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前天早上，我还在甜美的睡梦中

                    がんばんれ、周さん！

The Relationship between Culture and Civilization

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Today I’d like take this opportunity to say something about the relationship between “culture” and “civilization”. When it comes to the relationship between them,

                      “沧海桑田，本源依旧”

最近很忙，好久没来这里了。现把今年上海外国语大学博士生入学考试中汉译英一题——作家谌容的短文《活着的滋味》部分选段的英文译文贴在这里，敬请方家指教。谢谢！

活着的滋味

2008年既留给国人太多的喜悦，也同样给了国人太多惨痛的记忆：年初的雪灾，五月的汶川大地震，似乎无时不刻不在考验我们中国人。眼见到了年底，席卷全球的金融危机又使国人倍感压抑起来。而中国传统佳节——春节——似乎给了人们暂时忘却、喘息、调整的机会。当大部分国人还沉浸在过年的喜悦里，从大洋彼岸却传来了令人深感悲痛的消息：有6名在美旅游的中国游客，因为突如其来的横祸，从车里甩出来当场殒命，另有

作者按：2008年11月，我给学生播放了一部美国电影《美女与野兽》，要求他们看完后写一篇英语文章，发表他们对电影的观点。有时候，我认为让他们明白什么是真正的美与爱，是比单纯地获得知识要来得更重要。不过，我也知道，让这些学生写英语观后感，确实有点为难了他们中间的大多数人。前几天批改一个女生的同名作文时，觉得问题实在太多，于是停下来写了这篇文章。这篇文章及上次在此发表的To Love and to be Loved，是我专门站在学生角度上给他们写的，以供他们参考。

    Several days ago, we watched a Walter Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast. The story of the beauty and the prince-turned beast made me think a lot abou

  More than a week ago, our English teacher had us watch a Walt Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast. Even today, I am still deeply impressive with the well-woven plots of that movie.

  The story goes like that on a rainy and thundering night, a witch in the incarnation of a tattered ugly skinny old woman breaks into a castle and begs the prince, the owner of the castle, for a place to stay for one night with a rose for exchange. However, the lofty and stone-hearted prince shows no sympathy for her and he turns her away rudely without any hesitation. The witch has no way out, so she transforms herself into a beautiful young lady. Seein

  Before the mid-term English examination, I have promised my students that I would play an American movie so that they would feel a little bit relieved after they took the test. As to me, it is more important to enlighten the students than just to teach them some so-called knowledge. Just as a Chinese saying goes, “Better to teach people how to fish than just to give them fish.” If the students have developed their great and greater interest in English, I am sure that their teacher will save more energies because they will take the initiative to study it without being forced. Just imagine how miserable it is if one has to do something against his will! And I just want them to enjoy the beauty of English language in this way without having to bear the grammatical rules in mind all the time.

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