选自《浮生六记》 沈复著 余性爽直，落拓不羁，芸若腐儒，迂拘多礼，偶为披衣整袖，必连声道“得罪”，或递巾授扇，必起身来接。余始厌之，曰：“卿欲以礼缚我耶?语日，‘礼多必诈’。”芸两颊发赤，曰：“恭而有礼，何反言诈?”余曰：“恭敬在心，不在虚文。”芸曰：“至亲莫如父母，可内敬在心而外肆狂放耶?”余曰：“前言戏之耳。”芸曰：“世间反目多由戏起，后勿冤妾，令人郁死!”余乃挽之入怀，抚慰之始解颜为笑。 邻仅老夫妇二人，灌园为业，知余夫妇避暑于此，先来通殷勤，并钓池鱼，摘园蔬为馈。偿其价，不受，芸作鞋报之，始谢而受。时方七月，绿树阴浓，水面风来，蝉鸣聒耳。邻老又为制鱼竿，与芸垂钓于柳荫深处。日落时，登土山，观晚霞夕照，随意联吟，有“兽云吞落日，弓月弹流星”之句。

职能转换

third-party custodians

解决温饱问题

豆浆

exchange rate

自助餐厅

Occupy Central

Dressed to kill

Full Refunds

The survey is used to reveal how children feel under the current educational system.

Not long ago, chief executive officers(CEOS)were landed as heroes, leaders of the brave new economy. Bill Gates and Jack Welch were the two most celebrated American CEOs, hailed as geniuses, superstars and revolutionaries. But since Eaton and other scandals, Americans don' t need much convincing when it comes to mistrusting business leaders. A recent poll in Investor' s Business Daily found that only eight percent of Americans have high confidence in the honesty and integrity of corporate CEOs, and only four percent hold CEOs in ' high esteem'. In today' s CEO-bashing environment, executives' actions ate more scrutinized and regulated than ever before. In the USA, congress has passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which among other things, requires CEOs to personally certify to the accuracy of the company' s accounts. In Britain, investment banker Derek Higgs has proposed a new code of corporate governance, spelling out new responsibilities and liabilities for executives and boards of directors. Fortune has praised the ' new breed' of CEO: the latest crop pf CEOs is disciplined, deferential, even a bit dull. Less self-reliant, today' s CEOs turn to counselors to help ' rehab behavior' to become self-aware, ever-improving and ' the opposite of the Eronesque narcissist'. The opportunity to run a major company used to be an executive' s highest aspiration. Now more than half of senior executives surveyed said they would turn down the CEO position. It happens that most CEOs have decided to lie low, hoping that the storm will pass. The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs, has been relatively quiet of late; as Fortune reported, during key debates the organization ' chose to work behind the scenes - and mostly to water down reforms '. Some might feel little affinity with CEOs—their roles are not, after all, altruistic(利他的)or public-serving ones. But in slamming CEOs, critics often knock values worth defending in everyone —like leadership, individual achievement and ambition. Even the pursuit of self-interest and simply wanting more can be progressive. On the other hand, caution and modesty have their place, but they are not likely to produce innovative technology, build great cities or fight disease. Geniuses, superstars, revolutionaries—we could do with some.

binary opposition

房地产开发

patronage

扩大内需

The manager spoke highly of such______as loyalty, courage and truthfulness shown by his employees.

A word of warning—when you hear someone in your home, do not confront the intruder and try not to panic.

dubbing

Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not. The only question is whether what we learn in after life is wisely chosen or picked up haphazard. " Every person," says Gibbon , " has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself. " What we teach ourselves must indeed always be more useful than what we learn of others. " Nobody," said Locke, " ever went far in knowledge, or became eminent in any of the Sciences, by the discipline and restraint of a Master. "Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest. If, indeed, you have not taken pains, then, though I will not say that you should be discouraged, still you should be ashamed; but if you have done your best, you have only to persevere; for many of those who have never been able to distinguish themselves at school, have been very successful in after life. We are told that Wellington and Napoleon were both dull boys, and the same is said to have been the case with Sir Issac Newton, Dean Swift, Clive, Sir Walter Scott, Sheridan, and many other eminent men. Evidently then it does not follow that those who have distinguished themselves least at school have benefited least.