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By Malcolm Moore at East China Normal University, Minhang
Last Updated: 4:23PM GMT 26 Dec 2008

Forty years after millions of students were sent to the provinces during the Cultural Revolution, the economic downturn has forced students to head for rural areas once again.

A record 5.6 million students will graduate this year, according to government figures, and jobs are scarce. They will have to compete with the 700,000 graduates from 2007 who remain jobless. Major international companies are now receiving tens of thousands of desperate applications for every available post.

In response, the Chinese government has turned the clock back to embrace Chairman Mao's "Shang Shan Xia Xiang", or "Climb the Mountains and Go down to the Villages" policy from 1968.

Almost 17 million teens were sent out of China's cities in the belief that they would be transformed by living among ideologically pure peasants. Many members of China's current leadership spent spells in the countryside, and President Hu Jintao helped build a dam on the Yellow River for a year.

The scheme continued until 1980, but was criticised as a means of expelling "class enemies", or anyone who dared to dissent, from the centres of Chinese power.

Next year, however, the government "will recruit over 30,000 college graduates to go to rural and western regions to teach," said the ministry of Education, adding that it had rapidly expanded the scheme in order to cope with the rising levels of unemployment.

Not only is the jobs market stuttering, but the flow of students is greater than ever before. Between 1999 and 2006, the number of graduates quintupled, flooding the labour market and depressing wages.

"Graduates who choose to work in remote and rural areas for a required period will be exempt from paying college tuition fees and the government will pay off their student loans," promised the ministry.

The People's Liberation Army is also hiring. Students who enlist have been promised the chance to study in army universities and of "quick promotions".

Gao Hui, a 20-year-old postgraduate political sciences student at East China Normal University on the outskirts of Shanghai said that she had "always wanted to be a teacher; it was either teaching or joining the army".

Miss Gao, and three other students had to come top of their class to qualify for a chance to be sent for a year to Wuding, a town of around 300,000 people in Yunnan, a province that borders Vietnam, Laos and Burma in China's south west.

"We had to take a written exam and then had face-to-face interviews to get this post," said Miss Gao, adding that they had beaten dozens of other students to the position because of their ideological conviction.

After the four students from East China University have spent a year teaching 16 and 17-year-olds in a middle school, they will return to Shanghai to resume their postgraduate studies.

Their only fear is not harsh living conditions, but whether their limited teaching experience will be a hindrance, they chime. They will each have their costs paid, and will earn a stipend of 600 rmb (£60) a month, more than twice the average wage of a peasant, but a fraction of what they could be paid in Shanghai.

"We are very excited. Peasants are simple-minded, honest and have integrity," said Wu Chenhao, a 20-year-old maths student. "As a Shanghainese, I need to broaden my vision." She added: "Among the other students there are many who are trying to go to the countryside in order to put off entering the jobs market, because of the pressures of employment.

But I think after a year with the peasants they will be different people.

They cannot help but change."

最后发表： nizi
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一种绿色小瓶子的，苹果味道的啤酒，竟然没有留意酒的牌子和包装，我现在是真的太盲目了，哈哈！确实很好喝。
谢谢各位！

最后发表： dragut
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not at all. take it easy.

最后发表： 歪拉
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泛背我觉的自己还可以,词汇量怎么说呢, 我认识的不少,甚至包括一些您所说的派生的用法. 但是如果将他们转变为自己的语言灵活使用起来,差距还是相当大的.
我个人感觉语言的相通的, 经常我自己在博客里写的文章我都觉的自己的中文写作水平真的属于流水帐或者记叙性质的.
英文阅读里的长句我可以看懂它想要表达的意思,但是如果让我用中文翻译出来,经常的结果是写出来的中文我自己都看着别扭. 上外院的同学除了学外语,还开了很多中文的精品阅读课程. 我想也是这个原因吧.
我很赞同您说的学习方法, 语言学习是一生的事情, 也许我一辈子也无法达到某种层次,但是进步也不会停止的.
现在最首要的目的是短期内通过考试, 还是希望您能在这方面多给提点行之有效的建议. 虽然知道有点急功近利,但是多年受这样的教育下来,惯性已经很难消除了.

最后发表： 采薇子
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Please give me this one.


  有这句话就足够了，哈哈~

最后发表： 采薇子
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  这个事情可能需要小仙及其他大侠帮你了，因为我没有这些经验……
不过听了你的说明，只要如是写清楚税务局需要的信息就可以了吧？
要么你把中文写好贴出来，我帮你翻译也成？

PS：你是在呼唤哪位帮主呢？嘿嘿，我是可爱帮帮主
不过我们坛子里的帮派可就多了哟~

最后发表： ritaclin
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纪录片应该用的slang比较少吧，口音不一样，习惯了就好

最后发表： fitter
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工资单中辅助薪点等怎么翻译？
工资单中：
辅助薪点、
计生费、
水电费、
高温津贴、
独生子女费

怎么翻译？谢谢！

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办公室礼仪英语：上班第一天
本文由倍可亲网友[ 蓝蓝的天 ] 于 2008-12-20 22:56 上贴
原文网址： http://club.backchina.com/main/viewthread.php?tid=733335

Zhang Hai: Good morning Mr Mo, it's a pleasure to meet you again.
张海：早上好，莫先生，我很荣幸再见到您。
Mo: Nice to see you, if you work hard, skys the limits here.
莫：很高兴见到你，好的开始是成功的一半。希望你前途无量。
Zhang Hai: Thanks, shall I meet my colleagues?
张海：谢谢，我能见见同事吗？
Mo: Sure, come with me.
莫：当然可以，跟我来。
Mo: Yi Di, I would like you to meet our new comer, Zhang Hai, he just graduated from Qinghua University.
莫：易迪，我向你介绍一位新同事张海，他刚刚从清华大学毕业。
Yi Di: Nice to meet you.
易迪：很高兴见到你。
Zhang Hai: I am new to the working world and would appreciate your guidance.
张海：我没有什么工作经验，请你多指教。
Yi Di: That's all right, I will try my best to assist if you need any help.
易迪：别客气，如果需要帮忙，我会尽力的。
Zhang Hai: Great!
张海：太好了。
Mo: Well, as other guys are still not in, I'll introduce you to them later.
莫：其他人还没来，我晚些时候介绍给你。
Zhang Hai: All right.
张海：好的。

最后发表： flch0606
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学语言还是要靠环境的吧，我以前邻居厨师移民，住在华人区，平时工作生活大都用母语，上次回来交流下英文真不匝地，所以有机会还是多跟洋人交流，自然提高更快

最后发表： half
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Thanks a lot.

最后发表： 乘船看鲸
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谢谢！
我主要是想弄清楚这一类的句子表达的是什么意思
而不是想知道这件事情的结果

最后发表： 我是老人
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moved

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我来之前也没有考，趁你还在国内就好好学英语吧，我来这边后就后悔了，来这边再学有点耽误时间了

已加了你msn，回头聊

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坦诚地说,

能看懂字面,但是不太容易体会这篇的意境,这可能就是文化环境导致的吧

[ 本帖最后由 jlcgydzq 于 19-12-2008 00:52 编辑 ]

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看名言，学英语：海伦凯勒篇(5)

作者：海伦凯勒 译者：David Lee

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【海伦凯勒语录】

1. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
安全，大致上来说，是一种迷信。它并不存在于自然当中…生命要不然是一场无畏大胆的冒险，要不然就是一无所有。

2. Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
科学可能对大多数的恶行，找到了某种治疗方式；但对于最严重的恶行──人类的无情，却没有找到治疗方法。

3. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
许多人对于“真正的快乐是如何构成的”有一种错误的想法。真正的快乐并不是透过自我满足达到的，而是透过对一项有价值的目标的忠诚。

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看名言，学英语：圣雄甘地篇(3)

作者：甘地 译者：David Lee

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【甘地语录】

1. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
弱者从未能宽恕，宽恕是强者的属性。

2. When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
当我绝望时，我记起所有历史上真理与爱的道路，总是获胜。也一直有专制者、谋杀者，一时间似乎是不可一世，但最后他们总是衰亡。永远想着这个真理。

最后发表： 我是老人
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HORSE,BEAUTIFUL

最后发表： ritaclin
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
一定要结婚；如果你娶到好妻子，你会很快乐。如果你娶到坏妻子，你会成为哲学家。

--------------poor man

最后发表： 熊猫阿三
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A
ACE：非常好，最好。例子：“She's ace!”





B
BARRACK (FOR)： 异常兴奋地欢呼（通常用于体育比赛队伍）。
BEAUT/BEAUTY/BEWDY!： 表示赞成。
BLOKE： 男人、家伙。
BLOODY： 澳洲感叹词。
BOB'S YOUR UNCLE： 一切顺利；万事皆安。
BOGAN：没有时尚感的人。





C
CAKKING：捧腹大笑。
C'ARN!： “加油”的缩写，在澳洲体育赛事中可听见该词。
CHARGE LIKE A WOUNDED BULL： 定价十分昂贵。
CHIPS： 炸薯条。
CHOOK： 小鸡。
CLUEY： 聪明，有智慧
COBBER：朋友。




D
DINKUM：真实的、真正的。




F
FULL ON：强烈的。





G
G'DAY： 澳大利亚人一般的问候用语，通常是男性使用。
GOOD ON YOU：（通常读作“goodonya”）。表示恭喜或赞成。
GOOG：鸡蛋。





M
MATE：普通的称呼。常用于男人之间。





R
RIPPER：好极了！棒极了！





S
SANGER： 三明治。
SHE’LL BE RIGHT： 会好起来的。
SHOCKER： 味道不好的东西或不喜欢的东西。
SPUNK：性感或好看的人。





T
TA：谢谢你。





U
UNI：大学。




Y
YONKS：很长一段时间，长久。例子：“Haven't seen you for yonks!”

最后发表： espress74
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谢谢点评, 还望以后多多向你学习!!!

最后发表： fhyzhl
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这几天看了看电影诺丁山，发现通过看电影学英语真的不错，应该是英音，又有乐趣，又可以学口语。我打算多次重复的看，如果能背下来就好了，口语应该会有一定的提高。哪位同志对看电影学英语有经验，拜托也给支支招，推荐几部可以用于学习的影片，谢谢了。

最后发表： keepdancing
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不反对instant photo，类似说法有instant noodles

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最后发表： 采薇子
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In our jobs, we may have occasions to communicate with people in other countries or from other cultures.Whether we are buying, selling, consulting, or simply trying to obtain informatoin, we will need to get across ideas to an audience we are not used to dealing with. Just as we need to understand the characteristics of our audience when we communicate with others from our own country, we need to understand something about the culture, business customs, and communication styles of foreign audiences.
    在我们的工作中,我们可能有机会同来自其他文化国度的外国人打交道. 无论是做买卖、协商，还是仅仅获得信息，我们都需要使那些我们从未与之打过交道的人弄明白我们的意思。正如当我们同本国同胞打交道时需要懂得他们的特点一样，我们也需要了解外国交往对象的文化背景、商业习俗以及交谈风格。

    Here, then, are some tips to assist you in your intercultural communications.
    这里有一些建议能帮助你在国际交往中成功。

    1、Be Clear And Simple.   简明清楚。

    Whether communicating orally or in writting, avoid long, complex sentences, highly technical language, jargon, and colloquialisms. Don't be condescending, but do use simpler words when they are available.
    无论用口头或书面形式交往，要避免长句和复合句、高新的技术词语、行话以及俚语。不要显得屈尊俯就，但要尽量用简明的词语。


   2、Don't Assume That Someone You Hear Speaking English Will Understand You.
    不要以为讲英语的人都能听懂你的话。

    If you talk too fast, slur your words or have an accent, ever a foreigner who seems to speak perfect English will have a hard time following you. An added problem is that many English-speaking foreigners are too polite to let you know they haven't understood.
    如果你讲话太快，吞音或有口音，即使讲一口流利英语的外国人也很难听懂你的话。再者，问题是许多计英语的外国人很有礼貌，他们不会告诉你他们没有听懂你的话。


    3、Learn The business Customs And Terminology Of Those You Will Be Communicating With.
    了解你交往对象的商业习俗和术语。

    For exaple, we use the metric system of measurement, the US uses a different system of measurement. And many coutries use the day/month/year/ system for dating as opposed to the US system of month/day/year. A meeting arranged in one of these countries on 7.5.89 is scheduled for May, not July.
    例如：我们使用公制计量法而美国却使用一种不同的计量法。还有，许多国家写日期的顺序是日、月、年，而美国的顺序却是月、日、年。如果在前者某一国家开会，会议时间定为“7。5。89”，这是指在5月开会，而不是在7月。


4、Use Written Messsages Whenever Possible. 尽可能用书面形式交往。

    You read English more easily than you understand spoken English. If you communicate by phone, follow up with a confirmation in writting to guard against miscommunication.
    阅读英语比听懂英语要容易。如果你打电话进行交往，打完后要写下一份书面实录，以防止误解。


   5、Don't Be In A Hurry To Get To The Point.    不要匆忙作出判断。

    Europeans, Africans, and Arabs in particular, are put off by the straight-to-the -point style of North American business communication. They prefer a more round-about approach.
    欧洲人、非洲人，尤其是阿拉伯人，对北美洲商人在交往中的直率作风感到不快。他们喜欢比较迂回的交际方式。


    6、Don't Ask Questions That Require A Yes Or No Answer.
      不要提那些答案是“是”或“不是”的问题。

    Whereas North Americans tend to say yes when they mean yes and no when they mean no, that's simple not the case in most other cultures. In Asian countries, for example, it is considered impolite to say no, so Asians may answer affirmatively if only to mean "yes, I heard you." Europeans, on the other hand, may initially react negtively to any question, but they actually mean "maybe" or "it depends." In many countries, the answer you get is what the person thinks you want to hear.
    北美洲人心里想说“是”就说“是”，心里想说“不是”就说“不是”，而在其他许多国家，情况就根本不是这样。例如：在亚洲国家，说“不”被认为是不礼貌的，因此亚洲人的肯定回答可能只是说“是的，我听到你说的了。”另一方面，欧洲人对任何问题开始都可能作出否定的反应，但是，实际上他们的意思是“可能（或许）”或“看情况再说（视情况再定）”。在许多国家，你所得下马看花回答是同你交往的人认为你想听到的话。


    7、Earn About The Country's Body Language.    懂得外国的身体动作语言。

    Gestures have various meanings in different places. In Yugoslavia turning the head from side to side means yes; in Japan, looking someone in the eye is considered judgmental or hostile; and in Ghana, thumbs up is a rude gestures. To avoid giving offense, keep your hands quiet.
    在不是地方姿势有着不同的意思。在南斯拉夫，摇头意味着“是”；在日本，正视某人的眼睛被认为是指责或有敌意；在加纳，翘大姆指是粗鲁手势。为了避免得罪他人，双手最好是别乱动。


    8、control Your Style Of Expression.   表达方式要克制。

    The North American style of expressing emotions is considered impulsive and wild by Asians but restrained and cold by Latin Americans. You need to be aware of how your habits of emotional expression will affect peoplei n a particular culture.
    亚洲人认为，北美洲人表达情感的方式是冲动和狂热的，而拉丁美洲人却认为他们是克制的和冷静的。你必须明白你表达情感的习惯在某一特定文化背景下会对人们产生何种影响。


   9、Don't Interrupt Periods Of Silence.   不要在沉默时插话。

    Many foreigners are offended by the North American penchant for jumping in to fill any gaps in a conversation. Speakers in many cultures enjoy periods of silence and use them to gather their thoughts. Be patient. Allow the person to formulate what he or she wants to say, and try not to be "helpful" by putting words into the other person's mouth.
    北美洲人爱在交谈间隙中插话许多外国人对此感到不愉快。许多国家的人喜欢在谈话中间有沉默的间隙，以便进行思考。此时，要耐心。让人家琢磨好自己想要说的话，落要试图插话”帮助“人家把话讲出来。

最后发表： 想念天空
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悉尼时间7：43，来支持下楼主！
加油。

最后发表： zhanglianwei
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应该是可以的，只有你的学时还在，你没去过应该去面试一下就可以学了

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Thirty Years After Deng: The Man Who Changed China
By Michael Elliott Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008

When students ask me who was the most memorable character I've met, I never know how to reply. Was it Nelson Mandela, with a steel-trap political sense sneaking out from under the surface charm and grace? Or Margaret Thatcher in her pomp, allying clarity of thought to an utter conviction in the rightness of her judgment? Or Bill Clinton in 1991, fizzing with ideas and intellectual curiosity, before we knew how indiscipline would diminish him? Or any one of countless others?
It's an impossible choice. But when it comes to the leaders of modern times whom I never met, but would dearly have loved to, there's no contest. I'd give anything to have sat down with a tiny — barely 5 feet tall — bridge-playing chain smoker who used the spittoon liberally and had a weakness for croissants. And I'd ask him: Did you have any idea what you were doing?
It is exactly 30 years since the conclusion of the Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the meeting that consolidated Deng Xiaoping's position as China's leader and laid the groundwork for a generation of economic reform. In 1978, Deng was the great survivor. He had been a party member for nearly 60 years, and had been purged more often than a top model's digestive tract, only to claw his way back to the leadership. China was desperate. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were a fresh memory. As Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin this year, in 1978 "the country was in a backward state ... with the economy on the brink of collapse."
Deng was no student of the dismal science. He once said, "I am a layman in the field of economics. I proposed China's economic policy of opening to the outside world, but as for the details or specifics of how to implement it, I know very little indeed." But he knew enough to let others lead. The reforms that Deng blessed started in the countryside, where farmers were allowed to sell surplus produce and, in time, were allowed to farm their own land on long leases rather than as part of a commune. "Township and village enterprises" — small firms, many of which grew rapidly in size — sprang up. Prices were freed. As the success of reform became evident in the countryside, it was gradually extended to the cities. Deng endorsed the creation of Special Economic Zones, islands of capitalism in a communist society. (The most famous SEZ, Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, knows whom to thank for its prosperity; Deng's statue graces a square in the city.) So China started that long run of supercharged economic growth that has made it the workshop of the world. (See pictures of China hosting the Beijing Olympics.)
And — more to the point — Deng's reforms improved the life chances of more people, faster, than has ever been done before in the history of humankind. To be sure, you can still find poverty in China. Traveling deep in rural Guizhou province this fall, I saw damp villages where the homes were mean huts and families eked a living from rocky hillsides. But everyone had shoes, and nobody looked malnourished.
It is by now an axiom that a generation of breakneck economic growth has brought its own problems. Modern China is not charming. Many of its towns and cities are desperately ugly and shoddily built, workers have few rights, and environmental disasters abound. As global demand contracts, China's export-led, manufacturing-heavy economy is now facing a sharp downturn. Moreover, the accepted narrative of China — that Deng opened up and modernized an old-fashioned and hermetic economy — needs much qualification. Recent historical research has stressed that China was modernizing and internationalizing fast, if imperfectly, in the half-century between the late Qing dynasty and the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937. And for all his twinkling eyes, Deng was tough. Together with a group of party elders, it was he who gave the go-ahead for the army to crush the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, snuffing out the hope that real political reform would accompany changes in the economy.
Yet for all the caveats, there is something stupendous about Deng's achievement. (This magazine certainly has long thought so; he is one of only four non-Americans to have twice been named TIME's Person of the Year.) A friend of mine in Hong Kong describes what is happening in China today like this: Think of a quarter of the world's population — with all its good and bad, beauty and ugliness — rejoining the mainstream of human development after centuries when it stood to the side.
That is the great story of our time. It is our story, everyone's story — not just China's. And it is Deng's legacy.

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加拿大的一早就HOLD了一批的申请了，管它什么年度配额，各位可以安然度假，暂时别把移民当一回事了，呵呵呵呵

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谢谢big!

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不知道 楼主是否吃过 一种 grilled fish fillet 或者grilled octopus.
一般海鲜店 给cooked 估计都有. 放铁板上 grill 然后 +chips 柠檬之类的.
工艺非常简单 .就是不知道他是用什么调料.
如果知道调料 以后 晚饭 就直接做这个了 非常快.

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有澳洲的广播台
我现在就天天听
锻炼听力

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自己顶

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戈扬访谈录
发信站：天益社区（http://bbs.tecn.cn），版面：人物春秋
本文链接：http://bbs.tecn.cn/viewthread.php?tid=309556


Journalist Ge Yang joined the Chinese Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War. She worked as a writer and editor for Chinese news organs before and after the Communists came to power in 1949, but she was eventually denounced as counterrevolutionary, and, like millions of her comrades, she was exiled to a work camp in the countryside. This interview, which was conducted for COLD WAR in February 1997, has been translated from Mandarin.
On becoming a communist:
I'd actually joined the struggle against Japan in 1937 as part of the Nationalist forces, but then I found that Kuomintang was too corrupt and was not democratic. The Nationalists had a one-party system, and I thought that the Communists would be better. Also, the Communist propaganda at that time was very critical of the Nationalists: it said that they were very, very bad; only the Communist Party was good: it was democratic, it was egalitarian, and it promised food for all. So the ideal of communism gradually entered my soul. I joined the Communist Party.
At that time I was a news worker, working for the New China News Agency, and all the people I interviewed felt that the Kuomintang had to collapse. At that time the money which the Kuomintang used was already valueless, and the [money] which the Communist Party used was very valuable. ... The Kuomintang was in a state of total collapse, and so all the people I interviewed felt that the most hope was with the Communist Party. ... Also the communists had promised to redistribute the land and get rid of the landlords. This was the way that it managed to unite all the poor peasants. In addition to this, it promised that the workers would control everything; this was, of course, their slogan, and it gave a lot of hope to the working class. Most people in the cities believed that socialism would no longer allow people to starve. Everybody was very happy.
On the evolution of Chinese communism:
Most of the uneducated people in society had great hopes for the Communist Party and gave it their full-hearted support; but those who felt positive towards the Kuomintang and the Americans, and opposed the Communist Party, had to keep quiet about this. So on the surface everybody seemed to be positive about the Communist Party. The Communist Party knew this, and so in 1951 it launched a great campaign to repress counter-revolutionaries across the country. All the Kuomintang officers who were arrested were killed. Of course the ordinary soldiers weren't killed -- it depended on their ranks -- but an awful lot of people were killed. ...
At that time we thought that both China and Russia had one ideal, and that was to achieve communism. I believed in the same ideal; so we thought that Sino-Soviet relations was a good thing. But after I visited the Soviet Union in 1953, my mind began to change. On the one hand I began seeing problems with the Communist Party. ... Our magazine established two columns: one was called "Little Stories from Life"; the other was "Little Critique." The "Little Stories from Life" was based on letters, which came from all over the country, reflecting people's experiences and confidence in the Communist Party. The "Little Critique" consisted of criticisms of bad aspects of society: bureaucracy, corruption, waste, etc. At first, there were many, many letters to the "Little Stories from Life" column; they came from all over the country, and there were so many that they filled up several bags; we couldn't even read them all. But there were hardly any letters to the "Critique" column. We couldn't find any to fill the column; we had to get somebody to specially write for it. But then after two or three years, there was a complete reversal of this situation: there were plenty of critical articles, criticizing bureaucracy, waste, corruption -- criticizing the Communist Party. But we couldn't find any of the positive stories. This had a big impact on me: I began to see what the real situation was. We had to set up a special department to deal with the critical letters -- there were so many of them.
The other aspect was the time that I spent in the Soviet Union. I saw a lot of things: I had to take the train through Russia, Poland, Germany, to the Women's Conference in Denmark. ... I saw how in East Germany the streets were very dead and quiet; there were only state shops, no private shops. The same was the case in Moscow: you had to queue for everything, just to buy some moldy plums. On returning to Beijing I found that the situation in Beijing was much better than Moscow. At that time Beijing was just beginning to nationalize its private shops, and in the Dong An market in Beijing there were still in fact many private traders, and there was plenty of produce available. After coming back I told my editorial department to go off and take lots of pictures of the fresh produce in Chinese markets. Of course, after the Great Leap Forward the situation in China became the same as in Russia, or even worse.
On Mao and the Great Leap Forward:
Firstly, I should make clear that Mao wanted to become the leader of the world revolutionary movement. During the time of the attack from Soviet revisionism, Communist parties throughout the world were split into two factions, and one faction was in favor of China誷 position. They all came to visit China, and they had to see Chairman Mao; if they didn't see Mao maybe they'd die when they went back to their own countries. This made Mao very happy, because it gave him the position of world leader. Secondly, Mao wouldn't let anybody else stand on the same level as him. What he said was the most important. Everybody else bolstered him up -- he was a Chinese Emperor; he had great ambitions, like during the Great Leap Forward and the Three Red Flags movement.
The Great Leap Forward was actually a failure because so many people made false claims. Scientists pretended to go along with this, and made ridiculous claims for the amount of grain produced for each [parcel] of land. Children would be made to stand atop the grain which was produced, to show how much there was. The falsehoods of the Great Leap Forward were absolutely unbelievable; anybody who did not speak in falsehoods was expelled from their job, or demoted -- they were not allowed to be active officials. So from the time of the Great Leap Forward, all Chinese people learned to tell lies. Mao liked to hear lies: he thought that if people said good things they were correct; if they said bad things they were incorrect.
On being denounced and exiled to the countryside:
I was branded a Rightist at the end of 1957, beginning of 1958. I was branded a Rightist because I felt that the Communist Party was not democratic. I criticized party members by saying that normally they were like madmen, but when it was necessary for them to really speak their minds, they were like dead men. That was my crime. I thought that the Communist Party was undemocratic, and that it was right for the students at Beijing University to criticize the Party.
After being branded a Rightist I was sent off for labor in the countryside. Then I became quite clear what the Communist Party was really about. Life for the peasants was very tough then -- they'd been through the Great Leap Forward. I also had a very tough time, and I realized that for the sake of so-called communism, the Party was prepared to speak complete lies. ...
The work was harder than I could bear, and I often became ill. I became very malnourished; we only had coarse grain cakes to eat -- there was no rice or anything like that. I went down with hepatitis; many people died, but nobody really knew how many people died. All we knew was that everything outside was getting more and more expensive, and that the rations of grain were becoming less and less. We had to measure very carefully how much grain was allocated to each family. The Communist Party blamed all these hardships on the Soviet Union, and said that it was all the result of revisionism. But people could see things clearly. It was the Communist Party that made people poorer and poorer.
At that time there was more criticism of [Soviet] revisionism than of American imperialism, though both sides were attacked. Mao believed that class struggle was the most important thing. This was the only way he had to control people; he wanted to stir up conflict among all people in society. At that time, after being branded a Rightist, I no longer had any rights. At that time, a Rightist was the same as a counter-revolutionary. A Rightist had to right to speak or to publish or to write. But in fact our hearts were very much at one with those of the ordinary people. We no longer had much hope in the Communist Party.
On the Cultural Revolution:
We thought it would only last a short time, but it went on for ten years and caused great hardship. I was again sent off to inner Mongolia for another eight more years. During the Cultural Revolution we were branded as cow-demons and snake spirits, and were sent off to very harsh places for labor. So people like me spent 20 more years branded as counter-revolutionaries. So by this time we had lost faith in the Communist Party, and couldn't understand why there were all these movements, and why Lin Biao came to the fore as Mao's successor. It all seemed like a reversal of Marxism. The Communist Party and Mao had completely lost their mandate among Chinese people because of the Cultural Revolution. ...
The Cultural Revolution was mainly an internal matter. People could be branded Rightist, counter-revolutionaries, for all sorts of different things. It was rather like the scene described in the famous Chinese classic novel "Dream of the Red Chambers." People would commit suicide in all sorts of different ways.

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    夏天就是惬意，女士们可以穿上漂亮裙子尽情展示自己的风采和身材。但是夏天有一点不好，就是阳光太毒，防晒工作做不好的话，精心保养来的白皙皮肤就不见了。
    国内正在过冬，可是澳洲现在正是烈日炎炎。这次我们就来看看有关防晒的英文表达。

    1. Can you pass me the sunblock? 能不能把防晒油递给我？
    首先看看防晒必备用品都有什么。
    第一,防晒霜（sunscreen）和防晒油（sunblock）是必不可少的。在防晒护肤品的瓶子上都有一个SPF的标识，它是Sun Protection Factor的缩写，意思就是防晒指数。SPF值越高，防晒时间越长。防晒SPF值×15＝防晒的时间(分钟)；如果你要旅游，可以使用SPF20左右的防晒品。在高原烈日下活动或去海滩游泳，则至少要用SPF30的防晒品。记得防晒霜要在出门前30分钟涂哦！
    防晒护肤品是用来保护皮肤的，太强的阳光对眼睛也会造成伤害。所以你还应该给自己配上一副太阳镜（sunglasses）。此外，一顶帽子或是一把遮阳伞（sunshade）也可以帮你挡住热辣的阳光。

    2. You might get sunburned if you stay in strong sunlight for a long time. 如果在强烈的阳光下呆得太久，你可能会被晒伤的。
   “晒伤”就是sunburn，这个词即可作动词也可以作名词用。万一晒伤也没关系，这里有几个小诀窍，可以帮你改善一下皮肤。
    You can use certain kinds of vegetables and fruits. 用黄瓜的切片或者去皮的芦荟涂一涂晒伤的皮肤。
    黄瓜片可以让你感到清凉，芦荟还能起到消炎的作用。如果皮肤晒得脱皮，千万不要用手撕，可以用毛巾包着冰块冷敷一下，你会感觉好多了。

    3. You have a nice suntan.你晒的很棒。
    古铜色的皮肤也是当今的流行之一。但要把皮肤晒成漂亮的古铜色也不容易。看到有人晒成了，你就可以跟他说You have a nice suntan. Tan 这个词可单独当动词或形容词用，例如I am tanned. 就是“我晒黑了”。
    You have a nice tan skin. 就是“你的皮肤晒的很棒”。还有，你可以用 grab a tan 来表示出去晒太阳，例如I love to hit the beach and grab a tan.
    至于形容晒黑的程度，则可以用 I have light/medium/dark tan skin. 来表示。游泳的人皮肤都给晒得颜色很深，但是有泳衣遮盖的部分还是白的，于是身体上就有了一条“黑白界线tan line”。
    除了tan，表示晒日光浴还可以用 catch some rays / sun 来表示，比如 Let's catch some rays. 是“我们去晒日光浴吧”的意思。另外，“日光浴”的名词是sunbath。
    由于古铜色的皮肤如此流行，甚至产生一种行业 bodies tanning，就是那种利用室内的紫外线灯，把皮肤给晒黑的一种服务。很多皮肤过于白皙的男明星都去晒过哦！

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where is your article?

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Farm kid in the Marine Corps



FARM KID
(Now at San Diego MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING)




Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well.  Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things.  No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water.  Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food,  plus yours,  holds you until noon  when you get fed again.
It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us.  If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different.  A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher.  He nags a lot.  The Captain is like the school board.   Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing.  I keep getting medals for shooting.   I don't know why.  The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home.  All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it.  You don't even load your own cartridges They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training.  You get to wrestle with them city boys.  I have to be real careful though, they break real easy.  It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home.  I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once..  He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6' and 130 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.




Your loving daughter,
Alice