【老帖新开】奋斗的道路没有尽头之*写作练习*

一粒黄豆。

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以下是2018年的新帖内容
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今天是2018年7月22日，时隔大概四五年，我又回来了，一个完成当初梦想却身心俱疲的老人
这个帖子其实是很多年以前我为了二战托福而开的帖子，写每日总结，英文日记，范文赏析之类的。现在我又回来了，最近渐渐意识到自己中文表达能力极度退化，英文表达能力也离native speaker有很大差距。所以想要练习一下中英写作，一方面在中文上能表达的清楚，另一方面英文表达能满足我日常工作需求。
大概介绍一下自己背景，2014年来到美国读会计研究生，2016年毕业在Boston的pwc工作，至今工作两年，做的是core assurance，主要做mutual funds audit，最近刚刚转组，以后将主要审technology clients。意识到自己写作短板，导致平时工作中对自己写的memo，documentation没有信心，决定集中提高一下。考虑了很多平台，自己的微博/blog 吧 有点无聊，只有自己一个人，没人跟我说话；其他陌生的论坛吧，没有归属感；国外的writing forum吧，大部分都是喜欢写作，想要出书，非常serious那种，我这种business writing为主的人羞于发帖。所以最终还是决定回来CD论坛，这个我最初启程的地方。这么多年了，即使完成了当初自己的目标，writing也还是不能停歇。所以说，没有什么是一劳永逸的（大概除了死亡）。在这里，没有太多人会关注哈哈，因为大家都忙着准备考试 申请出国；但是又会有一些关注，比如跟我有缘的人刚好点进我的帖子，而我有限的经历又刚好能帮人解答一些问题，我就可以在每天练习写作之余帮助到别人，which is perfect.

我的目标：每天或者隔天发一些每天阅读的新闻，应该会以wall street journal或者经济学人（看是否需要花钱订阅） 为主，会highlight出我觉得好的用法，词汇。然后有针对性地自己练习写，具体topic还没想好，走一步看一步把！！

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以下是2013年的原贴内容
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今年1月19号跟gmat相爱了，好不容易走在一起，结果惹gmat生气了，正在纠结要不要二战gmat的时候，大家都劝我710够了，先托福吧。
好吧，经过三天的斗争，我决定先托福了。托福这个死小三，如果没有你，我就能继续跟gmat生活下去啊！！！
但是木有办法，谁让我去年一战95呢。。。为了尽快跟gmat相见，我会尽快干掉托福死小三的。
一战 R28 L22 S20 W25

3/26
经过我亲爱的gmat对我的锻炼，以及越毒小分队对我的磨砺，我相信现在阅读不再是重点了。
今天做了一份tpo10的阅读和听力，阅读居然错了9个！！！！尼玛，真是大意失荆州啊！其中两个单词题，一个题没看见except，一个插空题没有好好看原文，一个总结题（这么细节的东西也能叫总结。。真是给托福跪了。。。）
听力不错，只错了4个。

总结
阅读，跟gmat思路不一样，要小心，不能大意。toefl阅读考的不是结构不是作用，而是细节。细节要很小心。妈蛋，破坏我gmat思路哼！！死小三！
听力，还可以，再持续练练吧。
单词又要背起来了。。。。。。。。镇魂单词什么的

另外二战的重点在于口语！！！！口语我一定要上24！！！打破传说中23分不能再多的魔咒！！！
听力阅读保持现在的状态吧，作文多写写，多背背例子段子~~
加油！！！
每天念三遍：我的目标是R30 L28 S24 W28=110！！！！！

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5月31日

出分了 29 28 24 27 =108 虽然没能达到自己的dream score，但是没关系，这个分数我已经挺满意的了~ 至少说明了我的说和写还有很大问题，想要在北美混的好，接下来我得自己练说和写了！ fighting！ 这个帖子完结了，接下来又要开始搞g了~

一粒黄豆。

boycott: 抵制
e.g. Didi suspended its carpooling service, for which the driver in question worked, but that did not stop the calls on Chinese social media for a boycott of the firm.

setback: 倒退
e.g. Its investment is a boost to Uber's self-driving project, which suffered a setback after a fatal collision involving a pedestrian and one of its cars in March.

outlaw: make something illegal
e.g. Missouri became the first state in America to outlaw the description of food products as "meat" unless they are made from animal flesh.

alice8513

哇！！好棒的帖子 楼主一定要坚持下去~能在美国找到四大的工作真的超级棒 羡慕楼主！

一粒黄豆。

Today's The Economist reading----------------------------------
But the pathologies of the Bay Area may not be far behind. [pathology=the science of the causes and effects of diseases,]
The boom shows little sign of abating, meaning that Seattle has only a few years before it contracts a case of full-blown San Francisco. [abate=decrease]
Long a placid, drizzly company town, the place is booming. [what does 'long' mean here?]
Entrepreneurs are flocking there, repelled by the obscene costs of San Francisco. [flock=come together as a cluster; repel=cause something to leave]
Rents have shot up and homelessness is common. [shot up=increase quickly]
The Emerald City would be turned into a gilded fortress. [gilded=something gilded looks like gold; fortress=fort]
The overall costs to society are staggering. [stagger=[size=1.1em]astound or overwhelm, as with shoc]
Its members are keen on public housing but suspicious of unfettered private building, which they see as a handout to developers.[keen=intense or sharp; unfettered=unbound]
They can lead to more mixed districts and placate left-wing critics. [placate=gain the goodwill of]
Developers complain that these fees suffocate all but the most lucrative projects. [suffocate=[size=1.1em]deprive of oxygen]
[size=1.1em]halt construction=stop construction
[size=1.1em]displacement of poorer residens= to move something from its natural environment
tuck tail=夹起尾巴
repeal the tax= take tax law back
progressive=改革派
suburbia=watertown is suburbia of boston
Upsetting the entrenched power structure of cities is an exasperating, thankless task. [entrenched=established firmly; exasperate=annoy]

一粒黄豆。

Today's big news: Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla would like to go Private, which drove the stock price up crazy, and later got probed by SEC.

China is putting Tariffs on $16 billion worth of US good. (I have to say, good job!)

Beijing warned it would match the Trump administration step for step should it move ahead with new tariffs on Chinese imports, as trade data showed the country is shoring up its economy for a long trade conflict with the U.S. [shore up=support]

Its comments came as government data showed imports of resources including coal, crude oil, and iron ore surged in July, driven by infrastructure projects such as rail construction that Beijing is encouraging to wall off the economy from the trade fight. [wall sth off=to separate something with a wall]

Officials at the SEC want to know whether Mr. Musk had a factual basis for tweeting Tuesday that the going-private transaction was all but certain, with only a shareholder vote needed to pull it off, the people said. [all but certain=almost certain]

mmimiyami

一粒黄豆。 发表于 2018-7-29 10:01
今天了解到一个微信号叫‘乱码与英文’，是一个英文老师出于自己爱读‘the economist’的习惯做的一个公众 ...

同意！               

一粒黄豆。

今天了解到一个微信号叫‘乱码与英文’，是一个英文老师出于自己爱读‘the economist’的习惯做的一个公众号，里面有很多关于‘如何阅读经济学人’的干货。今天读了几篇文章，感觉如果能像这个英文老师一样有一个跟自己主业相关，但又不仅限于主业范围的爱好是多么的幸福啊。很想引用几段但是不想侵犯版权，有兴趣的自己去关注吧哈哈。读了一周wsj，感觉事实居多，作为英语阅读练习的话是不错的，但是想要提取信息的话，基本上浏览就够了，没有精读的价值。打算接下来读经济学人，里面有很多带有个人观点的文章，更有趣一点。
By the way, I talked to my manager yesterday about what happened the day before about the 'red sox tickets'. He was really apologetic about it and explained that it was by no means to exclude me. The senior manager who distributed tickets just wanted to give out extra tickets and he chose people he knew because people actually prefer not to go, so it's kinda a pressure to give tickets to people he doesn't know. And other colleagues were terrified because they had to go, and didn't think it as an event that they should be inviting others. [Well, but I do know that NP wanted to go according to his conversation with DK, and by the fact that he told HO about the game] He said that's still not an excuse to make me feel so upset and he's glad that I told him. I also told him that minorities did not get as many opportunities as Americans did in JH team. I gave him a lot of examples, among which are something that happened to me. He was kinda shocked that I, as a high performer, didn't get those opportunities as he thought I would. He told me that Partners and Senior managers had been discussing with him about this but he had no idea how bad this is until I told him. After the talk, he invited me and another colleague to get drinks at a bar. We had a great afternoon, knowing each other better. I'm glad that I spoke up for myself and even I failed to not cry - I would cry every time when I had a difficult conversation with people, which is really awkward, however, I still have to do it even if I would cry in front of people; some conversation just need to take place no matter how. I'm proud of myself for speaking up for minorities, and I hope what I did will somewhat help people in the future and make our firm a better place to work. I know this is not gonna change thing overnight. There will still be intentional or unintentional discrimination over minorities - I guess that just runs in people's blood unless be corrected by education. But at least now I know that I need to speak up when I am not happy about things. Remeber: Crying baby gets the milk!

mmimiyami

一粒黄豆。 发表于 2018-7-27 09:49
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今日份阅读来自WSJ---------------------------------
Amazon.com Inc. ...

加油~

一粒黄豆。

mmimiyami 发表于 2018-7-25 20:57
你好棒！好友秀呀~

哈哈谢谢

一粒黄豆。

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今日份阅读来自WSJ---------------------------------
Amazon.com Inc.'s profit topped $2 billion for the first time, powered by the company's newer services businesses that are ushering the online retail giant into an era of swelling profitability.

No longer is Amazon known for suffering losses or producing razor-thin income by plowing every dollar it makes back into investments. [razor-thin=extremely thin] [plow back=To reinvest a company's earnings into its operations.]
Amazon's blockbuster quarter contrasted with that of Facebook Inc., which late Wednesday signaled that its growth was slowing, sending its stock plunging 19% on Thursday.  [blockbuster=[size=1.1em]an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)] [plunging=falling steeply]
None of that is slowing Amazon, though its quarterly revenue of $52.89 billion did underwhelm Wall Street, coming in a bit below estimates even if up 39%. [underwhelm=fail to impress]
Amazon reported $4.31 billion in revenue from brick-and-mortar stores. [brick-and-mortar=physical store]

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Today is probably the darkest day ever since I joined the company. People around me got tickets for Red Sox, all of them pretending that I wasn't there while I sit right in the middle of them yet nobody said anything. Maybe the senior manager doesn't know me, maybe one of then wanted to speak up for me but don't want to be against the senior manager, or maybe they just assumed that I don't watch red sox since I'm an Asian lady, or they just ignore me like I was invisible. I was so upset, angry and sad, yet nobody said anything to me. I had to tell myself that after all, they are just my colleague. Maybe they are racist, maybe they are mean, maybe they are cold-blood and careless. But after all, those are just people who work with me, they don't live with me, and they don't hang out with me. Instead of asking myself what did I do wrong, or focusing on what did they do or not do to hurt me, I should get closer to people who respect, care, value and support minorities. There are good people and bad people, I can't change bad ones, but I can choose to get closer to good ones. Focus on good people, focus on good things, focus my strengths and build my future upon that.