appreciation

These days, I got a task that gives me lots of inspiration about translation. It challenged me, and I enjoyed it completely.
I met difficulties, of course. My traslating ability is poor; lacking of skill and experience makes me stired;the unfamiliarality with the original material bothered me a lot; even my eyes were tensed with the electrical rays. However, I am patient enough to go through every words and revise it again and again. I shoulder the responsibilty to express its original meanings without misleading. I acted as a bridge to link the writer and reader, and get a lot from the play too.
Maybe it can be regarded as boring stuff, because you are repeting other’ s ideas and thoughts. However, you are creating at the same time, for you are inventing another language system to convey the same idea. Once you find the interlock of the two kinds of languages, you are rewarded.
So, translation is a good choice for students who are learnig language.

It is true that one can bore to death. It is a pitty that one aimless person leads to an idle life, and still doesn’t sense it. I like to fill my schedule, and be busy at every moment.
Once your daily life is well planed, you will feel satisfied, and fall asleep easily. Then tomorrow is another day, with all new business and challenges.
Being busy, even with trifles, you are in well condition. It is an effective way to forget about sorrow, worry and pain. You can go through the most hard time by focusing on another business. In other words, you need to keep your mind busy thinking, but avoiding the most troublesome things. Think other stuff or think the specific difficulty in another way.
Besides, being busy gives me sense of fulfillment.And if you keep busy with all your life, you are worth of it. Moreover, it should includes being busy having fun and relaxing.
All in all, no idle time, no vaccum space. To be full.

Tao or Dao refers to a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese

philosophy and religion. Tao is central to Taoism, but Confucianism also refers to it. Most

debates between proponents of one of the Hundred Schools of Thought could be summarized

in the simple question: who is closer to the Tao, or, in other words, whose “Tao” is the most

powerful? As used in modern spoken and written Chinese, Tao has a wide scope of usage

and meaning. Tao may be rendered as religion, morality, duty, knowledge, rationality, ultimate

truth, path, or taste. Its semantics vary widely depending on the context. Tao is generally

translated into English as “The Way”.

The philosophic and religious use of the character can be analyzed in two main segments:

one meaning is “doctrine” or “discourse”; every school owns and defends a specific Tao or

discourse about doctrine. In the other meaning, there is the ‘Great Tao’, that is the source of

and guiding principle behind all the processes of the universe. Beyond being and non-being, prior to space and time, Tao is the intelligent ordering principle behind the unceasing

flow of change in the natural world. In this sense Tao gains great cosmological and

metaphysical significance comparable to the Judaeo-Christian concept of God (albeit stripped of anthropomorphic characteristics); the Greek

concept of the logos; or the Dharma in Indian religions.

The nature and meaning of the Tao received its first full exposition in the

Daode Jing (Tao Te Ching) of Laozi, a work which along with those of Confucius and

Mencius would have a far-reaching effect on the intellectual, moral and religious life of the Chinese people. Although

a book of practical wisdom in many ways, its profoundly metaphysical character was unique

among the prevailing forms of thought in China at that time. The religion and philosophy

based on the teaching of Laozi and his successor Zhuangzi is known in English as “Taoism.”

Even if often said to be undefinable and unexplainable with words (even Chinese ones), the

present article focuses on the Tao of Taoism.

The special schedule of our school gives me a lot of spare me. I have been curious about the part-time job and living-on-yourself discipline for a long time. Working experience seems much more important than certificates and knowledge.As a result, college students tried to many part-time jobs to gain experience.
However, what is neglected is that their study is becoming worse and worse. It turns hard for them to concentrate and have full attention during the classes. They have to think more about social activities rather than books.consequently, they wind up with normal ability and unextradinary skills and average personality. They abandon their ideal specialty,and pursue something far from necessity. That is the point of tragedy, as many senior students have regreted, realized and warned.
To sum up, I’ like to remind myself, as well as all my fellow classmates, that study is your prime business in the university. You should work quite hard on it, and achieve something, reaching to a higher and unusual level and standard.

I realized that I have not smiled sincerely for a long time. Everyday, I felt unpleased and bothered. A kind of cynical. It is all the more difficult for me to find fun. Jobs, society, social community, communication, competition, struggle and my future… Everything is so complicated. I am always told that life is hard. That is true, and now I am experiencing it. Many a time, I am wondering between the social environment and the pure university life, hesitated.Am I old ?
After some attempts to find some part-time job, I stopped.
I prefer school life. Since the precious time for study is limited, I have to get something and learn something. What I need is to find my own specialty.This reminds me of a remark: ten ten percent isn’t equal to 100 percent. Once you are necessary for a particular post, you succeed. Once you make your decision, keep doing it invariably.
Cherish the two years left, do something worth it.
One of my classmates mentioned that I lack sense of humor. How terrible it will be. I prefer to believe that these days I am a little messed up, and I am optimistic in nature, right? I am young and full of passion, of course. Maybe I don’t show my mood or emtion obviously,and always keep serious in class. In fact, however, I am active and easy-going.So, I should have fun. My college life should be joyful, cheerful and full of happiness.

These days, we don’t have so few classes that I have a lot of spare time. It is certain that I should do something special and useful. I am trying to get opportunities to find some part-time jobs.
The first attempt was to promote sales, but I have never thought about how complicated it is. You have to join in an agentcy, then wait for the information. Once informed, you should apply for it. When you meet the manager, you must be confident and competent so that you can pass the interview. Within several days, you will have to do the retrial. It will never end until they nod.
The second phase is training. It should be at least your third time to come. You must get familiar with the company, the products, the promoting process. You are likely to practice it too. You need to be extrovert, active, smart and persuasive. The more people you convince, the more you earn.
Finally, you do your task, and make sure you have sold enough, or you will be dismissed.
So it is really not as easy as you have imagined. Sometimes I think it doesn’ t suit me. On the othre hand, you want to something new, and challenge yourself. It is hard to make the decision.The core point, I suppose ,should be the one that make you happy.

I am shocked to find that I am of little account. People around me are so excellent. They all have their own merits which are worth admire.
First, some of my classmates are so kind that they are happy to help others. They can think in others’ role, and be so nice and generous to all, whether intimate or acquaintant one. We should remember the more you give, the more you gain. I have always thought that I am nice, but now I am a small potato comparing with them.
I just got that one of my roommates are extraordinary in piano, which I hardly sensed the past two years. She was so humble that she didn’t even want to tell others. I asked why. She merely told me that it was in the past. She reminds me of that saying: “ the real wise one always keep quiet before others”. That never show off.
I am ashamed that I always want to get others’ compliment even with a very negligible progress. That is so stupid. I have always tried to be the best, the most excellent one. However we all know that everyone is the best for their own part. They all have their own blessings. It is impossible for you to be better than others in all aspects. You can only be the best “you”. You are your own enemy, and also your supporter.

Tomorrow is the time for TEM-4, which I have been prepared for months. Everyday, I have forced my self to do several kinds of simulated tests, which have been a very tough and annoying task. Sometimes I get tired of it, and wished to get rid of it, and never touch it again. But, for sure, I didn’t and could not really give it up.  They can just be complaints, hardship and barriers that I make up my mind to get over.

Now, it is almost over. I should be released. With no pressure and not much to think about, I will face it tomorrow. I only need to do my best. That is enough.

Looking back on all the process, I am wondering what is exam for. For a certificate, for priviledge of a good job, for testing your ability, for choosing the most qualified person for a specific position or for getting reward and achievement after a long time effort?

They are all real. Unfortunately, however, I don’t think they are good for our study and improvement.

What have you learned after so much time to prepare for an exam? Indeed, only exam skills—the ability to judge or choose the best answer? The keen observation to find the most relevanted information? The analysing ability to get to the point? To give replies closest to the right answers? To display your “molded” opinions so that you can please the teacher who can give you high marks? They are ridiculous!

What kind of knowledge have learned? None! It is even less useful than being a sales promoter which ensure you to live on your own, to deal with all situations and emergency.

Can we live on exam? Of course not! But we have to do it. The only wise attitude is to master it, to conquer it. Then taking all these exams under our own control, and work on our own!

Exams really have lots of defects, and now I have realized it gradually.

I am sorry that I have been oppressed by it for years. I haven’t gotten any fun from it. SAD AND PITY

I have seen a movie, named “World Trade Center”. We all know the unprecedented disaster, 9-11 , and it was so terrible that not only caused a lot of casualty, pain, fear and concern, but also triggered the Iraq war. The movie tells the story that policemen from harbor bureau got the mission to help resue the victims, but were trapped under the rubble after the building collapsed an hour later. There is no doubt that the terrorists are so cruel that they gave the whole nation and even the whole world so much trouble and mischief. People all over the world should join together to oppose any action which will do harm to the world peace.

What I want to emphasis is, however,  that human beings are so frail and negligible when confronted with death. Any difficulties, frustration and sorrow cannot compare to the despair when you are in the face of death and must strive to live.  At that moment, it seemed that you become mature abruptly and those daily trifles are insignificant. It gives you the precious time and space to think about all your life. You will be grateful to your family,  friends and even strangers; appreciate all creatures, landscape and neighbourhood; look back on your past, the good and the bad, and all your behavior. You have never been so eager to have more time to finish all your stuff left. There is no lure or greed, but pure wish of living. That is the moment when you are the ideal “you”.

Most of us don’t have the opportunity to experience that special event, but how meaningful and instructive it would be if everyone were ”blessed” to imagine how would they do it under similar circumstances. Then we will know how precious life is.

Never give up. Life is all you have and all you need.  Just live your life!

Yesterday was tomb-sweeing day, and we had a three days’ holiday. My high school classmates went to Tianjin together. It was so joyful and exciting.
I struggled to get up at six in the morning, washing, packing unhurried. Finishing my breakfast, I went to the bus station, got on a bus, then subway. When I arrived at the railway station where my classmates were supposed to be waiting for me. I called one of them, but unfortunately she answered me,” I am so sorry, but you are too late to catch the train.” They were already on the train, and ticket examining had finished several minutes ago, and that means I had to wait for the next train, and went to Tianjin myself.
I am always so careless that many incidents have happened to me. I am always the one who can’t do as we have planed. Both funny and annoying.
Finally, I reached successfully, without more unexpected trouble. I was surprised that we got 14 members altogether. We had a grand lunch which was made up of various delicious cuisine. We recalled our high school time, other classmates and our conscientious teachers. We shared our experience in college, our gain and lose, happiness and sorrow. After the joy of food, we visited the culture street, and food street where a great many traditional handcraft and dessert was exhibited.
They were so gentle and hospitable that we were all moved and unwilling to say goodbye when they accompanied us to the station. I had no idea how grateful we were. I cherish the friendship, and the most important element of it should be sincerity and frankness.
We study together, and made progress by cooperation and competition. We hold the same principle and ambition, and any one of us will explore our own way of life. What is certain is that we all have bright future. I want to wish everyone good luck.