choose to be alone on purpose
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宗赢分享学习语言的技巧
各位朋友，学习外国语言光凭热情是不够的，必须对你所要学的语种有一个初步概念，选择最适合你的外国语言。由于英、德、日、法、西为人们常选的外国语言，下面我就简要说说这五种语言，并谈谈自己的一些体会。（各人看法不同，请高手们各抒已见。） 1、英语：较难学的一种外语，发音的规则性不是很强，同时句子顺序比较灵活，即经常可象汉语那样，把句子中的某一成分放在句子中间的不同的位置。英语是一种具有很强灵活性的语言，并且英语的句子结构和汉语结构具有不少相似性。（当然是相对而言）具有流畅柔和之特点，适合于DISCO，抒情歌曲等。 建议：可作为首选外国语言。（因为使用范围广，使用人群多，并且接触其机会多。） 2、德语：发音比较有规则性，并且发音规则不繁杂，由于几乎每个字母都要发音，使得说德语听起来似乎是咬牙切齿，比较生硬，但这正是德语语音的特点。由于有四个格及三性（阴、中、阳），并且句子结构和汉语相差较大，如动语的放置于汉语习惯完全不同，所以比较难学。具有严谨深沉之特点，适合于正规演讲及一些学术讨论会等。 建议：适合于比较严谨之人。 3、日语：发音比较容易，大多数人只需一二次即可学会，发音规则也不是很多。语法结构和汉语也不尽相同，但由于日语中有上千个“当用汉字”（尤其在书面语中用得较多），而这些“当用汉字”和汉语中的同样的字意思相同或基本相近，这就造成了日语较容易理解。（许多学过的人说即使有些字不认识，但照着汉字猜，也能猜个八九不离十。）日语具有谦卑恭敬的特点，适合于做工作汇报等。 建议：适合于比较中规中矩、善解人意之人。 4、法语：发音规则也有规则性，但发音非常复杂，规则很多，由于不是每个字母都发音，且唇齿音很多，所以法语听起来较柔和，但这些都增强了其语音难度。语法体系也极其复杂，句子结构和汉语相差较大，法语比较讲究音韵和谐，有时为了使句子优美，往往在语音上做些变动，比如说在某些诗歌中为了压韵，经常省去或添加某些发音音素。法语读起来有浪漫如诗之感。法语的特点是浪漫绚丽，适合于一般演讲及情人细语及一些浪漫抒情曲。 建议：适合于想象力丰富且具有浪漫色彩之人。 5、西语：西语发音也有很强规则性，但规则不多，并且每个音素发起来都很清晰，元音响亮，辅音不拖泥带水，节奏明快，听起来非常动听。（被喻为和上帝交谈的语言）西语语法不是很难，而且句子也尽量追求简洁，同时，听西语或说西语你会有一种激情奔放的感觉。适合于煽情演讲及抒情摇滚及抒情曲。 建议：适合于激情奔放且感情细腻之人。 我觉得相对来说，女性选日语和法语更佳，而男性可选德语。西语则对两种性别都适合。参考：上面五种语言的普及程度------仅在五种语言范围内，不含如俄语等。〈参考上海及外地多所大学专业所设语言专业及参考他人言论〉 1、英语：学得人太多了，老大之位不可动摇。 2、德语：人数为第三位，但近两年有强大的上升势头。（可能国内德国企业较多，且想到德语国家留学的原因。） 3、日语：人数为第二位，但近两年有下降势头。（由于其比较易学，因此还是会被广大学子和自学者所选用，所有老二之位暂时不会变动。） 4、法语：人数为第四位，但近两年有上升势头。（由于其在国际语言上具有一定地位等原因，越来越多的学子和自学者选用，但又由于其较难学，因此许多人转而选学日语等。） 5、西语：人数为第五位：近两年没有什么变化。（不知是何原因，在欧美大陆上被广泛使用的语言------欧洲大陆最流行语种，居然许多大学都不设这一语种，并且似乎也没多少人感兴趣，看来还是现实主义思想占了上风。）
Choose to Be Alone on PurposeHere we are,all by ourselves,all 22 million of us by recent count,alone in our rooms,some of us liking it that way and some of us not.Some of us divorced,some widowed,some never yet committed.
Loneliness may be a sort of national disease here,and it's more embarrassing for us to admit than any other sin.On the other hand,to be alone on purpose,having rejected company rather than been cast out by it,is one characteristic of an American hero.The solitary hunter or explorer needs no one as they venture out among the deer and wolves to tame the great wild areas.Thoreau,alone in his cabin on the pond,his back deliberately turned to the town.Now that's character of you.
Inspiration in solitude is a mayjor commodity for poets and philosophers.They're all for it.They all speak highly of themselves for seeking it out,at least for an hour or even two before they hurry home for tea.
Consider Dorothy Wordsworth,for instance,helping her brother William put on his coat,finding his notebook and pencil for him,and waving as he sets forth into the early spring sunlight to look at flowers all by himself."How graceful,how benign,is solitude,"he wrote.
No doubt about it,solitude is improved by being voluntary.
Look at Milton's daughters arranging his cushions and blankets before they silently creep away,so he can create poetry.Then,rather than trouble to put it in his own handwriting,he calls the girls to come back and write it down while he dictates.
You may have noticed that most of these artistic types went outdoors to be alone.The indoor was full of loved ones keeping the kettle warm till they came home.
The American high priest of solitude was Thoreau.We admire him,not for his selfreliance,but because he was all by himself out there at Walden Pond,and he wanted to be all alone in the woods.
Actually,he lived a mile,or 20 minutes' walk,from his nearest neighbor;half a mile from the railroad;three hundred yards from a busy road.He had company in and out of the hut all day,asking him how he could possibly be so noble.Apparently the main point of his nobility was that he had neither wife nor servants,used his own axe to chop his own wood,and washed his own cups and sausers.I don't know who did his laundry;he doesn't say,but he certainly doesn't mention doing his own,either.Listen to him:"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Thoreau had his own self-importance for company.Perhaps there's message here.The larger the ego,the less the need for other egos around.The more modest and humble we feel,the more we suffer from solitude,feeling ourselves inadequte company.
If you live with other peole,their temporary absence can be refreshing.Solitue will end in Thursday.If today I use a singular personal pronoun to refer to myself,next week I will use the plural form.While the others are absent you can streth out your soul until it fills up the whole room,and use your freedom,coming and going as you please without apology,staying up late to read,soaking in the bath,eating a whole pint of ice cream at one sitting,moving at your own pace.Those absent will be back.Their waterproof winter coats are in the closet and the dog keeps watching for them at the window.But when you live alone,the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum,they may never come back.
The condition of loneliness rises and falls,but the need to talk goes on forever.It's more basic than needing to listen.Oh,we all have friends we can tell important thing to,peole we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm.It's the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us.We can't trust that new Supreme Court justice.
Scientific surveys show that we who live alone talk at length to ourselves and our pets and the television.We ask the cat whether we should wear the blue suit or the yellow dress.We ask the parrot if we should prpare steak,or noodles for dinner.We argue with ourselves over who is the greater sportsman:that figure skater or this skier.There's nothing wrong with this.It's good for us,and a lot less embarrassing than the woman in front of us in line at the market who's telling the cashier that her niece Melissa may be coming to visit on Saturday,and Melissa is very fond of hot chocolate,which is why she bought the powdered hot chocolate mix,though she never drinks it herself.
It's important to stay rational.
It's important to stop waiting and settle down and make ourselves comfortable,at least temporary,and find some grace and pleasure in our condition,not like a self-centered British poet but like a patient princess sealed up in a tower,waiting for the happy ending to our fairy tale.
After all,here we are.It may not be where we expected to be,but for the time being we might as well call it home.Anyway,there is no place like home.
（转自：New Horizon College English）
翻译：有意选择独处
事实如此，我们孤独无伴地生活着。据最近的统计，共有220万人独自生活在自己的屋里。其中有些人喜欢这种生活，有些却不是。有些离了婚，有些鳏寡无伴，也有些从未结过婚。
孤独或许是这里的一种民族弊病，它比起其他任何过错更加令人难以启齿。而另一方面，故意选择独处，拒绝别人的陪伴而非为同伴所抛弃，这正是美国是英雄的一个特点。孤独的猎人，孤独的探险者，在鹿群和狼群中间冒险，去征服广袤的荒野，这时他们并不需要有人陪伴。梭罗独居在湖畔的小屋，有意抛弃了城市生活。现在，这成了你的个性。
独处的灵感是诗人和哲学家最有用的东西。他们都赞成独处，都因能独处而自视甚高，至少在他们匆匆忙忙赶回家喝茶之前的一两个小时之内是如此。
就拿多萝西·华兹华斯来说吧，她帮她兄弟威廉穿上外衣，为他找到笔记本和铅笔，向他挥手告别，目送着他走进早春的阳光去独自对花沉思。他写道：“独处多么悠闲，美妙。”
毫无疑问，如果自愿独处，则感觉要好得多。瞧瞧弥尔顿的女儿们：她们为他准备好垫子和毯子，然后蹑手蹑脚地走开，以便他能创作诗歌。然而他并不自己费神将诗歌写下来，而是唤回女儿们，向她们口述，由她们写下来。也许你已经注意到，这些艺术家类型的人，大多是到户外独处，而家里则自有亲人们准备好了热茶，等着他们回家。
美国的独处高是施梭罗。我们钦佩他，并非因为他倡导自力更生精神，而是因为他孤身一人在瓦尔登湖畔生活，这是他自己想要这么做的。他独居在湖畔的森林中。
实际上，他最近的邻居离他只有一英里，走路也就20分钟；铁路离他半英里；交通繁忙的大路距他300码。整天都有人进出他的小屋，请教他何以能够如此高洁。显然，他的高洁之处主要在于：他既没有妻子也没有仆人，自己动手用斧头砍柴，自己洗杯碟。我不知道谁为他洗衣服，他没说，但是他也肯定没提到是他自己洗的。听听他是怎么说的：“我发现没有任何同伴比独处更好。”
梭罗以自尊自重为伴。也许这里的启示是：自我意识越强，就越不需要其他的人在周围。我们越是感觉谦卑，就越受孤独的折磨，感到仅与自己相处远远不够。
若与别人同住，你会在于他们小别时感觉耳目一新。孤独将会与星期四结束。如果今天我提到自己时使用的是单数人称代词，那么下星期我就会使用复数形式。其他人不在的时候你可以放飞你的灵魂，让它充满整个房间。你可以充分享受自由。你可以随意来去而无需道歉。你可以熬夜读书、大泡浴缸、坐下一口气吃掉整整一品脱的雪糕。你可以按自己的节奏行动。暂别的人会回来。他们的冬季防水大衣还放在衣橱里，狗也在窗边密切留意他们归来的身影。但如果你单独居住，那么朋友或熟人的暂时离别会使你感到空虚，也许他们永远也不会回来了。
孤独的感觉时起时落，但我们却永远需要与人交谈。这必须要倾听更重要。噢，我们都有朋友，可以把大事要事向他们倾诉。我们可以打电话对他们说我们丢了工作，或者说我们在湿滑的地板上摔倒了，跌断了胳膊。但是每日不断发生的琐碎抱怨，看到的和想到的琐事，却积在那儿，塞满了我们的心。我们不会镇打电话给一位朋友，告诉他我们受到了姐姐的一个包裹，或者说现在天黑得比较早，或者说我们不信任最高法院新来的法官。
科学调查表明，独居的人会对着自己，对着宠物，对着电视机唠叨不休。我们问猫儿今天该穿蓝色套装还是黄色裙装，问鹦鹉今天晚餐该做牛排还是面条。我们跟自己争论那个花样滑冰选手和这个滑雪运动员到底谁更了不起。这没什么不妥，也对我们有好处，而且不像有些人那么令人尴尬：在超市付款处，排在前面的女人告诉收银员，她的侄女梅莉莎星期六可能会来看她。梅莉莎非常喜欢热巧克力，所以她买了速溶热巧克力粉，虽然她自己从来不喝这东西。
重要的是保持理性。
重要的是不再等待，而是安顿下来，使自己过得舒服，至少暂时要这样。要在我们自身的条件下发现一些优雅和乐趣，不要做一个以自我为中心的英国诗人，而要像一个被关在塔楼里的公主，耐心地等待着我们的童话故事进入快乐的结局。
毕竟，事以至此，这或许不是我们所期望的局面，但眼下我们不妨称之为家吧。不管怎么说，没有什么地方比家还好。
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