7. He… was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.
8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising ＄100,000.
The Gucci store did not expect that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.
9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.
From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena.
10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.
Lesson 4: Professions for Women
1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer.
If you want to be musician or painter, you must own a piano or hire
models, and you have to visit or even live in culture centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don’t need all this.
2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.
Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.
3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her.
Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power.
4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in theses respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women.
It was a sensible thing for men to given themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely sever condemnation of such freedom in women.
5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to
be dasher against.
It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body and passions.
6. Even when the path is nominally open—when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant—there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe looming in her way. Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a woman’s progress.
7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men.
(Through fighting against the Angel in the House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominate by men.
Lesson 5: Love Is a Fallacy
1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.
I believe following passing crazes shows a complete lack of sound judgment.
2. One afternoon, ---- appendicitis.
One afternoon, when I went back to my dorm, Petey was lying on his bed. He wore such a depressed look that I came to the conclusion at once that he was suffering from appendicitis.
3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.
My brain, which is as precise as a chemist’s scales, began to work at high speed.
4. She was a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I would not let feelings and emotions get the upper hand of reason or good sense.
5. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.
She was not yet fully developed like pin-up girls but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous. 6. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.
In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This is a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.
7. If you were out of the picture, the field would be open.
If you were no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete for her friendship.
8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
His head turned hack and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked, his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.
9. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.
To teach her to think appeared to be a very big task, and at first I even thought of giving her back to Petey.
10. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. There is a limit to what any human being can bear.