English Recordings

Their rights to redress of grievances were conceded once more.

He conceded all the territory that he'd won.

Ready to concede gold medal.

A few days ago i took a day off to do nothing.Yes,nothing of the routine.Only to meditate under the guidance of the 17th Karmapa,Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
Meditate on what?Kensur Lekdon's book,Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot,lists a dozen topics that include love,compassion,joy,equanimity,cyclic existence,kindness and altruism.The Karmapa's lesson touched all these aspects with his own perspective and insight.
A day with a guru like the Karmapa could be good in the sense that one gets to understand that even gods suffer as much as we do.They are scared of their fall from grace to our level!
What i like most was the lesson on suffering.I am one who believes that suffering helps us in becoming better human beings.Suffering makes you realise other's sufferings,and the human being in you is awakened.
One needs to cultivate a compassionate mind in order to help reduce other's sufferings.We should,through meditation on compassion,be able to understand the pain and torture others have to go through.As the Karmapa said,even animals want to be happy and free from pain and suffering.Since they can't talk our language,we have to be able to read their body language and stoop to their level to feel their pain.Here the importance of meditation of equanimity comes in.
We should cultivate the sensibility to be strong enough to say,"i will attain the position of a completely perfect Budha for the sack of being able to cause all sentient beings to have happiness...free of sufferings."
That takes you to the Bodhisattva stage.Believe there is nothing impossible.Your mind is faster and more powerful than any other force.We don't care to make the best use of it and hence we remain in the "suffering zone," always having to go through the cycle of death and birth.
Shouldn't we pause and reflect?

-[Romeo]He who never felt a wound would laugh at scars. But softly...
What light do I see from that balcony? That window is on the East and Giulietta is the promotion. Giulietta, Giulietta... Giuliè.

-[Giulietta]Romeo!
-You, Giulietta, lower the ladder to me.
-Sit down instead and don't be in a hurry.
-But where do I sit down, when there is no stool here?
-Sit down on that incline or else converse standing up.
-I will converse all at once from down here.
-Mm, what do you ask?
-I ask if you love me.
-Oh yes, I love you, audacious one. -Audax fortuna Juventus!
-Yes, I love you, but I came to the balcony to tell you not to be imprudent. My brother justly suspects. And yesterday evening more than one employee gave a ghost of a smile of irony.
-I don't care if anyone was already amused. I only want you to be mine soon.
-Are you suggesting to me, then, to be lovers?
-We are not the only ones, there are many of them, ehhh...
-But one day will you make me your bride?
-My bride? No, I can't. How dare I marry you, [me] a humble, starving employee and always penniless.
-We could make some sacrifices.
-It's better to make me be office manager. In the paper wrapper there is not much pepper, I say, huh? [nonsensical tongue-twister]
-So, your love is self-interested.
-My Giulietta, what are you saying? You misunderstood. I love you in every way and you know it.
-This love can get us into trouble. -It doesn't matter, I will give you my heart.
-That is too little for such a great love. As well as the heart, I want all the rest.
-You want my liver? Tell me, I'm quick. Catch! Giulia!
-My brother is calling me... what bad luck.
-What shall I do, come up into the little room?
-Oh no, Romeo, please don't do it, it isn't right.
-Where there is peril, there is more relish. However, we'll see each other in another place tomorrow itself.
-I am already all on fire.
-It is a very safe secluded place.
-What is it called? Tomorrow itself, with my note, you will turn off where the small hostel is.
-And then?
-Uh, tomorrow night...tomorrow night you'll finally know.
-What?
-Do you want to know now?
-Romeo.
-A hint?
-Romeo.
-How good cheese is with pears. Giulia!
-I have to go.See you soon my love. -[Romeo sneezes]
-Bless you!
-Thanks. See you soon my love. -Farewell Giulietta.
-Farewell.
-Farewell Giulietta.
-Farewell.
-Giulietta...
-I understood, bye.

-Oh, and don't be mad. Bad language, pretense and a big sneeze heh heh heh, what I have to do for this promotion.

Too much stress after the philosophy test, too much pressure to let out...
Étienne, a candidate for the bac ES [social and economic sciences baccalaureate], had only one desire today: to unwind before resuming his review.

-[Etienne] I know that if I stay at home, telling myself that I absolutely must work. Well... I won't know how to tackle it.I'll be jumpy about everything, but if I come here to unwind a little by playing tennis, I'll be in better shape to work afterward.

A quiz to test their math knowledge, review in the form of a game.

Étienne and his two friends now have all weekend to prepare for the rest of the tests, and they seem rather sure of themselves.

-[Friend] We worked all year long, so it's not today, in two days, that we're going to learn everything anyway, I mean it's not true. It's true we can review, but that doesn't mean you have to be stressed, uh, and then as you review, you realize that you know a lot of things, actually.

At the Marchals', the bac is a family affair. Étienne is the first of three children to take it. So for a month, his parents have been doing all they can to not distract him as he reviews.

-[Etienne] I've heard them say, "OK, we've got to be cool now, and all." I've heard that talk. I... I know they're making a particular effort to not impose this pressure on me, but I still feel it, I know it's there, I know I don't want to disappoint them.

-[Father] Of course I'm counting on him. Because... because it's a passage. We've already lived through many passages with our children. This one, it's important because society wants the baccalaureate to be a transition, too.

Tests start again on Monday with history-geography, then comes math, languages and science, a tough week ahead for the candidates before the results, anticipated in early July.

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At the English cafe we were talking about who has given us the courage or power.
The instructor changed his attitude towards his study when his friend died of cancer.
Before he would usually get Cs but now he always gets As or Ss.

I have been given courage from Mr Son Masayoshi who is the president of the soft bank.
(Soft bank is the company who sells iPhones in Japan.)
He aided 100 billion yen from his own money to the victims of the earthquake and Tsunami.

Furthermore he is brave to criticize our government and Tepco in public under these circumstances.
Goverment bureaucrats ,many politicians and Tepco have been so incredibly close.

( I want to continue the story but it will be take long . To be continued)

I should have had the courage to ask him immediately to use more simpler English.

But I didn't. Because I didn't want to offend him.
It was like I didn’t understand him more than 60% of the time,

It was too much.

# Right now in Korea, many people are shocked by some unexpected news.
• It nearly took everyone aback.
• The life of one of the actresses from the best Korean musical suddenly broke out in scandal. .
• Wow----!!! They married 14 years ago in the US, but no one found out until yesterday.
• Now she has fallen in love with another young actor, who now in a state of panic, cancelled his birthday party.
• It seems / It appears he didn`t know about her marriage and her real name too.
• At this point, no one knows their real story.
• I guess the question now is, can they also protect their own privacy (from the general public) while respecting their own secret life?
• Or not ?Since they are stars who live by the general public`s support, should they open up their lives to their fans?
• 'Deception?'Keep their privacy'?
• now. Everyone is talking....now. What do you think about this?
지금 한국에서는 많은 사람들이 믿기 어려운 뉴스에 경악하고 있다. 모두들 한대 얻어 맞은 느낌이다. 한 여자 연예인과 한국 최고 뮤지션과의 사건이 갑자기 불거져 나왔기 때문이다.
와~~ 그 두사람이 14년전에 미국에서 결혼을 했다고 하나, 지금껏 그 누구도 그 사실을 아는 이가 없었다. 그 여자 연예인은 최근에 한 남자 배우와 사랑하는 사이로 알려졌었는데, 그 남자 배우는 지금 패닉 상태에 빠져, 생일 파티를 전면 취소했다고 전해지며, 그는 그녀의 결혼 사실을 몰랐던 것으로 전해진다.
내가 보기에는 지금 논점이 그들도(연예인들) 대중으로보터 사생활이 보호되어야 하며, 사생활은 존중되어져야 한다는 관점과, 아니면 그들은 대중의 사랑으로 살아가므로 그들의 기본 생활은 팬들에게 공개 해야 한다는 의견에 있는 듯 하다. '기만'이냐? 아니면 '보호 받아야 할 사생활'이냐? 로 모두가 떠들고 있다. 여러분은 어떻게 생각하세요?
• In addition to today's entry, the entry below is an English translation from my Chinese entry yesterday. / ...from yesterday's Chinese entry / entry in Chinese.
(• Picture 1:)
• This picture is entitled “Haiti Weeps", taken during the Haiti earthquake. It was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. It seems this woman lost her family and friends. Nothing can console her grief-stricken tears. Our tears are mysterious; they imply a mix of emotion and sentiment that we are unable to explain.
(•Picture 2:)
• When I was coming back home, I found these two wildflowers around / by my feet, they're called “MinDeulle ” and “JebiGod”. This two kinds of flowers can be found just about everywhere when spring is coming / when spring is approaching. As you saw, they both can grow well even in a confined place between stones / even in the tight space / even in the gaps between paved stones....(skip)..... I like common and native wildflowers alike.
(•*Picture 3:)
• A few days ago, a terrible tornado swept/ struck/ several cities in the southeast of the US. The broadcast reported that /As broadcasted, / it began on April 12th, and in just three days, it passed through fourteen states, resulting in a huge/terrible loss.
사진1）：이 사진은 워싱턴 포스터 기자가 아이티 지진 당시에 촬영하여, 2011년 퓰리처상을 수상받은 “아이티의 눈물”이다. 이 사진의 여인은 분명히 가족이나 친지를 잃은 것으로 보인다. 이 여인의 눈물에는 그 무엇으로도 위로 해 줄 수 없는 비통함이 담겨져 있다. 우리들의 눈물은 말로 설명할 수 없는 신비한 것으로, 그 속에는 말로 풀이 할 수 없는 다양한 감정과 정서가 함축되어 녹아 있다.

（사진 2）: 오늘 차에서 내려 집으로 들어 가려는 순간, 아파트 입구, 내 발 아래서 본 들꽃 ‘민들레’와 ‘제비꽃’이다. ‘민들레’는 순수한 한국말로 한자가 없으므로 중국어로 어찌 표현해야 할지 잘 모르겠다. ‘제비꽃’ 역시 한자가 없는 순수한 한국말이지만 그 뜻은 ‘燕花’라 할 수 있다. 이 두 종류의 들꽃은 봄만 되면 길거리 아무데서나 쉽게 볼 수 있는 아주 흔하디 흔한 들꽃이다. 그리고, 여러분이 사진에서 보시다시피, 이 민들레와 제비꽃의 공통점은 돌 틈 사이의 비좁은 공간에서도 잘 자라는 것이며, 누런 흙들을 아주 쉽게 노랑과 연보라색 꽃밭으로 만들어 버린다. 나는 이 평범하며 소박한 들꽃을 좋아한다.

（사진3）: 최근 며칠 전에, 미국 동남부에 토네이도가 휩쓸었다. 보도에 의하면 이 토네이도는 14일부터 시작하여 3일이내 14개주를 거쳐 갔으며, 엄청난 손실을 가져왔다 한다. 예측할 수 없는 자연현상은 우리들의 상상을 초월한다