R.I.P.

在西方国家，人们去祭奠死者的时候，会发现所有人的墓碑上都刻着R.I.P.，那R.I.P.究竟是什么意思呢？

昨天跟一个朋友聊天的时候，他刚好说到这个R.I.P.。原来在西方国家一个人去世之后，他们的墓碑上面通常会刻上R.I.P.，也就是“Rest in Peace”，中文意思就是愿(死者)安息吧！

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1.继续证券投资的学习，方向依然为股票、各类基金、债券和一些人民币理财产品。
2.房地产知识。了解房地产的基本知识，发展趋势，客户群体，影响要素等。关注北京主要楼主的价格趋势，能够为不同的客户层提供一些有价值的建议。
3.汽车知识。了解汽车的基础知识，不同品牌和价位的车的特点，主要优劣势；关注低中高挡车的主流品牌和价格，汽车养护，油耗，以及车险车船税等相关详情。
4.社交礼仪。在不同场合的社交礼仪，主要为正式商务场合等，力求能够做到得体，有素养。

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英文wiki里查Black Friday，你会发现非常多的解释，这里我们仅仅来看看这个：

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although the day after Thanksgiving has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term “Black Friday” has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread popularity until about 2002.

Black Friday is frequently but erroneously referred to in the media as the busiest retail shopping day of the year. While it has been one of the busiest day in terms of customer traffic, in terms of actual sales volume Black Friday is usually the fifth to tenth busiest day. The busiest retail shopping day of the year in the United States (in terms of both sales and customer traffic) is usually the Saturday before Christmas.

所谓Black Friday( 黑色星期五)，指的是感恩节(美国移民文化特有的节日，11月的第四个星期四)后的第一个星期五，其对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，因为Black Friday代表了销售旺季的开始，电视机在旺季能否有好的表现，要看Black Friday的销售能否开个好头。

Black Friday称呼的由来是：因为各家电卖场涌入大量想捡便宜货的人群，让各卖场的销售人员陷入极度忙碌之中，一整天没有时间休息，对于家电卖场的工作人员而言，自然是一个极度忙碌的黑色星期五了。

看了上面的解释，应该对美国的Black Friday清楚了不少吧，Black Friday对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，代表了销售旺季的开始。

2.Reno
知道Go to Reno什么意思吗？意思就是离婚。为什么go to Reno就是离婚呢？
Reno是内华达州西部的一个小城镇，上个世纪20至50年代，它有着“世界上最大的小城”之称，更有着“世界离婚之都”之名。直到现在，人们也不能忘怀那段历史，想方设法要留住那曾经有过的“辛酸的浪漫”。

在RENO有一项免责任的法案，只要在RENO呆上三个月或四个星期，即立可单方申请离婚，所以全美各地的人带着帐棚来到这里，用上几个星期的时间来换取一生的幸福，这样就办理离婚手续一项就成了RENO的支柱产业。同一时期，赌博业在这里合法化，这里也成了继拉斯维加斯后的第二个赌博名城。

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What is the best teaching method? Different people have different answers. The famous ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates’ teaching method is well-known for its efficiency and its unique style. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of teaching method? Is it the best teaching method?

About Socrates
The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things make him the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.

Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing, so we are dependent upon his students for any detailed knowledge of his methods and results. The trouble is that Plato was himself a philosopher who often injected his own theories into the dialogues he presented to the world as discussions between Socrates and other famous figures of the day. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide a (fairly) accurate representation of Socrates himself.

About Socrates’ Teaching
Now that we have looked at the life of Socrates, we can turn to an examination of his particular approach in educating. What techniques did he use to facilitate learning?

Socrates’ attitude toward the divine carried over into his discussions as he often would pray for assistance in the argument or rely on his spiritual inspiration for guidance.

The main method of his teaching is conversional teaching, that is, though asking and answering, students can learn the knowledge. For the rest of his life, Socrates devoted himself to free-wheeling discussion with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens, insistently questioning their unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often offered them no clear alternative teaching. Unlike the professional Sophists of the time, Socrates pointedly declined to accept payment for his work with students, but in spite of this lofty disdain for material success, many of them were fanatically loyal to him. Their parents, however, were often displeased with his influence on their offspring, and his earlier association with opponents of the democratic regime had already made him a controversial political figure.

Our best sources of information about Socrates’ philosophical views are the early dialogues of his student Plato, who attempted there to provide a faithful picture of the methods and teachings of the master. In the Socratic dialogues, his extended conversations with students, statesmen, and friends invariably aim at understanding and achieving virtue through the careful application of a dialectical method that employs critical inquiry to undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines. Destroying the illusion that we already comprehend the world perfectly and honestly accepting the fact of our own ignorance, Socrates believed, are vital steps toward our acquisition of genuine knowledge, by discovering universal definitions of the key concepts governing human life.

My Opinions
Socrates’ teaching method, in a sense, is a good method. It could provoke the thinking of the students rather than just listening and reciting. In China, the cramming teaching method is generally accepted by most the schools. Students are just accepting but not inventing and creating. In this sense, Socrates teaching method is better.

On the other hand, it is also limited. In modern society, practice is more important than theory. Socrates just put the student in an environment of thinking but not practicing. If this kind of students lived in modern society, it is possibly that they could not adapt to this kind of situation. What they need is much more practice.

Nowadays, quality-oriented education is promoted; however, it is still a long way to go. Quality-oriented education is involved with practice and self-thinking. Both of these two elements are very important. We should attach equal importance to them.

Reference:
1. “Confucius And Socrates——The Teaching of Wisdom”, Sanderson Beck,May1,2005< http://www.san.beck.org/>
“Socrates: Philosophical Life”, October27, 2001. The first part, May 1, 2005.
2. “Socrates”, Richard Hooker, June6, 1999; May1, 2005
3. Literature and Culture (Book Six), Selected & Edited by Prof. Huang Xiaohong. 2005

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传统的英文论坛通常叫做forum，现在有新型的有被称作group或者community的，这三者定义是不太一样的，但这种区别其实是在淡化，已经没有很严格的界限了。在我的理解看来，与中文的论坛相对应的还是forum更为贴切一些。而在一些网站中因为某些爱好兴趣而聚在一起的人，则可称作group，比如douban中的小组；想中文中有些叫做朋友圈，或者什么圈的大体也可归为这类；community就是中文中的社区，具体的概念我也不好辨别，算是论坛的基础上又略带一些门户的气息，对论坛内容进行一些整理和导向，然后增加一些互动性。

不撤远了，再回到论坛，看一些常用的词：

• Board，就是所谓的论坛板块；
• Topic，主题贴，或者可以叫做thread;
• Post，帖子，每一个用户的独立的帖子就是post，包括主题贴和跟贴；
• User，不用多说了，就是用户，也有叫做member的，中文通常译作会员，user更技术一点，member更人文一点；
• Administrator，论坛管理员；
• Moderator，就是版主啦，听说有些人很搞笑地用bamboo，可能是按斑竹来翻译的；
• Newbie，新人，新成员，有点像中文的NB，开始还以为很牛的样子，原来只是个新人阿；
• Bump/bump up，相当于中文里的“顶”。如果你要说“顶”，可以发个”Bump!” 最常用的”Support!”或者”Up!”实际上是不对的，带有极其中国的特色，当然，说不定以后就会流行呢；还有人提出另外一种说法，叫做push，也可以表达相同的意思；
• lurk，指的是“潜水”，名词的话就是lurker；

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1.最常见的就是乱码问题了。乱码的解决方法：在ie的菜单里依次选择 查看-编码-其他-中欧（windows），一般都能解决乱码问题。 更多关于乱码的问题请参看http://www.russky.net/es.asp

2.西语输入

在word中：直接摁ctrl＋shift＋alt＋?可得¿。直接摁ctrl＋shift＋alt＋!上下颠倒的感叹号

另外用国际西班牙语打出的重音符号都是从左上斜到右下的，用拉美各国的输入法（比如西班牙语（委内瑞拉））打出的重音符号则符合手写习惯

3.键盘布局图片链接有点问题，改天修复一下再发出来。

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