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其四：
“Once people thought they knew you,” Ostlund writes, “it was impossible to change their minds, which meant that it was almost impossible to change yourself.”
Ostlund写道：人们一旦认为他们了解你，那么想要改变他们的想法就几乎不可能了，换种说法，想要改变你自己也几乎不可能。

It reminded me of how claustrophobic small towns can be, everyone knowing everyone’s business and everyone stereotyped into who they were and who they were expected to be.
这让我回想起，小镇的封闭思想会有多可怕，每个人都知道任何其他一个人的事业，每个人都刻板印象于他们是谁以及他们应该成为谁。

I realized that more than anything else, more than the sex or romance, Mom’s secret affair with Frank gave her the opportunity to step outside herself.
我意识到，超乎爱情，超乎性，超乎任何事，妈妈和弗兰克的秘密情事给了她走出旧的自己的良机。

For a few hours when she was with Frank, she got to quit being Mrs. Albert Rhodes, the hardworking mother-of-eight, the good Catholic who sang in the choir. Frank liberated her from the life that she felt somewhat trapped in.
母亲和弗兰克相处数个小时后，她放弃了阿尔伯特·罗德斯夫人的身份，放弃了八个孩子的妈妈的身份，放弃了教堂里以天主教徒唱着祷告词的身份。弗兰克把她从困住她的泥沼中解救了。

She didn’t run away like Aaron’s mom did, though I’m sure she fantasized about it with Frank. My mom found a way to run away without leaving us. I love her all the more for realizing that.
她并没有像Aaron的妈妈那样逃走，不过气很确信她和弗兰克幻想过那样。我的妈妈找到了不离开我们而生活下去的方法。在认识到这些事后，我更爱我的妈妈了。

其二：
It's been twelve years since my mother died. While my grief has long been emptied out, I’ve been unable to fully process the big secret she left me to discover in her journals.
这已经是我妈妈死后的第二十年了，我的悲痛也早已平淡了，我一直无法完全处理她留给我在她的日记中发现的大秘密。

Married to my father for sixty years, she raised eight kids. Part of the post-WWII generation that, through hard work and white privilege, rose from near-poverty-level existence into the American middleclass, she ran a bakery while my father put in long hours on an assembly line.
嫁给我爸爸的60年里，她养了8个孩子。二战后的那个年代，在艰苦工作和白人特权盛行的条件下，她把这个家庭从接近贫困水平，发展到美国中产阶级水平，她经营一家面包房，我的爸爸则在配件流水线工作。

She was a devoted Catholic, sang in the choir, did volunteer work and knew just about everyone there was to know in the small town where we grew up.
她是个虔诚色天主教徒，她会在教堂祷告，做志愿工作，她认识我们长大的小镇上几乎所有人。

After she died, I discovered a box filled with her journals, dozens of them. I was not surprised to learn how much she hated my father.
在她死后，我发现了一个装满她的珠宝的盒子。我这才知道，她是多么憎恨我的父亲。

I knew it was always a contorted love/hate relationship. In public, she acted proud of him, prouder still of the big happy family they’d raised. In private, in her journals, she cursed him nearly every day.
我知道那是一种扭曲的爱恨交织的情感。表面上，母亲装作以父亲为骄傲的样子，以养育出如此大的家庭而自豪。私下里，在母亲的日记本中，她却每天咒骂父亲。

In every journal, alongside diatribes about her husband, she reveled in what she called her ‘big secret’, wondering what people would think ‘if they only knew.’ For thirty years, right up to the last year of her life, she carried on a torrid love affair with a man named Frank, an old family friend.
在每一天的日记中，关于她的丈夫，只有无休止的指责，母亲把这个‘最大的秘密’深深埋藏起来，想知道如果人们知道了这件事会怎样想。30年来，直到她生命的最后一年，她都与一个叫弗兰克的，来自旧家庭的老朋友，陷入深深的热恋。

阿胖也看不懂哦，娃娃怎么看不懂！这什么绳文，弥生，大和，是娃娃的专长！

其五：
d)There is nothing more tricky than to try to understand logic and human cognition by using…human cognition. Its like trying to see your eyes with your own eyes.
利用人类的认知，去理解逻辑和人类认知，是很狡猾的事。（你在说啥！）那就像用你自己的眼睛看你的眼睛。

All thoughts, regardless of how deep or complex, can be reduced down to simple chemical processes. There are no exceptions.
不管多深奥和复杂的想法，都可以被简化为简单的化学过程，没有例外。（？马克思告诉胖胖意识和物质是两个东西）

Reason is driven by what we perceive as pleasure-seeking integral tendencies and internal forces and instincts (reproduction, survival, etc).
理性是由我们所认为的寻求快乐的整体倾向和内在力量和本能（繁殖、生存等）驱动的。

If you are starving for days, you are gonna constantly think of ways to feed yourself.
如果你饿了好几天，你将会不停地思考如何填饱肚子。

Just write down your thoughts 1 day after you quit smoking and read them after 2 years.
请写下你戒烟一天后的想法，并在两天后读一读它。

One can deliberately fast, but that is because the person decided that this will give him/her even more pleasure (e.g due to religious views, etc) than eating.
一个人可以故意禁食，是因为这个人认定，比起进食，这样做可以带给他她更多快乐（可能是出于宗教原因等）

单词：
tricky
adj.狡猾的,机警的
cognition
n. 〈哲〉认识; 认识力
integral
adj.完整的,整体的,[数学] 积分的,构成整体所需要的
n.[数学] 积分,完整,部分
tendencies
n.趋向,倾向
instinct
n.本能
gonna
abbr. （美）将要（等于going to）
fast
adj. 快速的，迅速的；紧的，稳固的
adv. 紧紧地；彻底地；迅速地
vi. 禁食，斋戒
n. 斋戒；绝食

其三：
c)Life’s chemical reactions seem to have a purpose because life self-organizes.
生命的化学反应似乎有目的，因为生命是自我组织的。

However, who is the observer? We. The results of this process are the observers of the process. Everything that happens leads to them.
但是，谁是观察者呢？是我们。这个过程的结果是这个过程的观察者。所有发生的事情导致了这个结果。

This by itself cancels out the epicness of self-organization.
这本身就抵消了自组织的史诗性。
If a river could think, how would it perceive the cycle of water it participates?
如果一条河会思考，它该如何察觉到它环流时邂逅的水流？（真怪啊）
Imagine a series of events: A->B->C.......Y->Z->A->B...etc and the observer is (N+O).
思考一系列事情：A->B->C.......Y->Z->A->B...而观察者是(N+O).
The observer will think that this system can self-organize.
观察者会认为这个系列会自行发生。
Although an over-simplification because life is consisted by unfathomable numbers of chemical interactions, all i am saying is that any system will be perceived to have self-organizing properties from the perspective of its results.
因为生命就是深不可测的化学物质的相互作用，虽然过于简单了，我想说的是，从其最终结果来看，任何系统都将被观测到拥有自发能力。

单词表：
epicness 史诗性
perceive vt.察觉 v.感知,感到,认识到 n. 过于简单的叙述或说明
unfathomable adj. 深得无法到达底部的 高深莫测的;难以了解的

可恶，哪里纯英文了！[img][/img]

“如果你不是某个问题的专家，那你最好保持沉默。”
然后阿胖发现，除了卖萌，什么都说不出来了！

其七：
I personally include Taiwanese cuisine as a variety of Chinese food but many Taiwanese food writers hate this idea and legitimately believe that Taiwanese food is a completely separate entity.
我个人八台湾美食总结为，各种各样的中国食物，但是很多台湾食品吊员工讨厌这种说法，并且自然而然地觉得台湾食物是一个完全独立的整体。

I also think overseas Chinese cuisines like American-Chinese, Malaysian-Chinese, etc. could count as “Chinese cuisine” because they are either cooked by the Chinese diaspora or have their roots in Chinese cooking, but I am sure many mainland Chinese would consider them to be “foreign food”. （胖：diaspora好像有问题）
我也觉得海外中国美食，像美国华人，马来西亚华人食物等。也应该属于中国食物，因为他们要么也是被华侨华人烹饪的，要么起源于中国烹饪，但是我很确定很多本土中国人认为他们是外国食物。

Oh, and let's not forget that there's a Japanese-Chinese cuisine as well (most famous for ramen).
我们也不能忘记日本-中国式食物（拉面是最出名的）。（胖：？是这样吗）

The other answers mention you can find offal and insects in Chinese cuisine, as if offal and insects do not exist in Japanese cuisine as well.
其他回答里提到了中国食物里有动物内脏和昆虫，而日本食物不会存在这种东西。

The distinctions get muddied even further if you look at how many Chinese dishes and cooking techniques have been incorporated into Japanese cuisine and considered by the Japanese to be wholly “native” now.
如果你想探究有多少中国美食和烹饪技术已经和日本美食相结合，而日本人如今已经将其看做自己本土的食物，那么这些区别已经更加模糊了。

I am sure when a Japanese person thinks of a foreign beverage, they may think of something like a German beer, and not tea.
我很确定，当一个日本人思考外国饮料，她们会相反的是例如德国啤酒这样的，而不是茶。

单词：
legitimately adv. 正当地,合理地
diaspora n. 离散的犹太人；犹太人的离散
ramen 拉面
offal n. 垃圾；碎屑；内脏；工业下脚
muddy adj. 泥泞的；模糊的；混乱的 vt. 使沾上泥；使污浊；把…弄糊涂 vi. 变得泥泞；沾满烂泥
beverage n.饮料