彼得·林奇名言: I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock…

“I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.”

–Peter Lynch

我认为你应该了解到每只股票背后都是一家公司,而股价上涨的真正原因只有一个:公司的业绩从糟糕转为良好,或是从小型公司壮大为大型公司。

–彼得·林奇

彼得·林奇名言: If you’re prepared to invest in a company, then…

“If you’re prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won’t get bored.”

–Peter Lynch

如果你已准备好投资一家公司的股票,那么你应该能做到用5年级小学生都能听懂的话来阐述投资理由。而且理由应该足够简短,这样那位五年级生才不会感到厌烦。

–彼得·林奇

利奥·巴斯卡利亚名言: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch…

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

– Leo Buscaglia

太多次,我们低估了抚慰、微笑、善言、倾听、真心赞美,或是不经意关怀的力量,而这些,却往往能扭转他人的人生。

-利奥·巴斯卡利亚

关于headed to和heading to的用法区别

在美式英语对话中,我们经常会听到这样的英语表达:I’m headed to New York City. 也会听到这样的说法:I’m heading to New York City.两个句子的结构几乎没有区别,除了其中的一个动词head,一个用的是现在分词heading,另一个则用的是过去分词headed。那么这两个句子所表达的意思是否有区别呢?今天我们一起来学习。

如果你不是喜欢严格抠语法,headed和heading之间区别不是很大,很多人(包括部分native speaker)也会认为二者可以互换(interchangeable),而且两种说法都绝对正确。但如果深究起来,他们之间存在如下相当细微(甚至有时可以被忽略)的区别:

1. headed to表示被动,所以主语也常是无生命主体(inanimate subjects),表示被移动,比如:交通工具,The flight is headed to the northern part of the state. 而heading to,其主语更多的用于人,表示主动去往某地。She’s heading to the movie theater right now.

2. headed是动词的过去分词(past participle),过去分词分词形式常常被用做形容词(adjective),并且用来表示一种持续的状态(state),类似的用法如:She is married。而heading,我们知道是属于动词的现在分词(present participle),强调动作正在发生(action in progress)。headed to可能意味着朝向某个具体目的地或目标(target),但不一定当前就有动作在进行。而heading to,则强调动作(motion)正在进行中。

最后,我们来看下面的几个例子,仔细体会一下headed和heading在句中的含义区别:

  • Jeb Bush is heading to Charleston for a private meeting with pastors.(The Business Insider)
  • This classic Redford and Newman film is headed to Broadway. (New York Post)
  • The plane is headed to Liberia to retrieve the other American, fellow missionary Nancy Writebol. (CNN)
  • One Direction is headed to space in their new music video for ‘Drag Me Down’. (Socialite Life)
  • Obama heading to vegas to talk climate change as stock market plummets on #BlackMonday. (pjmedia.com)
  • We’ll take a look at where augmented reality is now and where it may be headed soon. (howstuffworks.com)

如果你还想进一步了解headed和heading在意思及用法上的区别,可以参考以下链接:

(1) englishpage.net

(2) english-test.net

(3) answers.yahoo.com

(4) stackexchange.com