学习　一生的事业
Learning—A lifetime Career

学习之于心灵，就像食物之于身体一样。摄取了适量的营养食物，我们的身体得以生长而肌肉得以发达。同样地，我们应该日复一日不断地学习以保持我们敏锐的心智能力，并扩充我们的智力容量。不断的学习提供我们用不尽的燃料，来驱使我们磨利我们的推理、分析和判断的能力。持续的学习是在信息时代中跟时代并驾齐驱的最稳当的方法，也是在变动的时代中成功的可靠保证。
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way, and an infallible warrant of success in times of uncertainty.

一旦学习停止，单调贫乏的生活就开始了。视学校为汲取知识的唯一场所是一种常见的谬误。相反的，学习应该是一种无止境的历程，从生到死。
Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave.

由于世界一直快速地在变动，只要学习停顿数日就将使人落后。更糟的是，蛰伏在我们潜意识深处的兽性本能就会复活，削弱我们追求高贵理想的意志，弱化我们扫除成功障碍的决心，而且扼杀我们净化人格的欲望。缺少学习将不可避免地导致心灵的停滞，甚至更遭地，使其僵化。因此，为了维持心理年轻，我们必须将学习当作一生的事业。
With the world ever changing so fast, the cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. What’s worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

New Words:
adequate 适当的，足够的
nutritious 有营养成分的，营养的
inexhaustible 无穷无尽的
vegetation 呆板单调的生活
subconsciousness 潜意识,下意识
fossilazation 化石作用

谈 读 书　Of Studies

      读书足以怡情，足以博采，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其博采也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。练达之士虽能分别处理细事或分别判断别枝节，然纵观统筹、全局策划，则舍好学深思者莫属。读书费时过多易惰，文采藻饰太盛则娇，全凭条文断事乃学究故态。
Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one bye one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.

读书补天然之不足，经验又补读书之不足，盖天生才干犹如自然花草，读书然后知如何修剪移接；而书中所示，如不以经验范之，则又大而无当。有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，惟明智之士用读书，读书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。读书时不可存心诘难作者，不可尽信书上所言，亦不可只为寻章摘句，而应推敲细思。书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。换言之，有只需读其部分者，有只需大体涉猎者，少数则须全读，读时须全神贯注，孜孜不倦。书亦可请人代读，取其所作摘要，但只限题材较次或价值不高者，否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏，淡而无味矣。
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they by bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is , some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.

读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

New words:

marshal 编组
sloth 懒惰
humor 脾气（古意）
proyn(古)= pruning 修剪枝叶
flashy 浮华的，淡而无味的
maketh(古)= makes
conference (古)商谈，商议
ready 准备好的

关于中国民航管理局(幽默)
A Humor About CAAC

      在20世纪80年代早期和中期，中国为海外游客提供的航空服务很不顺畅，这一问题在旅游热线城市如西安和桂林尤为突出。航班被取消几乎是天天发生的事。他们说：“CAAC是中国航空公司（航班）总是取消的代名词。”
In early and mid of 1980s, China’s bottlenecked air transportation was a big problem for overseas tourists. This was especially true for popular tourist destination cities such as Xi’an and Guilin, where air flight cancellation was almost everyday occurrence. Some foreign tourists made jokes about CAAC, official abbreviation for the Civil Aviation and administration of China. They said:“CAAC stands for China airlines always cancel.”

而今，中国经济经过了20年左右的快速发展和增长，中国许多旅游城市包括当地航空公司和机场都发生了巨变。因此，一些经常乘飞机的外国游客会说现在的CAAC象征着“中国机场总是在变”，而且变得越来越好。
Now, in past 20 years or so, China’s rapid economic development and expansion have enabled many tourist cities in China to go through tremendous changes including airlines and airports. As a result, some frequently traveled foreign tourists would say that CAAC now stands for China airports always change, and change for better.

Words and expressions:

对外承包工程和劳务合作 Overseas project contracting and labor service cooperation
浮动汇率 Floating exchange rate
改革开放 Reform and opening up
国内贸易 Domestic trade
国有企业 State-owned enterprise
民营企业 Non-state-operated enterprise
宏观调控 Macro-control
可持续发展战略 Strategy for sustainable development
利用外资 Utilization of foreign funds/capital
流通领域 Field of distribution
市场经济 Market economy
外商投资企业 Foreign-funded enterprise/enterprise with foreign investment
依法行政 Perform official duties according to law
投资环境 Investment environment / environment for investment

（本期主编：李东亮
编 辑：张增绪）