Chapter 78 Study
After a delicious catfish feast, my cousin and sister-in-law took Dongdong back to the dormitory of Tianhua Company. After the third sister checked the test papers and homework of the fourth child, He was furious and took him out to get an education.
Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi began to do the remaining homework.
English composition is much simpler than writing an article.
From a grammatical perspective, English and ancient Chinese are actually quite similar.
For example, "She was woken up by someone shouting outside." Translated in modern Chinese, it means "She was woken up by someone shouting outside."
The order of the words must change.
Not if translated into ancient Chinese.
The arrangement of ancient Chinese can be exactly the same as that of English. "Somebodyshoutingoutside" can be translated as "somebodyshoutingoutside".
The whole sentence can be translated as "the woman wakes up from a certain noise".
Of course, such an expression can easily lead to confusion, so the ancient text needs to be cut off and inverted, emphasizing the part brought out by by first, and finally translated as - "Someone is noisy outside, and the woman wakes up."
These actually belong to the category of comparative grammar, just like Zhou Zhi's translation of "SONOFABITCH" as "dog day" and "BUCKUP" as "Xiongqi", which belong to his special sensitivity to language.
So for Zhou Zhi, who is proficient in ancient Chinese grammar, modern English grammar is really not difficult at all.
The rest is vocabulary.
English composition is actually a test of these. If you express clearly with ordinary grammar, you will pass; if you can flexibly use various grammars, complex participle structures, and sentence structures, you will get high scores.
If there were a few more "idioms" and "proverbs", even if He Xiu wanted to deduct Zhou Zhi's points, he would not be able to find a reason.
For example, "Nocross, nocrown", without the cross, there is no crown, which actually means "How can you see a rainbow without going through wind and rain".
For example, "When the catisaway, they will play.", that is "There are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is the king."
And these proverbs are often wonderful uses of English grammar, so Zhou Zhi now has a book in his hand He mainly memorized the "Encyclopedia of English Proverbs" he had collected from Miss Wei Yi.
It is interesting and easy to remember; it can get bonus points for both grammar usage and content.
This is like "The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling, and the birds are saying morning, morning, morning." Suddenly, a piece of "The wind is sunny, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant." He Xiu was almost flashed when he saw it for the first time. Blinded.
The Chinese composition is even more ready-made. By breaking down "About Conscience" into three layers of "What is knowledge, what is conscience, and what leads to conscience", one article can be completed.
These have been explained very clearly in Yangming’s Theory of Mind, so just take them out and organize them in your own language.
Of course this is a weekend essay. For the college entrance examination, we have to draw out the Western social philosophy and make a horizontal comparison, and then do an analysis of the universality of "good and evil". It must be emphasized that "good and evil" here are concepts within the broadest scope of a society's cognition, and do not refer to individuals alone.
If there is only one person in the world, then there is no distinction between "good and evil" for this person, and there is no concept of "conscience". Only in this way can your article be unbreakable.
Yangming's theory of mind is still very partial nowadays, so although Zhou Zhi's articles are mostly "narrating the ancient times", in Jiang Shuyi's view, they are very "new".
Looking at what he had written again, Jiang Shuyi frowned: "I failed in my writing."
In Zhou Zhi's opinion, Jiang Shuyi actually wrote well, at least he didn't write it right away. How to defend conscience is actually a serious deviation from the topic. Instead, I start from my own analysis and understanding of the concept of "conscience", first create a definition of "conscience", and then demonstrate it.
Although the knowledge is not great, at least the path is right.
“I think your writing is quite good. What Teacher Xu said about ‘meaningful’ has been achieved.”
"But I still can't compare with yours."
"I just picked up the wisdom of my predecessors, not worth mentioning."
Finally, there is still mathematics, which is for girls. Jiang Shuyi's spatial thinking ability is slightly poor. When encountering questions like vectors, Jiang Shuyi cannot turn them into a mechanical analysis diagram in his mind, so he will encounter some difficulties.
After Zhou Zhi finished his special test questions, he helped Jiang Shuyi draw pictures on the draft paper to consolidate.
Vector is actually a mathematical model of mechanical analysis. After explaining this clearly to Jiang Shuyi, Jiang Shuyi suddenly had an idea, and the next step would be easier.
In the evening, the maid stayed with Jiang Shuyi to have a meal of fish noodle soup, and they also watched the news broadcast together.
In international news, the Gulf War ended quickly and in a devastating way, and the US military has begun to withdraw its 540,000 troops from the Persian Gulf.
The high-tech warfare style of multinational forces has also completely subverted the Chinese people's understanding of war.
The strategic projection capability of being able to deploy a brigade within ninety-six hours, a division within one hundred and twenty hours, and five divisions of combat troops within thirty days to any region of the world will undoubtedly The power of unipolar power is undoubtedly demonstrated.
The 1.2 million "traditionally powerful" Republican Guards were wiped out with little effective resistance, which brought deep shock and worry to the whole world.
As for China's once-powerful neighbor, Pasteur's new thinking, apart from winning itself a Nobel Peace Prize, has had no effect on the country's revitalization. But apart from adding trouble to Zhou Zhi and Jiang Shuyi's political and current affairs test questions, these seemed to have little impact on them.
Zhou Zhi helped Jiang Shuyi carry her schoolbag. On the way to send Jiang Shuyi back, the two made an appointment to preview tonight and tomorrow morning, so that Jiang Shuyi could spend time with her parents. .
When he arrived at the door of Jiang Shuyi's house, Zhou Zhi took off his schoolbag and handed it to her: "You must be tired today, right? Shuyi, go to bed early. I will send you pig cake tomorrow."
Jiang Shuyi took the schoolbag and hugged it: "Thank you for your thoughtfulness. I am very happy today."
When Zhou Zhi returned to his eldest wife's house, he came to the window and looked towards Jiang Shuyi's house. Sure enough, he saw Jiang Shuyi still waiting there. Zhou Zhi popped up and waved goodbye to him before walking into the room.
Zhou Zhi also left the window, sat down at the round table, and started the night study mode with the third sister and the fourth sister.
The fourth child was very happy this morning, but in the afternoon he was seriously injured, the kind that even a fish with fat intestines and lumps could not save.
The third sister dug out all the homework for the week and re-do all the wrong questions this week. The amount was several times that of the weekend homework!
On the other hand, the third sister was studying her own mathematics, physics and chemistry, supervising her younger brother at close range, not even giving him a chance to be lazy.
Zhou Zhi watched "The Godfather" with ease.
It’s a pity that the question bank and the champion notes arrived too late, and the remaining few months are obviously not enough.
And the thoughtful learning methods are not suitable for the third sister. For example, the double-sided mathematical formula paper, the top students took it out and tested each other during the class walk, which is a simple consolidation.
And every time the bad students learn it, they will think it is brand new knowledge and have to start from scratch to memorize it.
Because I memorized it during the last class, I have almost forgotten it again during this class.
Zhou Zhi couldn't help the third sister solve this problem. He could only help the third sister and all his classmates solve the problems in ancient Chinese, that is, to understand it thoroughly and recite it easily.
For example, "Red Cliff Ode" and "Pipa Xing", when you understand the author's creative ideas under the words, there will be a meridian; after figuring out the meaning of the words, that is, the pearls pierced by the meridian, the ancient prose compares Modern literature is a hundred times easier to memorize.
Because it is supported by phonological aesthetics, which is what the saying goes: "catchy".
After you have a thorough understanding, you don’t actually need to memorize it. You just need to read it once in the morning and once in the evening. After a week, you will naturally remember it.
When reading, you should pay attention to the method. Still taking "Red Cliff Ode" as an example, it should be read as "Renxu - autumn, July - both hope, Su Zi - with guests - boating, traveling Under——Red Cliff..."
This is actually the reading method used in private schools. One advantage is that it can clarify the section questions that are often encountered in the exam.
Through this method, a "sense of language" will naturally be formed, and when encountering unfamiliar paragraphs, they can be divided into subtle categories.
Also, try to inspire thinking, such as this sentence in the lesson "Selected Excerpts of the Analects of Confucius".
"Zi Xia said: 'Educate and be determined, ask questions and think closely, benevolence is in it.'"
The translation is: "Zi Xia said, read a lot of books and study extensively. , and being able to stick to your ambitions, ask questions sincerely, and think more about the current affairs, this is where benevolence lies. ”
The learning content required by the school ends here.
Seeing that the friends around him all memorized everything by heart, Zhou Zhi asked them a question: "Why did Zixia say that? Why can you get 'benevolence' as long as you are knowledgeable, diligent and thoughtful?" Where is the inevitable logical relationship between them? "
Mu Ruyun, Jiang Shuyi, and Zhang Xinyi were all stunned by this question.
It can even be said that almost all students in the high school of Jiachuan Middle School can memorize and translate this sentence, but there are very few or almost no students who truly understand this sentence.
Such an excerpt requires only memorization and translation but no understanding. Even if it is memorized by heart, of what use is it?
Zhou Zhi doesn't have the time and energy to influence most people, so he can only share his personal understanding of this sentence with his friends around him.
"The Book of Rites·The Doctrine of the Mean": "A benevolent person is a person who is close to others."
"The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan": "Fan Chi asked about benevolence. The Confucius said: 'Love people.'"< br>
"Liu Shu Zheng Zheng": "Yuan, Cong Er Cong People. Benevolence comes from people. In heaven, benevolence is the essence of all things. "
So let’s first grasp the definition of "benevolence" and follow people from two. That is, he cares about his own heart, compares his heart to his own heart, and does not do to others what he does not want others to do to him.
It is very difficult to do it, but Confucianism also provides a solution, and the difficulty is suddenly reduced.
The first step is to treat one's own parents and brothers, which is called "first filial piety"; later it is extended to teachers and friends, which is called "secondary sincerity".
This is actually observation, practice, and methodology.
(End of this chapter)