第一次練習藝術類的文章，光是查單字和專有名詞就死了一堆腦細胞，希望翻出來還算通順，從今年5/24開始翻到現在，工程不可不謂浩大。

The art movements lost to history 

藝術運動失去了它的歷史

Have you ever heard of Rayonism, Tonalism or Precisionism? Not as visible as Impressionism, they still mattered in their own unique ways, writes Kelly Grovier.

你是否曾經聽聞輻射主義、色調主義或者是精確主義？它們不只看似印象派，且依然具有影響力，以它們獨有的方式。  作者：Kelly Grovier。

By Kelly Grovier
10 April 2017

(作者 Kelly Grovier，2017/4/10)

Impressionism changed everything. Born of defiance and a rejection of tired traditions, the collective visions of Monet and Manet, Morisot and Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley became (and remain to this day) more popular than any in the history of image-making. If that weren’t remarkable enough, the movement’s nerve and verve succeeded in opening the floodgates to a dizzying proliferation of artistic ideas, ideals and painterly techniques that altered forever the story of art.

印象派改變一切。出於蔑視，以及拒絕令人厭倦的傳統，莫內和馬內、莫里索和雷諾瓦、畢加羅和希斯里，他們的共同願景變得愈來愈受到歡迎，並存留至今，超過歷史上任何的圖像製作。如果他們不是那麼的傑出，該運動那為後世那數目多到令人頭暈目眩的藝術想法、理念和技法大開方便之門的膽量和氣魄，只會為後世留下永遠的傳奇。

The last 150 years have had four times as many art movements as in the previous millennium.Before Impressionism’s emergence in the 1860s, prevailing artistic tastes shifted relatively slowly. One could be forgiven for thinking, over-simplistically, that one dominant school followed another with a kind of fluid inevitability, like the passing of an aesthetic baton from one era to next: the Renaissance handing off to Mannerism, Baroque to Rococo, Romanticism to Realism. But when Impressionism entered the race, suddenly that single lane of traffic divided into many, as separate strands spidered away from the linear path into a spaghetti of creative confusion. The ensuing century and a half witnessed more than four times as many distinct and nameable movements than the entire millennium that came before.

過去150年來，藝術運動的數量是上個千禧年的四倍之多。在1860年代印象派出現之前，大眾流行的藝術品味轉變得相對緩慢，過分簡單地說，大家都認為一個主要畫派會隨著一種流動的必然性而接在另一個主要畫派之後，就像把美學的指揮棒從一個紀元傳到下一個紀元一樣：文藝復興遞交給形式主義、巴洛克交給洛可可、浪漫主義交給寫實主義。但是當印象主義進入了競賽，突然之間，藝術的單行道分裂成許多條，就像分離的股爬行遠離筆直小徑，成為創作混亂的義大利麵。接下來的一個半世紀見證了許多不同著名的運動，數量超越上個千禧年加總四倍以上。

This year alone marks the centenary of the formal establishment of at least three separate artistic schools that emerged independently in three different locations: De Stijl in the Netherlands, Productivism in Russia and Pittura Metafisica in Italy. The first of these, De Stijl, remains familiar to more than merely devoted students of art history. The geometric colour blocks of Piet Mondrian, one of De Stijl’s co-founders, continue to mesmerise. But how many of us can, without the aid of Google, picture in our mind’s eye a work by De Stijl’s Russian and Italian creative siblings – hugely significant interludes in Modern art, but hardly household terms?

Manchester attack: 22 dead and 59 hurt in suicide bombing

曼徹斯特攻擊事件：自殺炸彈奪走22條人命，造成59人受傷

Twenty-two people have been killed and 59 injured in what Theresa May called an "appalling, sickening, terrorist attack" at Manchester Arena.

在這場發生在曼徹斯特體育館的攻擊事件中，有22人死亡、59人受傷，被英國首相泰瑞莎●梅爾稱之為一場「駭人聽聞、令人作嘔的恐怖攻擊」。

A lone male suicide attacker set off a homemade bomb in the foyer at 22:33 BST on Monday at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.

於英國夏令時間星期一晚間十點三十三分，正當美國歌手Ariana Grande的演唱會將告尾聲時，一個男性孤狼式自殺炸彈客在體育館大廳引爆一個自製炸彈。

Relatives are using social media to hunt for loved ones, and an emergency number, 0161 856 9400, has been set up.

犯人慣於使用社群媒體找尋獵物，如有任何蛛絲馬跡，請播打緊急號碼0161-856-9400。

The first victim has been named as student Georgina Callander.

第一個受害者是一位名為Georgina Callander的學生。

She was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Lancashire.

她就讀於蘭開夏郡的Runshaw學院，主修是健康和社會照護。

In a statement in Downing Street, the prime minister said it was "now beyond doubt that the people of Manchester and of this country have fallen victim to a callous terrorist attack" that targeted "defenceless young people".

在唐寧街的聲明中，首相說「現在曼徹斯特居民和整個國家的人民無疑成為這場冷酷的恐怖攻擊事件的受害人」，尤其是「手無寸鐵的年輕人」。

Trump: FBI inquiry is 'greatest witch hunt' in history

川普：FBI的調查是歷史上最大的一次獵巫行動

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee the inquiry into Russian influence on his election.

美國總統唐納川普猛烈抨擊任命特別顧問來監督一項調查的決定，該調查關乎俄羅斯影響力左右多少川普選情。

"This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history," he tweeted on Thursday morning.

「這是美國歷史上最大的一次單一政治獵巫行動，」川普在星期四早上在推特上說道。

His reaction differed from Wednesday when he was quoted in a White House statement as saying: "I look forward to this matter concluding quickly."

川普的反應迥異於星期三，當時他被媒體引用的白宮聲明中是這麼說：「我很期待這次事件能很快有個結論。」

Former FBI director Robert Mueller has been selected to lead the inquiry.

前FBI局長羅伯米勒已被選中來領導這次調查。

In naming Robert Mueller, the US deputy attorney general said it was in the public interest to pick an outsider.

美國的副檢察長說，任命局外人羅伯米勒為特別顧問符合公眾利益。

Mr Mueller's appointment has been welcomed by politicians from both sides.

米勒的任命令已得到美國兩黨政治人物的歡迎。

Calls for a special investigation mounted after Mr Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last week.

呼籲進行特別調查的聲浪在川普上週開除FBI局長詹姆斯柯米後愈來愈大。

"With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign and the Obama Administration, there was never a special councel [sic] appointed," he tweeted on Thursday.

「從來沒人指派過特別顧問給所有發生在柯林頓選舉和歐巴馬執政期間的種種不法行動，」川普星期四在推特上說道。

He later reposted the same tweet, after correcting his misspelling of the word "counsel".

*I hate I have less words to share my story, so I have to learn more instead of playing more.

*Disgrace is a noun. A noun she felt. A noun I didn't feel. I relearn the word from who is supposed to be honor.

*Cats like yelling in the night. Why? Is she hungry? Is she sick? Maybe I should give her some cat food and medicine.

*Night is a long journey. It makes me sleep. It makes me tired. It makes me fill with inspiration. It also makes me rethink my life.

*Nobody can understand my feeling. If you could, you were a superman. Yet why I wrote my feeling on the website? I am the riddle, and you are the detective. It is a game between Harry Potter and Voldemort. It seems to me that it just a comedy.

*I heard someone fried an egg in front of my window. Who did this? I should ask my good neighborhood:"Who is that good wife?"

*I ate so many terms of nurology, after I gained 54.5 points of the subject. Today, I met my professor at a small restaurant. She said: "I am very worry about your homework." I felt nervous. 

*I love flowers, but I do not like pollon. I love cats, but I do not own one. I love writing, but I have not written a book yet. I would like to have a job, but I have not graduated, even if I have been 27 years old already. 

*My soul belongs to God. My heart belongs to a boy who was vanished. My body belongs to my unknown husband. My thought belongs to love and tear. My passion tears all these until I sit down and read a book.

*War is brutal. It is. Yet we should continue to pray until we are not stay.  

最近都沒在讀英文，於是考試一蹋糊塗(多益從700變成555)，所以為了下次考高分而努力，從今天開始要努力寫英文作文。看了從前寫的作文，覺得自己當時好青澀啊!!!(明明當時就是研究生啊!!!!!)從此知道自己還有廣大的發展空間，於是要把自己當成一個新鮮人，重新開始學習英文的奧秘。就從英文作文開始吧~~

"Joy of Childhood"

Sometimes I would memorize my childhood. I do not think my childhood is total happiness, but at least my parents do their best to give me what I need and what I want. My father is a serious man, and my mother is kinder than him. They are close. I have a good family, at least it looks like.

I was the first child in my family, so my parents very love me. I feel a little bit happy and a little bit upset, because they too love me to ask my behavior and homework to reward their love. I became disobedient gradually, and my disobedient brought me a lot of hit in deed. The executioner is usually my father.

I clearly remembered that my father was always working. He barely showed in front of me. As he came back home, I was often blamed by him, so I was getting scared of him like I am scared of litchi. Litchi is one kind of fruit I hate from my unclear childhood memory until now.

If you guess that I do have a miserable childhood because of it, you are wrong. The life has both sadness and happiness, the only sad thing is that you always see the bad one. No, I am not acting a tragedy of Shakespeare. On the contrary, I am grateful to my father now, because what he did and what he performanced made me become a person with good conduct. In my life, I had never saw anyone who is honest like him. Maybe because of his influence, I can not keep secrets, and therefore offend some people sometimes.

As for my mother, it's another story. She is a person who is really different from my father. She can easily considerate others' needs. I have to confess that I do not learn much wisdom from her. My younger sister is like her much more than I am. 

Strange thing is that I am my mother's favorite child, and my father never hits my sister whatever how her behavior and speech offend him. This is my family.

I do have real joy in my childhood, that was when I told my family the content of a good book I read that day. My first book is a Chinese dictionary. I really like the book. Thanks for my mother, she led me into the world of books. From then on, my world became wider. My knowledge no longer only rely the live people.

Mother gave me the book world, and she gave me the other world-----the real world. She reached this through travel. I am lucky. There are seven continents on the earth, and I have been to three of them. My mother is a born adventurer and a good travelling companion. Besides travel, she likes to try new things, such as playing stocks and eating field mice, the things which my father would never do in all his life.

I like my sister, but I like to trick her more. When she was in the cradle and just a few months old, I liked to take her nipple away and made her cry. I felt that doing it is very interesting. Obviosly, my father did not think so, so I got another hit again. The events like this are many, but all the things did not influence the tight between us. We are still good firends.

At the end, I want to talk about my friends. I am a libra, who is a peace-lover of the world, and I like to make friends as well. when you meet a good friend, it is like you meet a good book. A good friend can help you understand your merits and weak points. A good friend is who can accompany you whatever you are sad and happy. A good friend can make you become another's good friend. A good friend is a power of calmness. I am lucky again, because I gain a lot of good friends when I am at different life stages. Each good friend represents different meaning to me. I am grateful, and I look forward to meeting more new friends in the future. 

My family, my fantasy books' world, and my friends form my childhood. Except some unhappy, I think my childhood is satisfying. I love all things which had shown or still exist now, and I am really grateful. 

老師最近出了一個讓大家傷腦筋的報告，雖說我在今天終於完成了，可是如果要背起來也是一個大問題:( 希望不要愈來愈懶散了:(

Are people educated overseas entitled to the high salary?

“Overseas degree” is no longer means “high salary” in Taiwan. Because of the progress of technology, the trend of “knowledge intensive” in before has been changed to “ability-oriented”. It means that you don’t need to “know” many information, but you need to understand how to "use" these information. Even if you own just elementary school's degree, as you have one specific ability, you may gain the higher achievement than who owns college degree but doesn't have any extensive ability!!

For instance, jewelry industry is a knowledge intensive industry, but it doesn’t need any high degree or overseas degree. If you want to have higher reward in jewelry industry one day, be an apprentice and train your language ability. You can learn these not only in school but in your job, so the school qualification is not a necessary.

Apprenticeship is a very interesting system. It cultivates your real ability instead of giving you a degree. What decide your pay is your ability. I think this way suits those who don’t have any background and money.

Recently, overseas degree and high degree is no longer a necessary. They give few rate of return of investment to who wants to earn money. For example, if you are a college student in Taiwan, your beginning salary is about NT$30,000, but if you have a master degree, your boss may just want to give you NT$33,000, even if you gain an overseas master degree, your beginning salary may only NT$35,000, but your spending of studying aboard may cost you more than NT$2 million!!

Apprenticeship and vocational school become a fasion in nowadays Taiwan warns us what? Are high degree and overseas degree no longer needed? My opinion is NOPE, but your goal to study abroad is not just because of high salary, but because that you really want to  acquire something into your mind! 

沒想到在今天就完成了！！果然早起的鳥兒有蟲吃，接下來暫時沒我的事了~~希望其他人也加油努力，讓我們能在這個學期末交出最傑出的翻譯作業！！

99年公務人員高等考試一級暨二級考題

中譯英

(一)在現代化資本與知識密集的產業發展趨勢下，財富與所得分配的集中乃為難以迴避的必然結果。政府的重分配機制是民眾期盼社會公平正義的最後依靠，其中租稅制度尤為關鍵。

With the trend of industry development which is capital intensive and knowledge intensive in the modern society, property concentrated and income concentrated are unavoidable and absolute outcome. The reallocated mechanism implemented by the governments is the last backing of fair and justice that the citizens expect in the society, and the tax system is the crucial part.

(二)兩性平權是建立在相互尊重與合作的架構上，而不是女權主義的高漲或兩性間的對立。只有兩性和諧共處，社會與國家才能安定。

Gender equality is built on the structure of mutual respect and cooperation whilst the rise high of feminism or the opposite between two genders. Only two genders get along with each other, the society and the country can be stable.

(三)臺灣農業屬小農家庭農場經營形態，提升競爭力最大的限制在於農戶眾多且經營規模小，兼業比率過高，研發成果商品化不足，欲求降低產銷成本及導入現代化、企業化經營管理及行銷頗為不易。若能藉由建立農業中心衛星體系，推動農業經營企業化，將可有效整合小農成為大農，並以產銷組織間的專業分工、資源互補，來加速生產結構改善，提高產銷效率，進而發展高值、高效農業，強化競爭優勢。

The business style of Taiwanese agriculture is peasant’s family farm style. The biggest limit of increasing competitive is because of high-amount but week-business scale peasants which has too high side-business rate to commercialize their research outcomes. It causes the difficult on lower the cost of produce and sale, and leading-in modernization, business management and marketing. If we can advocate agriculture management to become more business by building agriculture-center satellite system, it will be effect to integrate peasants to become big farmers. Moreover, we can accelerate the improvement of generation structure, and enhance the effect of generating and selling to develop high quality and high effect agriculture to reinforce competitive advantages by the specialization and resource complementation between organizations of production and marketing.

98年公務人員高等考試一級暨二級考題

英譯中

1. 1.      With the bringing up of the price of coal and natural gas, the payback periods have been shortened for renewable energy plans. All over the world, solar energy is on the verge of huge development. A forecast issued in 2008 indicated solar power will develop from a $25 billion industry in 2007 to $80 billion in 10 years.

隨著煤炭和天然氣的價格攀升，再生能源計畫的投資回收期縮短。綜觀全球，太陽能科技研發最盛。2008年的前瞻議題顯示太陽能將從2007年的兩百五十億美元產值，在十年後達到八百億美元產值。

1. 2.      The Chinese consider calligraphy a way of keeping one health. One of the reasons is that it involves the exercise of the hand, the entire body, and the mind. Calligraphy is so abstract and sublime that in Chinese culture a scholar’s penmanship is often regarded as his most revealing trait.

中國人認為寫書法可以強身健體，其中一個原因在於寫書法牽涉到手、整個肢體與心智的運動。書法如此抽象與莊嚴，導致在中國文化中，學者的字跡往往被認定形同他最顯著的特點。

雖然有些事情不盡順心，但是該做的還是得做，所以，接下來又是翻譯時間，這是外交部特考的內容~~不過只是我們一部份的期末報告而已。

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（一）英譯中：請將下列英文譯為中文。

The Gulf nation of Qatar is home to exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and is a key financial patron for the Gaza Strip, which Hamas controls. The Gulf state denies financially backing Hamas, however, and has sought to play a role in brokering a truce to end fighting between the Islamic State extremist group and Israel.

被放逐的哈瑪斯政局領導人哈立德馬沙爾的祖國是海灣國家卡達，卡達也是加薩走廊財政上的一個重要客戶，加薩走廊如今被哈瑪斯控制。然而，卡達否認金援哈瑪斯，且試圖扮演居中協調的角色以結束伊斯蘭國極端份子團體與以色列的戰爭。

（二）中譯英：請將下列中文譯為英文。

1.人們有時可能會把食物所引起的疾病誤認為流行性感冒，有些造成疾病的毒素毒性強到微小到如一粒鹽的份量可以在一小時內讓數人致死。

Sometimes people may consider the diseases triggered by food are just a flu. Some toxins which cause the diseases are so poisonous that they can make people die within one hour even their amounts are only as few as a grain of salt.

2.大腦研究的發現證明了延遲獲得滿足感的人在有壓力時比較不會崩潰、僵住、甚或行為退化，他們勇於迎接挑戰，甚至在面臨困難時，他們非但沒有放棄，還追求挑戰。

The discovery of brain researches testified that those who receive the feeling of satisfied slower than average people are less falling apart, less froze, even less behavior degenerated. They accept challenges bravely. Even facing troubles, they not only keep at, but they chase another challenge on their own.

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中翻英：請將下列句子翻譯成英文。

1. 1.      我們展開可以幫助雙方降低彼此歧見、擴大共識領域的談話。

We open a conversation that can aid mutual part to put down the discriminations of each other, and can expand the consensus fields.

1. 2.      每次的成功，其實都只是讓我們拿到通往更棘手問題的門票。

A fact, every success is only a chance let us take a ticket to solve more trouble questions.

（二）英翻中：請將下列句子翻譯成中文。

雖然作業時間萬分辛苦，一句話就反覆聽了不下十來遍，不過總算把六分鐘演講稿聽完，結束了這一回合XD

離下一次上課還有三天時間(不算今天的話)，不過我還有一個PPT還沒開始做，然後下次上課就要交草稿出來了，現在還想不到要做什麼東西，實在難過:(

然後《21世紀資本論》的心得文章也寫了兩篇了，原來要做還是做得來的嘛！只不過好像沒有人買帳，到目前也才三個讚(第一篇)，第二篇剛貼出來然後沒有人按讚。到底是我的想法和大家差太多還是我人緣不好，無法理解。不過既然決定做了，就把它完成吧！到時候再做網誌上來。

"Presentation Like Steve Jobs"

Host: Anyone who is watching the Steve Jobs’ keynote will tell you he is one of the most extraordinary speaker ~ America.

Jobs: “Who does the best job of that in the world?”

Host: While most of presenters simply convey information. Jobs inspires!

Gallo: I am Carmine Gallo, and today I walk you through several key techniques that Steve Jobs uses to electrify his audience. The elements you can adopt in your very next presentation.

Jobs: “Welcome to the Mac world 2008. We got some great stuff for you. There’s clear something in the air today.”

Gallo: With those words, Jobs opened Mac world 2008. Setting the theme for his presentation, and hitting at the major announcement of the day by launching an ultra-thin MacBook Air. Whether it is the new notebook or the iPhone, Jobs unveil a single headline that set the theme.

Jobs: “Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone.”

Gallo: Once you identify a theme, make your theme clear and consist in a proper presentation. Think about staff meeting as a presentation. So what say is your sales manager introducing the new software tool to help your team generate, track, and share sales leads? You might kick off the meeting this way: “Good morning! Thanks for coming! I know you’ll be really excited about this. Today we make easier for you to make your quota.” That’s the headline: “Easier to Make Quota” It’s memorable, and access the direction for the rest of your meeting. It gives your audience the reason to listen.

以下是我的試譯稿，雖然想要寄出去，但是到最後不打算寄了，因為掃描機壞了，也因為我發現我最近事情超級多，忙都忙不完，對方又只給八個月的時間翻，嚴重影響到我的計畫

所以還是只能過乾癮......

最後面的一段沒存好檔，漏掉了，也懶得再重翻一遍，所以請加減看，總算知道職員的悲哀了......

試譯稿3

Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

步步為營的民主：改變巴西當地的治理方式以及公民社會

Although the concept of civil society has a long and complicated history inpolitical theory, it is only in recent decades that it has become an object of sustained empirical interest. After a first revival in the late 1980s driven by the waves of democratization in Eastern Europe and Latin America (Kaldor2004), and subsequent world events like the World Social Forum, the idea of civilsociety has continued to animate a variety of scholarship on the potentials and pitfalls of associational life. Civil society has been referred to as a “millennial idea” (Comaroff and Comaroff 2001), and its rediscovery marks a turning point in political sociology. Somers has argued that for much of the twentieth century, political sociology worked with the assumption that there were “only two essential towering protagonists of social organization that forged the modern world: the modern administrative state and the market economy” (1995, 230). It has now become commonplace to theorize civil society as a necessary third leg of modernity providing a necessary complement to the market and the state. As Somers argues, “It has been called a ‘third’ space of popular social movements and collective mobilization, of informal networks and associations, and of community solidarities that sustain a participatory public life symbolized not by the sovereign individualism of the market or by the state” (1995, 230).

雖然公民社會的概念在政治學理論上擁有長遠複雜的歷史，但是近幾十年內才變成實證興趣研究的對象。第一次復興在１９８０年代末期，由東歐和拉丁美洲的民主浪潮，以及隨之而來的世界社會論壇（ＷＳＦ）驅動而起（Kaldor 2004），在那之後，和公民社會有關的想法持續激活各種各樣對於社團生活想像的可能性和陰謀論的學術研究。「公民社會」一詞被歸類為「Ｙ（千禧）世代的想法」（Comaroff and Comaroff 2001），它的再發現為政治社會學劃下轉捩點。Somers便表明，在大部份的二十世紀裡，政治社會學一直和某個假說共同運作，這個假說就是：「只有兩種基礎凌駕於形成現代社會的社會組織參與者：現代行政國家與市場經濟體。」（1995, 230）政治社會學為「市場」和「國家」之外作出重要補充，成為建立公民社會理論的現代第三重要觀念，並普遍流傳。如同Somers表明的：「它已經被稱為一個『第三度空間』，集合大眾社會運動與集體動員、非正式的網路和團體、以及象徵非藉由市場或國家主導的、維持公眾參與的社群團結於一身。」

Certain scholarly works, such as the 1989 English translation of Habermas’s The Public Sphere and the publication of Putnam, Leonardi, and Nanetti’s Making Democracy Work, have been particularly influential in shaping the debate and most notably in reconceptualizing democracy from the vantage point of civil society. Our toolkit for understanding democratization has been expanded to include concepts such as the “public sphere” and “citizenship,” concepts that have been specifically developed to highlight how political practices areculturally specific to peoples, places, and issues (Dagnino 1998; Mahajan 1999).

一些學術工作像是１９８９年尤爾根‧哈伯馬斯的《公共領域》（The Public Sphere）英文翻譯以及羅伯特D.帕特南、Leonardi以及Nanetti等三人的著作《使民主運轉起來》，對於塑造辯論以及再概念化來自公民社會的制高點的民主特別有影響力。

今天國家教育院公開徵求譯者翻譯有官「自由、人權、民主」的三本書，十一月七日前試譯截止，有興趣的朋友可以來翻一翻試譯稿喔~

http://www.naer.edu.tw/files/15-1000-7799,c253-1.php?Lang=zh-tw

PPT我要講的內容(WRITTEN BY WENDY)，要講關於非裔美國人的橋段，我想應該寫得還不錯吧？其實基本上我對於黑人沒啥恐懼感(大概是因為電影裡的黑人都很好笑)，反而覺得白人很神經兮兮，我想這也算另類的種族歧視。當然還會有其他內容，只不過現在我還沒有想到:(

One of my teacher’s husband is an African American from Los Angeles. He is a nice person with a great smile, and he likes 功夫 and cats. They feed four cats! I like cats, too, so I like my teacher’s husband as well. As for his martial arts’ dream, he told us that it is his dream from childhood, and now he made it become the real. How he realizes his dream in Taiwan? Well, he established an ally with his friends who have same hobby as him. He can use Chinese spear and other Chinese weapons. He can 蹲馬步 as well. It is incredible in our mind, right? But for him and other foreigners, the ancient “Chinese dream” is really exist. He also likes cook. When my teacher’s husband visited my family, he took a recipe to us, and it is very special. I mean, Americans like to share with their friends, and this fact would not be changed whatever he or she is a black man or not. He and she are normal people. Like us! So we really don’t need to scare of them or hate them, and have some strange stereotype of them. African Americans are also Americans. Under same education and terms, their performance would be as same as white people, even better.

For another instance, Barak Obama, the American president, is a nice example of this melting pot. His father and sisters are very smart as well, and there are some academic performances of them.

The third example of black man is not happened in US. It’s in Africa. Have you ever heard Ebola? It is a horrible virus which spread through body fluid and touching the dead body. Why is it so horrible? It is because of its contagiousness and cureless. So it’s horrible. No matter who in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea got the disease died in 21-day. So far, there are 5000 people died because of the disease. And the toll of dead still rise. From this event, we can see all countries, especially US, try to find an antidote of Ebola. This is really a global thing! But we cannot hate Africans, because they sacrificed themselves to save you!! You need to be gratitude of them. 

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How McDonald’s aims to tackle its image

麥當勞的逆轉

McDonald’s has been battling a chronic image problem that they hope to erase with the continued introduction of healthier and more relevant menu options.

麥當勞藉著持續介紹健康的好處與其相關的菜單選擇，試著擺脫長期以來的形象問題。

The fast food giant, the Associated Press writes, has been trying to change its image by adding healthier items to its meals, in addition to the option to substitute healthier alternatives into current offerings.

美聯社報導，這個速食業巨擘除了將更健康的替代品代入目前的餐點外，並試著藉由增加健康食物項目來改變其形象，

In the past 18 months, the chain has introduced the option to substitute egg whites in breakfast sandwiches and rolled out chicken wraps as its first menu item with cucumbers. Last fall, it announced plans to give people the choice of a salad instead of fries in combo meals. And in coming months, mandarins will be offered in Happy Meals, with other fruits being explored as well.

過去十八個月裡，這家連鎖店已經向大眾推出取代早餐三明治裡蛋白的選項，他們開發的雞肉捲成為第一款含有小黃瓜的菜單項目。上一個秋天，它宣佈一連串計畫，給予人們在餐點組合裡取代薯條的沙拉選項。然後在即將到來的幾個月裡，它將提供華人「快樂餐」，其他水果也會被提供。

“We’ve got to make sure that the food is relevant and that the awareness around McDonald’s as a kitchen and a restaurant that cooks and prepares fresh, high quality food is strong and pronounced,” CEO Don Thompson said in January.

麥當勞執行長Don Thompson在一月時說：「我們必須確保提供適當的食物，以及，麥當勞身為一個廚房和餐廳，對於烹飪及準備新鮮、高品質的食物的意識強大且明顯。」

During a trendy Tribeca event in October 2013, the popular fast food chain laid out the red carpet for reporters and bloggers alike to a fine dining event that only included ingredients available on their menu. Celebrity chefs took basic burger patties and fries and fashioned a cuisine of gnocchi and slow cooked beef that most McDonald’s customers would not have at their disposal. They billed the experience simply as “good food, served fast.”

在2013年十月的一場翠貝卡時尚活動中，這家受歡迎的速食連鎖店展開紅毯,迎接記者和部落客，在他們餐桌上等著他們的，只有使用合適食材構成的菜單。名廚拿走基本款漢堡排和薯條，製作包括義大利麵疙瘩和慢火烹煮牛肉的料理，這些都是大部份麥當勞客戶所不能享受到的。他們真正地安排了一種「好食物，快上桌」的體驗。