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142 【The Portrait of a Lady】Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. by Henry James

-- more charming if money is to follow me.. then when I need money, I only stop and turn...

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。。？重复了，删除不掉。。留下污点了。。

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143 【The Portrait of a Lady】The desire for unlimited expansion had been succeeded in her soul by the sense that life was vacant without some private duty that might gather one's energies to a point. -- by Henry James

-- 要集中精力做一件事，否则生活会很虚空。。

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144【Anna Karenina】 The first onslaught of jealousy, once lived through, could never come back again, and even the discovery of infidelities could never now affect her as it had the first time. by Leo T., Translated by Constance Garnett.

-- 第一次发现丈夫外遇时的嫉恨最为强烈。。。是不是所有的人类情感都是这种模式？不管是喜怒哀乐，经历过激烈的第一次，以后再也无法达到原来的高度？！

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145 【You took my heart away】Lyrics: Staring at the moon so blue; turning all my thoughts to you; I was without hopes or dreams; I tried to dull an inner scream; but you saw me through; Walking on a path of air; see your faces everywhere; as you melt this heart of stone; you take my hand to guide me home, and now I am in love; you took my heart away; when my whole world was gray; you gave me everthing; and a little bit more; and when it is cold at night; and you sleep by my side; you become the meaning of my life; Living in a world so cold; you are there to warm my soul; you came to mend a broken heart; you gave my life a brand new start; and now I am in love; holding your hand, I won't fear tomorrow; Here where we stand, We'll never be alone.   by Mikel Lentz, Jascha Richter, Kare Wanscher.

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拙泥

想象一个从来没有尝过酒的人,第一次喝下一口,会被它那种"racy" , 尤其是sharp after-taste 给震惊了.

拙泥

原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-10-11 08:27 发表
129 【The Portrait of A Lady】
'No; the best part's gone, and gone for nothing.'
'Surely not for nothing, ' said Isabel.
"Why not -- what have I got? Neither husband, nor child, nor fortune, nor posi ...

Don't we often think the same way? We tend to hold on something, tying to possess what the world tells us is necessary, so as to feel secure, worthy and happy?

However the fact is that happiness does not depend on what you own, but what you receive. It is a very private feeling, which, unlike worldly possessions, cannot (and often need not) be shown to others.

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原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-11-10 08:37 发表
137 【Anna Karenina】But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low a ...

Would be wonderful if there exists a formula that enable you love blindly! Has anyone had this experience (which obviously I have):

You regret and almost hate yourself for having an eagle's eye on your loved-ones' flaws!

I reasoned with myself that he/she is more worthy than myself, but there is no use... I still see them! I see this a source of much of my wretchedness. A symtom of conceit, I guess?

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原帖由 拙泥 于 2011-11-15 01:58 发表


Don't we often think the same way? We tend to hold on something, to possess what the world tells us is necessary, so as to feel secure, worthy and happy?

However the fact is that happiness does not ...

--  However the fact is that happiness does not depend on what you own, but what you receive/perceive??. When one can learn to withdraw from the highly materialistic world, not to overvalue many things so blindly chased by the human flock, and start enjoying the bits and pieces in the midst of basice food and shelter, with a sense of solitude, away from the pressing influence of the mass, the happiness is supposed to be around, and he will eventually earn an inner serenity in his last days on earth ...

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原帖由 拙泥 于 2011-11-15 02:23 发表


Would be wonderful if there exists a formula that enable you love blindly! Has anyone had this experience (which obviously I have):

You regret and almost hate yourself for having an eagle's eye on  ...

Love is working more as an illusional process under the effect of a type of chemical unknown, it has an element of false conviction in a lover's frenzy mind, with an exultation of idealized self-reflection, that is why people couldn't sustain the passion beyond a certain period. When you begin blinking your eyes, producing a rational look at the person that has very much exhausted your emotional resources, a reality is then confronted, you then suspect what has actually happened .. therefore, to the very extent, love is a rediculous and absurd concept...

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原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-11-15 12:17 发表


Love is working more as an illusional process under the effect of a type of chemical unknown, it has an element of false conviction in a lover's frenzy mind, with an exultation of idealized self-ref ...

Did you wrote this? Wow! That's really good! Indeed perfect interpretation about love.

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原帖由 only4me 于 2011-11-15 12:52 发表



Did you wrote this? Wow! That's really good! Indeed perfect interpretation about love.

yes, my own tread ... not perfect though ... perfection is another illusion ..

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146 【Anna Karenina】'Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new."  "Well, then, it would be better not to study it." "No. Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it."   -- by Leo Toystoy, Translated by Constance Garnett.

-- replacing 'woman' with 'man' in the conversation will not be untrue, I suppose?

注：为了助兴，从今天开始我有选择的贴一些我随兴拍的一些照片。。

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147 【Prey】"You'll laugh, I don't have any boobs." She was definitely on the verge of being completely out of it or she'd never have said something like that. He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing, because he figured if he did it would hurt her feelings. He needed her cooperation, not a battle. "That's okay. I have a little dick." And this time he lied without compunction. -- Linda Howard.

-- The boob matches its partner ！

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148 【Anna Karenina】"I unhappy?" she said, coming closer to him, and looking at him with an ecstatic smile of love. "I am like a hungry man who has been given food. He may be cold, and dressed in rags, and ashamed, but he is not unhappy. By L.Tolstory Tran. by C. Garnnet.

-- ！

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原帖由 洋八路 于 2011-11-15 09:17 发表


Love is working more as an illusional process under the effect of a type of chemical unknown, it has an element of false conviction in a lover's frenzy mind, with an exultation of idealized self-ref ...

I agree with you except that I'd replace "love" with "romatic love" for the word "love" is simply too big in my heart. My plain version of what you have said is that a lover's brain, triggered a mysterious mechanism, somewhow selectively receives information and fills the unknown with inmaginations.

floraz

Love is not blind but people in love are

拙泥

I mean "receive"- to receive life as a gift. Pretious moments, like the lovely spring's morning you had the other day, can not be owned, but only received.

洋八路

149 【Prey】'I can maybe find something for you to pee in, " he said, but sounded doubtful. "Think you could hit a bottle?'
'I think I could hit a portable toilet,' she growled. 'What do you think I am, a precision pisser? Women don't practice things like that.'   by Linda Howard.

-- 瓶子太小，装酒可以，装别的就要看头发的长短了 。。

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150 【Prey】She thought about bitching anyway, just to jerk his chain, but sex was another one of those areas where she wasn't as confident as she'd like to be. In her experience, it was more trouble than it was worth: In exchanging for suffering the uncertainty of exposing her emotions, as well as her less-than-perfect body and her less-than-perfect judgment, to a man who might or might not appreciate any of them, she would get to experience a climax brought about by a hand. Climax-by-penis was a fariy tale, as far as she was concerned, so why not just bypass the middle man, so to speak, and take care of her climaxes herself? The process was a lot neater, less complicated, and easy on the emotions. --  by Linda Howard.

-- ！

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151 【Anna Karenina】 The immense stretch of meadow had been mown and was sparkling with a peculiar fresh brilliance, with its lines of already sweet-smelling grass in the slanting rays of the evening sun. And the bushes about the river had been cut down, and the river itself, not visible before, now gleaming like steel in its bends, and the moving, ascending, peasants, and the sharp wall of grass of the unmown part of the meadow, and the hawks hovering over the stripped meadow — all was perfectly new. - by Leo Toystoy., Translated by Constance Garnett.

-- 阳光下闪烁的河流，象弯曲的钢刀。。

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152 【Anna Karenina】 Alexey Alexandrovitch kissed her hand. "Well, au revoir, then! You'll come back for some tea; that's delightful!" she said, and went out, gay and radiant. But as soon as she no longer saw him, she was aware of the spot on her hand that his lips had touched, and she shuddered with repulsion. - by Leo Toystoy., Translated by Constance Garnett.

- 她对她的老公恶心到如此程度。。

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153 【Captive of Sin】The desolation faded from her face, and real affection tinged her smile. by Anna Campbell.

-- 看表情转换。。从凄苦， 转换到笑容（深情？）。。好难翻译。。

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154 【Captive of Sin】Even more astonishingly, his black eyes swept her body, subjecting her to a thorough, masculine inspection. Instant agonizing tension extended between them. Heat crawled over her skin, and her heart bucked and plunged in her chest. Her nipples puckered with painful swiftness, and something warmed and melted in the pit of her stomach. by Anna Campbell.

-- 把她给看的，全身起鸡皮疙瘩。。

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pinkdreamer

为什么我一直不懂文字和图的关系

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原帖由 hunter38 于 2011-3-31 23:49 发表
今天和7岁女儿打羽毛球，球掉到树上拿不下来，她说，“don't worry, what goes up, what comes down"

是不是语法不对呢？What goes up comes down?
不好意思，多年不看语法书啦，求指正

洋八路

原帖由 pinkdreamer 于 2011-11-20 23:48 发表
为什么我一直不懂文字和图的关系

不好意思，文字和图没有关系啊。。图只是好玩的。。

洋八路

原帖由 pinkdreamer 于 2011-11-20 23:50 发表

是不是语法不对呢？What goes up comes down?
不好意思，多年不看语法书啦，求指正

是语法不对，你说的对。。那是小孩子的话，语法没关系了。。学英语不要看语法书，语法是要靠感觉的。。

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155 【Anna Karenina】"And here's my opinion for you. Women are the chief stumbling block in a man's career. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. There's only one way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance—that's marriage. How, how am I to tell you what I mean?" said Serpuhovskoy, who liked similes. "Wait a minute, wait a minute! Yes, just as you can only carry a fardeau and do something with your hands, when the fardeau is tied on your back, and that's marriage. And that's what I felt when I was married. My hands were suddenly set free. But to drag that fardeau about with you without marriage, your hands will always be so full that you can do nothing. Look at Mazankov, at Krupov. They've ruined their careers for the sake of women."  By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 女人不能绑在手上（爱），要背在背上（婚姻）。。有意思的比喻。。

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156. 【Anna Karenina】The roofs of the houses shining in the rays of the setting sun, the sharp outlines of fences and angles of buildings, the figures of passers-by, the carriages that met him now and then, the motionless green of the trees and grass, the fields with evenly drawn furrows of potatoes, and the slanting shadows that fell from the houses, and trees, and bushes, and even from the rows of potatoes — everything was bright like a pretty landscape just finished and freshly varnished.  By Leo Tolstory Translated by C. Garnett

-- 看夕阳西下。。

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