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August 31, 2009
- 幸福来的太快
Happiness comes in a blink
还没适应这样的日子
Still not used to this kind of life
好象幻觉
Feels like dreaming
幸福总是在我想伸手抓住的时候
悄悄溜走
Happiness always slip away
When I try to grab it
这次我该怎么面对幸福呢？
How should I face the happiness this time?
看着你写的信 好感动
Looking at your letter, so moved
你的礼物 真的很喜欢
Your gift, really love it
每一种口味的糖 都有不一样的含义
Each flavour of candy has a different meaning
我会好好的体会
I will think it through
我会努力让自己开心 让自己不轻易哭泣
I will try to be happy, try not to cry easily
为什么总觉得幸福中 总带着伤感
Why do I always feel sorrow in happiness?
很多事 我不想在意 我想装作 无所谓
So many things, I don't want to care, I want to pretend, not a big deal
可是感觉好奇怪
But feelings are obscure
是我多心 还是什么
Is it me thinking too much, or else
这样难以控制的情绪 好难过
Emotions that lost control, so painful
连自己的心情都无法掌握的我 没有用
How useless am I, can't even control my own emotions
我不要轰轰烈烈的爱情
I don't want fairy-tale love
我不要刻骨铭心的回忆
I don't want lasting memories
我只要平平淡淡的幸福
I just want plain and simple happiness
我甚至不想要任何一个承诺
I don't want any promise
我不要那些承诺变成我无法解开的枷锁
I don't want the promise turning into a cage that I can't get out
就象我答应你 走的时候不哭不难过
Just like I promised you, leaving but not crying or feeling down
就象你答应我 一定会回来
Just like you promised me, will definitely be coming back
你说 你还要回来娶我
You said you would be coming back to marry me
我会当真的
I believe it's true
不要轻易对我说承诺
Don't promise to me lightly
August 30, 2009
"Mei was not just a person from the old, yellowed papers," Chen says. "He was energetic, beautiful and a true icon."
Known for various female roles, Mei enjoyed high fame and huge popularity over his 50-year stage life thanks to his exquisite performance and continuous innovation.
A saying of his time may explain how popular he was: "All men and women want to marry Mei Lanfang."
During the 1920s and 30s, Mei had the courage to promote Peking Opera abroad, touring Japan, the United States, the Soviet Union and receiving warm welcomes wherever he went.
The University of Southern California and the Pomona College awarded him honorary doctorates. "He was successful needless to say," Chen says.
"What people hardly know is the misery behind him. He was a boy with a sad childhood, an unpopular pupil, a man who did not have a smooth marital life and an actor disdained by writers and philosophers of the early 20th century.
"This film tells people that Mei had hardships, too, and when he dealt with these hardships, he experienced the same torture as we common people do."
Posters of Forever Enthralled
Mei was born in 1894 in a brothel area in Beijing. His father died when he was 4, and his mother passed away 10 years later. He started learning Peking Opera at 7, but was too slow a student to impress his first teacher, who gave him up and claimed he had no flair.
August 30, 2009
Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. The characters have their own personalities. Mrs. Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters. Mr. Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr. Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior. Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different. Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others. Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. Mary likes reading classic books. (Actually she is a pedant.) Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia. Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate. When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now. That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.
The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic. But this little topic can reflect big problems. It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century. You can find these from the very beginning of this book.
The first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.
People always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories. In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.
I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughters. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.
In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.
In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?
Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time
