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Issue 667 11 August 2010
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Quotes
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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
- Oscar Levant
Genius may have its limitations[0], but stupidity is not thus
handicapped[1].
- Elbert Hubbard
Enjoy when you can, and endure[2] when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the
probable[3], and the logical.
- John Steinbeck
An intellectual[4] is a person who has discovered something more
interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
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A Joke
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***The Child Psychologist
The parents of a little boy were concerned[5] because they couldn't
get him to eat. After a couple of days of this, the frantic[6] parents
took the boy to a child psychologist.
After hearing the story, the psychologist sent the parents away so he
could work his magic on the kid. He tried tempting[7] the boy with a
wide variety of foods and treats[8], but the boy refused to
eat. Finally in exasperation[9], the psychologist asked the boy, "Well
what do you want to eat?"
The boy, sitting defiantly[10] with his arms crossed, thinks a moment,
then says in a surly[11] voice, "Worms[12]!"
Intent[13] on not being beaten, the child psychologist calmly reaches
over to the intercom and instructs his secretary to go out and buy
some worms. In short order the boy was presented with a heaping[14]
plate of worms.
Arms still crossed, the boy demanded[15], "I want them fried!" The
secretary was sent out again, and eventually returned with a heaping
plate of fried worms.
"I only want one!" the boy demanded. The psychologist calmly pushed
aside all of the worms but one.
"You have to eat half!" the boy demanded. After a moment's pause, the
psychologist cuts the worm in half, grabs a piece with a flourish[16],
and pops it into his mouth.
Immediately the boy started to cry.
"What's wrong now?" demanded the exasperated psychologist.
Between sobs[17], the kid yells: "You ate my half!"
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Vocabulary
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[ 0] things that he cannot do
[ 1] does not have this disadvantage
[ 2] to show tolerance towards, to suffer hardships
[ 3] likely (to happen)
[ 4] a person who enjoys mental activity and has highly developed
tastes in art, literature, etc.
[ 5] worried
[ 6] very excited, very frustrated
[ 7] try to wake his interest with
[ 8] some food that is usually considered very tasty by everyone
[ 9] anger, frustrated annoyance
[10] bravely resisting, looking down at his attempts
[11] arrogant, hurt, irritable
[12] a long boneless animal people use as a fishing bait
[13] wanting
[14] a huge amount
[15] asked
[16] with showy gesture
[17] between two gasp of crying
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Translation
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Megjegyzem a neved, utána eldobom a fejem.
- Oscar Levant
A zsenialitásnak lehetnek korlátai, de a butaság nem szenved ilyen
hátrányoktól.
- Elbert Hubbard
Élvezd amikor teheted, szenvedd el, amikor muszáj.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ismerek három dolgot, amit soha nem fognak elhinni --- az igazat, a
valószínűt, és a logikust.
- John Steinbeck
Az értelmiségi olyan személy, aki valami olyat fedezett fel, ami
érdekesebb, mint a szex.
- Aldous Huxley
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Vicc
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***A gyerekpszichológus
A kisfiú szülei aggódtak, mert nem tudták evésre bírni. Pár nap
elmúltával a kétségbeesett szülők elvitték a gyereket a
gyerekpszichológushoz.
Miután meghallgatta a történetüket, a pszichológus elküldte a
szülőket, hogy jobban tudjon hatni a gyerekre. Megpróbálta mindenféle
étellel és nyalánksággal evésre bírni, de a fiú elutasította az
evést. Végül, elkeseredettségében a pszichológus megkérdezte a fiút,
"Nos, mit akarsz enni?"
A fiú, aki dacosan üldögélt keresztbe font karokkal, elgondolkodott
egy pillanatig, aztán így szólt mogorva hangon, "Kukacokat!"
Nagyon nem akarván alul maradni, a gyerekpszichológus nyugodtan a
távbeszélőhöz nyúlt és utasította a titkárnőjét, hogy menjen és vegyen
kukacokat. Rövidesen a fiú előtt tornyosult egy kupac kukac tányéron.
Még mindig összefont karokkal, a fiú a tovább követelőzött, "Sütve
kérem őket!" A titkárnő ki lett küldve, és végül visszatért a kupac
sült kukaccal.
"Csak egyet akarok!" folytatta a fiú. A pszichológus nagy
nyugodtsággal egy kivételével félre tolta a többi kukacot.
"Az egyik felét meg kell enned!" hangzott a fiú következő igénye. Egy
pillanatnyi megrőkönyödés után, a pszichológus ketté vágta a kukacot,
elegáns mozdulattal megragadta az egyik darabot és bekapta.
A fiú azonnal elkezdett sírni.
"Mi a baj?' érdeklődött a felbőszült pszichológus.
Két hüppögés között, a kiskölök így kiáltott: "Az én felemet etted meg!"
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Vocabulary Extra
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endure v. en•dured, en•dur•ing, en•dures
v.tr.
1. To carry on through, despite hardships; undergo: endure an
Arctic winter.
2. To bear with tolerance: "We seek the truth, and will endure
the consequences" (Charles Seymour). A synonym of bear.
v.intr.
1. To continue in existence; last: buildings that have endured
for centuries.
2. To suffer patiently without yielding.
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Quotations from Literature
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He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed
well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as
twice-baked biscuit.
- Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman
"And so," he concluded, in a swift resume, "no state composed of the
slave-types can endure.
- Martin Eden by London, Jack
Ye cannot endure it with yourselves, and do not love yourselves
sufficiently: so ye seek to mislead your neighbour into love, and
would fain gild yourselves with his error.
Would that ye could not endure it with any kind of near ones, or their
neighbours; then would ye have to create your friend and his
overflowing heart out of yourselves.
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
by Nietzsche, Friedrich
The position was one of misery for all three; and not one of them
would have been equal to enduring this position for a single day, if
it had not been for the expectation that it would change, that it was
merely a temporary painful ordeal which would pass over. Alexey
Alexandrovitch hoped that this passion would pass, as everything does
pass, that everyone would forget about it, and his name would remain
unsullied. Anna, on whom the position depended, and for whom it was
more miserable than for anyone, endured it because she not merely
hoped, but firmly believed, that it would all very soon be settled and
come right. She had not the least idea what would settle the position,
but she firmly believed that something would very soon turn up
now. Vronsky, against his own will or wishes, followed her lead, hoped
too that something, apart from his own action, would be sure to solve
all difficulties.
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
The Two Physicians
A WICKED Old Man finding himself ill sent for a Physician, who
prescribed for him and went away. Then the Wicked Old Man sent for
another Physician, saying nothing of the first, and an entirely
different treatment was ordered. This continued for some weeks, the
physicians visiting him on alternate days and treating him for two
different disorders, with constantly enlarging doses of medicine and
more and more rigorous nursing. But one day they accidently met at his
bedside while he slept, and the truth coming out a violent quarrel
ensued.
"My good friends," said the patient, awakened by the noise of the
dispute, and apprehending the cause of it, "pray be more
reasonable. If I could for weeks endure you both, can you not for a
little while endure each other? I have been well for ten days, but
have remained in bed in the hope of gaining by repose the strength
that would justify me in taking your medicines. So far I have touched
none of it."
- Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose
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Etymology
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late 14c., from O.Fr. endurer, from L. indurare "make hard," in
L.L. "harden (the heart) against," from in- "in" + durare "to harden,"
from durus "hard," from PIE *deru- "be firm, solid." Replaced the
important O.E. verb dreogan (pt. dreag, pp. drogen), which survives in
dial. dree. Related: Endured; endures.
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