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buoyant adj.  cheerful 活跃的

old master = a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist.

over the odds, pay over the odds 付的钱超过物品本身价值

celebrate=to hold up or play up for public notice  （谢谢adeline的解释）

rigging 桅杆

velvet  天鹅绒，丝绒

comments:
Obviously the author gets his inspiration for this title from the famous science fiction movie series “Back to the future”, however this title which seems a paradox confused me again like it did in the movie. Despite the Sci-Fi title, actually this article deals with something practical—the business in the art market. It shows us that purchasing art works is such an effective way to discounting inflation and more expensive the work is, the more it can benefit its owner in the future.
To be honest, as a oulier, I feel difficult to give any valuable comments about this article. Stop here. Sign~

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当当加油↖(^ω^)↗

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昨天忘记更新了
罪过啊~

entrepreneur
entreperneurship
entreperneurialism

mob vt. 成群围住

frenzy n.狂乱

strike it rich  露富

doing good as well as doing well  应该是来自一句谚语: doing well by doing good

creative destruction : this term is used to describe the process of transformation that accompanies radical innovation.[1] In Schumpeter's vision of capitalism, innovative entry by entrepreneurs was the force that sustained long-term economic growth, even as it destroyed the value of established companies that enjoyed some degree of monopoly power.

Keynesian economics: a macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesian economics argues that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes and therefore advocates active policy responses by the public sector, including monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle. 主张宏观调控~   

work hand in glove 密切合作

roam 漫步，漫游

evangelist n.传道者

pressure group an organization that seeks to influence political decisions

spread the gospel

corner shop 小店

pedigree = lineage 血统

Atlas  被罚承受天地之重的巨人

geek n. 怪人

gizmo=gadget

suit n.a business executive

roll-call 点名

bagel 甜甜圈~~

radically  adv.激进地

short trousers  小孩儿穿的裤？

franchise v.授予特许经销权

no-frills discount   no frills is a term used to describe any service or product for which the non-essential features have been removed to keep the price low. The use of the term "frills" refers to a style of fabric decoration.
keep sb. on their toes

Jack Welch tried to transform General Electric from a Goliath into a collection of entreperneurial Davids
用了一个大卫与歌利亚的典故

Such men belong firmly in the pantheon of entrepreneurs.
pantheon 万神殿 很喜欢这句


Procter & Gamble tries to get half of its innovations from outside its own labs.
Microsoft works closely with a network of 750,000 small companies around the world.
Some 3,500 companies have grown up in Nokia’s shadow.
这三句说的差不多一个意思，但是说法不同

public sector ：sometimes referred to as the state sector is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.

also-rans （竞赛、竞选等的）失败者

path-breaking  开创性的

companies make economic sense when the bureaucratic cost of performing transactions under one roof is less than the cost of doing the same thing through the market.
这句话解释了为什么要有公司这种东西


Opinion polls suggest that entrepreneurs see a good as well as a bad side to the recession.

comments:

This special report tells us a story about the global heroes-entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurship under a background of economic recession. As is argued in the report, the entrepreneurial trend has dominated the main stage of the new century, led by those adventurous entrepreneurs and nurtured by political leaders, pressure groups, universities and venture capitalists. As to me, the best definition for entrepreneurship may come to Stevenson’s “the pursuit of opportunities beyond the resources you currently control” despite the possible risk. And this gives out some clues about why is America the greatest producer of entrepreneurs in world. Believing in their America Dream, Americans tend to have much confidence in their future and seek their goals overlooking the risk. Although this confidence also contributes to the economic crisis, it’s truly the origin of many wealth miracles once propelling America’s economy growth. Now in a time of recession, it’s time for us to summon our heroes with entrepreneurship and spread their gospel. The future can pay us back only when we believe in it.

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Wherever their investigations lead, all analysts of religion begin somewhere.

be a far cry of 与。。。距离遥远

primordial
adj.最初的，原始的

hideous adj.令人讨厌的

Anglican
Anglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures.
就是英国国教

priestly
adj. 祭司的

Deuteronomist
Deuteronomy
申命记  旧约中一章。。。不知道什么意思

Torah
either to the Five Books of Moses (or Pentateuch) or to the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts

Puritan 清教徒的

eschew vt.避开，戒绝

Protestant 新教徒

Lutheran a major branch of Western Christianity which identifies with the teachings of the 16th century German reformer Martin Luther. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation.

monotheism n. 一神论
the belief that only one God exists

Levant  region on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its name derives from the Italian word levante, meaning “rising,” implying the rising of the sun in the east. Historically, the Levant included all of the countries along the eastern Mediterranean shores, extending from Greece to Egypt. People of Italian or French extraction born in the Levant were sometimes referred to as Levantines. The name Levant States was used to refer to the French mandate over Syria and Lebanon after World War I (1914-1918); today the term is still occasionally applied to those two countries.

Hellenic adj.希腊的

Messiah 弥赛亚，救世主

the Dead Sea Scrolls 死海文书 collection of more than 700 Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek manuscripts discovered in a group of caves near Khirbat Qumrān in Jordan, at the northwestern end of the Dead Sea.

These objections aside, this is a masterly book.

It lays the basis for a rich dialogue between biology, social science and religious history.

comments:
With the profound subject and so many religious terms, this book review totally crushes me down. To begin with a question "Why the human race has needed religion to survive" which seems simple, yet hard to answer for many people like Newton's "Why apple comes to earth?", Wade's book deals with something really obscure for common people. Religion survives just because it help people who have faith in it survive by promoting the group's solidarity. And if religion is useless, it cannot live through thousands of generations. It sounds just like a philosophy claim the existence itself gives reason to existence. To some extent, I’m in favor of Wade’s theory, although this review fails to present us more evidence to support his claim. With no doubt, religions have always played a significant role in human history and modeled our world today. However, I still have question that whether we can come out of a standard to assess the value of different religions based on their usefulness to human societies as we do about the groceries in the shop. I’m curious about the answer.

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briefing n. the act or instance of giving precise instructions or essential information

trigger red flags

wethering adj. acting or serving to cut down or destory

outflank vt.to get around the flank of 被侧翼包抄

stand in the way of something 妨碍

breach 违背，缺口

overarch  vt. 使。。。成为中心

grandstanding to play or act so as to impress onlookers

comments:
Politics, as a complicated subject, has been a game played by a few sophisticated individuals or groups and often confused laymen with its various masks since its born. In America, the situation is even more confusing with two competing parties and numerous interest groups. This article shows us that in many cases  the politicians are much more like participants in a politician reality show. They seldom speak their minds or act their true feeling; instead they play according to a given script. Their expressions never reveal their emotion but to make this show more vivid. However no matter how boring this show is, common people are doomed to pay for it.

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来看看adam~~加油哈~~

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昨天又忘记了。。。偶滴天那。。。

bump into  碰巧遇到

two-bit  adj. 廉价的，微不足道的

lay bare  暴露，开发

tug v.用力拉 n.牵引

bounce 反弹？ 是说卫星发射的波被反弹回来吧

I stare at that screen through lenses obey the laws of optics first worked out in detail by Issac Newton.  戴了个眼镜都可以说得这么复杂。。。

hand of God The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin,[1] is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Jehovah or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm, or ending about the wrist, is used to indicate the intervention in or approval of affairs on Earth by God, and sometimes as a subject in itself.

in a pinch =if necessary

I'm never aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty.

apprehend = to grasp with the understanding

To measure background radiation, we need subtle instruments; to measure beauty, we need alert inetlligence and our five keen senses.很多好句子

flute n.长笛

savor vt. 品尝

patchwork quilts  花格被子。。。

brimming hearts and teeming minds  brim =盈满  teem=充满

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This is such a beautiful literature as its title. Instead of describing a concrete beauty, with his passion and wisdom the author presents us a inspiring journey discovering the beauty of the laws of nature. After reading this poetry-like article, the first thing come to my mind is the famous Occam's razor principle which claim the simplest explanation or strategy tends to be the best one. Einstein's Mass-energy equation E=m*c^2 and Newton's Second Law F=a*m are both the best interpretation of Occam's razor and the "Simplicity, symmetry, elegance and power."

As a person interested in physics, I cannot agree more with the author's view. I think the beauty of the laws of nature can be appreciate by people just like those great art works. Why nature should conform to those beautiful laws? It sounds much like a philosophical question instead of a scientific one. The most well-known response maybe the Anthropic Theory states that the laws and constants work together so harmony just because we exist. However, I have to admit nature is not always so elegant in any scale. When we extend out vision into the microcosm of atom and electron, what we find is not order but a chaotic world dominated by randomness.

Whatever when reading this article I really feel something beautiful. That is enough.

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嘿嘿，昨晚狂欢去了？我们宿舍外面一堆人在大叫新年快乐呢

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是过了12点宿舍断网了。。。罪过罪过。。。 68# pluka

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嘿嘿，楼主新年快乐啊~~

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今天群里气氛异常邪恶。。。果然草版不在。。。

拜一下 又八 同志。。。 “宅”文化百事通。。。

Inuit  a people inhabiting small enclaves in the coastal areas of Greenland, Arctic North America (including Canada and Alaska), and extreme northeastern Siberia. The name Inuit means “the people.”

debilitate = weaken

squabble n. 争吵  程度大于tiff 小于quarrel

DEW line = Distant Early Warning line    A line of radar stations near the 70th parallel across the North American continent, maintained by the United States and Canada and intended to give advance warning of approaching enemy aircraft and missiles.

outfit  vt.配备，装备

traverse

sort out  消除，挑出

maritime

tar sand  沥青砂 应该是一种燃料

credit of course  credit ：a deduction from expense or asset account  不知道这个意思是不是文中的意思

comments:
Compared to past reports, this report is a brief one and much easier to understand. Yet it's not easy to give any valuable comments, for this issue contains few controversies. As to me, "Canada's northern goal", just like China's western goal, is reasonable and justified under a background of global warming and competition among countries becoming fiercer. The only question is whether Canada should achieve the goal with its own source or go hand in hand with America, the super power, to enjoy its partner's technology advantage and avoid some potential diplomatic conflicts. In a world every country is eager to maximize their profits, it's time for Canada to play a role.

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距2.10 还剩40天
得有个计划了~~~

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unspool   screen with a film

cryptic  adj. having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning

vitascope 放映机

statesman  n.is usually a politician or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career in politics or government at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term. When politicians retire, they are often referred to as elder statesmen. 就是高级政客喽~

fast-forward v.快进   这个动词够生动

rig out  装扮

jumping-off point  出发点

for starters  = to begin with

Fetishist  拜物的人
fetish an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others.

bleeding-edge  a term that refers to technology that is so new (and thus, presumably, not perfected) that the user is required to risk reductions in stability and productivity in order to use it[1]. It also refers to the tendency of the latest technology to be extremely expensive.

paperback  平装本

cine-circle  电影圈

cinephilia  影痴

art-house film   实验性的，不公开放映的电影

genie a magic spirit believed to have human form and serve the person who calls it

Generations of cinephiles fell in love with the object of their obsession while flopped on the floor, basking in the glow of the family television.

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To be honest, I cannot figure out whether this article is a obscure advertisement about Avatar or just a personal emotion revealing of a nostalgic author. Yet no matter what the truth is, what certain for me is I will go to enjoy Avatar in a cinema with a 3-D glasses. As a movie-lover, if not a cinephilia, I have to admit for a long time, I fail to persuade myself to get a ticket. The same is true for most people. Maybe not only the film, but also the movie, as a entertainment industry, is dying.
What is a movie supposed to be? As my old-fashioned idea, a good movie is always meant to tell a good story, and no matter what its form, chemical or electronic, is. Spectacular images maybe a perfect opening remark, however, what finally lead the audience into the world created by the director is the story itself. Image is just a carrier for a movie, as paper for a book. When I was watching the film "Schindler's list", I seldom realized whether the screen is Black and White or colored during the nearly three-hour's heart-stunning journey. The plot bound me tightly on my seat until the credit was over.
Movie is a art deserving our admiration with our soul.


4 : even though : although perhaps <an interesting if untenable argument尽管站不住脚但是一篇有趣的文章>  作名词if有这个意思，就是“尽管...但是”
fall under one's sway受到……的影响

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fig leaf  无花果叶，就是亚当同志用的。。。遮羞布

nosedive  俯冲，暴跌  向下冲的时候鼻子在前

the scales fell from the eyes   这里sacle应该做锈讲

loom vi. to appear in an impressively great or exaggerated form    something loomed large

salvage  救援

coin vt.铸造，创造

whereby  conj. by, through, or in accordance with which

complacency n.自满，自得

double dosage tragedy

But, when it is worshipped as a motto of life and commercialism takes the place of other wisdom of life, life is then turned into a corporation and, consequently, interpersonal relations into a market.


The former turns one’s life into a process of fulfilling endless obligations while the latter breeds a life-long scramble for wealth and power.


There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

comments:

This beautiful prose just reminds me of Freud's theory that human psyche could be divided into three parts: super-ego, the moral component of psyche, id, the impulsive, child-like portion, and ego. And the contradiction between righteousness and gain as described by Zhou looks similar to the one between super-ego and id. Instead of Freud's pessimistic claim ego is just a dilemma between super-ego and id, Mr. Zhou argues with a optimistic attitude that everyone is allowed to keep his true "self", which is free from the secular command of righteousness or gain and can be creative.

However I doubt whether Zhou's claim is true for everyone, for reality is always more persuasive than eloquence, and the reality is most people have lost the wil and ability to seek their true dream and become adults easily satisfied with a tedious but stable life under the pressure from making bread. The gap between ideal and reality never disappear. Although everyone is longing for the sightseeing on the other side, few achieve finally.

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A brief introduction about Beothius:

Boethius (circa 480-524), Roman philosopher and statesman. He gained the esteem and confidence of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, then the ruler of Rome, and in 510 was made a consul. Later Boethius was accused by his enemies of plotting treason, and, although innocent, was imprisoned in Pavia and executed. During his imprisonment he wrote De Consolatione Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy, c. 523), a philosophic work that, although not explicitly a Christian text, contained so many elements of Christian ethics that it was highly regarded in Europe during medieval times. Many translations of the work were made, notably (in England) by King Alfred the Great and by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Boethius also wrote treatises on logic that profoundly influenced the terminology of medieval logic; translations and commentaries on the works of Aristotle, from which medieval scholars largely derived their knowledge of the Greek philosopher; and works on music, arithmetic, and theology.

inkling hint,clue

dictum  n. 申明，格言

It is one thing to proceed through infinite time, as Plato posits, but quite another to embrace the whole of time in one simultaneous present.

confer v. 赐予

comments:

This article is much more obscure than Zhou's one though they are both about the philosophy. Boethius, a Roman philosopher, discussed something about the time, eternity free will and God with his logical reasoning. To be honest, as an atheist, if not so sincere, it's a little difficult for me to accept the author's claim. However, despite our difference in belief, I have to admit this work is much profound and inspiring although my understanding about it is intermittent. The main purpose of author may be persuading people to believe God is omnipresent and omnipotent and they should behave themselves because God can always keep an eye on them from on high. And I truly agree that we will achieve a better society with every its member realizing that all his virtue or wick is recorded and will result in the awards or punishments in the Judgment Day no matter whether from God or not.