海边的贝壳

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海边的贝壳 “我好像是在海上玩耍，时而发现了一个光滑的石子儿， 时而发现了一个美丽贝壳而为之高兴的孩子。 尽管如此，那真理的海洋还是神秘地展现在我们面前。” ――伊萨克・牛顿 分页: 第一页 [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] 瓦尔登湖（十二） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 23:45 2003-11-01 The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, "the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman praetors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor's land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor." Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?" 有人以为人生的全部，无论在高峰之巅或低陷之谷，都已给先驱者走遍，一切都已被注意到了。依熙爱芙琳的话：“智慧的所罗门曾下令制定树木中间应有的距离；罗马地方官也曾规定，你可以多少次到邻家的地上去拣拾那落下来的橡实而不算你乱闯的，并曾规定多少份橡实属于邻人。”希波克拉底甚至传下了剪指甲的方法，剪得不要太短或太长，要齐手指头。无疑问的，认为把生命的变易和欢乐都消蚀殆尽的那种烦谦和忧闷，是跟亚当同样地古老的。但人的力量还从未被衡量出来呢；我们不能根据他已经完成的事来判断他的力量，人做得少极了。不论你以前如何失败过，“别感伤，我的孩子，谁能指定你去做你未曾做完的事呢？” 生词：prescribed, praetors, acorns, trespass, nails, tedium, ennui, presume, afflicted 注意：the very distances中very的用法 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 支持中文的RSS阅读器 -[ Blog相关 ] mountain @ 14:07 2003-11-01 在网上搜了一些RSS阅读器，试验了一下发现许多不支持中文显示，无法阅读中文blog。支持中文的有： RSSReader outlook式的外观，但界面比较简陋，也不支持频道的分组。 FeedDemon outlook式的外观，支持频道的分组，界面比较友好。 我最终还是选择用 FeedDemon 。 其实我觉得全部采用浏览器方式的 AmphetaDesk 更好一些，但可惜 AmphetaDesk 不支持中文。 RSS阅读器资源可以参照 这里 。 永久链接 | 评论(1) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（十一） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 23:36 2003-10-31 One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown. 有一个农夫对我说：“光吃蔬菜是活不了的，蔬菜不能供给你骨骼所需要的养料；”这样他每天虔诚地分出了他的一部分时间，来获得那种可以供给他骨骼所需的养料；他一边说话，一边跟在耕牛后面走，让这条正是用蔬菜供养了它的骨骼的耕牛拖动着他和他的木犁不顾一切障碍地前进。某些事物，在某些场合，例如在最无办法的病人中间，确是生活的必需资料，却在另一些场合，只变成了奢侈品，再换了别样的场合，又可能是闻所未闻的东西。 生词：solely, religiously, jerk, lumbering, plow 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) JavaResearch.org -[ 技术专题 ] mountain @ 01:11 2003-10-31 好久不用Java编大程序了，只埋头读书，今晚上却发现了一个真正有水平的Java中文站点JavaResearch.org( http://www.javaresearch.org )。 在上面发现了一些好文章，比如： JDO之前世今生 http://www.javaresearch.org/article/showarticle.jsp?column=108&thread=9814 Java 线程/内存模型的缺陷和增强 http://www.javaresearch.org/article/showarticle.jsp?column=544&thread=8832 通过上面的链接还发现了IBM developerWorks 的一篇好文章： 从Tomcat中得到更多－Tomcat的源码分析 http://www-900.ibm.com/developerWorks/cn/java/l-from-tomact/index.shtml 看来真正有水平的人大有人在呀，不服气不行。我还要多多努力。 看 从Tomcat中得到更多－Tomcat的源码分析 上面讲到组件和 separate of concerns 时还有一点感想，就是理论和技术应该互不脱节。这也是我现在的差距呀。这里面有一个工作和学习方法的问题。 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（十） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 14:43 2003-10-30 When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a-going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were. I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about. 当我们用教义问答法的方式，思考着什么是人生的宗旨，什么是生活的真正的必需品与资料时，仿佛人们还曾审慎从事地选择了这种生活的共同方式，而不要任何别的方式似的。其实他们也知道，舍此而外，别无可以挑选的方式。但清醒健康的人都知道，太阳终古常新。抛弃我们的偏见，是永远不会来不及的。无论如何古老的思想与行为，除非有确证，便不可以轻信。在今天人人附和或以为不妨默认的真理，很可能在明天变成虚无缥缈的氤氲，但还会有人认为是乌云，可以将一阵甘霖洒落到大地上来。把老头子认为办不到的事来试办一下，你往往办成功了。老人有旧的一套，新人有新的一套。古人不知添上燃料便可使火焰不灭：新人却把干柴放在水壶底下：谚语说得好：“气死老头子”，现在的人还可以绕着地球转，迅疾如飞鸟呢。老年人，虽然年纪一把，未必能把年轻的一代指导得更好，甚至他们未必够得上资格来指导；因为他们虽有不少收获，却也已大有损失。我们可以这样怀疑，即使最聪明的人，活了一世，他又能懂得多少生活的绝对价值呢。实际上，老年人是不会有什么极其重要的忠告给予年轻人的。他们的经验是这样地支离破碎，他们的生活已经是这样地惨痛的失败过了，他们必须知道大错都是自己铸成的；也许，他们还保留若干信心，这与他们的经验是不相符合的，却可惜他们已经不够年轻了。我在这星球上生活了三十来年，还没有听到过老长辈们一个字，可谓有价值的，堪称热忱的忠告的。他们什么也没告诉过我，也许他们是不能告诉我什么中肯的意见了。这里就是生命，一个试验，它的极大部分我都没有体验过；老年人体验过了，但却于我无用。如果我得到了我认为有用的任何经验，我一定会这样想的，这 个经验嘛，我的老师长们可是提都没有提起过的呢。 生词：catechism, deliberately, alert, sprinkle, perchance, fuel, whirl, belie, syllable, avail. 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（九） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 13:23 2003-10-29 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. 人类在过着静静的绝望的生活。所谓听天由命，正是肯定的绝望。你从绝望的城市走到绝望的村庄，以水貂和麝鼠的勇敢来安慰自己。在人类的所谓游戏与消遣底下，甚至都隐藏着一种凝固的、不知又不觉的绝望。两者中都没有娱乐可言，因为工作之后才能娱乐。可是不做绝望的事，才是智慧的一种表征。 生词：desperation, resignation, console, mink, muskrat, conceal. 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（八） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 11:48 2003-10-28 I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South. It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within him? His highest duty to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, is he? See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination―what Wilberforce is there to bring that about? Think, also, of the ladies of the land weaving toilet cushions against the last day, not to betray too green an interest in their fates! As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. 有时我奇怪，何以我们如此轻率，我几乎要说，竟然实行了罪恶昭彰的、从外国带进黑奴来的奴役制度。有那么多苛虐而熟练的奴隶主，奴役了南方和北方的奴隶。一个南方的监守人是毒辣的，而一个北方的监守人更加坏，可是你们自己做起奴隶的监守人来是最最坏的。谈什么――人的神圣！看大路上的赶马人，日夜向市场赶路，在他们的内心里，有什么神圣的思想在激荡着呢？他们的最高职责是给驴马饲草饮水！和运输的赢利相比较，他们的命运算什么？他们还不是在给一位繁忙的绅士赶驴马？他们有什么神圣，有什么不朽呢？请看他们匍伏潜行，一整天里战战兢兢，毫不是神圣的，也不是不朽的，他们看到自己的行业，知道自己是属于奴隶或囚徒这种名称的人。和我们的自知之明相比较，公众舆论这暴戾的君主也显得微弱无力。正是一个人怎么看待自己，决定了此人的命运，指向了他的归宿。要在西印度的州省中谈论心灵与想象的自我解放，可没有一个威勃尔福司来促进呢。再请想一想，这个大陆上的妇人们，编织着梳妆用的软垫，以便临死之日用，对她们自己的命运丝毫也不关心！仿佛磋跎时日还无损于永恒呢。 生词：frivolous, gross, as to, servitude, keen, overseer, divinity, teamster, wend, fodder, cower, sneak, tyrant, emancipation, toilet, eternity. 自己的不足：英文中的语气，全然不读出来，觉得原文不可索解，只有看了译文才知道。一些形容词的多意，如gross，是自己想不到的，还是自己对词汇的掌握不够。 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（七） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 17:36 2003-10-26 Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour. It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offenses; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little. 读者之中，这些个情况我们都知道，有人是穷困的，觉得生活不容易，有时候，甚而至于可以说连气也喘不过来。我毫不怀疑在本书的读者之中，有人不能为那吃下了肚的全部饭食和迅速磨损或已经破损的衣着付出钱来，好容易忙里偷了闲，才能读这几页文字，那还是从债主那里偷来的时间。你们这许多人过的是何等低卑、躲来躲去的生活啊，这很明显，因为我的眼力已经在阅历的磨刀石上磨利了；你们时常进退维谷，要想做成一笔生意来偿清债务，你们深陷在一个十分古老的泥沼中，拉丁文的所谓aes alienum――别人的铜币中，可不是有些钱币用铜来铸的吗；就在别人的铜钱中，你们生了，死了，最后葬掉了；你们答应了明天偿清，又一个明天偿清，直到死在今天，而债务还未了结；你们求恩，乞怜，请求照顾，用了多少方法总算没有坐牢；你们撒谎，拍马，投票，把自己缩进了一个规规矩矩的硬壳里，或者吹嘘自己，摆出一副稀薄如云雾的慷慨和大度的模样，这才使你们的邻人信任你，允许你们给他们做鞋子，制帽子，或上衣，或车辆，或让你们给他们代买食品；你们在一只破箱笼里，或者在灰泥后面的一只袜子里，塞进了一把钱币，或者塞在银行的砖屋里，那里是更安全了；不管塞在哪里，塞多少，更不管那数目是如何地微少，为了谨防患病而筹钱，反而把你们自己弄得病倒了。 生词：gasp for breath，rob sb of sth ，mean，sneaking，whet，insolvent，curry favor，tuck，stocking，plastering。 精彩翻译：limit，进退维谷。 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) 我的blog改版了 -[ Blog相关 ] mountain @ 14:49 2003-10-26 觉得原来blog的页面太局促、不大气，于是花了昨天晚上和今天早晨的时间，把我的blog改版了。页面的宽度放大了，也没有了原来的边边框框。我是本着简洁朴素来做的，没有搞得太复杂，觉得还是比以前好一些。这次改版倒使我仔细研究了一下blogbus，细推敲起来，blogbus的系统还大可以改进，比如：现在负载不大却老是有错；模板里变量的命名没有全盘统一考虑；Javascript的错误。什么时候有了时间和钱，我也自己置一台服务器，用自己写的blog和wiki服务。 永久链接 | 评论(2) | 引用(0) 瓦尔登湖（六） -[ 瓦尔登湖 ] mountain @ 18:36 2003-10-25 Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance―which his growth requires―who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. 大多数人，即使是在这个比较自由的国土上的人们，也仅仅因为无知和错误，满载着虚构的忧虑，忙不完的粗活，却不能采集生命的美果。操劳过度，使他们的手指粗笨了，颤抖得又太厉害，不适用于采集了。真的，劳动的人，一天又一天，找不到空闲来使得自己真正地完整无损；他无法保持人与人间最勇毅的关系；他的劳动，一到市场上，总是跌价。除了做一架机器之外，他没时间来做别的。他怎能记得他是无知的呢――他是全靠他的无知而活下来的――他不经常绞尽脑汁吗？在评说他们之前，我们先要免费地使他穿暖、吃饱，并用我们的兴奋剂使他恢复健康。我们天性中最优美的品格，好比果实上的粉霜一样，是只能轻手轻脚，才得保全的。然而，人与人之间就是没有能如此温柔地相处。 生词：factitious，superfluously，plucked，toil，clumsy，integrity，ignorance，cordial 永久链接 | 评论(0) | 引用(0) XML blogger del.icio.us furl.net Wikipedia 分类目录 似水流年 (8) 光阴故事 (2) 学术思考 (14) 音乐电影 (8) 网海拾贝 (19) 瓦尔登湖 (36) 技术专题 (7) 维基百科 (28) 开卷有益 (3) Blog相关 (6) 最后更新 Wiki资料：自由软体铸造场计划网站―名家专访：Blog 与 Wiki 的对话 Wiki资料：Eric Nash―关于wiki的一些联想 Wiki资料：刘韧―WikiWiki 快点快点 Wiki资料：Zheng―Wiki再认识 本体论Wiki 今天我才真正理解了Semantic Web的意义 何家村唐代窖藏 法螺 大黑天 羽觞 最新评论 小容 : 哇，你这里这么多. kaixuan : 我还从未为中文维. asiapan : 哈哈，我就是订阅. 墨鱼 : 你好，请问你的bl. kaixuan : 不要勉强自己，有. 看天下 : 看天下是目前最成. feng : 风沙音乐在线提供. xyb : 很高兴维基能被解. neuromancer : I can't in Shang. shizhao : 我向科技网说了当. 存档 2003/09/12/-2003/10/01 2003/10/01/-2003/11/01 2003/11/01/-2004/01/01 2004/01/02/-2004/04/01 2004/04/01/-2004/05/01 2004/05/01/-2004/06/01 2004/06/01/-2004/07/02 中文Blog CNBlog:Blog On Blog 互联教育体系-博录(CES Blog) 刻录事・Klogs/Blog Easy Librarian 程序员Blog 程序匠 竹笋炒肉 透明思考 山南水北 维基人Blog 维基百科网络杂志 半亩塘闲话 举头望月 孵蛋的果酱 Richy's blog 链接 分页: 第一页 [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]