潇潇 于 2003/12/31 21:15:38 发表在 汉英03
So many things felt and left unsaid -Happy New Year!
December 29, 2003 -January 1, 2004
This year has been an uneventful but busy one, for me. It’s hard to believe we’ve reached the end of 2003, when I was just getting used to the idea that it's no longer 2002! Busy times just seem to fly by. These past few weeks have been extremely hectic at work and I was simply too overwhelmed to contemplate my life, until my Hawaiian colleague stopped me in the corridor, "I need to talk to you," she said. This woman hated me like poison and wouldn’t talk to me unless absolutely necessary; so I responded with a casual, "What's up?"
She walked close to me and put her arm around me; I was surprised to see that she was in tears, so I asked with some concern, "What happened?" She continued tearfully, "I'm sorry I was so mean to you before." I used to think we would never reconcile. She'd never liked me, mostly due to her own prejudice and a few misunderstandings, but she came to dislike me even more because I was friends with her roommate; a girl from New Zealand. She didn't get along with her roommate at all, who eventually had to move out because of their conflicts.
Being the New Zealand girl's best friend, I was automatically regarded as an enemy by the Hawaiian girl. The tension between the Hawaiian girl and I grew stronger, after the New Zealand girl went back to her homeland. After she moved, I wrote to her about the tension: "I try to be nice to her, but she always gives me a dirty look." My friend replied, "Don't even bother! You don't need people like that in your life; you don't need to waste your time with garbage like that!! You are a smart, loving and beautiful person inside and out and don't you forget it. Rule number one, always put yourself first, because no one else will!!"
The Hawaiian girl often called me "bitch" behind my back and she did her best to alienate me, by being nice to everyone except me. But that really didn't have any effect on me, since I was not the one who slung mud at people and I slept with a good conscience. Moreover, I knew I was good at my job and I didn't need to be in a clique to feel happy. So I managed to bear it with dignity.
Whenever people sling mud at me, I just brush it off by telling myself, "Never stoop to their level. Never get angry because of someone else's stupidity and rudeness." As a result, the Hawaiian girl and I passed each other by every day, without saying a word. I thought that was it and didn't really expect her to ever apologize for her actions. Little did I know that one day, she would hug me and break down in a tearful apology. She told me that her dad was fatally ill and that she was very sorry to have been so mean to me, before. Perhaps she suddenly realized that life is too short to be wasted on resentment and hostility. I hugged her back and said, "It's ok, I understand. I think you should go back to the U.S as soon as possible." Sometimes, our loved ones are taken away from us far too soon.
Two years ago, I returned to my hometown and attended my grandma's funeral. It was raining when we laid her to rest, and I heard some strangely cheerful music, from below the small hill. I looked down and saw someone was carrying his bride on a bicycle, accompanied by a traditional Chinese wedding band, which was playing the trumpet and the gongs merrily. I stood in the rain at my grandma's grave and listened to the merry wedding music coming from below. It was a strange experience. We Chinese often relate rain to sadness and departure, fitting for a funeral but odd for a wedding celebration. Some people die and others get married, usually bringing new lives into the world. Life is sometimes a mysterious circle, interwoven with endings and beginnings. Every ending is a new beginning; when a shooting star falls, a child is born. Death is too serious a subject for me to think about every day, but I am reminded of it frequently these days. One of my favorite Hong Kong singers, Anita Mui, died yesterday at the age of 40. Just a few months ago, I wrote something about another Hong Kong singer's death and I felt exactly the same about Anita's:
"Life is a one-way bus...
by Xiaoxiao at 10/25/2002 10:34 US Central Time
I fell asleep on the bus after work tonight. I was simply too tired and I missed my stop. The bus driver woke me up at the bus terminal. I turned back and got on another bus heading home...
My neighbors have been playing Luo Wen's songs for the past days. Luo Wen was a great singer in Hong Kong. He had liver cancer and passed away a couple of days ago. So it goes...
I've been too busy for TV and newspapers lately. I learned the news from my colleague. Death is just a matter of time. It is the journey that makes the difference.
When I was reading at the windowsill today, I heard my neighbor playing Luo's songs; I was never a big fan of his songs, but those songs sounded all too familiar - they were songs I knew when I was a secondary school student. I paused for a while and listened carefully, and I realized he was really a brilliant singer. Now he is gone, leaving the world with many classic songs and images. And I wonder what I will leave behind when I'm gone...
Life is a one-way bus and you never know which stop is your last. When you get to the terminal, you cannot turn back... Make each day count!"
My feelings about life and death got really mixed up, when I received a wedding invitation from a college roommate. It seems funerals and weddings always come in pairs. There were seven girls in my dorm and we used to wonder who would get married first and who would be last. The invitation was sent from the second girl to get married; who will be the third? It doesn't really matter.
As my American “brother” says, "When they give out prizes, the best one is always saved for last. Just because you didn’t get the bronze or silver, that doesn’t mean you won’t eventually win the gold!" Maybe I won’t get a gold star in the end, but I am determined to live my life to its fullest. Life is too short, to begin with.
People come and go, and only a few will remain throughout the years and become our life-long friends. The older I get, the more I need the friends who knew me when I was young. A few days ago, one of my best friends in high school called me up at midnight from Germany and we chatted for about an hour and a half, we were so happy to hear each other's voices! She left Guangzhou to study at a university in another province and then went to Germany. She seldom sent me e-mails, but we managed to stay in touch by talking to each other on the phone, once or twice a year. We are still the best of friends after all these years and we never run out of things to talk about; we gossiped about primary school and high school classmates, before she told me about her life in Germany. I remembered seeing her off, on a rainy day two years ago. Neither of us cried, because we didn't want to make our parting too mushy; but tears came to my eyes when I read her e-mail sent from Germany, after half a year:
"The day broke in a rainy haze of dull gray; I had awakened suddenly from a dream, in which I saw you. The scene was so vivid and familiar that I could hardly believe it was just a dream. In it, you showed me your collection of press clippings; among them, one of your reports...alongside a photo. In it, you were standing against a background of gold nightlights, flashing your well-known and charming smile.
Wearing a broad-brimmed hat - perhaps because of the cold - you drew it deep over your head until the brim reached the edge of your eyebrows, making you look very pretty and smart. Your face was so lively, shiny and young, it seemed you were still the same, sweet girl who I first got to know in high school.
You informed me that you now had a part-time job as a training reporter. On that day, you had just been called by the Yangcheng Evening Post; told to travel somewhere far away and file a report. I noticed that in the photo, there was a vegetable stall beside you; you were filing a report about a rich vegetable market in winter! At the vegetable stall, I even saw a huge carrot. Then, I asked you to repeat to me what you had reported, on the spot. As a result, and after several minutes of recollection, you gave me a live report...using your fluent English. How time flies...without mercy! Take care!"
I was so touched by her words. There's part of me that perhaps only she can understand and memories of the time we spent together always fill my heart with warmth. We talked freely on the phone and she said she felt that I was the same person as before. My American "brother" commented that I am remarkably untouched by life; I have no idea what he meant, but there are some corners in my heart that nothing can touch.
The year 2004 is already here as I write these closing lines. My American pen pal often says "Happy New You" to me instead of "Happy New Year." He said the New Year is a chance for us to become a better and happier person; that we should embrace the world with our new self. It's time to let go of past heartaches, mend relationships, call up a long-lost friend, make your New Year resolutions and carry them out.
Happy New You!
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Distance
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2003/12/31 21:19:24
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Distance
By Xiaoxiao
When I was a child, my mom often told me, “Keep your distance from strangers.” However, distance is not always physical.
You will never fail to notice the pressure of over-population in China. When you get on a bus in Guangzhou, you may have to stand cheek to cheek with a stranger. It can be so cramped that you are unable to move. It is even worse that you have to keep an eye on your purse because the next person might be a pickpocket. People on a bus have varied and interesting expressions. Some faces are tired, some blank, some indifferent, some vigilant, and some anxious... People are never as physically close to each other as when they are on a bus. However, people are never as indifferent to each other as when they are on a bus.
Physical closeness does not necessarily preclude distance.
A Chinese authoress once wrote, "The longest distance on the Earth is not the one between two places across a world, but the distance I feel inside when I am right beside you and you don't know that I love you."
Such distance between hearts could never be covered by any means of transportation.
Every year on April 5th, when the dead are believed to be able to return to the living world; my family will pay homage to deceased loved ones and ancestors at night by burning paper money and candles, and presenting them wine and food. The atmosphere is almost the same every year. The breeze makes candle flames flicker wildly and blows my hair in every direction. I can almost feel their presence. They seem so near yet so far…
I have come to realize that the longest distance is not the distance across a world but the distance between two worlds!!!
I often wonder if there is an underworld. Do people have an after-life when they die? These are things I am never going to find out in my life time. Death is a sense a tragedy for the living instead of the dead; those left behind rather than those who have passed on. Death may mean a new incarnation for the dead but it leaves the living with sorrow and regrets.
We celebrate birth but we are seldom taught how to face death. Sometimes there is just a single thread between life and death. Sadly, the gap between life and death is far too wide for anyone to cross.
Where do dead people go?
Where do they sleep?
How can I reach them?
How can I see them?
How can I touch them?
How can they hold me in their arms?
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Whenever I stand at a grave, a poem stirs in my ear.
"Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there
I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glint on the snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the autumn rain
When you awake in the morning hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of birds circling in flight
I am the stars that shine at the night
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there
I do not sleep"
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I Am A Most Stupid Kid
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2003/12/31 21:41:09
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I Am A Most Stupid Kid
By Xiaoxiao
I have been told by many people that I am a smart and self-confident girl; but I'm not really that smart or confident. At least, that's what my mum seems to think.
I was not a brilliant kid, by anyone's standards. I did not have an angelic smile or appearance: I was thin and weak. I didn't know how to look sweet and smart, to make my teachers like me. I did have large and wistful eyes, though! My handwriting was horrible, even though my mum made me practice with a traditional Chinese calligraphy brush for hours at a time, when I was very young. I flunked math throughout primary school and can remember being reduced to tears by my mum, because I was too stupid to work out some math problems.
My mum finally lost her patience once. "How can you be so stupid," she exclaimed? "This problem is so easy!"
As a result (and not surprisingly), I hated math! I hated it more than anything else, because it made me feel stupid; because it was my source of reproach and scorn. Naturally, I didn't enjoy any of my math classes and continued to fail exams. Conversely, I was very good at Chinese: I scored 98 out of 100 in my Chinese exam, losing two points to writing. The subject seemed easy for me.
I guess my failure with math was borne more out of disinterest than stupidity. Although my IQ was just average, I really didn't think I was retarded. Despite my failure, my mum still hoped that she could turn out a bright kid who would make good grades. She was very strict and urged me to study constantly. While still in primary school I had a few hobbies, such as painting and stamp collecting; but those were killed by my mum. I remember trading a bag of dead bullet heads with a boy in class, for a huge collection of stamps. (I grew up in a military base and it was easy for me to get dead bullet heads.) The stamps were so nice that I couldn't help looking at them, examining them and appreciating them. My mum was angry that I spent so much time on the stamps and burned them! My heart was broken; it wasn't until I reached middle school that I started to collect stamps again, but I could never create such an impressive collection again. Disheartened, I gave up.
Things could never be the same.
I was supposed to devote all of my attention to schoolwork and making my mum happy. When I reached the last year of primary school, my mum and teachers were worried about my math skills; they were afraid I could not get into a good middle school with my terrible quantitative abilities.
I told myself that I had to make it to a good middle school and as it turned out, I made it to the best one in town, with the highest score in the class! For the first time in my life, I had done well in math. I didn't know how I did it...I just did it.
If I try hard enough, I can do anything!
My mum bragged to her colleagues, "My daughter made it into the best middle school in town!" She was showing off to her colleagues and I could sense the pride in her voice. Hadn't she always said I was a stupid kid?
I was a bit surprised to hear her comments about me, to say the least.
I made better grades in middle school and got almost straight-A's in all subjects; mostly to please my mum. I didn't really care for school, but I still managed to get into the best high school in town. However, the subjects in high school seemed more difficult and I was less motivated.
Unbelievably, the same story repeated itself in my last year of high school. I flunked every math exam. Math seemed too difficult and too boring for my little brain to deal with. I even flunked Chinese, history, and politics. The only major I could excel in was English. One of the reasons I did so poorly was that I was seriously ill! I got the highest score in English almost invariably. However, one could not expect to get into college if he/she only performed well in one subject!
Some of my teachers tried to persuade me to give up the college entrance exams, fearing that I would flunk them and have a negative effect on the high school's overall test-taker percentile. They offered to recommend me to a teacher's college, without my having to take the college entrance exams.
"Over my dead body", I thought! It was my right to take the college entrance exams; it was my right to fight, and no one could deprive me of that right. If I gave up without trying, I would never be able to respect myself and would always be wondering, "What might have been?"
Despite my teachers' repeated attempts to make me give up, I stood firm and insisted on taking the exams. Some of my well-meaning friends hinted that I should have taken the recommendation offer, which was not a very bad deal.
My mum seemed to think so, too. I said to her, "The whole world seems to have lost faith in me, you shouldn't lose faith in your daughter!"
Eventually people stopped trying to make me give up, seeing that they were fighting an uphill battle. I didn't go home for the last two months of high school. Amazingly, I ended up getting the highest score among the students who had chosen humanities majors. It was a miracle, but I did it!
I might be a stupid kid...but I can do it, if I try hard enough!
Unfortunately, I still remain a stupid kid in my mum's eyes. She never stops accusing me of being stupid.
When I was traveling alone in Beijng, I got lost in a small village in the evening. I called home afterwards, but no one was sympathetic...especially mum. She said I got lost because I was stupid; she rambled on for more than 10 minutes, telling me how stupid I had been. And I slammed down the phone.
Maybe I was stupid, but why couldn't she think of the dangerous fact that her daughter had been lost in a strange city, that evening? Didn't she realize how scared I was and that I might have been robbed?!
If I couldn't get along with a classmate or a friend, it was because I was not good enough or stupid. It was always my fault! If I couldn't open the door with a newly-made key quickly enough, I was stupid again! Even that damned key was smarter than me, apparently! If I couldn't dial a telephone number quickly and gracefully enough, I was stupid. My critical mother would wonder aloud, "How could you look so clumsy?" If I couldn't handle the chopsticks the way my mum did, you guessed it...I was stupid again! How could she tell me my gesture was wrong, when I was already 18?! Didn't she know I'd been handling the chopsticks that way for eighteen years and that it was extremely difficult for me to correct it at that age? How could she forget that I had lived at boarding school since I was eleven or twelve years old, using spoons and forks most of the time? I did try to correct my gesture, but I would always fall back into my old habits soon after.
If I could not accomplish something, be it finding a brick in the street or getting a great job, I was stupid. It was always my fault, I was always wrong.
I have been taught to take blame and responsibilities. You can only put up with the abuse, or try to make things better; don't just moan and complain. No one will have pity on losers in this house...that is why I never know how to break bad news to them.
For years, I have had very low self-esteem. It seems to me I am the stupidest kid in the family, because everyone says I am, despite the fact that I have the most education.
My mum always wants me to be smart in everything; but like she says, I am just a stupid kid. I can't be someone I'm not, I can't always win and shine. I have my limitations, like anyone else...after all, I'm just an ordinary girl!
Unfortunately, I'm not just stupid but also ugly, in my mum's eyes. She often tells me that I am ugly and I never feel too good about my appearance, under her influence.
Once mum discussed my brother's girlfriend with me.
"Have you seen his girlfriend," she asked?
"Nope," I replied, "But I've seen her picture."
"What do you think of her," she wondered?
"Not as pretty as me," I replied, absent-mindedly. I didn't care what my brother's girlfriend looked like, anyway.
Mum responded, "Of course, not as beautiful as MY daughter!"
I paused mentally for a while and mused, "Hasn't she always said I am ugly?"
Maybe all her geese are swans.
When my mum saw my "glamour pictures", she pointed to one in which I was wearing a pale blue dress, playing with a Snoopy doll. "This one looks most like my girl, " she said. "Guai1 Guai1 Nv2" (Mama's girl). She really liked those pictures!
Under only one circumstance would she tell me that I am a smart girl: "You are smart," she'd say, "Only because your mother is smart."
At a dinner with many guests, I sat next to mum...and for the first time, I noticed she was beginning to grow grey hair. Though few in number, they still held me in awe; this woman of great fortitude grew old, too! Talking to the other dinner guests, she said, "My daughter has done "blah, blah and blah", my daughter is going to "blah, blah and blah.."
She was bragging about her daughter! So, I have not made her ashamed of me?
I realized that my mum was proud of me, in spite of my stupidity and imperfections; she just wanted me to be smarter.
All her geese are swans
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hey,dont throw eggs to me,but i m afraid the A here should be The. "i'm the most stupid kid"
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/01 10:17:43
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how about "me the most stupid kid"
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U r wrong, but she is correct. This "most" as in "a most stupid kid" is not a form in the superlative degree, but just a modifier which means "very."
作者(Author)：English Study - 2004/01/01 10:29:53
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Or you may wish to interpret "a most stupid kid" as "one of the most stupid kid."
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i dont mean that, and i m not really good at grammar,but i just felt using A in a title of article is a little bit strange.
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/01 10:42:18
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but i m not sure! :-) thank you!
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though my grammar is very poor,
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/01 10:51:02
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but i still know when u use "most" form as superlative degree,the word should have three syllables...so i dont mean that :-)
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i like the titles like this, "we the people",i cant describe the feeling in words,but it feels wonderful...
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/01 10:57:56
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Got yr point.
作者(Author)：ES - 2004/01/01 11:57:17
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对不起，但愿后面的不是我这边胡说引出来的！：-）
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/02 22:06:45
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我只不过是不懂就问而已！看来得收敛点了，放松点！
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我看跟你没关系。怕什么？腊梅傲霜凌雪，真金不怕火炼。
作者(Author)：评论员 - 2004/01/03 12:11:19
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有人刻意炒红潇潇，你有什么办法？@)@
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Yeah, XiaoXiao doesn't have to respond to her detractor directly. Her continued contribution would be the best response.
作者(Author)：Reader - 2004/01/03 23:32:02
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Last time I said u had the makings of a writer in u. This time I'm convinced that...
作者(Author)：古月 - 2003/12/31 21:48:49
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you ARE a professional writer already, probably a staff reporter of an English newspaper. Correct?
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No, I just love to write. It's hard to make a living as a writer:)
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/01 01:24:42
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Mais oui. Quelle est votre professionnelle?
作者(Author)：Jason Zhang - 2004/01/01 03:22:45
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你这家伙，老喜欢给人留点神秘感，到现在都没人知道你到底是做什么的。
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/01 09:53:19
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祝大家新年元旦，快快乐乐！
作者(Author)：懵懂 - 2004/01/02 02:36:14
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Happy new year! Thanks for your help of past year, my friends!
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If you have read her debut posting, you will know one of them must not be her original creation.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 04:42:29
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But nothing is impossible for someone whose math score would swing from zero to a hundred from time to time.
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First,I never got zero or 100 in math. Second, they were my original creation, except...
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/02 08:05:09
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the poem in Distance. Did you see the quotation marks?
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P.S. Never underestimate a stupid kid.
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/02 08:13:46
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U made me jealous cuz ur writing has generated so much interest:-)
作者(Author)：古月 - 2004/01/02 20:55:20
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I never bother to read anything posted by those I don't trust. As long as there are pals, be they supporters or detractors, who read your stories so attentively, you have the reason to feel proud of your writing. Take it easy!
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When people jump to lash out at something, you cannot say they are always interested in it.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 04:18:28
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Oftentimes, "concern" is a better word than "interest". By your standard, we are interested in terrorrism, environmental pollution, war, human trafficking, narcotics... and of course cultivating cheating and bluffing on line.
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Admire u for ur bravery . U r really a
作者(Author)：hero , never give up - 2004/01/03 04:35:34
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你不仅是个懦夫，而且是个变态，又是个傻瓜！
作者(Author)：评论员 - 2004/01/03 09:01:43
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为什么说你是懦夫？因为你不敢用固定笔名，比潇潇差远了！为什么说你是变态？无缘无故地给正常写作的网友泼污水，且用心歹毒。为什么又说你是个傻瓜？因为你匿名紧跟另一帖，让人一看就以为那是懦夫在为自己壮胆。你心胸太狭窄，而且妒嫉心极重。建议您以后一见潇潇笔名就跳过去，免得读后妒火中烧，最后毁了自己。
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That is not my post, neither is the one titled "bravo".
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 10:09:34
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Your maglomania is unwarranted.
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Of course, I know, my maglomania is always unwarranted, but yours is forever well-deserved.@)@
作者(Author)：忍俊不禁的评论员 - 2004/01/03 10:27:12
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Recogizing your problem(maglomania) is not enough, following a regimen might helps.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 11:10:12
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Since yours is a much more difficult one, my advice is to bury the whole of you in shit FOR GOOD.
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might help. (to save space)
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 11:12:03
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So I said, u'r fighting a losing battle. C the point?
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 11:37:33
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You've been driven to a suicidal course. Calm down please!
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As I told you early, you are losing ground everywhere, has the idea sunk in in your wooden head?
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 23:17:45
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Wretched thing. Your coming to this world is a regret for you, and for the rest of us as well.
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"rest of us"? Who esle do u represent, mama's poor son?
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 23:28:58
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"The rest of us" includes all the people who are not as degraded as you are.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/04 00:03:22
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You are a failure or maybe an unfortunate variation in the process of bio-evolution.
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It's U who r alienating everybody else. I'm trying to save u.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/04 00:11:10
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Please respond to my therapy.
Question #1: Format2003 urged you to "learn to respect yourself." Did that request make any sense to you?
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I'm just staying away from the devil like you.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/04 00:20:21
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Draw a clear line between you and the rest.
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Question #2: Don't u think it's high time that u chased away the devil from ur own heart?
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/04 00:44:12
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Please respond, if only for your own good.
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Appearing to be weak while remaining vicious inside could work to have those putative wisdom blindfolded.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 22:44:41
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That's ironic, eh-huh?
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Bravo!
作者(Author)：Take my hat off to u - 2004/01/03 02:06:35
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Those wisdom? How MANY?
作者(Author)：Last Hermit - 2004/01/03 09:24:47
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By "those putative wisdom", the author simply refers to
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 10:47:42
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the small number of people, undisputably represented by Mr. Gy, who are well known on this forum for their achievement and authority in English study. So what's wrong with it? Your talent seems not to be able to afford a simple and apparent figure of speech. Your years of effort devoted to English study has failed you. Your jumping at every chnce to make a fuss serve you no purpose. Your slanders that will surely come after this post will be magnified and returned automatically.
I used gg as my pen name throughout my posts under this topic and this name is not registered up to this moment.
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U didn't get his point, poor thing! Never use such collocation as "those wisdom"!
作者(Author)：痛打落水狗狗 - 2004/01/03 11:33:53
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This is not a collocation. Make sure you know what collocation means!
作者(Author)：GG dealt a deadly blow to the drowning failed jerk - 2004/01/03 22:53:23
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I mean no English user would say "those wisdom..."
作者(Author)：痛打落水狗狗 - 2004/01/03 23:15:13
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Why not stop trying to make out something that goes so far beyond your largely uncultured head?
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 23:33:37
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I have explained the point crystal clear in my last post. And I don't believe a further clarafication would help such a nut as you. You know, an average learner follows, a great learner pioneers, and a wooden learner like you puzzles.
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That's what u "pioneered": "those wisdom,""which lacks of...,""apt to cheating"! Shame on u!
作者(Author)：痛打落水狗狗 - 2004/01/03 23:43:47
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For you, "shame" is always the word that comes the last and you care the least.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 23:56:28
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It is certain that you were born bereft of the capability of telling shame from decency.
YOU ARE A SHAMELESS FREAK.
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Shame on u where shame is due: "those wisdom,""which lacks of...,""apt to cheating"!
作者(Author)：痛打落水狗狗 - 2004/01/04 00:00:50
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Let hard evidence talk.
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For you, shame goes beyond your words, it goes into your body, into your simple mind.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/04 00:28:19
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A list of THEM will be waste of time, waste of room, and more importantly it will be of no help to you.
'CAUSE YOU ARE A SHAMELESS FREAK.
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Learn to speak good English, pls! Read after me: "TO list them will be A waste of time."
作者(Author)：痛打落水狗狗 - 2004/01/04 00:48:19
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First, you are not stupid. Second, you couldn't be a kid.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 08:29:10
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You must be an aged woman of average intelligence and looking, hypocritical and apt to cheating, making up clumsy stories to hook up kind-hearted people.
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I take that as a compliment. Indeed, all of my friends are kind-hearted.
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/02 08:49:23
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Your frivolous response is a real disappointment for those who hope to see you mend your way.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 09:04:36
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As you continue to cheat and "gain" on this virtual forum, you losing history in real life will persist.
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By the way, if you want me to be honest, you made a grammar mistake: it should be "apt to cheat".
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/02 08:57:47
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Yup, that's a mistake. But that still makes perfect sense since...
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 09:24:46
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"cheating" can be considered a noun.
And grammatical might be slightly better than "grammar mistake". More importantly, it's really awkward to say "if you want me to be honest, you made ...", which lacks of consistency and logic between the two parts of the sentence. I would recommend "if you want me to be honest, I must tell you that you've made ..." When "me" is followed by the same "I", the topic flows much freer and more consistently.
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Ok, thanks. But how do you explain "which lacks of..."?Another mistake that makes perfect sense???
作者(Author)：潇潇 - 2004/01/02 18:57:45
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But I don't see any problem in that. The "mistake" must be with either your eyesight or brain volume.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 22:04:22
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I think Xiaoxiao is right.
作者(Author)：format2003 - 2004/01/02 22:25:41
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You can say "to lack sth", "to lack for sth.", "to lack in sth" or "a lack of sth", but I'm not sure that you can say "to lack of sth".
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You are not sure because you are as shitty! See results inside:
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/02 22:53:41
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emini simulated trading
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ESPN.com Soccernet Column by Dom Raynor: Japanese star wants to ...
... Following the friendly match Japan's French coach Philippe Troussier said: 'Obviously there is a huge gap between our two
countries. We lack of the physical strength, we lack of the inspiration and basically we lack of the soccer culture.'. ...
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XPT - News
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being supported - the Faux formatting (bold, italic, underline, ...) options for Asian Fonts. ... We lack
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TDN-ee, Sports News Page 2
... Obviously there is a huge gap between our two countries", said Troussier. "We lack of the physical
strength, we lack of the inspiration and basically we lack of the soccer culture.". "It was blatant
tonight the only player capable to match the French was (Hidetoshi) Nakata. ...
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means we all should donate as one organization to ICANN, not from individual country. ...
So just format 2003 is not enough, format the whole life you have squandered and drifted through, reincarnate yourself and start all over again. Hope this time you fare better.
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Learn to respect yourself, gg.
作者(Author)：Format2003 - 2004/01/02 23:38:39
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I've seen hundreds of hits with Google and that's why I said I wasn't sure.
I'm also not sure that you can use Google to prove some usage is correct. Every combination of wrong usage can be found on the net and that doesn't automatically make the wrong usage correct.
Show me a quotation from a credible native write and I'll be convinced.
By the way, why are you so pissed off when you see a pretty intelligent girl who also writes beautifully both in Chinese and English? Did you have any bad experiences in 2003 that makes you so misogynistic?
I won't bother to poke fun at your name here, gg, because the name itself is just so bloody obvious to any Chinese. I just don't understand why someone would like to have a name that is a blatent insult to himself. Learn to respect yourself, then you can learn to respect others.
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You deserve no respect!
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 03:58:06
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I was born able to respect myself and others as long as they are others, a group you precisely fall outside.
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Jealous craps tend to fight losing battles one after another, poor thing.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 10:45:13
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Cornered rat like you always lose all ground at one time.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 10:56:19
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Diagnosis for you: Bury your head in shit twice a day.
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U'r so deranged that u confused "diagnosis" with "recipe"
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 11:30:38
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Diagnosis for you: dementia praecox, with depressive, obsessive-compulsive disorder
Recipe for you: a small talk with your mom per night
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Last ditch help to the unspeakably demented creature.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 23:08:35
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Diagnosis for you: paranoid schizophrenia
No cure available.
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Not too late a correction for yrself.@)@
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 23:23:09
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That shows your passive response to treatment. I'm not claiming credit yet, but I'll continue to try my best.@)@
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It seems that your only forte is in darting smears.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 23:45:51
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Your longtime wooden head gets so quick-responsed when it comes to spewing feces. No wonder that this post of mine should prompt another round of eruption by your cesspipe-like mouth.
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As ur sympathetic psychiatrist, my only concern is how to get ur positive reponse to my treatment.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/03 23:53:24
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Everybody can see who is doing what, can't he? I'm only trying to help u, baby! @)@
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This eruption is less forceful than expected, carry on, the Cesspipe-Mouth Jerk!
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/04 00:13:29
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As the shit in your head runs out, you will get.
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C the difference between a psychiatrist & his patient?
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/04 00:40:39
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As I said, I've been trying to get you to respond to my therapy, which is aimed at addressing your mental problem while cleaning your mouth as a byproduct.@)@ The primary concern of a psychiatrist is to save his client. Unlike your "shit" and "feces," my diagnosis and recipe only reflected the reality. That's the difference between me, the psychiatrist, and you, my patient. Nothing pleases me so much as to see my patient respond to my therapy. You are assured of my continued efforts to help, baby!
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Just try more and you will feel better.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/04 05:00:26
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Unlike your "shit" and "feces," my diagnosis and recipe only reflected the reality.
Do you mean you've tried my recipe of "shit & feces treatment" and they failed to work positively?
OK,I forgot to tell you that your worsening condition requires a much larger dose. So practise as instructed more times!
You know, sometimes we have to treat dead horse as if they were still alive.
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U r having a relapse after eating ur own word.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/04 11:48:02
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As promised, let me continue to perform my duty as your psychiatrist. But you must respond to my questions as part of the therapy, or esle, you may get worse.
Question #3: Do you rinse out the mouth after eating your own word?
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Glad to hear the self-mockery of the beaten devil.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/05 04:30:02
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So how does it feel to be flattened by the Righteous?
He left you alive not because you deserve a chance to relive, but because you deserve no chance to die a quick death. Introspection will be the whole content of your shameful life ahead.
Piss on you.:))
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Another Urpapa?
作者(Author)：Not sure - 2004/01/05 06:39:55
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This "gg" is even more pathetic than that "urpapa."
作者(Author)：gg's psychiatrist - 2004/01/05 11:17:23
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Look, what a spectacle u've made of urself?
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/05 11:14:14
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Question #4: Somebody was wondering if you were another "urpapa," the notorious guy who has been polluting this forum. What sense can you make out of that? Please answer this question.
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But who can be sure that that Somebody is not "Ur papa" or just not your brother?
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/05 23:02:57
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As a matter of fact, every devil of the same breeding as you excels in nothing but spewing feces.
I know you will make a comeback, But remember, I set it as my unshirkable mission to destroy you and each and every of the same species as you.
Piss on you! Freak!
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At last, "gg" began to respond to my therapeutic questions.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/06 01:44:08
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But an analysis of the kind of language you used has revealed a downturn in your mental condition.
1. The repeated use of words such as "devil," "shit," "feces," and "piss" has revealed that you were overcome by a fit of rage, that your mind was polluted, and that your memory of vocabulary, depleted.
2. You accused others of "spewing feces," but nobody other than you ever used language such as "piss on you," and other delirious exclamations. Using your own contaminated soul as a reference point, you have mistakenly projected your own filthy intentions onto your psychiatrist's sympathetic sensibilities. In effect, you are biting a helping hand as an abnormal person usually does.
3. Your delirium about an "unshirkable mission to destroy you" has revealed your destructive personality which will eventually destroy nobody other than yourself. Poor gg, you can't expect to destroy anyone simply by "pissing" or "spewing feces" on him. And nobody can be "flattened" simply by your own boastful pronouncement. You know, you got to be mentally normal, spiritually strong, intellectually witty, and linguistically superior in order to dwarf, or in your own word, "destroy" your adversary.
Now Question #5: Can you avoid using foul language to prove yourself mentally normal, spiritually strong, intellectually witty, and linguistically superior? Please respond to my question so that I can assess your progress.
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This time you convinced me you are a one hundred percent worthless sluggard.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/06 08:39:20
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When I signed up to check the latest development of your mania syndrome, I wasn’t hoping you have gone so far in your dead-end trip. Your beginning the lengthy complaint with an exclamatory “at last” amused me tremendously. The two words show too clearly what a jitters you’ve suffered waiting for someone to point the finger at you. It’s without any difficulty for me to imagine how you have spent the past hours, duck-seated before the computer, gazing at the screen and refreshing a same page every minute only to check what enlightening words your superior adversary has for you, and in return for what, you are always too ready to launch a renewed round of unscrupulous personal attack so as to satisfy your distorted physical desire.
From now on, I will refrain from using such words as “shame”, “freak” or even “piss” on you, because they serve no good but get you more aroused for further discredited acts.
I could not help wondering how you sustain your worthless life biologically. Even on weekdays you remain idle like an fainéant, poking trouble hear and there. So you really feed yourself with feces? Otherwise what do you do for a living? Or you must be a parasite that eats into others’ wealth. What a wonder of you! Oh,yes, that reminds of me that you are intellecturally silly, mentally dizzy, linguistically wacky, physically shaky and morally murky.
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What a treat, I mean, yr confessions! Good to see yr improvement, though.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/06 11:56:55
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First, please let's savor gg's confessions: "what a jitters you've suffered waiting for someone to point the finger at you. It’s without any difficulty for me to imagine how you have spent the past hours, duck-seated before the computer, gazing at the screen and refreshing a same page every minute only to check what enlightening words your superior adversary has for you, and in return for what, you are always too ready to launch a renewed round of unscrupulous personal attack so as to satisfy your distorted physical desire."
Once again, that has proved my prior assessment of your state of mind: "Using your own contaminated soul as a reference point, you have mistakenly projected your own filthy intentions onto your psychiatrist's sympathetic sensibilities."
While you continued on the course of projecting your own tortured mind onto somebody else, you did show a sign of improvement in the following statement:
〖From now on, I will refrain from using such words as “shame”, “freak” or even “piss” on you, 〗
That shows you're responding to my therapy. But old habits die hard. You see, your compulsive anger seemed to be too strong for you to reign in, as you went on to use such foul language as "feeding yourself with feces," etc.
Well, as your psychiatrist, I won't expect you to turn on a dime anyway. The progress you've made so far in a few therapeutic sessions has been noted. You're beginning to learn new things as well.
First, you confused "diagnosis" with "recipe." But after the first session, you began to distinguish "recipe" from "diagnosis."
Then, you responded to my question #5, having learned to use words in parallel such as "intellectually," "mentally," "linguistically," and what's not. It's not time to claim full credit yet, but I'll remain seized of the case until your complete recovery.
Now Question #6: When can you stop biting the helping hand of your psychiatrist?
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As your condition goes from bad to worse, your chance of recovery becomes slimmer and my confidence in you dwindles.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/07 07:17:52
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What worries me most is you are getting increasingly blithering these days, a sign of your growing addiction to my “Finger-pointing Therapy”. But this is not the ultimate way of addressing your deep-burrowed mental problem. Like the injection of morphine in surgical operations, FPT is intended to divert you from the anguish imposed by your inborn mental deformities. But now your dependence on FPT seems to have multipled, as you hanker for one bitter word after another. And you also suffer from intermittent psychal-quakes, a new development that makes me all the more concerned of you. While your demand for my special care grows minute by minute, my time reserved for you remains a mere 20 minutes a day. As opposite to you, I have so many urgent businesses to attend to everyday.
You didn’t tell me by which means you keep yourself alive last time. Don’t hesitate to make it known to me even it is by plying theft, bluff, or other similar trades that you eke out a living , for every byte of additional information you provide would be of help in my diagnosis of your condition.
If you resolve to continuously haunt this site, do scratch you head and say something new next time.Don't put forward such silly questions as "why not get you more feces for consumption?"
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U're under my control now.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/07 09:56:28
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Why am I so sure that you are not out of control anymore? My judgment is based on the following signs:
1. You have limited the use of foul language to "more feces for consumption," even though you hardly knew what you were talking about. It's so crystal-clear who is "spewing feces."
2. You are copying the method of your psychiatrist, imitating him in every way, showing concern as you never did before, assuming the role as a therapist, borrowing the language and tone that your psychiatrist taught you. As you know, poor gg, if you had me-tooed these methods in dealing with anybody other than your psychiatrist, they could have been very effective. But when you tried them on your own therapist who took the initiative to help you as "ur sympathetic psychiatrist," you were perpetuating your status as an ever-improving patient under his control. As long as you continue under this thread, you'll never expect to get out of his control.
3. You're responding to my therapy in trying to demonstrate your mental health and linguistic proficiency. If you continue to follow my instructions, you'll make ever greater progress.
Now Question #7: Are you convinced that my methods work well?
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Sorry for not being able to give a shit to you yesterday.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/08 18:52:02
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My dear patient,
I am too occupied these days. I promise to drop in and leave you some words sometime during the weekend.
I would neven leave you unattended. :)
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Everybody is busy, but to help u only takes a few seconds.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/08 21:29:13
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I certainly have sympathy for you as you confessed in one of your previous replies how much you've suffered from your own mental problem. Take a break wherever you can. Don't be too harsh on yourself. In view of your condition, you don't need to make any prior appointment for the weekend. Just drop in whenever you have an emergency. No big deal.
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psychiatrist in real life ?
作者(Author)：no wonder - 2004/01/08 23:09:10
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No sweat! It's a great pleasure to counsel my client:-)
作者(Author)：gg's psychiatrist - 2004/01/09 00:05:23
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May we call it a battle!
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/11 00:20:30
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My girlfriend threatened that she will never say a word to me if I continue to engage in aimless exchanging of fiery words with others on line.
So it's time that we called it a battle.
It's really a lot of fun talking to you.
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U may wish to call it whatever u like.
作者(Author)：ur sympathetic psychiatrist - 2004/01/11 13:14:07
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What do they say in Chinese? The one who tied the bell is to untie it. You initiated the attack on Xiaoxiao in the first place, and went on to whip up everybody else who attempted to intervene. I was only trying to help. Now that you seem to have come to senses, that's a welcoming development. Best wishes to you and your girlfriend!
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LDOCE4 says you can't use "to lack of"
作者(Author)：Format2003 - 2004/01/03 00:59:34
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From Longman Dictionay Of Comtemporary English 4th
Usage Note for lack
Do not use the verb lack before 'in' or 'of': We lack ideas (NOT We lack in/of ideas). However, you can use the phrases be lacking in and a lack: We are lacking in ideas OR We have a lack of ideas.
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This just proves my point that you can't use Google to approve your English usage.
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To: Mr. Format2003
作者(Author)：50步 giggles at 100步 - 2004/01/03 01:41:38
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A> You CAN say "to lack sth", "to lack for sth.", "to lack IN sth" or "a lack of sth" ......
B> From Longman Dictionay Of Comtemporary English 4th
Usage Note for lack
Do not use the verb lack before 'IN' or 'of': We lack ideas (NOT We lack in/of ideas). However, you can use the phrases be lacking in and a lack: We are lacking in ideas OR We have a lack of ideas.
Both quoted from ur statement .
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To err is human
作者(Author)：Format2003 - 2004/01/03 02:15:16
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When I wrote the first post with "to lack in", I knew that people normally say "he is lacking in something". But I made the mistake of thinking the word lacking here is a verb.
Anyway, I spoke out because I didn't like gg's behaviour to a young lady. English is not our mother tongue and we all make mistakes.
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Yes, but to err and format is filthy and unforgivable.
作者(Author)：gg - 2004/01/03 03:34:34
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Who is with you to justify your "our", since you are of so rare a species, repulsive and primitive?
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I admit my mistake.
作者(Author)：Format2003 - 2004/01/03 06:05:58
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Can you do the humble thing and say you were wrong as well?
Losing your temper and being abusive won't help you or improve the image of your name.
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Format2003君的涵*B令人*C然起敬, *"'讶艄*, 而且...
作者(Author)：*p桅船 - 2004/01/03 06:45:15
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路*姴黄奖匕蔚断嗑�, 您的女�*�*來一�*會是一位甜�*, *t淑而又多才的女性
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hehe
作者(Author)：39 - 2004/01/03 06:33:12
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绝，真TM绝，我必须声明这个hehe不是我打的！下面的这些回帖我也没参与，真有厉害的人啊！服了！
作者(Author)：39degN - 2004/01/03 08:56:25
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为防止陷害，我把这个笔名也注册了，今后，凡不是落款39degN或者北纬39度的帖子，均与本人无关！
作者(Author)：39degN - 2004/01/03 09:02:29
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Now it's time you learnt! Never say someone or something "lacks of" a quality.
作者(Author)：Last Hermit - 2004/01/03 09:40:32
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lack
Lack is used as a noun or a verb.
used as a noun
If there is a lack of something, there is not enough of it, or it does not exist at all.
I hated the lack of privacy in the dormitory.
used as a verb
If someone or something lacks a quality, they do not have it.
...the child who lacks self-confidence.
Their work is repetitive and lacks variety.
Note that you do not say that someone or something `lacks of' a quality.
(c) HarperCollins Publishers.
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First, she is not stupid. Second, she is not a kid. But you look more like a kid,
作者(Author)：Last Hermit - 2004/01/03 09:30:48
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unable to see that she is a young girl that most of us can tell from her writings.
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