這幾天讀的都是關于政治題材的文章：法國大選，中國在全球的地位，特朗普一百天，貨幣操控。在讀的過程中，我發現，有些內容是相通的，甚至一些用法會重復出現，不斷加深用法，鞏固記憶。比如spell可以作為導致，spell out可以作為闡述理解。
閱讀的理解不是即時反應，對于我而言拓展相對還好。但今晚進行的口譯練習簡直要了我的小命。最明顯的感覺是，題材不熟悉，表達不了解，聽不懂，記錄不下來，過度限于細節忽略框架等等問題凸顯。英譯漢時，能否聽懂是一個重大問題，不似閱讀，聽力完全考察我聽取信息的能力，總有種顧此失彼的感覺。又想聽懂內容，又想把細節記下來，往往兩者都沒抓好，口譯完全進行不下去。而對于漢譯英，最突出的感受是沒有理解原文帶來的尷尬。文字都聽見不代表能理解，而翻譯是基于理解的。
對于此，我想：復述，拓展背景，朗讀或許會是解藥吧。
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I was reading a book these days. And a voice keeps whirling around in my head.
As is our wont, we get up, brush teeth, have a breakfast and start a brand new day which may be still bullshit. Some people get stuck in vicious life circle and whirl around the centre. Though trying hard to escape from it, he found himself in vain. Sometimes, situation may get better, but an ensuing calamity destorys everything just rebuilt. That just got him more pain and despair. Those despair includes the loss of things such as I have to have a stable job, a good husband, a good friend, a good virtue, a good family... What we consider as humiliated or good things is really so? Who defined that? Why do we comply with those hidden rules embedded deep inside in our brain?
Only one thing marks a change— fly up to sky and take a step back to think about the situation.
Society has its own order and classes. Only upper class can make rules and are capable of engraving those rules further down the society. All those rules are made for their own benefits. But one day, a man in lower class discovered the hidden secret and gathered a gang of people with anguish. They came up to overthrow upper class and made themselves build a better society for every one. Did they make it? No. When they jump to the upper class, they made a similar mistake just like former bitten class did, only in a subtle way. To make the society stable, they may inherit some ways as before, and add something else. All those things make the world we live today.
It seems to make no difference by knowing this through reading. But when I see things in a clearer way, I realize not every misfortune befalling on people is completely their fault. Neither is fate. The only thing to do is to remind myself to be wary of being brainwashed and to think logically by asking what it is and why it is like that.
Reading is a way to help do the practice and foster the ability.
