第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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Character Sketch for I’m a Fool September 28th‚ 2013 The character in I’m a Fool is a 19 year old boy‚ who will be referred to as the Swipe‚ his occupation‚ since his name was not mentioned in the story. Similar to most common people‚ the Swipe likes “feeling grander and more important” (pg.94) while he does not like “putting on too many airs” (pg.93). He is introduced as a “big lumbering fellow” (pg.91) who could not get a job because he “had gotten too big to mow people’s lawns and sell newspapers”
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Mustapha Mond Character Sketch It is said that a great leader must always lead by example. This is not always true‚ a leader must sometimes partake in some negative activities in order to protect the interests of the populous. An excellent example of this is Mustapha Mond. When one first meets Mustapha Mond‚ it is obvious that he is distinctly different from the other alpha plusses; Mond is unique‚ wise‚ and authoritative. Mustapha Mond is unique in part because he reads prohibited literature
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that time. By the time we reach middle school not only have those goals changed but they are now completely opposite of the career path chosen in elementary school. At the high school level after having experienced working in different part-time jobs‚ we now know what career path we should not choose. Even at college level some still have not decided which career path to take. We all have natural talents‚ certain tasks that come easy to us. When we use our natural talents‚ time moves fast and we tend
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When calculus was invented‚ has always been a question in Math. The first signs of calculus were done by Greek mathematicians. Zeno of Elea of about 450 B.C. gave a number of problems which were based on the infinite. His argument was that motion is impossible. Other Greek mathematicians that contributed to the method of exhaustion are Leucippus‚ Democritus and Antiphon. The method of exhaustion is so called because one thinks of the areas measured expanding so that they account for more and more
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Olympia A. Orlina Principal II – Mahayahay Elementary School‚ Lemery Batangas District Math Chairwoman Area chairman – Mathematics District Math Coordinator’s Association Division Auditor – Mathematics Coordinator’s Association Professor – Lemery Colleges‚ Lemery‚ Batangas 1. Why have you chosen this particular profession? Teaching is not my first profession because I am a Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Accounting graduate but due to financial constraints‚ I was not able
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In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ Piggy can be classified as both envious and persistent. The reader can first see his envious side when Piggy first meets Ralph. Their airplane had just crashed on the hot and sticky island and Ralph takes his clothes off. He wiped his glasses and adjusted them on his button nose. The frame had made a deep‚ pink "V" on the bridge. He looked critically at Ralph’s golded body and then down at his own clothes (Golding 11). Even though it doesn’t say
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"Things Fall Apart" is a tragic novel‚ which is set in the Igbo community of Africa. Chinua Achebe‚ who is the author of this novel‚ portrays how an ambitious‚ well known‚ and respected African‚ Okonkwo‚ life falls apart. He was a man with great intensity and personality. He had accomplished his goal to become rich and famous and committed suicide after things in his life wasn’t going all right. Okonkwo was a farmer and he was well know throughout the nine villages and even beyond. He was tall and
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Great Expectations: PIP’S PERSONALITY CHANGE Most people would assume that through age and maturation‚ a boy with a wonderful heart and personality would further develop into a kind hearted‚ considerate gentleman. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens provides his readers with an example of a boy who regresses in certain aspects of his personality rather than progressing as one would expect. Pip‚ a person who had loved and revered his uncle Joe as a child‚ while maturing‚ finds that his
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Fabian Ochoa Carrie Spencer His 111 February 19‚ 2013 The Leadership of Alexander the Great Alexander the third of Macedon was considered to be the great (greatest?) ruler of Asia Minor during his conquest of the Persian Empire. As an effective general‚ Alexander won the majority of his battles during the conquest‚ and created new societies for the people. His success created an expansion of the Greek empire‚ and conquered many lands for Alexander to be considered a great leader‚ and the
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