英文學習stoic, Stoicism, portico, porch, intersperse, Chicagoans brave. 《鴻/野天鵝》The story of Ms. Chang’s stoic mother holding the family together張女士堅忍的母親如何支撐著整個家庭，

英文學習stoic, Stoicism, portico, porch, intersperse, Chicagoans brave. 《鴻/野天鵝》The story of Ms. Chang’s stoic mother holding the family together張女士堅忍的母親如何支撐著整個家庭，

夏德鴻，94歲，逝世；在中國遭受迫害，她在女兒的回憶錄中扮演重要角色

1991年暢銷回憶錄《野天鵝》講述了一位堅忍的母親在毛澤東政權的酷刑和監禁中，如何將家人維繫在一起的故事。

Xia De-hong, 94, Dies; Persecuted in China, She Starred in Daughter’s Memoir

“Wild Swans,” a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.

《鴻/野天鵝》講述的是張女士堅忍的母親如何支撐著整個家庭，同時為她的丈夫——一位在毛澤東政權時期遭受酷刑和監禁的官員——而奮鬥的故事。這部紀錄片取材自張女士在1988年夏女士到倫敦探望她時所做的數小時錄音。

The story of Ms. Chang’s stoic mother holding the family together while battling on behalf of her husband, a functionary who was tortured and imprisoned during Mao’s regime, was the focus of “Wild Swans,” which emerged out of hours of recordings that Ms. Chang made when Ms. Xia visited her in London in 1988.

這本書接下來寫到張的母親（薛寶琴/夏德鴻）的故事，他在十五歲時開始為中國共產黨和毛澤東的紅軍工作。 革命發展的過程中，她為黨提供的工作使得得以晉升。她遇到了將成為張的父親（王愚/守宇）的高級軍官。他們很快就結婚了，但共產黨的指令要求他們不能在一起度過很長時間。 最後，這對夫婦被轉移到張的父親的家鄉宜賓。 這是一場漫長而艱苦的跋涉。

張的母親因為她的等級而徒步行走，而她的父親乘坐吉普車。 他不知道張的母親當時懷孕了。抵達南京後，張的母親進行了艱苦的軍事訓練。長途的跋涉和艱苦的訓練使她流產。張的父親發誓再也不會疏忽妻子。

在接下來的幾年裡，她生下了張戎和另外四個孩子。這本書接下來轉移到了張自己的故事上。

True or False? Hillary Clinton, a Native Chicagoan, Is a Cubs Fan

By JONATHAN MAHLER

A photograph posted on Twitter on Saturday night showed Mrs. Clinton, mouth agape in astonishment, as she watched the Cubs clinch a World Series berth. Some, though, question her loyalty to the team.

Polar Chicago
Stoic Chicagoans brave negative 38-degree wind chill for work and for leisure.


A Guide to the Good Life
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

 Last Stand in Abbottabad: New Details on Osama bin Laden's Hideout
By Nate Rawlings
With its porticoed white villas interspersed with small shops selling fruits and vegetables, it is certainly a pleasant place to live.




Amid Chaos, Israelis Take a Stoic View

By JODI RUDOREN

In conversations this week, many people said this summer had spawned an "I-told-you-so" sensibility among Israelis, who had been far more skeptical than Americans and Europeans about the Arab Spring.

 portico

• 発音記号[pɔ'ːrtikòu]

[名]（複 〜es, 〜s）ポルチコ, 前廊：柱で支えられた屋根つきの玄関［ポーチ］.
 (pôr'tĭ-kō', pōr'-)
n., pl., -coes, or -cos.
A porch or walkway with a roof supported by columns, often leading to the entrance of a building.

[Italian, from Latin porticus, from porta, gate.]

porticoed por'ti·coed' adj.

stoic


n.

1. One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.
2. Stoic A member of an originally Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno about 308 B.C., believing that God determined everything for the best and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Its later Roman form advocated the calm acceptance of all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order.

adj. also sto·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)

1. Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive: "stoic resignation in the face of hunger" (John F. Kennedy).
2. Stoic Of or relating to the Stoics or their philosophy.

[Middle English Stoic, a Stoic, from Latin Stōicus, from Greek Stōikos, from stoā (poikilē), (Painted) Porch, where Zeno taught.]

stoically sto'i·cal·ly adv.
stoicalness sto'i·cal·ness n.

[形]

1 克己の, 禁欲の, 平然とした, 冷静な.

2 ((S-))ストア哲学者の.

stoic

Pronunciation: /ˈstəʊɪk/

Translate stoic | into Italian
noun

• 1 a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

• 2 (Stoic) a member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism.

adjective

• 1 another term for stoical.a look of stoic resignation

• 2 (Stoic) of or belonging to the Stoics or their school of philosophy: the Stoic philosophers Seneca preached Stoic abstinence

Origin:

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek stōïkos, from stoa (with reference to Zeno's teaching in the Stoa Poikilē or Painted Porch, at Athens)

Yale University Press

One of the greatest mysteries of human life is that we are a problem for ourselves. Stoicism was a historically deep tradition that claimed it had the resources to address the problems of human life.

What is Stoicism? | Yale Press Log

C. Kavin Rowe looks at the basic principles of stoicism and its historical context.

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Thomas H. C. Lee

4月17日上午1:44 · 

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

說奧略流（Marcus Aulerius）是偉大的皇帝，這當然有一點問題。但是，毫無疑問的，他是一位偉大的思想家。
他宗信的是斯多葛(Stoicism)的思想。在中文裏，很少人用這個詞來形容個人的品格，但是在日文，ストイック（stoic）很常出現。可是在當代的臺灣，很多人聽到ストイック時，聼不懂是什麽意思。20多年前吧，有一次一個日本回來台灣的作家稱讚李登輝為一個很stoic 的人。當時年輕的記者不知道什麽是ストイック，就問她。結果她解釋了之後，記者就寫說“李登輝的禁欲精神（或可能是人品）是他成就這麽多更革的基礎”。
ストイック：堅持真理，克服物質的欲望，滿足樂觀。