I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different culture groups, and with good reason. 我知道,我们常常对这些不同文化群体的进行各种区分一向很警惕--出于良好的用心, Th
We sat down and tried to figure out what is the insult that would go to the heart of an eighteen-to-twenty-year old's brain, Cohen says. 我们坐了下来,试图找出什么样的侮辱,会刺激这些18至21岁的年轻人的神经,科恩说,
Jill walked back into the crowd, and Steve decided to keep his eye on Larry. 吉尔走回了人群中,史蒂夫决定盯着拉里。 Sure enough, within five minutes, Larry was reaching over and trying to kiss Jill 果然,在5分钟内,拉里就接
The southerners, by contrast, were downright deferential in normal circumstances, stepping aside with more than nine feet to go. 与此相反,在正常情况下南方人非常恭敬,在九英尺以上的距离就会让路; But if they had just
Chapter Seven: The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes. 第七章 造成飞机失事的民族理论 CAPTAIN, THE WEATHER RADAR HAS HELPED US A LOT 机长,气象雷达为我们提供了很大帮助。 On the morning of August 5, 1997, the captain of Kore
Is it Guan? the flight engineer asked. 飞行工程师问那是关岛吗? Then, after a pause, he said, It's Guam, Guam. 稍作停顿后,他说:那是关岛,关岛。 The captain chuckled. Good! 机长边笑边说:好。 The first officer r
Twenty years before the crash of KAL801, a Korean Air Boeing 707 wandered into Russian airspace and was shot down by a military jet over the Barents sea. 在大韩航空公司航班801坠机事件发生的20年前,大韩航空的一架波音707飞机
The first critical fact about Harlan is that at the same time that the Howards and the Turners were killing each other, there were almost identical clashes in other small towns up and down in the Appalachians. 关于哈兰的第一个关键的事实是
When one family fights with another, it's a feud. 当一个家族与另一个家族展开斗争时,就成了一个世代的恩怨。 When lots of families fight with one another in identical little towns up and down in the same mountain range, it's
You can't wipe out that blood, she said, pointing to the dirt where her son had died. 你们抹不掉这笔血债,她说,指着她的儿子死亡时倒下的那片泥土。 Things went from bad to worse. 情形迅速恶化。 Wilse Howard ran int
The only way out of town was up Pine Mountain, which was nine steep miles from bottom to top, on the road that turned on occasion into no more than a muddy rocky trail. 唯一一条出城的路是翻过松树山,这是一条长九英里陡峭的山道
Part Two Legacy 第二部分:传承 Chapter Six 第六章 Harlan, Kentucky 哈兰,肯塔基州哈兰 DIE LIKE A MAN, LIKE YOUR BROTHER DID! 像男人一样消逝,就像你哥哥那样! In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of
It's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen amp; Katz. The firm's first partner was Herbert Wachtell. 黑石法律公司的创始人是瓦太尔、利普顿、罗林和卡兹,公司的第一个合伙人是赫勃特.瓦太尔, He was born in 1931. 他出生于19
No one rises to the top of the New York legal profession unless he or she is smart and ambitious and hardworking, 如果一个人,他十分聪明、拥有野心、工作十分努力,那么他就有机会进入到纽约法律界的最核心层面。
What did Garfinkel's mother do? 格菲克的妈妈从事的什么工作? She was a milliner. She made hats at home. 她是个女帽商人。她在家里制作帽子。 What did two of Louis and Regina Borgenicht's sons do? 那么路易斯和瑞吉娜
Think about this story for a moment. The first lesson is that Friedman was willing to work hard, 让我们回味一下这个故事。我们从中得到的第一条教益,是说弗雷德曼是想努力工作, take responsibility for himself, and p
Once I said to him, 'What's the rest of our country like, Uncle Al?' 一次我问他,叔叔,这个国家的其他地方是什么样子的? And he said, 'Kiddo. When you leave New York, every place is Bridgeport.'他回答说,孩子,当你离开
Lesson Number Three: The Garment Industry and Meaningful Work第三课:服装业和有意义的工作In 1889, Louis and Regina Borgenicht boarded an ocean liner in Hamburg bound for America. 1889年,路易斯(Louis)和瑞吉娜鲍各尼特(
The answer came to him after five long days of walking up and down the streets of the Lower East Side, just as he was about to give up hope. 在这个街上来来回回走了好些天,正当他觉得无望的时候,未来的答案却明朗起来,
He came back to their tiny apartment and laid the goods out on the dining room table. 回到他们的小公寓把这些东西放在起居室桌子上。 Regina began to cut the gingham, small sizes for toddlers,瑞吉娜开始裁剪棉布,小的给初
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