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

10条巴菲特及芒格妙语–来自2015伯克希尔股东大会

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对全球伯克希尔公司的股东而言,参加年度股东大会无异于一次“朝圣”;在全球价值投资者的眼中,巴菲特与芒格是近乎神一样的存在,聆听他们关于投资的观点总会带来非凡的启示。2015年的股东大会上,他俩又说什么妙语了呢?

1.On controlling emotion
“[Investing] is an easy game if you can control your emotions.”Buffett said.
论情绪控制:
巴菲特:“如果你能控制自己的情绪,投资不过是一场简单的游戏。”

2.On investing in general and investing in IBM
“If people weren’t wrong so often, we wouldn’t be so rich,” Munger said.
论一般性投资及针对IBM的投资:
芒格:“如果不是因为其他投资者经常犯错,我们也不可能这么富有。”

3.On donating wealth
“There’s no Forbes 400 in the graveyard,” Buffett said
论捐赠财富:
巴菲特:“墓地里没有‘福布斯400富豪榜’”。

4.On the internet
“I love it… [The internet] has been a huge change in my life and it costs me $100 a year,” Buffett said
论互联网:
巴菲特:“我喜欢互联网… 网络给我的生活带来巨大变化,而且一年得花去我100美元呢。”

5.On economists
“We think any company that has an economist has one employee too many,” Buffett said.
论经济学家:
巴菲特说:“我认为任何一家有经济学家的公司,都有一个多余员工。”

6.On taxes and corporations complaining about them
“I don’t shed any tears for American business [when it complains about taxes],” Buffett said.
论税收及抱怨税收的公司:
巴菲特:“我从不同情那些抱怨税收过重的美国企业。”

7.On German companies
“I will predict we buy at least one German company in the next five years. We’re far more on the radar screen than we were five years ago,” Buffett said.
论德国公司:
巴菲特:“预计今后五年,我们会至少买入一家德国公司。与5年前相比,我们对德国公司更为关注。”

8.On the eurozone
“They created something that’s unwise. You can’t form a business partnership w/your frivolous, drunken brother-in-law,” Munger said.
论欧元区:
芒格:”他们创造了一个不太明智的事物。你就不应该和你那不靠谱、醉醺醺的姻亲兄弟合伙做生意。”

9.On Chinese stock market
“Investment principles do not stop at borders,” Buffett said.
论中国股市:
巴菲特:“(价值投资的)原则不分国界。”

10.On China
“I would not have believed a country of that size could move so far, so fast, The country’s population had found a way to unlock their potential… As Charlie said earlier, China and the United States are going to be the superpowers for as far as the eye can see,” Mr. Buffett said.
论中国:
巴菲特:“我没想到这么大体量的一个国家可以发展得这么好、这么快,中国找到了能释放其潜能的途径。正如查理之前说过的,在可预见的未来,中国与美国将成为超级强国。”


本文内容由EnglishSou.com独家编译自:fool.com, nytimes.com, morningstar.com

关于勇气的10条英文名句

今天Will和大家分享10个与勇气(Courage/Bravery)有关的经典英语句子,当我们面临人生中的各种困境(挫折、病痛或自然灾难),请记住要勇敢面对。勇气,会给予我们重新站起来的力量,让我们更加坚强。

1.“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

你可以,你应该,而且如果你敢于踏出第一步,你就能做到。

2.“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ― Nelson Mandela

我深知勇气并非心中无惧,而是能克服恐惧。

3.“Without fear there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini

恐惧与勇气相伴相生。

4.“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain

我一直好奇,为何身体之勇比比皆是,而精神之勇却如此罕有。

5.“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.” ― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

不冒风险意味着抛弃你的梦想。

6.“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.” ― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

勇敢就是当你必须去做一件自认为正确的事,但同时,你又不敢去做,因为你可能因此受到伤害或引发其他问题。但你义无反顾地做了。

7. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

失败让人痛苦,但若从未尝试去成功,会更痛苦。

8.“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”- C. JoyBell C.

不要惧怕内心的恐惧。恐惧的存在不是为了让你害怕,而是为了让你知道,有些事值得你克服恐惧。

9.“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ― John Quincy Adams

勇气与坚毅有一种神奇的庇护力,在它们面前,困难会消失,障碍会遁形。

10.“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne

勇气就是尽管害怕得要命,却毅然前行。

马克.扎克伯格:Facebook为何与众不同?

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I think the biggest difference between Facebook and other companies is how focused we are on our mission(使命)…Different companies care about different things. There are companies that care about, just really care about having the biggest market cap(市值). Or there are companies that are really into(喜好) process or the way they do things. Hewlett Packard(惠普), right? The thing that you always hear about them is “the HP Way”. Google, I think is very tied to their culture–They really love that. For us, it is the mission: building a company that makes the world more open and connected.The articulation(发音) of that has, I think, changed over time(随着时间). But that’s really been, like, the belief the whole time(一直).

–Huffington Post, May 14, 2012

我认为Facebook与其他公司相比,最大的不同点在于:我们专注于自己的使命。不同的公司关注的事情各不相同。有的公司关注,应该说是相当关注,在资本市场拥有最大的市值。而有的则非常热衷于流程,或者说做事的方式。比方说惠普,对吧?你听到关于惠普最多的事情就是:“惠普之道”。至于谷歌,我觉得它相当关注公司文化–他们对此真的很着迷。对我们而言,我们最关注的是使命:创建一家使世界更加开放、连接更为紧密的公司。随着时间的推移,可能对于使命的文字表述有所不同,但这的确是我们一直以来深信不疑的理念。

–赫芬顿邮报,2012年5月14日