卑鄙者的墓志铭

SINCEDarfur’s resistance to the inequities of Arab rule from Khartoumbroke into open warfare in the spring of 2003, as many as 300,000 mayhave died and about 2.8m have been displaced. At the height of whatmany have called a “genocide”, in 2003-04 Darfur was, in thewords of a top United Nations official, the “world’s worsthumanitarian disaster”. Epithets like this helped to turn thebenighted region of Darfur from an unknown backwater to the mostpressing issue on every Western politician’s to-solve list. Sincethen, of course, the sad fact is that there has been no solution,partly because of the impasse at the UN, where the Sudanesegovernment’s friends, China and Russia, block attempts to punish itfor its sins.

苏丹达富尔地区因遭受不公平待遇而对喀土穆的阿拉伯统治者进行的抵抗，在2003年春天转变为正面冲突，至今可能已导致30万人死亡，并有约280万人流离失所。在最严重的2003-2004年，甚至可以说是上演了“种族灭绝”事件，正如一位联合国最高官员所说，这是一场“世界上最严重的人道主义灾难”。不过，这种说法也促使达富尔这片陷入黑暗的土地从不为人知变成了西方政治家们案头最亟待解决的问题。然而，一个令人遗憾的事实是，从那时起，直到现在，这个问题仍然没有得到解决。其中部分原因是联合国制裁苏丹的决议因为中国和俄国——这两个苏丹政府的朋友——的阻挠而没有通过……………………

JULY 14th 1789, the day the Bastille prison was stormed, has an iconic hold on the French imagination. Schoolchildren are taught that it is the republic’s founding moment. It is France’s national day and a public holiday. A military parade is held on the Champs Elysées, and fighter jets, blazing a trail of red, white and blue, screech low over Paris. This year will be particularly grandiose. President Nicolas Sarkozy has invited as his guests European Union and Mediterranean leaders, as well as Ingrid Betancourt, the recently liberated Franco-Colombian hostage. But, of all the pivotal dates during the French Revolution, how did July 14th come to acquire such mythical status? This, rather than the events of the day itself, is the subject of this intriguing little book by Christopher Prendergast, an historian at Cambridge University.
1789年7月14日，巴士底狱暴动。于是这一天在法国人脑袋里便有了象征意义。老师总是对孩子们说，这是共和建立的日子。这一天是法国的国庆日，当然，也是公众假日。香榭丽舍大街上会有阅兵式，喷气式战斗机呼啸着在巴黎上空低掠而过，留下红白蓝的轨迹。而今年的阅兵式会更加盛大，萨科齐总统已经邀请了欧盟及地中海沿岸国家的领导人出席，另外还有作为人质刚刚被哥伦比亚革命武装力量释放的哥伦比亚籍法国人 Ingrid Betancourt……………………

人的幽默感是与生俱来的，是不以人的意志而转移的。这个世界上，总有那么多富有幽默感的人，不断地使我们发出会心的微笑。没有它们，这个世界将是何等的乏味和无聊。

PUGILISTS and aesthetes are not necessarily in opposing corners. In a history of the sport that dates back to Homer, Virgil and other ancient fight fans, Kasia Boddy, a lecturer in English at University College London, examines the strange attraction boxing holds for highbrow folk. She provides much merriment along the way as she explores the ways professional fighters excite the imagination of writers, artists and intellectuals.
拳击家和美学家未必就凑不到一块儿。一位伦敦大学学院的教师，Kasia Boddy，研究了从荷马、维吉尔等搏击痴迷者的时代开始，在体育运动史中，拳击对那些智者的奇特吸引力。在她探索技艺纯熟的搏击者如何激发作家、艺术家和思想家想象力的过程中，她发现了一些很有趣的东西……………………

TERROR, stagnation, exile, hope and disillusion are the fabric of Russian history in the last century. These are also the backdrop for Owen Matthews’s poignant history of his family’s battle with Soviet bureaucracy at its most callous and Western officialdom at its most complacent.
恐怖、萧条、放逐、希望和觉醒，构成了俄国上世纪历史的主旋律。而就在这样的背景下，Owen Matthews的家族，书写着他们那充满心酸的，不断地跟苏联那些冷酷无情的干部们和西方诸多傲慢自大的官员们斗争的历史……………………

真是一天不学习，赶不上陈冠希丫。韩寒丫骂我们敬爱的大师们骂了这么久了，我居然今天才看到。我看了之后暗想，个狗日的这不是找死么，我们中国有这么多大师门下的文化人，几口唾沫还不淹死丫的。

然后我就找呀找呀找朋友，找了大半天。咦？除了帽子厂的师傅们跑出来扣了几顶样式不多的帽子外，我咋就没见个念过书的说句话呢？难道念过书的都觉着丫说得没错么？还是积聚着更大的暴风雨呢？嗯，也可能都跑去帽子厂赶制帽子了，造个铺天盖地的，说不定能上急你死记录呢。

至于韩寒，瞧见他博客上已经把老舍同学换下来了。那么，我已经没有任何不同意的地方了。我欣慰得有理。

FEW people, other than scholars, will be familiar with the story of the Cambridge don whose study of China’s scientific history helped to change the West’s appraisal of a civilisation once thought hopelessly backward. By the time Joseph Needham died in 1995, he had published 17 volumes of his “Science and Civilisation in China” series, including several that he wrote entirely on his own.

除了一些学者外，很少有人熟悉那位剑桥的教授，而他对中国科学史的研究却极大地改变了西方人对中国的看法，他们曾一度认为中国的文明是落后而无望的。李约瑟(Joseph Needham)逝世于1995年，在此之前，他已经出版了17卷《中国科学技术史》，其中有相当一部分是由他独立完成的……………………

THE French film industry is more often given to introspective agonising about American cultural imperialism or the tyranny of the market than to self-congratulation. But this year, unapologetic triumph is in the air. It is not just that for the first time in 21 years the Cannes film festival jury, headed this time by Sean Penn, awarded its top prize, the Palme d'Or, to a French film, Laurent Cantet's “Entre les Murs” (“The Class”). Another homegrown movie, “Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis” (which will be remade for an American audience as “Welcome to the Sticks”), is set to overtake James Cameron's Hollywood blockbuster, “Titanic”, as the country's all-time top box-office hit.

法国电影业总是在美国的文化压迫下抑或在市场的残酷现实面前暗自烦恼，少有扬眉吐气之时。不过，今年他们却一扫往日阴霾。首先，在戛纳电影节上，由Sean Penn任主席的评委会21年来首次将其最高奖项金棕榈奖颁给了一部法国电影：Laurent Cantet的《墙壁之间》（英文片名《The Class》）。而另一部法国电影，《欢迎到北方来》（即将在美国被翻拍为《Welcome to the Sticks》），亦有望超过James Cameron的好莱坞巨制《泰坦尼克》，创造法国电影史上新的票房纪录……………………

1. DECEMBER 5th 1985 will for ever have a place in wine lore.
1985年的12月5日，这个日子将永远被载入葡萄酒史册。

2. On that day Christie's auctioned a bottle of 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux, thought to have once been part of Thomas Jefferson's cellar, and part of a cache of bottles said to have been recently unearthed from a Paris house.
这一天，Christie拍卖行拍卖了一瓶1787年的拉菲堡的波尔多葡萄酒。这瓶酒被认为曾一度存身于Thomas Jefferson的酒窖，据说是最近从巴黎一户人家的地窖里挖出来的藏酒中发现的……………………

我是多么希望这本书能够当作全民教科书，人手一本，要求甚至逼迫所有人定期翻阅，就让这些残忍的血淋淋的一个个字（必须是这种描写真实场景的文字而不是冠冕堂皇的文字）直接插入每个人的心口，督促人能够永远不忘国耻，而不只是这个特殊时刻才想起空喊口号！

——奸月|一人一棺材躺着过五一吧！ 评 《南京浩劫》
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我明白这位同学的感情，也知道他是从心底发出的这种感慨，毫无做作。

但我依然感觉很恐怖。我在思考，不忘国耻，不就是为了好好建设自己的国家么？可是，那些每日不忘国耻凡事必想爱国的人们，和那些专注眼前工作不考虑其他的人们，谁更好地建设国家了？我不知道。我想，这个问题的实际答案，谁都不知道。

我只是觉着，并非所有人都需要爱国教育才会更加爱国，也并非所有人爱国教育了之后就会更加爱国。倘若真的国家有难，那些慷慨激昂的人们，不定就成了缩头乌龟；而那些默默无闻的人们，却往往从沉默中奋起。我们的历史事件中绝不缺乏这种例子。可以参考郑振铎的《最后一课》（http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/22318978.html）。

你看了这本书，你被感动了，你更加热爱自己的国家了，很好。可是，你何苦逼着别人跟你一样呢？我不想总是背负着“国耻”，我只想做好自己眼前该做的事，不行吗？看到“要求甚至逼迫所有人定期翻阅”这种话，我总会不寒而栗……

当你自认为的“好心”变成了强迫，就再也不算好心了。我觉着，这个世界上最可恨的，甚至不是奸诈，不是阴谋，不是欺骗，而是这么一句话：

己之所欲，施之于人。

看过普及版，基本看懂，不喜欢。

后来买了江味浓居士滴版，一直没看。今天准备开看，结果开头就受不了。

“独有般若，唯佛能证，唯佛能说。外道最高之理论，一遇般若，冰销火灭矣。”

“天上天下无如佛，十方世界亦无比；世间所有我尽见，一切无有如佛者。”

扛不住。

1 Life emerged on earth about 3.8 billion years ago, but sex did not evolve until more than 2 billion years later. Dirty limericks emerged only quite recently, geologically speaking.

1. 地球上的生命始于38亿年前，可直到20多亿年之后，才有“性”这一概念的出现。从这个意义上说，利默里克式的色情短诗可算是刚刚才出现的了。

2 Sex—what is it good for? Scientists are not sure, since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways.

2. 性——有什么用处呢？科学家们可没法准确告诉你。因为在很多重要方面，无性繁殖在生物进化中是一种更好的繁殖策略……………………