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Issue 652 24 February 2010
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Quotes
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It's all right letting yourself go[1] as long as you can let yourself
back.
- Mick Jagger
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his
mouth.
- Carl Sandburg
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings[2], and that which we
take the least care of all to acquire[3].
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A good rule of thumb[4] is if you've made it to thirty-five and your
job still requires you to wear a name tag[5], you've made a serious
vocational error[6].
- Dennis Miller
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A Joke
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***Stress Management
Just in case you are having a rough day[7], here is a stress
management technique that actually works -- and doesn't rely on
habit-forming drugs[8].
Ready to give it a try? Just follow these simple steps:
1. Take a deep breath.
2. Picture yourself near a stream[9].
3. Hear the birds softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
4. Recall[10] that no one knows your secret place.
5. You are in total seclusion[11] from the hectic place called the
world.
6. The soothing[12] sound of a gentle waterfall in the distance fills
the air with a cascade of serenity[13].
7. The water is crystal clear.
8. You can easily make out[14] the face of the person you are holding
underwater.
See? You're smiling already.
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Vocabulary
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[ 1] let oneself go
a. to become less constrained; to get excited and have a good
time.
b. to let one's appearance and health suffer
[ 2] something that helps you be or remain happy
[ 3] get
[ 4] rule of thumb: a general principle/rule that you have to apply
more cleverly than strictly in different situations
[ 5] a name tag: a tag showing the name of the person who wears it
tag: A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to
something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or
label
[ 6] you made a mistake when chosing your job/vocation
[ 7] hard day
[ 8] capable of leading to physiological or psychological dependence;
you can get addicted to it
[ 9] A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or
small river.
[10] remember
[11] far away from anybody or any place where people are
[12] making you calm and peaceful
[13] having a calming and relaxing effect
[14] see and recognise
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Translation
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Nem baj ha elengeded magad, amennyiben vissza is tudsz jönni.
- Mick Jagger
Nem fogom annak a személynek a vallásosságát elfogadni, aki soha nem
dolgozik, csak a szájával.
- Carl Sandburg
Az igaz barát a legnagyobb áldás, és mégis ilyenek szerzésére
fordítjuk a legkevesebb gondot.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Jó általános elvként megfogalmazhatjuk, hogy ha megérted a 35 éves
kort és még mindig ruhádra tűzve kell hordanod a nevedet a
munkahelyeden, akkor alaposan pályát tévesztettél.
- Dennis Miller
***Feszültség kezelés
Arra az esetre, ha rázós napod lenne, itt egy feszültségkezelő
technika, amely ténylegesen működik is --- és nem támaszkodik
függőséget okozó szerekre.
Készen állsz egy próbára? Egyszerűen csak kövesd ezeket az egyszerű
lépéseket:
1. Vegyél mély lélegzetet.
2. Képzeld el magad egy patak partján.
3. Halljad a madarak halk csivitelését a hűvös hegyvidéki levegőn.
4. Emlékezz rá, hogy senki nem ismeri ezt a titkos helyet.
5. Teljes elszigeteltségben vagy a világnak nevezett lázas
tevékenységektől hangos helytől.
6. A távolban lágyan csobogó vízesés nyugtató hangja a levegőt
békesség hullámaival tölti el.
7. A víz kristály tiszta.
8. Könnyen ki tudod venni az arcát annak a személynek, akit a víz alá
nyomva tartasz.
Látod? Máris mosolyogsz.
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Vocabulary Extra
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tag n.
1. A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to
something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify,
or label: sale tags on all coats and dresses.
2. The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.
3. The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.
4. (Sports) A bright piece of feather, floss, or tinsel
surrounding the shank of the hook on a fishing fly.
5.
a. A dirty, matted lock of wool.
b. A loose lock of hair.
6. A rag; a tatter.
7. A small, loose fragment: I heard only tags and snippets of
what was being said.
8. An ornamental flourish, especially at the end of a signature.
9. A designation or an epithet, especially an unwelcome one:
He did not take kindly to the tag of pauper.
10.
a. A brief quotation used in a discourse to give it an air
of erudition or authority: Shakespearean tags.
b. A cliché, saw, or similar short, conventional idea used
to embellish a discourse: These tags of wit and wisdom
bore me.
c. The refrain or last lines of a song or poem.
d. The closing lines of a speech in a play; a cue.
11. (Computer Science)
a. A label assigned to identify data in memory.
b. A sequence of characters in a markup language used to
provide information, such as formatting specifications,
about a document.
12. (Slang) A graffito featuring a word or words, especially
the author's name, rather than a picture: "Instead of a
cursive linear tag, Super Kool painted his name along the
exterior of a subway car in huge block pink and yellow
letters" (Eric Scigliano).
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Quotations from Literature
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He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his
Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac
lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two
highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire
from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he
himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate
or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the
subject.
- Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas
Next morning we bade good-bye, and went our several ways. As we
parted, he handed me a letter which I was not to open till I was well
on my journey. We waved good-bye to each other till the turnings of
the road made parting final, and then, sitting down by the roadside, I
opened the letter. It proved to be not a letter, but a poem, which he
had evidently written after I had left him for bed. It was entitled,
with twenty's love for a tag of Latin, Ad Puellam Auream, and it ran
thus:--
The Golden Girl in every place
Hides and reveals her lovely face;
Her neither skill nor strength may find--
T is only loving moves her mind.
If but a pretty face you seek,
You'll find one any day or week;
But if you look with deeper eyes,
And seek her lovely, pure, and wise,
Then must you wear the pilgrim's shoon
For many a weary, wandering moon.
- The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard
In writhing, with her head on the chair, she turned her face towards
the door, and Mrs Brooks could see the pain upon it; and that her lips
were bleeding from the clench of her teeth upon them, and that the
long lashes of her closed eyes stuck in wet tags to her cheeks.
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas
He slunk forlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the
rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.
- White Fang by London, Jack
They called me Teresa at my baptism, a plain, simple name, without any
additions or tags or fringes of Dons or Donas; Cascajo was my father's
name, and as I am your wife, I am called Teresa Panza, though by right
I ought to he called Teresa Cascajo; but 'kings go where laws like,'
and I am content with this name without having the 'Don' put on top of
it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don't want to
make people talk about me when they see me go dressed like a countess
or governor's wife; for they will say at once, 'See what airs the slut
gives herself! Only yesterday she was always spinning flax, and used
to go to mass with the tail of her petticoat over her head instead of
a mantle, and there she goes to-day in a hooped gown with her broaches
and airs, as if we didn't know her!' If God keeps me in my seven
senses, or five, or whatever number I have, I am not going to bring
myself to such a pass; go you, brother, and be a government or an
island man, and swagger as much as you like; for by the soul of my
mother, neither my daughter nor I are going to stir a step from our
village; a respectable woman should have a broken leg and keep at
home; and to he busy at something is a virtuous damsel's holiday; be
off to your adventures along with your Don Quixote, and leave us to
our misadventures, for God will mend them for us according as we
deserve it. I don't know, I'm sure, who fixed the 'Don' to him, what
neither his father nor grandfather ever had."
- Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel
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Etymology
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tag (1)
"small hanging piece," 1402, perhaps from a Scand. source
(cf. Norw. tagg "point, prong," Swed. tagg "prickle, thorn")
cognate with tack(1). Meaning "label" is first recorded 1835;
sense of "automobile license plate" is recorded from 1935,
originally underworld slang. Meaning "an epithet, popular
designation" is recorded from 1961, hence slang verb meaning
"to write graffiti in public places" (1990). The verb meaning
"to furnish with a tag" is from 1436. To tag along is first
recorded 1900.
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