1006G备考日记 by pluka——Pursuit of simplicity（谢幕）

plukaUID: 2721764

写完作文又想乱逛，猛然想起来词汇作业没有做，泪目
阿狗依然纠结中，半小时四百字是不成问题但问题是写出来的东西很烂……
02.01

海王泪UID: 2673613

我只能说你基础真得很好。。。头几次模考就能够写那么多字～～羡慕
小螃蟹加油。。

plukaUID: 2721764

ISSUE鼓舞了一点：写好详细的提纲，想好清晰的思路之后动笔写，45分钟写得完。然而如果没有提纲和思路，这是绝对不成的。
今天第十八篇ISSUE了吧，果然，限时这东西没有二十篇是练不下来的。
继续加油~！
阿狗就开始纠结了，想写好一点，结果纠结了一个多小时还是四百字。表达严重受挫。决定多看范文熟悉感觉！
困……
comments啥的没做，推后……
02.02

plukaUID: 2721764

220# 海王泪
字数是浮云，要看的是质量啊……今天的练习就栽了。
基础什么的不论，还是要看冲刺~争取最后一个月再提高，一起加油！

plukaUID: 2721764

写I131，艺术变态题。自我感觉还好。不过又超时了~53分钟。
阿狗没写
还有很多东西要看
我恨新东方
没时间啊……
睡觉。
02.03

AdelineShenUID: 2630498

来看看亲耐的pluka~~睡得好晚啊~~加油加油！~不过也注意休息哦！~

都说了不是又八UID: 2728357

哈哈来看看你~

plukaUID: 2721764

一个不小心今晚就堕落了一下，没写I也没写A……还这么晚才睡……囧。
明天要振作
02。04

plukaUID: 2721764

02.04COMMENT
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Now, as then, a smaller device is displacing a bigger one. Now, as then, the platform remains somewhat primitive but is evolving rapidly.
For all that time, Apple had the market to itself.
Or has Apple learned from its previous experience and figured out a way to turn its superior design and wonderful technology into market domination?
Probably Apple's biggest blunder with the Mac was refusing to let other companies license its software.

COMMENT
two points interested me. First one is that Windows won trememdous success and subsequent profits by literally dispensing the software for free.Another one is the "ecosystem" for the development of a product. As for the ecosystem, I'm reminded of google and nokia, who are actually having their gadgets and little innovative ideas done by other smaller companies around the world. Those small companies, be it of electronic, computer or other appliances, serve for the magnate and furnish them with convenient products. Perhaps that's kinda ecosystem.
well, I'm kinda in a hurry those days……so have to cut the length of the comment~
作业要慢慢补……

plukaUID: 2721764

02.03 COMMENT
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【WHY do some languages drip with（充满） verb endings, declensions that showhow a noun is used, and other grammatical bits and pieces, while othersrely on word order and context? The former category tends to includelanguages spoken by small groups in isolated settings like the Amazonor New Guinea. The latter include such languages as English andMandarin. 】
【 drip with：If you say that something is dripping with a particular thing, you mean that it contains a lot of that thing. (LITERARY)】
【Mandarin,for example, has no obligatory past tense at all; an extra word cancome after the verb to indicate it happened in the past, or this can beleft to context. By contrast, Yagua, spoken in Peru, has an obligatory five-way distinction. Past-tense verbs must show whether the event happened a few hours ago, a day before, a week to a month ago, and soon.】
COMMENT

This article provided me with a tantalizing peer into the evolution of language. Descriptions on Mandrin, actually, reminded me of the ancient Chinese language, which was very complicated as well. Much for that reason, the knowledge of society was controlled largely by those literates, who were thought to be elite of the country. Ordinary people, not untill the ancient formal Chinese language was converted into an easier and more unformal folk tongue, had little access to books and learnings thereof. In this sense, it is the simplication of language that facilitate the spread of knowledge and accelerate the development of society thereby.

plukaUID: 2721764

02.02 COMMENT
Law vs. Morality by Tibor Machan 

Tibor Machan is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
Added to cato.org on March 21, 2002

When the Enron case broke, many business bashers jumped at the chance to blame deregulation（违反规定，反常） for the mess. The same had occurred when California started to experience blackouts（灯火管制） and hikes（突然急剧的上涨） in energy costs last year. 
Indeed, following some mild moves in the direction of a genuine free market in many parts of the globe and even here in the USA, a lot of well- positioned commentators with clearly statist sentiments experienced near-panic. Indeed, there might be, after decades and decades of sliding toward broader and broader scope for government authority in our lives, some retreat of state power in the offing（近海，视野范围内的海面）. This, obviously, couldn't be allowed. 
So, one way to attempt a reversal of the rather mild trend toward privatization and deregulation is to begin to blame everything on freedom. 【And one plausible spin would be to declare that corporations are no different from rouge states, in need, therefore, of the heavy hand of benign government regulators. 】（经济需要政府干预）
In the back of some of these desperate efforts -- to stem（阻止） any advance toward greater individual liberty in human community life -- is a lesson that might otherwise be missed. 【It is that when the state does gain widespread intrusive（打扰的插入的） legal authority in the lives of the citizenry, the citizenry will begin to be guided not by its moral conscience and common sense but by the sole consideration of whether what people are doing is OK with the law-makers】. （当法律干预生活，人们就不再按道德和常识行事，而是去迎合法律）Some corporations, for example, declare up front that they are not interested in business ethics -- which they take to vary from culture to culture -- but only in the law. (Which probably is what accounts for the prominence of legal departments at most corporate headquarters.)
But the problem extends farther than business. Recently in Orange County, California, the American Red Cross sponsored an event at a privately owned hotel to which a group of high school students had been invited to sing. Having learned that the singers would belt out some songs that had religious content, the Red Cross folks decided to demand that these be removed from the program, probably figuring that such would be the PC and legally harmless thing to do these days. And as much as this outraged（引起义愤） a great many people in the community and ultimately led the Red Cross to issue an apology, what transpired（蒸发发生得知） made some kind of perverse（不正当的） sense.
When activities are carried out or supervised by the legal authorities, the principle that no special favors must be extended is the rule. Under the law, everyone must be treated the same, without regard to religion, color, national origin, and other special attributes（特征品质）.（法律面前人人平等） It is this idea that animates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and, indeed, the rule of law itself. 
【The reasoning behind this is rather straightforward. The law governs us all as human beings who live in human communities. So, it is only our common humanity that must come into play as far as the law is concerned, nothing special about us.（法律的普遍性源于人性的共同点） If one must not kill, assault, kidnap or rob others, that applies simply by virtue of being human not because one hails from Japan or has dark skin pigmentation. That is one reason why segregation, dictated by the laws of various Southern states, was so clearly unjust. That is why even when it would appear to make some sense, racial profiling is a very dubious police practice. That is why sexual or ethnic discrimination by governments is to be forbidden.】
But there is a conflict between this unexceptional idea and the widening of the scope of government power. When we get away from the simple negative principles of a just human community -- don't kill, don't assault, don't rob, don't rape and such, meaning, basically, that we should all live together peacefully -- and start regimenting the details of human life, people are no longer similar at all, quite the contrary. Maybe some should and some should not smoke. Maybe some should and some should not go to church. Maybe some should and others should not paint certain kinds of pictures or play certain sports or purchase SUVs or talk with the animals. Only at some very basic level are we all -- or virtually all of us -- alike. We become differentiated rather quickly as it concerns the details of our lives -- some are parents, some teachers, some tall, some women, some young, some athletes, some Roman Catholics, some Jews, some Moonies and some even agnostics or atheists.
Well, in a community that respects -- and has made provisions for the protection of individual rights -- the diversity of human life has nearly free reign. Just look around America and this becomes evident! If now government tries to apply its principles of equal protection under the law to all the different areas of human activity that can arise in a highly diverse society, the task will be impossible and nearly totalitarian. If the American Red Cross acts, then, like a quasi-government, making its program suited to everyone equally, it will find itself unable to do anything even mildly special, let alone controversial. But if its programs are carried out for the general public, it could become concerned about whether to conform to the spirit if not the letter of the law. It may not have to but it may still consider it politically prudent to do this. 
This is how we begin to leave our common sense and try to make practices adjust to some artificial one-size-fits-all vision of community life that, in fact, fits no one at all. （许多领域原本就难以一致，强求普适规则只会一事无成）But once education, recreation and athletics -- to list but a few things people do in life -- become quasi-government affairs, they cannot be differentiated based on different needs of different segments and members of communities. They gradually become the same, or at least pretend to be such, so as to accommodate the now impossible ideal of the now highly intrusive rule of law.（在法律的强求下，团体不得不装作一致的样子。这样反而阻碍了团体发展更重要的特征，达到目的）。
Not only will this generate completely artificial practices and bans but it will also take our minds off what is really important, namely, figuring out on our own how we should conduct ourselves in our lives. We now will be inclined to focus not on morality or ethics but on public policy and law. That is quite understandable, since when law and public policy are not heeded, severe consequences can ensue. We can be found to be law-breakers, which brings about costly sanctions. You smoke in a pub（酒馆客栈） now and this means going to court, paying fines, putting your life on hold. You offend some group and spend years in court!
The American Red Cross officials may perhaps not be fully forgiven for losing their common sense but it is at least understandable why they worried so much about being politically correct. With religious songs at an event open to the public, they would risk bringing down upon them the wrath（愤怒） of the American Civil Liberties Union if not immediately the local police.
A society where laws have become the answer to all human problems, laws get completely confusing and many people begin to be concerned with nothing other than avoiding violating the law. Such a society is very likely to see ethics and morality slowly but surely recede from its midst.

COMMENT
This essay opened a new window for me to view the relationship between the law and people's life. It is uncommon, yet surely convincing. It pointed out problems ensue from today's law-first era where the control and standards of every act fall almost entirely on the rule of laws, instead of morality and ethics. Without reading it, I in fact haven't thought about the issue that law actually can hamper the realization of moral prowess. The author cited totalitarian society, and yes that's apt example. 

plukaUID: 2721764

02.05&06 COMMENT
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appalling（令人震惊的骇人听闻的） crimes

other infamous（声名狼藉的） examples of callous（无情的） brutality
Opinion pollsters around the world find that people are usually gloomy about the future, perhaps because it is inherently more uncertain than the past. But Britons are getting even more downbeat（灰心的）.
【If you are feeling downbeat, you are feeling depressed and without hope.】
There has been a “surge of nostalgia” for the good old days.（好表达！）


This sort of upbeat（乐观的欢乐的）, wonkish analysis enrages（激怒） those who insist that, for ordinary people, Britain is a more frightening place than it once was, whatever official statistics might say.

Murders using guns increased alarmingly during ...

The real eye-opener（使人惊奇的事物，大开眼界的事物） is a long-term series including older teenagers.

【Official statistics to the contrary are viewed with suspicion after successive governments have relentlessly massaged them. 】

Yet Britons refuse to do the same, and for this their newspapers, which seldom look on the sunny side of life, are much to blame.

【At the root of it all is an education system that has long failed to educate the great mass of children usefully.】

COMMENT

A downbeat feeling that our life has becoming increasingly insecure and depressing is not a rare thought. All of us, more or less, share a sense of nostalgia for the golden days in the past. Yet do we really have seen these golden days personally, or are we simply envisioning something that is supposed to be better than today? The latter holds some truth. A sense of insecurity and unrest permeates today's era of solitude and mess, bringing citizenry murky visions on everyday life. 

plukaUID: 2721764

只有一个感觉：时间好紧。
argument仍然处于难产状态，ISSUE的提纲尚未列完，限时也没完成。今晚只来得及匆忙弄出一篇恶心的ARGU……
inner peace……inner peace……inner peace……
02.05

zhengchangdianUID: 2563082

我来踩踩，嘿嘿:lol
你的Argument 怎么样啦？我都不知道怎么才能搞定它~~

plukaUID: 2721764

好罢……
然而真是有些没状态。
也许是瓶颈期……阿狗怎么都憋不出，issue的感觉也眼看着在降。
头晕中。
不行，要振作~！
明天开始好好研究阿狗范文，找文章，找感觉。
02.07
嗯不能灰心……