• 今天的一切都很好,只是差了一杯酒。

    北京的intime是我见过的最好的intime。洗手间的皮革凳子和化妆台以及滚烫的热水彻底把我融化了。

    经过Tuersday Island。飘过飘过......我的工作,你在哪里...

    牛扒工厂实在太厚道,再次被撑死。

    某人买的TOUGH的包好好看,以后借我偶尔背背吧。

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    另外,复习的第一步,就是扫盲。

    “By the skin of my teeth”就是出自《圣经》中的《约伯记》。犹太人约伯在受到上帝的百般非难之后说道: “My bone cleaveth to my skin, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth”(直译:我的皮肉贴着骨头,我同牙齿的皮肤一起逃了出来。) 

    有必要讨论一下“the skin of teeth”这种奇怪说法,牙齿怎么会有皮肤呢?古人的用意我们已经无从查考,今天的一种理解是:“the skin of the teeth”指的是牙齿表层的牙釉质。可怜的约伯用了一个形象的比喻:他的逃生空间就像是牙釉质那样薄薄的一层。自此以后,“by the skin of one's teeth”就被用来表示涉险逃生的意思。大作家王尔德(Thornton Wilder)有部作品The Skin of Our Teeth,就被国人翻译成《九死一生》。 

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    Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron ClarkOMCHKCBFBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation. In 1969, he achieved an international presence as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series,Civilisation.

    Clark the broadcaster

    An indefatigable lecturer in both academic and broadcast settings, Clark's mastery was to make accessible complex and profound subject matter that could then be appreciated by an extremely broad audience. He was one of the founders, in 1954, of the Independent Television Authority, serving as its Chairman until 1957, when he moved to ITA's rival BBC. In 1969 he wrote and presented Civilisation for BBC television, a series on the history of Western civilisation as seen through its art. Also broadcast on PBS in 1969, Civilisation was successful on both sides of the Atlantic, gaining Clark an international profile. According to Clark, the series was created in answer to the growing criticism of Western Civilisation, from its value system to its heroes. In 1970, the Irish national newspaper TV critics honoured Clark with a Jacob's Award for Civilisation.[1]

    A self-described "hero-worshipper", Clark proved to be an ardent pro-individualist, Humanist and anti-marxist. His comments on the subject of 1960s radical University students, from a final episode of Civilisation, are but one example of his extremely critical view of Post Modernism in all its contemporary forms: "I can see them [the students] still through the University of the Sorbonne, impatient to change the world, vivid in hope, although what precisely they hope for, or believe in, I don't know." - Clark, Civilisation, Episode 12.

    Clark believed in the sublime and noble nature of man, and his quiet, witty and often devastating criticism of environmentalism, the Monarchy, religious authoritarianism and Statism continues to win him praise from a wide range of the political spectrum, most notably from those of a Classical Liberal and Objectivist mind-set. And yet, Clark was also able to see the Church as a repository for the best minds that the West had produced, a place where men of action were necessarily attracted. A highly tolerant man, in discussing those with whom he disagreed, Clark was able in a dignified and respectful manner, to illustrate his differences along with effectively expressing his praise.

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    要睡觉了,我还是很撑。。。。我迟早变成全世界最胖的猪。