In a series of essays, Eunoians reflect on life, love, and loss. The essays were written in Mandarin, and translated into English. Adversities As the saying goes, “Life isn’t a bed of roses.” Despite having heard this quote many times over, I still cannot help but grumble about my misfortunes in times of adversity. When…
译文 The Empty Dream In the winter months it snows, The lady’s hair, white as willows, as she grows old. The moon is out, but she stays sleepless, In the night that felt endless She dreads the years that follow. From afar, faintly, a flute plays, Lingering in the air, are sounds of sorrow. As…
During graduate study, I took a module titled ‘Designing for learning by creating’ by Karen Brennan. A paragraph in the course syllabus read: I find grades stressful. Too often, I see grades preventing people from taking intellectual risks, discouraging people from being bold, causing people to worry about the least important part of the process.…
If I become rich one day My first instinct isn’t to travel the world I’ll lie on the world’s largest and most comfortable couch Eat, sleep and repeat for a whole year Ever since I heard this song by Chinese Singer Mao Buyi, it has been stuck in my head. On the surface, there seems…
During my internship, I noticed a girl who was not proficient in the Chinese language but was incredibly attentive in the Secondary 3 class I was teaching. Whenever I taught Chinese composition writing, she would copy down all the model sentences incessantly. Afterwards, she would annotate every single new Chinese vocabulary in English. Teachers all…
He would have been more dumbfounded, had he known that she made the decision because of half of a kennel. He finally acceded to her request after three years. Yet, she cowered. She once firmly believed that she would never fall for a married man like him. Yet, firmly, too, she once believed that…
十月海风吹来远方枯木潮落我们用木筏覆住洋流张起亚麻风帆我遇见你一如珊瑚遇见颜色 夜晚覆住海粗布流网鱼虾星辰装入半晌酒瓶点燃做渔火驶向另一片星河 早雾坠落化做晴雪化在目光里只要有眸里的蓝色诗篇 你若问我爱是什么我将回答说是清尘收露是世间万物是大雪覆不住的不变你我 李昊辰 (19-O5)
——论析杜甫《旅夜书怀》中的抒情手法 文/胡思源 旅夜书怀作为杜甫五律中的名篇，可谓是大家之作，充分体现出杜甫的大家风范。这一年的正月，诗人辞去节度使参谋职务，四月，在成都的好友严武死去，身处于如此凄孤无依之境，诗人便决意离蜀东下。因此，这里不是空泛地写景，而是喻景抒情，通过写景展现他的境况和情怀：像江岸细草一样渺小，像孤舟一样寂寞。颔联”星垂平野阔，月涌大江流”写远景，明星低垂，平野辽阔；月随波涌，大江东流。这两句写景雄浑阔大，突出了诗人胸襟与视野。 实际上，诗人写辽阔的平野、浩荡的大江、灿烂的星月，正是为了反衬出他孤苦伶仃言，此诗“通首神完气足，气象万千，可当’雄浑’之品”。此诗为诗人杜甫的生命写照，彼时杜甫已是垂暮之年，又经历好友相继离世，居无定所，仕途坎坷的生活境况，因而苍凉悲慨，哀愁伤感的意绪润于字里行间。诗人在悲从中来，感时忧之时写下此诗，以此抒发心中悲凉感伤之情，其主要表现手法体现于因景生情，情景交融；意象使用，譬拟比托；反问，设问；对比，呼应以及炼字短句等手法。
有句话说：“人生不如意之事，十有八九。”虽说这个道理我也听过，但真的陷入逆境时还是不免抱怨自己的不顺。刚开始学英文时，二十六个字母都背不全，点灯熬油地写作文，写得身心俱疲。不断地查词典，同时感叹着情况的紧迫与困难。可痛苦的同时，我也明白这不顺利是通向进步的必经之路，不去面对我便永远不会将困难征服。顺遂的情况会令我停滞不前，只有逆境才使我继续迈进。 从古到今，人们都面临了大大小小的逆境。有些人不去正视它，便不得上进；有的人经过了逆境的考验，得以成大器。孟子曾说过：“生于忧患，死于安乐。故天将降大任与斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。”如果某人想完成重大的任务，他必要面对逆境，才能振奋他的心志，坚忍他的性情，增加他原本缺少的能力。如果这人一帆风顺不曾陷入逆境，他便因安逸而不得进步。
Eudaimonia 