Your mind is your source of power 思想是力量之源 Your mind has the fantastic ability to transform your most intimate desires and wants into their physical counterparts and create brand new realities of your
In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on. 在不那么明显的例子中，还是有一种磋商在进行着 In the workplace, for example, 比如说在工作场所 there's often a tension over whether an employee can socia
This is a picture of Maurice Druon, 照片里的人是Maurice Druon the Honorary Perpetual Secretary of L'Academie francaise, the French Academy. L'Academie francaise的荣誉终身秘书长--也就是法兰西学院 He is splendidly attired in
The simplest example of this is in the polite request. 最简单的例子出自于礼貌的要求 If you express your request as a conditional -- "if you could open the window, that would be great" 倘若你用一个条件句表达请求：“您要是能开一下窗子就太好了，”
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, 所以在解释孩子们如何学习语言时候，有一个问题 a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, 同样也是教成人学外语语法时的一个问题 and a problem in
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, 人类学家Alan Fiske给出了一个关于影响力的分类法 in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle 其
Just to give you a few examples: "ending a pregnancy" versus "killing a fetus;" 这里是一些例子：是“终止怀孕”还是“杀死胚胎” "a ball of cells" versus "an unborn child;" “一个细胞聚合的小球”还是“一个尚未出生的孩子” "invading Iraq" versus "lib
If the officer is honest, you get a huge penalty of being arrested for bribery. 如果警官是老实人，你因为行贿被逮起来 So this is a rather fraught situation. 所以情况挺复杂的 On the other hand, with indirect language, if you iss
Now, I'm sure most of you have seen the movie "Fargo." 我相信你们中大多数人都看过《冰血暴》这部电影 And you might remember the scene in which the kidnapper is pulled over by a police officer, 你们可能还记得其中的一段：一个警官要绑匪把车开到路边 is
We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, 我们看到俗语和术语不断产生，历史上语言在变化 in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages. 方言在分支，新的语言在形成 So l
