ANTIDOTE FOR WAR

    I became a philosopher earl I had to become a philosopher. I was rather badly wounded in the First World War. I was rather badly wounded in the First World War at Soissons, Franc, When I was twenty-two and as a result I was flat on my back for a long time. It was either get a philosophy or crack up [breakdown, break into pieces].

    My code of living is simple. It consists of three parts. One, never be cruel; two always be artistic; three, never lose of your humor.

    Number one I don’t believe that requires many explanation. Never be cruel mean, of course, always be kind. I believe that the kindness is the nature human instinct., not cruelty. I have no illusions about humanity. I knows its faults, its frequent blindness, its capacity for making terrible mistakes. But my work as a writer takes me among all kinds of men and women, often the very rough and the very poor. Everywhere I have found generosity and nobility; men who would have gladly given their lives for me because I had done them some slight kindness. The vast majority of human being do the basically good thing if they are given half a chance.

    By the second point in my code, always be artistic, I mean that whatever I do, I try to do with as much grace as possible. If I write a book , I want to make it as beautiful as I can. If I was a shoemaker. I would want to make shoes the same way, as perfect as possible. In our madly commercialized and mechanized world we have lost our sense of the beautiful. I believe we need beauty in our lives as much as we need food on our dining room tables. A world where beauty flourishes is a happy world——a world at peace.cf

    The third part of my code, as I said earlier, is never lose your sense of humor. I don’t like pomposity. I don’t like stuffed shirts. I am glad I was born in a small town. It’s a wonderful antidote for smugness. I remember years ago when I had a little success in New York with one of my first novels. There was the usual round of autograph parties and literary lunches and I was feeling rather pleased with myself. About this time I happened to go back to my home town in Kentucky and I saw an old fellow I had known as a boy standing on a street corner. He looked me up and down a long time and remarked lazily, “ How are you, Benny? You been away a while, aren’t you ? you still teaching school?” that reduced life to its proper proportions.sa vhese circumstances. And these I wrote: “ When all the people of the world remember to laugh, particularly at themselves, there will be no more dictators and no more wars.

New world    

• desperation        be driven to desperation be driven to desperation 不得不拼命。drive (a person) to desperation 使拼命；〔口语〕使大发脾气。in desperation 拼死，无可奈何地。    recklessness        hopelessness    
• depress        make somebody unhappy         weaken something     devaluate something     push on something
• barely     There was barely enough for all. 就全体(人数)来说算是勉强够了。He barely escaped. 他好容易才逃了出来 He is barely of age. 他刚成年。To very limited extent     simply without decoration    barely perceptible        barely adequate     barely discernible        barely detectable
• decline     The birth rate in our country has been declining for several years. 我国人口的出生率几年来一直在下降。the rotten and declining system 腐朽没落的制度。She invited me to dinner but I declined on account of urgent business. 她请我吃饭，但我因有急事谢绝了。
• survey        a survey of English literature 英国文学概观。make a survey of 测量；考察；调查，检查。 Consider something generally     look at something carefully plot map of somewhere
• retail    a retail dealer 零售商人。a retail shop 零售店。retail trade 零售业。at [by] retail 零卖。    Sale to consumers         not wholesale        sell goods
• like blinded magpies 像盲鹊
• council        a cabinet council(内)阁(会)议： a municipal [city] council 市政参议会。a county council〔英国〕州(议)会。the World Peace C- 世界和平理事会。a common council〔美国〕市[镇]参议会。People running local affairs    committee        church assembly            council meeting
• way off             not right
• the cheaper cost of raw gold        raw brick (未烧的)砖坯。raw silk 生丝。raw coal 原煤。raw fish 生鱼 uncooked     unprocessed     hurt and sore
• retailer        sale to consumers     not wholesale        sell goods
• outright        laugh outright 放声大笑。be killed outright 被当场杀死。buy outright 用现金购买。give an outright denial 断然否认。        Candidly         wholly     instantly     total candid
• it is a fair bet.     
• Somebody is bidding to loosen Intel’s grip on the more profitable.
• Semi-conductor analyst
• virtually 事实上,实质上
• shadow                 in the shadow of the deal
• intellectual             the intellectual powers [faculties] 智能。an intellectual process 理智作用。intellectual employments [pursuits] 脑力工作。
• misrepresent            give false account of             not represent truly
• eventually            work out eventually
• dominance            come under the dominance            power exerted over others        first importance preponderance of one species
• idle                    folk lack no excuses        have one’s hands idle        the idle rich         idle compliment        I- folks lack no excuses. 〔谚语〕懒人不愁无借口。idle compliment 应酬话，虚礼。the idle rich 有闲阶级
• AMD is likely to success.
• The move has a sparked somebody’s own battle of the bulge—all because of the 18-inch rule.
• The standard with of the national rear. 后面, 背后, 后方, 屁股
• buttocks
• beef        
• ferry captains            Ferry captains proposed we can go through the forest.
• Benches                Don’t sit the park bench. We just painted it.
• rush
• spot
• bench
• bulge
• berths
• protesting
• tougher
• discontent
• commuter通勤者
• dock
• seat
• revise            revise a sign to instruct passengers
• instruct
• settlement
• fresh approach
• dilemmas
• resist
• temptation
• rider            by way of rider 作为…的追加，作为附款。 This purchase contract [proposal] have a additional cause about the old plane by way of rider.
• attorney            According to the attorney, he will collect more evidences to the lawsuit.
• dilemmas        we are in dilemmas.     
• negotiate with     We got a agreement through negotiating with him.
• penalty            It is a penalty about your absence.     The monetary penalty can increase our income.
• pledge to         I pledged to complete the committee of county. A pledge of affection
• sum up with        
• conceal
• contradict
• manifest     manifest itself        The manifest dream appears the habit of the life. obvious
• latent        hidden        the latent dream-content appears the crime of him.
• novel        a novel experience made him more self-restrict.
• interpretation     He put a favorable interpretation on the prehistoric civilization.
• make the mistake of something             He made the mistake of the issue.
• In accordance with         与...一致, 依照 these symbols are in accordance with their values of pictures.

 

Unlike many other aspects o life, relationships among people at work tend to be simpler, less complicated, somewhat less emotional. This is not say there are not arguments and jealousies, but, on the whole, behavioral research discloses that human relations at work are just easier, perhaps because they are more regular and predictable and thus simpler to adjust to than the discontinuous, the more intense and less regular relationships in the community. And the work group also gently pressures its members to learn how to adjust to one another so that the “ rough edges” are worked off because people know they must do certain things with and through one another each day.