那么绝望。世界破碎了：但不要责怪我。

注意：
1.sobbing or pouring 哭泣或者大哭

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