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A CAR ACCIDENT HAPPENED TO ME ON MY WAY BACK HOME!

法兰西论坛（SinoFrance）翻译中心是基于中法信息传播交流中心（筹）而建设的一个为大众提供翻译及相关服务的项目；涉及与法语相关的，如汉法、法汉，法语与其他语种之间的笔译、口译、陪同翻译，特别是法英、英法、德法、法德、法意、意法、日法、法日、韩法、法韩等。
克丽奥工作室（LixQ）翻译中心则是基于《当代留学生手记》丛书工作小组、《海归》读本（筹）而建设；涉及到非法语类外语资料的翻译整理工作。

法兰西论坛是中国最早并且仍在健康运营的法国相关内容在线交流平台，自2001年成立至今，已拥有近13万注册用户及数十位各个领域的专业人士。发展至今，与克丽奥工作室共同努力，策划、编辑已出版的图书将近百册。发展至今，与国内外相关商业或非商业机构建立了良好的关系；在平面媒体亦得到近百次的报道。

为充分发挥法兰西论坛、《当代留学生手记》丛书等相关人员的专业优势，为大众服务，因此在长期无偿服务的基础上，为需要服务的机构或个人提供有偿或无偿的翻译相关信息交流的平台。

目前服务信息主要包括：各语种之间的笔译、口译、陪同翻译；为需要海外相关工商业、教育业等相关领域资料的公司或个人提供人工搜索、整理加工服务。

为提高工作效率，体现专业水准，翻译中心对常见的商业上的低廉的讨价还价现象进行漠视，我们要求客户提供所能接受的价格以及相关的要求，我们按照服务内容及价格落实相关的译员或专业人士；因此对一些需要无偿服务的项目，我们将选送部分本科生及兴趣爱好者参与。

本中心第一团队来自法兰西论坛管理团队及个别高级会员，以及《当代留学生手记》丛书和克丽奥工作室图书的部分作者，以及部分重点高校校友（在校同学亦可申请参加中心作为后备，在未通过专业程度认可之前，可分配从事部分无偿或志愿类活动）。

因此，我们在这里，热忱欢迎各位作者、斑竹和朋友加入加入翻译中心的人才资源库。
有兴趣的朋友可将体现侧重翻译水平的个人介绍发往顾东东（ don@sinofrance.org ）以便我们能够为大家提供更多的机会，共同发展。

相关连接（翻译中心的部分均刚落成，因此资料均在逐步补充中）如下：

法兰西论坛（SinoFrance）翻译中心
http://info.sinofrance.org/?category-104.html
法兰西论坛翻译中心介绍
http://info.sinofrance.org/?viewnews-698.html

克丽奥工作室翻译中心
http://info.lixq.cn/html/79/n-179.html
http://info.lixq.cn/html/03/category-catid-103.html

参与讨论可访问
法兰西论坛 » 发展中心 » 关于成立法兰西论坛翻译中心的构思与行动
http://forum.sinofrance.org/thread-115325-2-1.html
克丽奥工作平台 » LixQ站务及相关 » 关于成立克丽奥翻译中心的构思与行动
http://platform.lixq.cn/thread-25276-1-1.html

《海归》读本 http://www.haigui.in/
《当代留学生手记》丛书 http://liuxue.lixq.cn/

法兰西论坛（SinoFrance）翻译中心
克丽奥工作室（LixQ）翻译中心
2009年8月12日

I was the toastmaster of July 29th WLB Toastmasters Club meeting. The day after my birthday. The time I wanted to give myself an oppotunity to challenge myself  at the second day of my 30. The  second time to be hostess of an activity, the first time in English. I still remember my first time, that was 5 years ago. I am very young and full of energy. I weared in my favourite red sweat which today I thought a little bit conservative. Has my taste changed? No, I still keep my simple and casual style. But I know current me will choose more fit ones to tell the inside me. That was a big success. After that New Year Gala, I became famous in my form company. Everybody knew me.

The toast master is even more interesting and challenging. I told Alex one day that I hope I cloud know TOASTMASTERS earlier. This NGO  is not an organization only to improve your English or language skills. If you take this idea in your mind, then I will say don’t come to Toastmasters, there are a lot of other clubs, like English corners, you can join in.  Toastmasters is a place to excel yourself, to complete yourself, to appreciate yourself. Here, you will have a lot of jobs to take. As a speaker, a evaluator, a timer, a grammarian, a toast master, or a sergeant at arms, a secretary, a vice president membership, a president.  Here, you will know where your limitations are and how you can bulid yourselves physically and mentally strong enough to realize your dreams.

At that night, I challenged my limitation, and bulit my body and mind stonger. I knew I could.

But there was a mistake drawing me to an embarrassed situation, and I didn’t aware the seriousness until Alan called me later after the meeting.

I wrote a draw for this event, cause I thought it was an important thing to me. 9 pages! I figued out all the details first in mind and then I noted them down. And practiced before the meeting for about 5 times with counting minutes.  One time in front of mirror! But I should do that more! I totally agree with what  Alex commented to me. Practice with your passion in front of mirror, and just suppose you were at the stage. Vocal variety and natural guetures  should let your audience influenced which is from Simba’s suggestion to me.

So, so, so…… Preparation is not enough no matter how much time and energy you put onto it!

Emergencies occur all the time. I did prepare some words and phrases for the changes in the meeting. There are something you can not prepare, that are called experience and knowledge. Experience and knowledge are life long term accumulation. They are the background of your eduation. Well-eduated or not, your experience tells, as well as your knowledge. The experience checks whether your knowledge is practicle or not, while the knowledge leads you to gain more experience.

I know I am lack of experience and I has a little knowledge. For me, it’s a long way to go to be well educated!

My deep-heart thanks to Alan can’t express my feeling. So I worte this essay.

To be 30 is not such terrible!

Tks so much my dear students and friends. The first text sent in the early morning was from 小马, to say Happy birthday to me. Then in the afternoon, when i finished the lesson with Dom, she invited me for a celebration with tebie de Philippine way. A blueberry cheese cake! WOW! The taste is sooooo nice! I love it!

And she ordered another cake for both of us. A chocolate one! A pure chocolate taste! No body will refuse to eat it! Me too! 

The kindness and friendness from my friends and students are not end to this. Dom just started a beginning. My nice colleagues say or text me to say happy birthday and Flora gave me a very beautiful jade necklace as a gift. They are so sweet! But my planning for celebrating my birthday was delayed beacuse of the sickness of my dear dad. I suddenly realized that my responsiblity is not like what I thought and did before. I am happy with the talk to Dom that when we are at 30, we grow mature. I have to balance my dream and my family always. The more things I experienced, the more I learnt. To learn from life is pain, but  I gain a lot. And no regret to say to myself. No! Never and ever! I have no time, no chance to do so.

Luckiness only happens when you catch it at the right moment.

The difference between dream and dream realization is only down to earth to put the dream into practice.

When you are afraid of  something, you might not be know more about yourslef.  Because you are afraid of the miserable  and unknown things around you and your life. Discovering  the world with a curious and open heart will be a good treatment to this fear. Fear will not be fear when it dispears or does not exsit any more. My fear still there, but not as much as before.

Tusedays with Morrie, is a wise old man’s life’s greatest lesson to young men, like you and me. His every Tuseday talk at his moment of dying is a momerable and thought-provoking socialogical lesson. Keep reading and digesting.

I am so glad that I have these days oppotunities to talk with you, Erik! Like what you said, it is so lucky to meet you who have the same concept in mind as me!

Follow my Heart and Soul!

No complaining! Appreciate everything!

Think twice when make a decision!

To be wise, do not make the same mistake twice!

Life is very short, cherish every minute and take full use of it!

Take care myself first, and then 

love the family, friends and the people need me!

What’s The Reader about? Before I saw this moive, I have already known the content of the story. It is Dominique, a close foreign friend and student, told me. Another ironic life.

The background about this movie is based on the Second World War and mostly the post Second World War. Not like the other World War films, The Reader has its own form. At the beginning, a love story is taken as the opening. 15 years old boy, Michael falls in love with a woman named Hanna roughly 20 years older than him. Love takes the most part of his life in that summer. He couldn’t stop loving her, he couldn’t live without her for a single minute. They make a deal that reading to her before making love.  ”The Odessey”, “Huck Finn” and “The Lady with the Little Dog”.  Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. But one day she mysteriously disappears and Michael is left confused and heartbroken.

The moment when they meet each other again is at the Nazi war crimes to sentence Hanna, the guard of the camps during the war. She commits all the sins what she did in the camps which shocks Michael totally. There is a secret kept in both of Hanna and Michael’s hearts. Finnally, Michael does not discover the secret, the one Hanna keeps forever. For me, the reason why they do that is they choose to follow their hearts, to be honest to themselves. It’s cruel! No way to avoid the result of being honest to your life if you have already decided to follow your heart. Hanna spends the rest of her life in the prison until she suicides herself. During the prison time, Michael sends the reading tapes to her, all the tapes from what he read  and she listened when they had affairs in that summer. Hanna who can’t read starts to learn to write and read. Hanna  did her job and followed all the principals of her position in the camps except reading and writing the reports where she signed her name many times to kill the Jewish women and kids.

 ”Camps are not the therapy for you, go to literature.” Michael’s seeking catharsis might be ended when he tells all the story to his daughter.

But how is mine?

It is 3:06am Beijing Time. Having Finished watching 春去冬来, a South Korean film, which beyond description, I couldn’t help writing something.

Tks is not enough to say to you, my dear student and friend 马永汉！This movie is the most touched movie I have ever watched up till now.  “人生庵”（Temple of Life) taught a big lesson to me. And it is the lesson we learn from life. Life long lesson! For my almost  past 30 years, me, like the leading actor, make mistakes and also learn from the life. Only the life, bitter and sweet life can teach us and make us to learn from it.

The little monk grows up to a adult man, winter is gone and spring has come.

SPRING

Innocent boy watching by his master shifu grows up, fish, frog and snake are his toys, but shifu just quietly watched him while he was playing with his toys. A heavy stone was tied on his body as he wakes up, master shifu’s words are  as heavy as the stone. If one of the animals is dead, then you’ll feel a pressure of a huge stone in your heart. Fish and snake died, boy cries and cries as he is a guilty child.

SUMMER

The boy turns to be young guy. As common young people, he is curious about sex. To be a monk, he has no chance to live together with young girls. Things change when one day a mum accompanies her sick daughter to the temple to cure the illness. Mum left and the girl lives together with he and his master shifu. The chemicals between the boy and girl are like burning flame.  With the herbal medicine and love from the young monk, the girl has recovered quickly. And this non-stop fire inflams the love, desire and fury.

AUTUMN

The fury pushed the young man to kill his beloved wife. He is back to his master shifu when he has no way to go. Shifu knew what had happened before his back, but pretend as nothing was wrong. Shouting to his shifu who more likes his fathter or torturing himself, the man loses his peaceful heart. Policemen come. They are asked to wait to handcuff the murder until the young guy finishs carving of the Buddasim script ordered by his mater shifu. The scene is dramatic in this movie. The policemen help the murder to fulfill the the last lesson with the master shifu. Shifu burns himself to end his life after the leaving of his prentice and son.

WINTER

Having pushed the door, the whole lake was frozen solidly and the tranquility is broken by the arrival of a middle age man. He was the young boy, the murder, but now he is the  prentice of his master shifu. Mistakes and experiences make him become mature and wise. After years of wind and rain, a little boy grows up to be a real man. Painful, but worthy. Movie needs climax. Ironic scenes in the movie, but actually the real life is even much more ironic.  His wife wasn’t killed by him. The day when she brings their son to his temple, the same day she drops into the water and dies because of the hole his husband digged for daily washing. Life is ironic! His son becomes his prentice. He looks the same as his father and does the same things as his fathter did in the childhood. Fish, frog and sake, they are toys again, only the life itself is the teacher everybody can learn from. This is life!

What did I learn?!

Talking too much is not good for one’s throat. What happened to me again. I couldn’t talk any more. When people choose their job or career, do they think about the weak points of it?

 For me, NO!  I just do what I like!

 Teaching=sore throat!  It is not ture to every teacher, but ture to me.

I enjoy the process of teaching. What makes me a strong person, not weak at the time when I got high fever or laid down because of pain.

One of my students said to me, “Ying, you like a fighter!” Am I?

When I chose to leave for sickness, I am not a fighter. I am a weak person. I need rest. I have to stop.

I can work for whole year and no stop, even I am not in good health condition. That’s not the first time I did so. I just work and work. And put myself back into poor situation again and again. 

I play in bar and club, like a fighter. Till midnight or even the next early morning, then go for work. Sometimes I don’t know for what!???

“NATURE” (Da Ziran)! It’s time to go!

!

Hesitation is an unwillingness to do something, or a delay in doing it, because you are uncertain, worried, or embarrassed about it.
           He promised there would be no more hesitations in pursuing reforms.
           …the prime minister’s hesitation to accept a ceasefire.

———from Collins Dictionary

The word “Hesitation” is the attitude of me right now. I hesitate to take the steps because I don’t know what is good for my future. Sore and swollen throat because of too much teaching and little sleep, I will lose my patience on teaching, oh no, that’s terrible!  Career? Publishing? Mandarin? Culture communication? Money? I need money or I need time!!!

To be or not to be!

Which road to go?

Never give up! Never give up what?

What are the important things in my life?

What should I do on the way to achieve my  goal?

Which are the branchs, which is the stem?

These are the  questions to ask myself.

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