Second paragraph of third chapter:I’ve been steering BeiBei from one quiet game to another so that he would not overwhelm XX the second he returns. I did not grow up in a nurturing household. Now that Hann has given me a taste of that, I want to create that feeling for my son. For all of us. I crave it like food and water.
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Second paragraph of third chapter in original (NB that in the English translation by Ken Liu, this passage is about a quarter of the way into the third chapter, rather than near the beginning):

她不知道自己跑了多久，也不知自己身在何方，紧迫感缓慢地拉扯她的神经，让她无法遏制逃跑的欲望。可是并没有人在追她。没有任何有形的威胁，更像是一种无形的未知，从遥远海平面般的边界袭来。她的眼角似乎瞥见，那是无法形容的光芒，带着金属镀膜或晶体折射般的繁复虹彩，又仿佛流云或者海浪般变幻莫测， ( Read more... )

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2001, beating Chicken Run, the three-part TV Dune, X-Men and Frequency in that order. (The only one of those I had previously seen was Chicken Run.) It was also top of the nominations ballot.


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Second paragraph of third chapter (goes to four paragraphs in English translation):

忽聽得巨鐘下的銅缸內噹噹噹響聲不絕，不知裏面是何怪物，眾僧面面相覷，手足無措，當下齊聲口誦﹁高王經﹂，豈知﹁救苦救難﹂、﹁阿彌陀佛﹂聲中，缸內響音始終不停，最後終於大了膽子，十多個和尚合力用粗索吊起大鐘，剛將銅缸掀起少許，裏面滾出來一個巨大的肉團。眾僧大驚，四散逃開。只見那肉團一躍站起，呼呼喘氣，卻是韓寶駒。他被罩在銅缸之中，不知後半段的戰局，眼見焦木圓寂，義兄弟個個重傷，急得哇哇大叫。提起金龍鞭便欲向丘處機頭頂擊落。全金發叫道：﹁三哥，不可！﹂韓寶駒怒道：﹁為甚麼？﹂全金發腰間劇痛，只道：﹁千 …… 千萬不可。﹂
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Second paragraph of third chapter:Romania, along with a slew of other Communist nations, had just established diplomatic ties with China. It was now time to exchange ambassadors. Making that formal would involve an arcane ceremony developed in Europe and practiced around the world: the designated ambassador would hand over a letter to the head of ( Read more... )

The Last Emperor won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1987, and also eight others: Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. This was a clean sweep of all the categories in which it was ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:Decades after the deaths of Mao and Chiang, it is possible not only to look at those two major figures with some perspective, but also to pay more attention to the context around them. There is an alternative to regarding the early 20th century as a clash of the two Chinese giants: instead we can treat the period ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:

再一睁眼，我已靠在一个小屋的一角坐着呢；不是小屋，小洞更真实一点；没有窗户，没有门；四块似乎是墙的东西围着一块连草还没铲去的地，顶棚是一小块银灰色的天。我的手已自由了，可是腰中多了一根粗绳，这一头缠着我的腰，虽然我并不需要这么根腰带，那一头我看不见，或者是在墙外拴着；我必定是从天而降的被系下来的。怀中的手枪还在，奇怪！
When I woke up again, I found myself propped into a sitting position in the corner of a small room. No, it really wasn’t a small room; it was more like a ( Read more... )

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Second paragraph of third chapter (“A London Courtship”, by Victor Zhang): This 'London courtship' helped us to get our foot in the door of the European sector, and was a milestone in Huawei's progress into the global markets.
I attended a reception hosted by Huawei a few months ago, and they kindly handed out two books of essays by Huawei staff, ( Read more... )