l'Autre Dystopie

可爱的寝室因为Lee Hall O-Camp后的Room Visit而不能在一点以前关门，为了充分利用时间，干脆在图书馆里多呆一会儿。

 

香港这地方的天气以炎热潮湿为主、犯了两个读书之地的大忌（干冷才能保持人的清醒和敏锐 这就是为什么热带丛林出不了学者的原因——请忽略我的胡扯。），好在几乎所有楼内都有空调（香港人直白地将其称之为冷气机）能够保持人头脑的清醒（顺便补充两句：就是在空调开得最大的教室里我也经常睡觉——哪怕是在小学音乐教室那种椅子上）。既然有如此好的条件，在没有政治课的每周15个课时（这几乎是我在北大的1/3啊啊啊）的专业课之外，宅在寝室开空调多少有些奢侈浪费，于是我便常来图书馆。

 

我有个坏习惯，总是喜欢在学数学的时候坐到文科阅览室，在读文科书的时候却常常跑到一帮学理的人中间。（是以上学期有不少人看到我在本阅读各种稀奇古怪的书。）这种做法固然有些假（按四川话的说法叫装怪），但是却可以让我能专注于阅读，不被旁人的主题所干扰。港大图书馆的形制，大概是下面几层放西文书籍，上面几层东亚书籍（话说这里的日文学术书可真多——港大有钱的标志）。于是我就常常呆在顶楼的中文阅览室赶作业。

 

从顶楼的玻璃幕墙望出去，能远远地看到维港的海水以及被高楼刺得支离破碎的urban skyline。港大的建筑大多几层楼高，坐落在半山上，背靠的是青绿的自然，面向的是喧嚣的街市。我一直觉得这是一个隐喻：学术虽然不起眼，却因为其天然的高度，用一种几乎是慈悲的眼光俯瞰现代文明的喧嚣，正如靠窗而坐极目远眺的我一般。（然而在香港这种数十层的高楼冲过半山腰的地方事情又另当别论——摩登时代的灯红酒绿、透过现代性的不可一世的豪气隐隐传来的后现代的轻轻的鄙夷与讽喻，已经对学术的神圣下了战书——那割断海景的楼盘真难看。）正因为此，我一直固执地认为学术机构应该建造在山上，一为脱俗，二为睥睨天下。

 

数学以外，便是胡乱翻读各种西方神话。冯象先生依希伯莱语《旧约》所以之《摩西五经》，文笔注释十分合意，三千年前的历史、传说与神话，透过文本扑面而来。此书我在国内时即时时仰慕，然北京三联出书太慢，而牛津版又难以觅得，故一直不得一睹芳容。前日于香港三联之书店见得冯先生新出之《智慧书》，又勾起旧时心思。于图书馆觅得冯先生著作数种，实在是大快朵颐。其中一本专谈亚瑟王的传说的历史。读到书中所以引英国诗人丁尼孙的诗行，借《国王的悲歌》中借陪伴亚瑟王的最后一位圆桌骑士Bedivere之口说出，心事止不住地涌出。

 

And I, the last, go forth companionless,

And the days darken round me, and the years,

Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

(Idylls of the King, 1859-1885)

时光流转，我的朋友们终究会散落天涯、天各一方，到那时，恐怕心情也不过如此吧。如今在香港，只是一学期，离情就如此占据了我的心灵，若是两年以后只身飞赴万里之遥，又如何能够“洛阳亲友如相问，一片冰心在玉壶”呢？网络时代的通讯便捷，亦始终无法消弭“人生不相见，动如参与商”的凄凉。

 

古人云“睹物思情”，我不过看到了三两行诗句，也就潸然泪下了。上大学以来的每次静思，总是以纠缠在一起的悲伤和凄凉告终，这次恐怕也逃不脱如此的结局了。

 

 

 

 

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ps 本日志标题意为“我的大学图书馆生活”，用拉丁语纯为了有趣。

有北京土著加文化专家陪同 学到不少东西。
见地图
按顺序：
鼓楼
什刹海附近四合院
白天的后海
北海公园
景山公园
国家大剧院
新前门
大栅栏
琉璃厂

Peindre d'abord une cage (先畫一個鳥籠)
avec une porte ouverte (一個門打開著的鳥籠)
peindre ensuite (接著隨便畫些什麽吧)
quelque chose de joli(也許隨便畫一些美麗的東西)
quelque chose de simple(也許隨便畫一些簡單的東西)
quelque chose de beau(或是什麽好看的東西)
quelque chose d'utile(或是什麽有用的東西)
pour l'oiseau(或是什麽鳥兒用的著的東西)
placer ensuite la toile contre un arbre(把畫好的畫靠著樹放在樹下)
dans un jardin(放在花園裏)
dans un bois(放在小樹林裏)
ou dans une forêt(或是放在森林中)
se cacher derrière l'arbre(然後呢，然後藏在樹的後面)
sans rien dire(靜靜地不出聲)
sans bouger... (一動也不動)
Parfois l'oiseau arrive vite(有時候鳥兒很快就飛過來了)
mais il peut aussi bien mettre de longues ann　es(但也可能要過上幾年)
avant de se décider(鳥兒才會飛過來)
Ne pas se décourager(別氣餒)
attendre(再等一等)
attendre s'il faut pendant des années(等吧，該等多久就等多久唷)
la vitesse ou la lenteur de l'arrivée de l'oiseau(鳥兒來得快或來得慢)
n'ayant aucun rapport(跟畫的成功)
avec la réussite du tableau(一點關係也沒有)
Quand l'oiseau arrive(當鳥兒來的時候)
s'il arrive(如果鳥兒真的來了)
observer le plus profond silence(一定要超安靜地)
attendre que l'oiseau entre dans la cage(等鳥兒進到籠子裡)
et quand il est entré　(而等牠進去了以後)
fermer doucement la porte avec le pinceau(也要輕輕柔柔地 以畫筆關上門兒)
puis(然後)
effacer un à un tous les barreaux(拭去所有欄條)
en ayant soin de ne toucher aucune des plumes(這時要細心阿)
de l'oiseau(小心別畫到鳥兒的羽毛歐)
Faire ensuite le portrait de l'arbre(再接著，畫上樹兒)
en choisissant la plus belle de ses branches(為鳥兒)
pour l'oiseau(畫些美麗的枝幹)
peindre aussi le vert feuillage et la fraîcheur du vent(也要畫些綠葉和涼爽的風)
la poussi　re du soleil(畫陽光下的塵埃)
et le bruit des bêtes de l'herbe dans la chaleur de l'été(還要畫炎炎夏日草地上蟲兒的鳴叫)
et puis attendre que l'oiseau se décide à chanter(然後，等看看鳥兒是否會唱歌)
Si l'oiseau ne chante pas(如果鳥兒不唱的話)
c'est mauvais signe(這就不妙啦)
signe que le tableau est mauvais(這代表說我們創作了一幅失敗的畫作)
mais s'il chante c'est bon signe(但若是鳥兒唱起歌來，一切就搞定了)
signe que vous pouvez signer(這代表說，您可以簽名了)
Alors vous arrachez tout doucement(那　，就輕輕地拔下)
une des plumes de l'oiseau(鳥兒的一枝羽毛)
et vous écrivez votre nom dans un coin du tableau(在畫的角落簽下名字吧)

注意：本科和研院的申请是两码事 请不要抱着本科申请的眼光看研院....

 

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为了方便广大不解法语的同学，我胡乱译成了英语....
暂时还没看到中文翻译...
这是法语课上老师给的阅读材料 文字很浅显 但也很可爱。

Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau
par Jacques Prévert
Peindre d'abord une cage
avec une porte ouverte
peindre ensuite
quelque chose de joli
quelque chose de simple
quelque chose de beau
quelque chose d'utile
pour l'oiseau
placer ensuite la toile contre un arbre
dans un jardin
dans un bois
ou dans une forêt
se cacher derrière l'arbre
sans rien dire
sans bouger ...
Parfois l'oiseau arrive vite
mais il peut aussi bien mettre de longues années
avant de se décider
Ne pas se décourager
attendre
attendre s'il le faut pendant des années
la vitesse ou la lenteur de l'arrivée de l'oiseau
n'ayant aucun rapport
avec la réussite du tableau
Quand l'oiseau arrive
s'il arrive
observer le plus profond silence
attendre que l'oiseau entre dans la cage
et quand il est entré
fermer doucement la porte avec le pinceau
puis
effacer un à un tous les barreaux
en ayant soin de ne toucher aucune des plumes de l'oiseau
Faire ensuite le portrait de l'arbre
en choisissant la plus belle de ses branches
pour l'oiseau
peindre aussi le vert feuillage et la fraîcheur du vent
la poussière du soleil
et le bruit des bêtes de l'herbe dans la chaleur de l'été
et puis attendre que l'oiseau se décide à chanter
Si l'oiseau ne chante pas
c'est mauvais signe
signe que le tableau est mauvais
mais s'il chante c'est bon signe
signe que vous pouvez signer
Alors vous arrachez tout doucement
une des plumes de l'oiseau
et vous écrivez votre nom dans un coin du tableau.

For Painting a Portray of a Bird
by Jacques Prévert
Paint, first, a cage,
with the gate open
paint, then
something pretty
something simple
something beautiful
something useful
for the bird
Then place the canvas on a tree
in a garden
in the woods
or in a forest
hiding yourself behind the tree
saying nothing
making no movements
Sometimes the bird comes quickly
but it may also take years
for it to decide to stay
Do not discourage yourself
wait
wait as if it be the years in the waiting
the quickness or the tardiness of its arrival
does not depend
on the successfulness of your painting
When it arrives
if it will arrive
keep the most profound silence
wait until it enters the cage,
shut the gate tenderly with the brush
and then
erase all the barriers one after another
while being careful enough not to touch any of its feathers
Then paint a tree
choosing the most beautiful branch
for the bird
paint also the green foliage and the freshness of wind
the dust of the sun 注：就是阳光在空气胶体中的丁达尔现象造成的光柱里的灰尘啦
and the noises of insects in the grasses under the heat of summer
and then wait for the bird to decide to sing
If it never sings
that is because the painting is bad
but if it sings it should be a good sign
a sign that you may sign now
Therefore snatch tenderly
one feather of the bird
and write your name in one corner of the painting.

On Discrimination Against Manual Workers

    There has been a long tradition of discrimination against manual worker. Generally considered inferior and ill-mannered, they are make the lower class of the society.
    For those who hold a strong sympathy on the workers, there arises a question: what is the root of such bias against these people who put themselves into such a form of production, which is very close to what our ancestors had spent most of the time in?
    Imagine a society where everyone has received a good deal of education that no one is obliged to do pure physical labor due to the lack of skills for a mental alternative. In such a world those who dedicate themselves to such jobs will receive good wages as well even for their unused knowledge and education simply because low salaries will turn them to other better-paid jobs they’re capable of. And they have chosen their vocation according to their interests, and would be respected by their knowledge as well as dedication and sacrifice to a kind of job that other people are unwilling to take. Therefore, a large proportion of the discrimination comes merely from the lack of knowledge, opportunity and eventually sufficient incoming.
    Some may criticize the bad manners and vulgar tastes of the working class. But such problems are due to their education background and income status rather than the nature of a class. Having had a look at middle-class workers in contemporary developed countries, we shall see not that much difference between them and their brainworking neighbors. From this we can infer that the cultural disadvantage of working class comes from the lack of proper guidance in youth, not from their form of work.
    Both of the two sources of discrimination we have discussed originated from unfair political policy and underdeveloped economy. The solution is simple enough if we look forward and work for a better welfare and the realization of education-for-all. However, there is a third kind of discrimination (we shall be talking about it later) is not as easily eradicated as the other two we’ve just proposed a solution to. It is not pointed at workers nor the working class, but at the work itself and its form of labor, which is more intrinsic compared to the other two, and therefore is much harder to sweep out.
    We have always been paying technicians a good deal of money for their aid when we stuck in mechanics. What is the attitude of an elite white-collar (say, a lawyer or a dentist) when he is paying a piper twice as high as his hourly-income? He might be admiring the high wage, but never willing to take a piper's job. So why was that?
    The answer to this embarrassing question is that we humans,  descendants of physical laboring animals though, hold a natural preference for mental work which is more efficient and had helped us so much in transcending our counterparts in the process of evolution. In this way physical labor is related to animality and brainwork to humanity. But such naïve dichotomy is not appropriate. Actual, on-field and physical work is no less necessary than their virtual, in-office and mental equivalent. This is partly because human, however intelligent, is still a species of animal and a part of biosphere and partly because once people are exonerated from heavy workload, they will instinctively enjoy the comfort brought by body movement and physical labor. We cannot blame what we are fond of. Therefore hopefully this kind of prejudice will die out when the demand of manual work decreases, meeting the trend of technical innovations of our society.
    Hitherto we have concluded that our discrimination against physical laborers is composed of diverse sources and we can be quite optimistic that such a stain of human civilization will extinguish with the establishment of civil rights and development of economy.

作为社会问题的“大学不能承担之重”

College Pressures: A Social Problem

For all times and places, higher education has never been merely an education. In the good old days, the university was a place for young bluebloods to grow into full gentlemen, serving as a facility more social than educational, while contemporarily as the social hierarchy blurs, college education has more or less been turned into a ladder to higher classes and social status.
从古至今，高等教育都不仅仅是一种教育。在旧日子里，大学是一个让年轻的贵族们成长为绅士的地方，因而，大学的功能更偏向社会性而非教育性。然而在社会等级制度模糊化的当代，大学教育或多或少地成为了爬向更高社会阶层和生活水平的阶梯。
We can’t deny that equal opportunity towards education is the first step to ultimate social justice, yet nevertheless since the society has never been as equal as a utopian kindergarten reserved for the young by their parents and educators, why should students build up their perspectives in accordance with their college experience, which is somewhat closer to that illusion than to cruel reality?
我们不能否认教育平等是通向社会最终公平万里长征的第一步，但是既然社会从来都不可能具有家长和教育者们所建造的乌托邦式的“托儿所”中所谓的“公平”，学生们凭什么一定要把他们对社会的前景建立在他们大学的经历上，这种经历，很大程度上更接近于理想主义的幻境而非残酷的现实？
There is a tragic consequence of the faultage in the distribution of opportunities between universities and that of the real world. It is that some damned smart kids will advance themselves by being more explicitly pragmatic and competitive, turning the campus into a battlefield where they fight with all their might for being “elites”. From any economic book we can learn that the best way to eliminate the gap between supply and demand is to set up a bid or an auction. This couldn’t work more perfectly on our higher education, where the currency should be, as I prefer to call it, the potency of future academic, professional or commercial life. The students are desperate for it: some earn it by burning the midnight oil sketching reports for so-called undergraduate research; others might gain more by being elected a president of a student social club after a long run of publicity, and, to top it all off, it feels exactly like hitting the jackpot getting an internship in an investment bank. Each of these is a form of Pareto-inefficient competition. I didn’t see any chance that their magnus labor won’t eat up too much energy and thus drain their leisure time (and even class time) and eventually nullify their campus life that they’re supposed to enjoy. Pity for a generation that suffers from such tensions from so early an age.
大学和社会的机遇分布的断层造成的问题之一，是一些非常“聪明”的孩子会以外显的实用主义以及竞争性，在校园生活中竭尽全力战斗，希望自己成为“上流社会”的一份子，并同时把校园当成一个战场。从任何一本经济学教科书中我们可以了解到：消除供需差额的最好办法是招标或者拍卖。这办法用在高等教育上真是太合适了。我个人偏向以未来学术、职业或商业生活的“潜力”作为货币。学生们为了这硬通货挤破了头：有些人靠熬夜赶写“本科生科研”的报告；通过大量拉票当上学生社团的主席，那就是赚了一大笔；如果“人品爆发”拼到了投行的实习，那感觉就像中了彩票。这些都是典型的损己不利人的竞争。我完全相信这样的“宏业”会吞噬学生大量的精力，消耗掉他们大量的业余时间（甚至占用课内时间），最后让他们虚度过他们本来应该欣赏和享受的大学时光。我悲怜一个从小就背负着如此大压力的一代人。
Worse still, this sort of student doesn’t really fit into an education system that was originally academy-oriented. Hardly can a principal stay from his students’ utilitarianism, and keeps faith in academia. Our higher education would be ruined once the staff accepted the status quo and decided to follow such trends, concentrating on vocational education while turning away from the vocation of God. Two proverbs suffice to premonish: “An education is not an education without the Bildung of characters”; “science sans conscience n’est que la ruine de l’âme.”
更糟糕的是，这类学生并不适合一个原本面向学术的教育系统。但一个校长很难无视学生的功利主义，还对学术界保持信心。如果教育者们接受现状、跟从趋势，只进行职业教育却忽视我们的“天职”（Vocation来自于拉丁语vocatio，本意是召唤或呼声，但在路德的宗教改革后，新教徒们把自己的工作认为是响应上帝的召唤，故该词也具有了职业、天职等释义。），那么我们的高等教育就必然将被毁掉。两句的格言已经足够让我们警惕：“失却了品行培养（德语Bildung）的教育根本不是教育。”“没有良心的科学仅仅是灵魂的毁灭。（Conscience和science的同来源于拉丁语scire，有“求知”“认知”之意）”
It will all come to an end (and perhaps a doomsday, too) when new fashions overwhelm the old traditions and every university is filled with competitors seeking financial success and social recognition. But there could be no other ways unless we’ve found a satisfactory hierarchy for the whole civilization and the generations to come. As long as a student has been enrolled in a university, he or she shall be confronted with a harsh question: fiat pressus, or simply save them till graduation?
当这种新的趋势完全压制住旧的传统，每个校园里都充斥着希望获得社会地位和经济地位的竞争者时，一切也就全完了。但是除非社会有了一个长期、稳定的让人满意的等级制度，这样的问题根本就没法解决。只要学生进了校门，他就得面对一个尖锐的问题：“‘让压力来得更猛些吧’，还是混到毕业再说？”

College Pressures: A Social Problem

For all times and places, higher education has never been merely an education. In the good old days, the university was a place for young bluebloods to grow into full gentlemen, serving as a facility more social than educational, while contemporarily as the social hierarchy blurs, college education has more or less been turned into a ladder to higher classes and social status.

We cannot deny that equal opportunity towards education is the first step to ultimate social equality, yet nevertheless since the society has never been as equal as a utopian kindergarten reserved for the young by their parents and educators, why should they build up their perspectives in accordance with their college experience, which is somewhat closer to that illusion than to reality?

There is a tragic consequence of the faultage in the distribution of opportunities between universities and that of the real world. It is that some damned smart kids will advance themselves by being more explicitly pragmatic and competitive, turning the campus into a battlefield where they fight with all their might for being "elites". From any economic book we can learn that the best way to eliminate the gap between supply and demand is to set up a bid. This couldn't work more perfectly on our higher education, where the currency should be, as I prefer to call it, the potency of future academic, professional or commercial life. The students are desperate for it: some earn it by burning the midnight oil sketching reports for so-called undergraduate research; others might gain more by being elected a president of a student social club after a long run of publicity, and, to top it all off, it feels exactly like hitting the jackpot getting an internship in an investment bank. Each of these is a form of Pareto-inefficient competition. There is no chance that their operae magnae won’t eat up their energy and thus drain their leisure time and eventually nullify their campus life that they’re supposed to enjoy. I don’t see any good that comes of it. Pity for a generation that suffers from such tensions from so early an age.

Worse still, this sort of student doesn't really fit into an education system that was originally academy-oriented. In such a situation, hardly can a principal stay from his students' utilitarianism, and keeps faith in academia. Our higher education would be ruined once the staff accepted the status quo and decided to follow such trends, concentrating on vocational education while turning away from the vocation of God. Two proverbs suffice to premonish: “An education is not an education without the bildung of characters”, as well as “science sans conscience n'est que la ruine de l'âme.”

It will all come to an end (and perhaps a doom, too) when new fashions overwhelm the old traditions and every university is filled with competitors seeking financial success and social recognition. But there could be no other ways unless we’ve found a satisfactory hierarchy for the whole civilization and the generations to come. As long as a student has been enrolled in a university, he shall be confronted with a harsh question: fiat pressus, or simply save them till graduation?

The Most Important Thing In Friendship

Zhang Yan 

Translated by Li Xinyi

What is the most important thing in friendship? Various answers apply as the term friendship has long been messed up. Be careful with your definition of friends. A friend in need is not necessarily a friend in deed, and the one that you can count on when in trouble is not either necessarily qualified, even though which is usually the case. They are just companions. Further we are not talking about establishing or merely maintaining a friendship. We are here to seek the core value of friendship, the quality that draws our affection and energy, the single thing that makes friendship different and most cherishable.

友谊中最重要的因素是什么？对这个名词的不同理解产生了鱼龙混杂的答案。审视一下我们对友谊的定义吧：那些在困难中伸出援助之手的人，甚至在危难之时可以依靠的人并不一定是朋友，而只能称作同伴，即使通常只有真正的朋友才如此值得依赖。在这里我们不会谈如何建立或者维护友谊，我们只是想寻求友谊的核心价值：一些让我们为之倾付感情和精力的品质，一种让友谊非比寻常、让人对其无比珍惜的力量。

It is not happiness, which simply makes a mate. It is not understanding or loyalty, which just makes a companion. And it is not a common goal, which just makes a comrade...What is left for friendship then? Love, right, love. But wait―isn’t it for lovers? People got really screwed up here. It is commonly agreed in the modern Western world that friendship is declining and the logic behind it is that intimate relations between men are considered a taboo because of the social over-awareness of homosexuality, and cross-gender friendship falls consequently. How should people be so mean of love when it comes to true friendship?

这种力量不是乐趣，因为共同的享乐造就的仅仅是玩友（或者酒肉朋友――更糟）。彼此的理解或忠诚亦非所求，因为它们只能承载同伴之间的情谊。而共同目标所能召集的是同志而非朋友。浮华褪去，友谊剩下的，只有爱而已。但读者禁不住要问：爱难道不是情人们的卿卿我我，夫妻二人的举案齐眉么？大多数人在这个问题上都存在一些观念的偏差。人们普遍相信当代西方文化中的友谊正在消亡，而隐藏在现象背后的本质在于同性间的亲密关系由于人们对同性恋的过分关注而被认为是一种禁忌。随之而来的还有异性间友谊的衰落。当面对真正的友谊时，为什么所有人都吝啬如此，以至于舍不得付出哪怕一点点爱？

Love is definitely the most important thing in friendship. As we see, it is the withdrawal of love that forced the declining of the latter and its transformation into the inferior companionship or even fellowship. Love in friendship means the recognition of each other as an individual bearing respectful qualities and a noble heart, which is easy to crack without careful guards. It is love that makes Hamlet's friend sang for the "sweet prince". And in extreme cases, a warrior may have an enemy as a friend, for they love each other's pride, and their pride has been twisted with the sacred friendship.

爱，无可辩驳地是友谊中最核心的部分：正如我们所见，如果没有了爱，友谊也将会蜕变成劣等的“交情”乃至于“关系”。这种爱意味着对另一个拥有令人敬仰的品格和尊贵心灵的独立个体的认可――这如玻璃般透明的结晶太容易破碎，只有小心守护才能长久。正是爱让哈姆莱特的朋友们为“亲爱的王子”而歌唱。在极端情况下，一个战士甚至会以他的敌人为友，因为他们因对方的骄傲而互相钦慕，而这种骄傲，也不可避免地成为神圣的友谊的一部分。

Again, be careful with your definition of a friend. And devote your love to a true friendship.

多多审视对朋友的定义，并把爱奉献给真正的友谊。

数分 99 4.00

高代 91 3.85

几何 92 3.88

史纲 81 3.32

军理 78 3.03

英语 85 3.58 

体育 合格 4.00 

总 3.76 -->非常低

A friend in need

It is generally believed that a friend in need must be a friend indeed. However, I, on the contrary, hold the opposite.

The point is, that we're usually less altruistic than assumed, expecting repays as a reward of kindly behaviors. In this sense, many a time those who offer a hand are more investors than friends. They make it an investment and seek interest in it. Or at least they think more friendship than friends.

Take Napoleon for example. When he failed in Waterloo for the first time, many of his fellowmen and followers helped him out of exile whereas the same scene didn't recur after his second failure after which he was imprisoned in southern Atlantic islands for life, for he had been counted useless. This is yet another good illustration of the old saying "Emperors have few friends."

On the other hand, a true friend is someone who'd warn you in advance of a crisis so that you wouldn't get trapped and accept less gratitude than "friends in need". This is to say, he places friends before friendship. But anyway, he won't put you aside when you're really in danger.

In a word, a friend indeed will be a friend in need, but not necessarily the other way around.

从筹安会丑闻看严复晚年的政治思想

 数院07级 李欣意 00701125 

摘要 严复作为中国近代最为重要而又极富争议性的翻译家和思想家之一，一直是中国近代史研究中十分有意义的课题。本文试图通过分析严复早年著作书信和讨论严复对筹安会丑闻以及袁世凯的态度，勾勒出一个较为真实的晚年严复形象，试图说明严复晚年的政治观,并阐明笔者对严复研究的态度。 

Abstract        Being one of the most important and controversial translators and scholars in China modern history, Yen Fu serves as a constant and obsessive topic among historians. By inquiring into his translations, works and letters, this article intends to illustrate the political views of Yen Fu in his late years through his attitude towards the Peace Planning Association (Ch’ou-an Hui) scandal and Yuan Shih-k’ai, and thus reveals the author’s attitude to Yen Fu study.　

关键词 严复 筹安会 袁世凯 君主立宪 中国近代思想史

全文：

 http://asukanokaze.blogbus.com/files/11971232060.doc

The Two Faces of Janus

数院07 李欣意 00701125

In Roman mythology, Janus was the double-faced god of gates, pathways, beginnings, and endings. However, here we're not to discuss janitors but a more visible and ubiquitous namesake of him that lives within all the creatures on earth. He, thus called by far, is Rationality .
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中间的段落 请看 http://asukanokaze.blogbus.com/files/11962591510.doc

In my end is my beginning, quoted T.S. Eliot from Queen Mary of Scots.

最近会有两篇文章放出

我部分转移到校内了

 其实主要是因为平常就没写东西

Too strange a behavior.

 

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Pursuit of a Dream

      A goal is a dream with a deadline: in writing, measurable, identifiable, attainable. 

      We all have dreams. Some may be in every prospect unrealistic, however the rest, which makes up a major part of good desires of human beings, seem reachable and quite convincing. In order to tell them apart from daydreaming, people often add to them a deadline, and consequently call them a goal.

      So as one inquires into this definition, he would surely like to explore the abundant meanings of the word deadline. In the most restricted sense, a deadline is a specified time before which something must be done with. But generally speaking, in terms of goals, a deadline is a limitation and a regulation in the following fields: in its content, attainability and calculability.

      Before we start something, we must make clear what we want is. And the best way is to write it down, because many a time mishap comes when people forgot the real purpose of their labors, and could not keep on with the right direction. Written words could definitely do much better than a blurry impression in reminding us of what we really should aim at. Once written down, it is fixed and definite, and that is where the foundation stone lies.

      Just as we’ve mentioned in the first paragraph, the major difference between a dream and a goal is its realizability, or equivalently attainability. In a dream people could stretch his desire completely, letting his river of imagination flow unlimitedly on the boundless field of possibility, with neither dike of reality nor damp of ability. However when it comes to making goals, a down-to-earth attitude must be accompanied with, for if a target goes much beyond your ability, failure is almost inevitable. Even if succeeded, you’ll have to put too much work on it that it eventually becomes unworthy concerning input/output ratio. We’re rational people and will consider the balance of effort and effect, which is the art of life itself, not just victory of a single campaign in ignorance of the whole war, in comparison of which a general would surely choose the latter.

      Talking about calculability, many of us may ask “why should a goal be measurable and why should I measure it?” The answer is that we must manage goals like a manager. And what effective management calls for is quantity control. Being discussed by Max Weber as the concept of “calculability” in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and in other books as the most important characters of modern capitalist enterprises, it is widely used in contemporary government administration and enterprise management. In particular, the simplest way to quantity control of a goal, is to mark the percentage achieved and yet to be completed, in which the progression could be observed and encouragement would be provided with. And this is to say, works on measurement is not spent in vain. 

      So as we see, a dream becomes a goal when and only it is regulated with a deadline.

Peking University vs what?

Me vs another me?

数学分析（I） Mathematical Analysis (I)  专业必修 5.0 102.0 6.0

数学分析（I）习题 Problem-Solving on Mathematical Analysis (I)  专业必修 0.0 0.0 0.0

高等代数（I） Advanced Algebra (I)  专业必修 5.0 102.0 6.0

高等代数（I）习题 Problem-Solving on Advanced Algebra (I)  专业必修 0.0 0.0 0.0 

几何学 Geometry  专业必修 5.0 102.0 6.0

几何学习题 Problem-Solving on Geometry  专业必修 0.0 0.0 0.0

中国近现代史纲要  全校必修 2.0 34.0 2.0

羽毛球 Badminton  全校必修 1.0 34.0 2.0

军事理论 Theory of Military  全校必修 2.0 34.0 2.0

大学英语（四） College English (IV)  全校必修 2.0 34.0 2.0

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又 我的新邮箱只愿意接受文本

我的新邮箱：  Xinyi_Li At pku.edu.cn  并请抄送至ArthurTLee At yahoo.com.cn

寝室信号真糟糕。

机房还不错。

明日启程

此去经年 应是良辰好景虚设

如题

四个人 十个保送资格..

学号	Private information	民    族	汉族
姓名	李欣意	省    市	四川省
性别	男	生    日	1988-8-24
年级	2007　级	学    制	4年
类别	本科生	党    派	中国共产主义青年团团员
系所	数学科学学院	身份证号	Private information
床位	燕园36楼224房间－01床	宿舍电话	Phone number not open to public.
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Roommates:

00701005	卢道帝	2007	本科生	数学科学学院	燕园36楼224房间－04床
00701140	陈渝嘉	2007	本科生	数学科学学院	燕园36楼224房间－02床
00701002	晋捷	2007	本科生	数学科学学院	燕园36楼224房间－03床

不过说实话 我的农历生日是明天....