The debate on gay marriage is making me uncomfortable. Columnists tell me breezily that I should welcome it because of equality. Catholic and Anglican Bishops say I should shun it because it undermines one of the fundamental building blocks of societ

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

And of course that's just where the problems lie. Though people on both sides appeal to what is natural, nature unhelpfully supports both sides liking both consistency and variety in gender and sexuality. So most people are male or female, but there

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

As things are, I see two dangers and they are linked. The first is that if the Church is quick to assert and slow to listen, it can give the impression to its own members that moral insight is never to be had outside Christianity and that can be hear

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

More recent and disturbing history will be reviewed this week by a court in Oslo. While Anders Behring Breivik will present his own warped view of reality, victims and bereaved families will confront again the terror of what actually happened. To res

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

The British propensity for non-deference militates against special treatment to anyone, unless of course you're the official underdog. The last shall be first is a biblical theme which could just as easily have been written by a British attitudes and

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Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. 本周早些时候,两家美国公司宣布他们已放弃对一种药的测试。 It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. 人们

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天,将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员, who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. 在令人惊叹的奥运会之后,人们一时间很难从激动的状态中

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

These well-informed young people had a very modest interest in the print media. Unlike me, they didn't feel their day was incomplete without reading a newspaper.Total newspaper circulation has been declining by roughly a million copies each year. And

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

It was Bob Diamond, recently of Barclays, who defined business culture as how people behave when no one is watching. Speaking in a lecture sponsored by the Today programme last year, he declared that business corporations like Barclays had to learn h

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[00:03.19]Sweet-Pea Summers 甜豌豆的夏天 [00:06.74]Each summer in the late 1960s, [00:09.78] my two sisters and I would ride the Greyhound bus [00:13.12]from Arizona to Arkansas to stay with our father. [00:16.46] A World War II veteran, [00:18.53]Da

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧背囊超越自我

[00:02.63]What Will Matter?什么最重要 [00:05.87]Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. [00:10.10] There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. [00:15.59]All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will p

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧背囊超越自我

[00:03.52]The Brick in Your Life生活中的砖头 [00:05.60]A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, [00:11.94]going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. [00:15.66]He was watching for kids darting out from between parked ca

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用一种深刻而简单的方式,约翰伍登教练重新定义了成功,敦促我们都应该努力追求自身的最佳状态。在这个激励人心的演讲中,他分享了在加州大学洛杉矶分校传授给他的球员的建议,引用

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:(不只是)男人经

My father is one of the wisest men I know. Over the past year he has been dispensing bits of wisdom to friends, business partners and family members via his Facebook wall and private Twitter stream. Id share some of his advice with you today. 我的父

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 励志英语

16.Keep it simple. There is a world of magnificence hidden in simplicity. Pick the five most important things in your life now and focus on those things. Let the other stuff go. Stop the busyness and really enjoy whats important to you. 简单化。有

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 励志英语

Q: What is the highest form of intelligence? 提问:智慧的最高形式是什么? 获得9.7k好评的答案@Vivek Nagarajan The ability to transfer it to someone who lacks it. 把智慧传递给那些缺乏它的人。 获得8.8k好评的答案

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Optimists are wiser than their pessimistic peers, and bitterness keeps a person from being wise because they haven't learned lessons, Canadian researchers say. 加拿大研究人员称,整日忧心忡忡的人不如那些天性乐观的人聪明,因

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

诺贝尔和平奖得主莱伊曼古博薇讲述了两个震撼人心的故事--她人生的转变和世界各地女孩未被发掘的潜力。我们能否通过释放女孩的巨大潜力来改变世界呢?

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:告女性说

Science and technology 科学技术 Age and wisdom 年龄与智慧 Older and wiser? 姜是老的辣? Americans get wiser with age. Japanese are wise from the start 美国人年龄越大越聪明。日本人从小就聪明 ONE stereotype of wisdom i

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列