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《庄子•养生主》英译之二：庖丁解牛

The cook was cutting up an ox for ruler Wenhui. At every touch of his hand, every heave of his shoulder, every tread of his foot, and every thrust of his knee, zip, whiz, the sounds of ripping and slicing all were in perfect rhythm. As if he danced in Mulberry Grove ball or performed at Emperor Yao’s concert.

Wenhui remarked, “Ah, excellent! How to get such a skill!”

The cook laid down his knife and replied, “What I am fond of is the Way, which is much more than skill. When I began cutting up ox, what I could see was the ox itself. Three years later, I did not see ox as a whole. Just now I feel it by spirit instead of eyes. Even my sense stops its use, my spirit goes where it wants. Conform to the natural structure, I stab into the crevices and pierce the cavities as what they are, and evade every ligament and tendon, much more a main joint. A good cook changes his knife>

Michael Ortega,born in Dominican Republic and moved to the U.S. back when he was ten .he began to compose and produce music at fifteen to cope with his new identity and growth experience as a Dominican Republic born migrant.

Currently, his music has been played more than 100 million times worldwide，he also a film director,apart from being a fruitful musician and composer.

La Ultima Rosa or known as the Last Rose,is>

When we hear a sentence, the first region of the cortex to activate is the primary auditory area--- this is the entry point for all auditory information into the brain. This area also lit up in the infant brain as soon as the sentence began. This may seem obvious to you, but at the time, it was not self-evident for very young infants. Some researchers presumed that the sensory areas of children's brains are so disorganized at birth that their senses tend to blend. According to these researchers, for several weeks, a baby's brain mixes hearing, vision,and touch, and it takes some time for the baby to learn to separate these sensory modalities. We know today that this is false- -from birth on, hearing activates the auditory areas, vision activates the visual areas, and touch activates the areas associated with tactile sensation, without us ever having to learn this. The subdivision of the cortex into distinct territories for each of the senses is given to us by our genes. All mammals possess it, and its origin is lost in the arborescence of our evolution (see figure 7 in the color insert).

当我们听到一个句子的时候，激活的是大脑皮层的第一个区域---初级听觉区---这是所有听觉信息进入大脑的通道。只要听到句子，婴幼儿大脑的这个区域就会被照亮。对你来说，这似乎很明显，但此时，对于幼小的婴儿来说却不是那么不言自明的。一些研究者认为孩子们大脑的感知区域在他们出生时就组织良好，以至于他们的感觉往往会混合。根据一些我们调查过的研究者的说法，婴儿的大脑混合了听觉，视觉和触觉，婴儿们需要花些时间才能学会分开这些感知模式。今天我们知道我们从出生开始，倾听激活了听觉区域、看见激活了视觉区域、触摸激活了与触觉有关的触觉区域，这个观点是错的，因为我们根本不需要学习。大脑皮层抵达每种感觉不同领域的分区是基因赋予我们的能力。所有哺乳动物都具备这个特点，只不过在我们进化的树状结构（见彩色插图7）中，它的起源消失了.

365. Mark Zuckerberg: The Social Revolutionist

The next time you decide to check your Facebook page to see if you have any new messages, likes, or just to see what your friends are up to, you can thank Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is the man who changed the way people keep in touch with each other. He literally changed the world.

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