这几天读的都是关于政治题材的文章：法国大选，中国在全球的地位，特朗普一百天，货币操控。在读的过程中，我发现，有些内容是相通的，甚至一些用法会重复出现，不断加深用法，巩固记忆。比如spell可以作为导致，spell out可以作为阐述理解。
阅读的理解不是即时反应，对于我而言拓展相对还好。但今晚进行的口译练习简直要了我的小命。最明显的感觉是，题材不熟悉，表达不了解，听不懂，记录不下来，过度限于细节忽略框架等等问题凸显。英译汉时，能否听懂是一个重大问题，不似阅读，听力完全考察我听取信息的能力，总有种顾此失彼的感觉。又想听懂内容，又想把细节记下来，往往两者都没抓好，口译完全进行不下去。而对于汉译英，最突出的感受是没有理解原文带来的尴尬。文字都听见不代表能理解，而翻译是基于理解的。
对于此，我想：复述，拓展背景，朗读或许会是解药吧。
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I was reading a book these days. And a voice keeps whirling around in my head.
As is our wont, we get up, brush teeth, have a breakfast and start a brand new day which may be still bullshit. Some people get stuck in vicious life circle and whirl around the centre. Though trying hard to escape from it, he found himself in vain. Sometimes, situation may get better, but an ensuing calamity destorys everything just rebuilt. That just got him more pain and despair. Those despair includes the loss of things such as I have to have a stable job, a good husband, a good friend, a good virtue, a good family... What we consider as humiliated or good things is really so? Who defined that? Why do we comply with those hidden rules embedded deep inside in our brain?
Only one thing marks a change— fly up to sky and take a step back to think about the situation.
Society has its own order and classes. Only upper class can make rules and are capable of engraving those rules further down the society. All those rules are made for their own benefits. But one day, a man in lower class discovered the hidden secret and gathered a gang of people with anguish. They came up to overthrow upper class and made themselves build a better society for every one. Did they make it? No. When they jump to the upper class, they made a similar mistake just like former bitten class did, only in a subtle way. To make the society stable, they may inherit some ways as before, and add something else. All those things make the world we live today.
It seems to make no difference by knowing this through reading. But when I see things in a clearer way, I realize not every misfortune befalling on people is completely their fault. Neither is fate. The only thing to do is to remind myself to be wary of being brainwashed and to think logically by asking what it is and why it is like that.
Reading is a way to help do the practice and foster the ability.
