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预期长期年平均超过市场指数10%！这是巴菲特对自己的业绩要求，他做到了，并且持续了60多年！
For the reasons outlined in my method of operation, our best years relative to the Dow are likely to be in declining or static markets. Therefore, the advantage we seek will probably come in sharply varying amounts. There are bound to be years when we are surpassed by the Dow, but if over a long period we can average ten percentage points per year better than it, I will feel the results have been satisfactory.
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The consequence of performance such as this over a period of years would mean that if the Dow produces a 5% to 7% per year overall gain compounded, I would hope our results might be 15% to 17% per year.
-1961 2nd / Buffett
culture differences definitely can lead to different understanding for the same thing,such as dragon has been regarded as a totem for Chinese people while in the eyes of most of westerners,the dragon often depicted as an opposite type relative to our own interpretation to this mysterious legendary creature.
Margins will remain steady>
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future will eventually bring>
A neighbor and her family stayed at a relative’s home in a nearby village in order to escape the lockdown of our residential compound.
You know what? Three days later, the village was locked down as well.
Sometimes， if something is destined to happen to you, you just can’t escape it.
一个邻居和她的家人为了躲避我们小区的封锁，住在附近村庄的亲戚家里。
你猜怎么着?三天后，村子也被封锁了。
有时候，注定要发生的事情，你逃也逃不掉。
#秋日生活打卡季##头条创作挑战赛# #如何提高学习效率#
We hope we donot get into too many more businesses with such tough economic characteristics. But, as we have stated before:
(1) our textile businesses are very important employers in their communities, (2) management has been straightforward in reporting>
First-year university students (hereafter, freshmen) in China exhibit similar levels of critical thinking skills as freshmen in the United States.......At the end of year 2, second year university students in China still score......comparably with their counterparts in the United States.......However, by the end of their fourth year, while students in China......scored much lower than year 2/3 students in the United States......
However, students experience significant declines in critical thinking skills during the final two years of university in China......gains in the United States show significant increases in critical thinking skills from the middle to the end of university......
Although further research is needed to explain the lack of improvement in critical thinking in China......both in absolute terms and relative to the United States,>
How to understand the table
Each factor has a two letter symbol. The first letter represents the category a factor is part of, such as “A” for Architecture. The second letter represents the element itself, such as “m” for Mobile, giving “Am” its symbol.
Each factor also has a weight. This is a relative guide to how important it is to focus>
跟我读《毛泽东选集》（第一卷）之九十
《中国革命战争的战略问题》（17）（中英对照）
PROBLEMS OF STRATEGY IN CHINA’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR
如果进攻之敌在数量和强度上都超过我军甚远，我们要求强弱的对比发生变化，便只有等到敌人深入根据地，吃尽根据地的苦楚。
If the attacking enemy is far more numerous and much stronger than we are, we can accomplish a change in the balance of forces>
今天看书看到一段有意思的英文：
Almost in every ten of fifteen days some friend or other of mine asks me to write something in English. It may be a letter, an essay，a story, or a few sentences as an exercise in grammar or rhetoric. It may be something that my friend has to write himself, or it may be something that a friend, an acquaintance，or a relative of my friend has asked him to write, or it may be something that a relative of an acquaintance of a friend of my friend has asked that acquaintance of that friend of my friend, and that acquaintance of that friend of my friend has asked that friend of my friend, and that friend of my friend has asked my frien, to write. At any rate, it is something that my friend asks me to write.
来源--《葛传椝英文随笔》
俄媒：波兰对欧盟把欧盟条约凌驾于波兰宪法之上的做法感到愤怒 比喻”如果欧盟靠阻止发放资金对波兰发动第三次世界大战的话，那么波兰将动用一切手段自卫”
俄罗斯《今日俄罗斯》电视台官网10月25日报道：波兰总理马泰乌斯·莫拉维茨基(Mateusz Morawiecki)警告欧盟，不要“用枪指着我们的头”，并声称”如果欧盟靠阻止发放针对疫情的资金来(对波兰)发动’第三次世界大战’的话，那么华沙将以任何可用的手段进行自卫”(claiming Warsaw would defend itself by any means available if the EU launched a “third World War” by holding back Covid-19 recovery funding)。
报道说，这一措辞强硬的声明是在欧盟委员会威胁不给波兰数十亿欧元赠款和贷款、以此作为对波兰宪法法庭一项”有争议决定”的回应。波兰宪法法庭裁定”波兰国家法律需置于欧洲法院(ECJ)法律之上”(prioritized national laws over those of the European Court of Justice (ECJ)。
报道说，当英国《金融时报》记者问及”波兰是否可以否决欧盟标志性的气候一揽子计划等重要立法”时，莫拉维茨基表示：“如果欧盟委员发动第三次世界大战，那将会发生什么？……我们会用我们手中的任何武器来捍卫我们的权利”(“What will happen if the European Commission starts a third World War? … We are going to defend our rights with any weapons which are at our disposal”)。他补充说：“我们认为这已经是(布鲁塞尔)的歧视性和命令式做法。但如果情况变得更糟，我们将不得不仔细考虑我们的策略”。
报道说，这位波兰总理把欧盟委员威胁扣留向波兰发放用于大流行后360亿欧元重建的拨款，描述为“违反法治”，并表示波兰人绝不会“投降”。他指出，为了达至妥协，欧盟”应该撤销最近对波兰每日罚款的决定，直到波兰执行欧洲法院关于其司法改革的决定为止”。他说：“这将是他们能做的最明智的事情，因为这样我们就不用在枪顶着我们脑袋的情况下相互交谈了。正是由于这种情况，造成了我们对任何进一步行动都缺乏兴趣”(“This would be the wisest thing they can do because then we are not talking to each other with a gun to our head. This very situation creates a relative lack of our appetite for any further actions”)。
尽管如此，莫拉维茨基还是将他最近与欧盟领导人的会谈——包括与即将卸任的德国总理默克尔，及法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙和欧盟委员会主席乌苏拉·冯·德莱恩的对话，总结为“非常令人满意”，并表示，尽管存在上述分歧，但不存在波兰”退盟”(“Polexit”)的风险。
报道说，上个月，波兰宪法法庭裁定，”欧盟条约的某些条款与波兰法律相冲突”(some provisions of EU treaties conflicted with Polish laws)，欧洲机构的行为“超出了其权限”。但”把波兰国家法律置于欧洲法律之上的举措，却在布鲁塞尔引起了轩然大波”，一些人，其中包括马克龙、荷兰总理马克·鲁特和欧洲议会主席大卫·萨索利要求”惩罚波兰”，但包括默克尔在内的其他人则”呼吁妥协”。
这篇报道的标题是《If EU ‘starts WW3’ against Poland by withholding promised funding, Warsaw will defend itself with ‘any weapons available’ – PM》(总理：如果欧盟通过扣留承诺的资金来“发动第三次世界大战”的话，华沙将用“任何可用的武器”进行自卫)。
China to overtake US 'by 2028'
智库:中国经济2028年超美
China will overtake the US to become the world's largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report said.
一份报告称，2028年中国将超越美国成为全球最大经济体，比原先预测的提早五年。
The UK-based Center for Economics and Business Research said China's "skilful" management of COVID-19 would boost its relative growth compared to the US and Europe in coming years.
总部在英国的经济与商业研究中心指出，中国对新冠疫情的管控"有方"将在未来数年提高中国相对于美国和欧洲的经济增长率。
Vocabulary for families 谈论家庭的英语词汇
1. immediate family 直系亲属：parents and siblings (brothers and sisters)
2. extended family 大家庭：including all relatives – uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc.
3. family tree 家谱/家庭树：to diagram the relationships among your family members
4. distant relative 远亲：a person who is related to you by a long series of connections
5. a loving family/a close-knit family 亲密无间的家庭：a family that has good relationships
6. a stable home：稳定的家庭
7. a carefree childhood 无忧无虑的童年：having nothing to worry about when you were young
8. a dysfunctional family 不正常的家庭：a family in which the relationships are bad or unhealthy
9. troubled childhood 不幸的童年：the children experience abuse, poverty, or problems with the law
10. a bitter divorce 痛苦的离婚 – a separation in which there were bad/angry feelings between the husband and wife
11. a messy divorce 十分棘手的离婚：with a prolonged legal battle involving lots of conflicts about the separation of the former couple's assets (money and possessions)
12. the divorce settlement 离婚协议：the decisions about the separation of assets are made
13. a broken home 破碎的家庭：a family in which there are divorces or separations
14. custody of the children 孩子的监护权：who has the primary responsibility of caring for the kids
15. joint custody 共同监护权：that means the ex-husband and ex-wife share the responsibility
16. sole custody 唯一监护/抚养权：to>
Two years, Too memories(3)
Today, I am going to share with you about>
美媒：美军提出“待命部队”新作战概念 旨在不发生大规模武装冲突下，利用小规模但致命的隐蔽手段破坏敌方计划 主要针对中国 传统威慑已不管用
美国《突破防卫》官网12月1日华盛顿报道：美国海军陆战队今天发布了一个新的作战概念，称为“待命部队”(“Stand-In Forces”，SIF)描述了对小型“致命”部队(small, “lethal” forces)的需求。这种部队也可以在低于战斗水平时运作，以对抗来自中国等竞争对手的常称为“灰色地带”的侵略(as “gray zone” aggression from rivals like China)。
这篇报道的标题是《Marines’ new warfighting concept focuses>
Let’s talk about an interesting but tricky question: How to deal with an unwanted guest?
让我们来谈谈一个有趣但棘手的问题：如何处理不速之客？
Just now I received a video call from my friend and she seemed very annoyed with something. It turns out that an unwanted guest had stayed at her house for a week and had no intention to leave. It’s not convenient for so many people living in her house because there are>
下面图片上的标题看起来不起眼，但是有两个关键点：一个是needed。一个是 moderating。是俄罗斯与中国需要moderating influence吗？
图片上的英语标题怎么翻译呢？
这是路透社的报导。英国外长拉布接受英国媒体采访时说的话。
UK says Russia, China needed for 'moderating influence' over Taliban.
这句话是英国外交部长说的，并且needed是不及物动词，后面应该有宾语。
所以判断下来应该是Russia，China are needed…（俄罗斯与中国是被需要…）。而moderating influence是适度的影响、温和的影响。对谁的影响呢？对（over）塔利班的影响。
再就是moderate这个词了。
moderate: 稳健的，温和的，适度的，中等的，有节制的
The article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case. 这篇文章的基调是温和的，对争论双方的意见都予以表达。
Contrary to popular belief, moderate exercise actually decreases your appetite.与大部分人的想法相反，适度的运动实际上会降低食欲。
One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty, moderate poverty, and relative poverty. 有个有效的方法可以区分三种程度的贫困，即极端贫困、中等贫困和相对贫困。
In a Japanese town of Otsuchi, a white telephone booth sites in a garden>
跟我读《毛泽东选集》（第三卷）之三百一十七
《关于领导方法的若干问题》（7）（中英对照）
SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING METHODS OF LEADERSHIP
在任何一个地区内，不能同时有许多中心工作，在一定时间内只能有一个中心工作，辅以别的第二位、第三位的工作。
In any given place, there cannot be a number of central tasks at the same time. At any>
#企业战略#Strategy as Active Waiting
《哈佛商业评论》2005年的文章深刻揭示了企业战略的精髓。
积极等待，而不是消极待命，临场发挥，引用其中的插图和配文：
Managers in turbulent markets cannot manufacture the timing of the rare golden opportunity (or the equally rare sudden-death threat). These events are clear in retrospect, but impossible to predict. Knowing what to do during periods of relative calm can spell the difference between industry leadership and extinction.
