自10月24日至今整整一个星期的时间里，我在Steemit上发表了9篇文章，截至今天下午，还有6篇文章的收入在$1以下，都是0字开头。可在下午下班前，其中的3篇文章收入升至了$2以上。虽微小，但相较于0字开头的数字来说，已是不小的进步了。

我知道这是前辈们一点点做出的努力，在CN社区迎来肃杀冬天之际，艰难维持着风雨摇曳中的那个家。

这是黑暗中的星光，尽管微弱，却给了我疲惫的生活以无限的希望，给了孤寂的我以温暖和动力，也点亮了我的心田。

“星星之火，可以燎原。”这是毛泽东在1930年为答复林彪散发的一封对红军前途究竟应该如何估计的征求意见的信。毛泽东在这封信中批评了当时林彪以及党内一些同志对时局估量的一种悲观思想。

CN社区里前辈们做出的贡献和努力，不就是星星之火吗？力量虽小，但是它的发展是会很快的。

我的心里也点燃起了星星之火，那就是充满了自信和希望，坚定了继续走下去的信心和决心。

星星之火，可成燎原之势。既然冬天来了，春天还会远吗?

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老子在《道德经》中所说的不争，我个人认为，是一种韬光养晦、以退为首的策略，是一种大智慧。不是消极被动，而是为了将来更好地去争。

不争是为了保全自己，怕弱小的自己会被强者扼杀在摇篮中，只能从零开始，慢慢积蓄力量。

单位里新来的那位大学生也很懂得不争的道理，他写的材料被部门负责人直接署上名字拿去汇报给领导了，可他没有丝毫的怨言和忿忿不平。因为他明白，自己初来乍到，羽翼未丰，没有话语权，还不被别人接受，只能默默做好自己，等待时机。

新加坡是一条小鱼，只有存活在鱼群当中才能够保证安全。所以，它就努力成为一条 “融入鱼群的小鱼”， 在群体中寻找安全感。这就是新加坡这个弹丸之地能够得以繁荣的策略，其本质就是不争。

刘备与曹操实力悬殊，也只好把自己的雄心壮志藏起来，整日里种菜掩人耳目，表面上一副不争的样子。却最终被老谋深算的曹操煮酒论英雄时挑明开来，吓得刘备连筷子都掉在了地上。

再反观我们的邻居小国，拿着不成熟的核技术夜郎自大，耀武扬威，以引起周边甚至世界恐慌为乐，最终会招致祸端。因为他不懂得韬光养晦，不懂得不争，没有政治远见。

懂得不争，是退一步，是为了走得更远，为了像鲲鹏一样能够展翅飞上九万里的高空。

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自8月24日CN区发生重大变化以来，我先是看到了两位前辈 @tumutanzi @htliao的帖子，后来在群里人的提示下，看到了那位爱尔兰女士的文章分析。说实话，我对这方面的技术一窍不通，更不会花费精力来研究和探讨，试图找出某些骇人的新闻来并以此沾沾自喜。

再过两天，我就加入Steemit CN社区整整三个月了。在这三个月中，我的声望值（reputation score）升至62级，SP 达到近900，Followers 超过400，提现近6000人民币。这一切皆得益于包括以上两位前辈们给予我的关爱和扶持，可是我与社区里的各位前辈以及小鱼同仁们并不认识，每天只是想着如何写出好的文章来。倒是CN社区里的我们三兄弟（ @wnh518518 @bring @xiaoshancun）会经常交流经验体会、畅所欲言，可是我们的投票能力（voting power）小的几乎可以忽略不计了。

我一直没有关注正事以外的一些类似于琐事的心情和习惯，我觉得那样很累。办公室里就我和一个年轻人，除了日常工作，就是静静地看书学习，身心都很清净，完全是一方净土。如有人来办公室里谈论鸡毛蒜皮之琐事，以及领导同事之是非，从不参与的我就算听之，也是一种煎熬和折磨，乱了心境。

无论如何，我不会参与到是是非非无休止的争论中。

正如鲁迅先生所言：曾经阔气的要复古，正在阔气的要保持现状，未曾阔气的要革新。世事大抵如是。

世界上没有绝对的公平，至少我觉得在CN社区自己受到了公平的待遇。因为，我不会艳羡那些收入动辄就上百、几百美元收入的文章，也不会为现在自己的一篇文章收入不到$1而自惭形秽。我只知道努力做好自己，我也知道有一天我也会达到那样的高度，即使达不到，至少我努力过了，没有留下遗憾。

埋怨别人对己不公，为何不埋怨自己没有付出努力呢？如果只有一杯水，为何不给自己创造一桶水，甚至一条河呢? 那样就会取之不尽用之不竭，而又何必盯着那仅有的一杯水而耿耿于怀，甚至恶语相加，大动干戈呢？

我原单位的老沈哥自学计算机，和他一块分来的同学都走上了领导干部的岗位，可他还是一个埋头苦干、实干、研究学问的书呆子。他没有丝毫的埋怨，没有任何自暴自弃的迹象和牢骚言论，更没有觉得单位对其有任何不公。可他自学考上了硕士、博士，现在上海微软公司。

这就是榜样的力量，足以够我学习一生。

再者，退一万步而言，人非圣贤孰能无过，宽恕为上（To err is human, to forgive is divine），何必抓住小辫子死死不放呢？CN社区还很年轻，还有许多地方需要我们呵护、改进。我们需要向前看，而不是翻弄着陈年旧账，数落着种种不是，那样的话就会停滞不前，只会带来倒退和失败。

是非成败转头空。青山依旧在，几度夕阳红。

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曾见国内各种各样的粉丝fans，把全部的精力和花费都投注到所谓的那个心中偶像身上，几乎到了痴狂的地步。一举手一投足，发型服饰，加以模仿，甚至偶像的所作所为，不加以区分，一概拿来崇拜了。

曾记得国内有一女孩，视刘德华为偶像，竟痴迷到要死要活的程度。其父母无奈，卖掉了房子，让她到香港去见刘德华，其结局可想而知，刘德华怎会与这样的人相见！

在她的心目中，偶像刘德华已高于一切，高于她的父母、她的家庭、事业，更高于她的一切。而她却是自私的，自私的连自己和父母都搭了进去，最终弄得倾家荡产，为的是圆自己一个虚无缥缈的梦想，一个不切实际的令人心酸而又荒唐的白日梦。

有的人就像天上的星星闪烁、迷离，却遥不可及，你为何要苦苦追求呢？他（她）又能给你带来什么呢？

把自己丢掉，任凭痴心妄想主宰了你的心智和灵魂，被某个人某件事牵着鼻子转来转去，若奴隶般。

失去自我，没有个性，没有独立的思考，没有独立人格，哪来的创新能力？哪会有创新人才？

国家的强大，民族的振兴，需要的是个性健康发展的一代代人的努力，而不是看似激情澎湃、实则头脑简单的、毫无意义的示众的材料和看客。

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In recent years, taking Scientific Outlook on Development as a guide and accelerating the transformation of economic development mode as the main line, Daiyue District has vigorously implemented the strategy of opening up and innovation, and accelerated the construction of industrial characteristics and structural advantages in order to seize the commanding point for the future development.

All industrial enterprises within the district give full play to the role of the main body, adhere to independent innovation, and focus on the transformation and upgrading. Therefore, with the transformation and upgrading of economic development mode, demand quantity and demand quality for high quality workers have increased by leaps and bounds.

But the development situation of skilled talents, especially high skilled talents cannot meet the economic and social development in the district. Looking from total amount, senior workers, technicians (including senior technicians) and other high skilled talents account for a low proportion of employees. From the perspective of industrial structure, there are serious structural contradictions in the distribution of skilled talents, especially high skilled talents. They are mainly concentrated in traditional machinery, chemical industry, electronics and other industries, with shortage of high skilled talents in the new energy, industrial 4.0, cultural tourism and creative industries and other new industries. The serious shortage of high skilled talents has become the bottleneck of the social and economic development in the district.

We think that only by vigorously developing the technical education to develop more high skilled talents with a combination of both skills and theories for the society can this problem be fundamentally solved mainly from the following aspects:

ⅠAdhering to Educational Innovation and Developing Consensus on Serving the Local Economic and Social Development

In recent years, technical education has shown a good momentum of development. With the rapid development of social economy, enterprises’ demand for highly skilled talents is increasing, and the shortage of skilled workers is serious. In the past two years, the state and the provinces and cities have introduced a series of documents on accelerating the development of technical education, and formulated a series of policies and measures to encourage the growth of skilled talents. At the same time, the social propaganda has been intensified. Through various forms of publicity, traditional concepts have been changed and a good image of the technical education has been established, initially forming a public opinion atmosphere which is conducive to the development. But generally speaking, real innovation factors are meager. How to speed up the technical education innovation?

1 Innovate the Notion of Running a School and Fully Expand the Social Training Function of Technical Colleges
Based on requirements of transformation and upgrading, we should serve enterprises’ development to build the cultivation base for high skilled talents. Facing the employment work, we should provide services for the unemployed and laid-off workers to build employment training base. Geared to the needs of urbanization, we should also provide services for the transfer of rural labor force to build the training base for the rural labor force, so that the technical education and the current economic development are more closely combined.

2 Innovate School-running System and Strengthen Deep Combination with Enterprises
Firstly, this can obtain financial support, attract business capital, and improve conditions of running a school. Secondly, we can learn to understand the advanced technology and information about enterprises’ development in time, and apply them to the teaching practice. Thirdly, in this way we can introduce enterprises’ management to establish the campus culture fitting in with the corporate culture. Fourthly, it can make the enterprises more concerned about the development of the school to form a stable employment channel.

3 Innovate Cultivation System and Open up a Broad Source of Students
We should gradually transfer from enrolling junior middle school students as the main, to enrolling senior high school students and college graduates, and to the training of employees, making it become a normal social phenomenon for college graduates to receive training in technical schools.

Ⅱ Promote School-Enterprise Cooperation and Meet the Needs of Serving Transformation, Upgrading, and Development of Local Economy

School-enterprise cooperation is the only way to cultivate high skilled talents that can meet the needs of the society. So we must break the closed mode of running a school, “going outside” and “inviting inside”. From “school-enterprise combination” to “school-enterprise integration”, and through a variety of forms such as “ordered” cultivating, work-study combination, building the titled class jointly, we have built a close school-enterprise cooperation platform, effectively promoting the quality of cultivation of skilled talents. Our school has successively introduced Taian Jie Cheng Industry & Trade Co., Ltd, Tai’an Quanshifa Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd, which not only manufacture products, but also meet the student’s internship teaching, thus solving both the students’ internship training and the problem of insufficient funding for schools. It is really a way to kill two birds with one stone.

We should set up the school-enterprise cooperation specialty construction committee. Taking the specialty construction committee as the breakthrough point, we should carry out all-round, in-depth, multi-form cooperation with enterprises, and continue to explore the cooperation mode of realizing the close docking of schools and enterprise. School-enterprise cooperation specialty construction committees have been set up successively in our school’s majors such as mechanical & electrical engineering, numerical control, computer, modern agriculture, preschool education. Enterprises’ management elite and technology backbone are invited to school to give professional guidance, achieving good results.

Firstly, in the aspect of specialty construction and curriculum setting, the establishment of specialty construction coordination mechanism dominated by enterprises should be explored, and training courses should be developed mainly depending on enterprises.

Secondly, in the teaching faculty construction, the teaching staff based on school enterprise integration should be established, that is, the teaching faculty includes school teachers, enterprises’ technicians, and senior technicians. They not only take the teaching responsibility to cultivate students, but also participate in some of the technological innovation and scientific and technological projects of enterprises. Their teaching ability, teaching effect, and job performance are jointly assessed by the school and enterprises.

Thirdly, in practical teaching, a variety of ways have been introduced such as establishing training base by inviting enterprises to school, practice teaching management with school enterprise integration, setting up teaching area in the factory, forming the practice training base with the mode of “school in factory, factory in school”, and “front shop, back factory”.

Fourthly, in the ability evaluation, the system of evaluation of students’ professional ability by enterprises has been introduced. According to the progress of teaching, the enterprise experts in conjunction with the appraisal organization carry out the evaluation of the students’ professional ability stage by stage, such as our school’s Lenovo 3C order class. In this class the evaluation of students is made in accordance with the talent evaluation mechanism of Lenovo Group.

We have introduced the talent evaluation program of German’s automobile application and maintenance to our school’s ordered class with Beijing Sino-German Know-How. Students will be able to get the German qualification certificate after passing the assessment of employment.

Ⅲ Strengthen the Connotation Construction, and Lay a Solid Foundation for Serving Local Economic and Social Development

How to promote the level of professional construction, and improve the quality of skilled talents training, is the eternal theme of the connotation construction of technical education. To strengthen the connotation construction is, focusing on the specialty construction and high skilled talents training, to try hard to cultivate knowledge-oriented, technical and compound talents according to market demand and employment orientation.

1 Strengthening the Construction of Teaching Staff
The level of teaching staff is the key to the connotation construction. Adhering to the policy of “making good use of existing talents, introducing urgently required talents, and cultivating backbone of talents”, constantly improving the mechanism of “introducing, cultivating, using, and maintaining talents”, through the implementation of relevant measures, we have expanded the scale of teaching staff, optimized the structure and strengthened the construction of teaching staff, thus forming a high quality faculty group with a reasonable age structure, coordinated distribution of professional title, and a high proportion of double-type teachers.

We have selected, supported and encouraged teachers to actively participate in continuing learning, and constantly improve their theoretical level and practical ability through a variety of ways such as overseas training, national and provincial backbone teachers training, factory practice, and on-the-job training. At present, the school has 288 professional teachers, 162 teachers of professional class and practice guidance, and 136 double-type teachers. More than 200 batches of teachers have participated in training successively. The overall quality of teachers has been comprehensively promoted.

2 Improving the Quality of Education and Teaching
We should always take improving the quality of talent training as the core of the connotation construction, and quality of education and teaching as the starting point and end result of all college work. Professional skill teaching is the foundation of technical colleges. With students being the center, and according to the standard of vocational skill, we should set up working scenes as much as possible, help students improve their interest, and enhance their sense of responsibility and sense of accomplishment. In strengthening professional education at the same time, we should pay attention to the quality education, cultivate students’ quality of professional ethics, and improve the students’ ideological and political morality. At the same time, taking campus cultural activities and social practice activities as the main content, we should improve student’s cultural accomplishment.

In short, high skilled talents are the current support of industrial 4.0 manufacturing, and the fundamental guarantee for the core competitiveness of enterprises. Technical education is the basis of high skilled talents training. In order to improve the quality of skilled talents, we should do a good job of technical education to provide services for transformation and upgrading of the local economy.

Note: This is my recent translation of technical education, and the picture is taken from the Internet.

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一次，单位里的一位大学生见我在看英语书，便问我学英语有没有捷径。这如同问一个人，有没有不用吃苦就能赚到钱的门道。借用马克•吐温的话说，那就是我不但不预备答复他，而且还要轻视这样无知的见解。

任何语言都不是能够轻易掌握的，否则它就失去了生命力，如某些早就消失了的人造语言，还有被日本人翻译为“爱世不难读”的世界语“Esperanto”，不要说运用了，恐怕连这种语言都鲜有人知。

英语能够成为一种世界性的语言，自然有其强大的生命力。要想学好英语，必须下苦功夫不可。

一、关于词汇的学习

英语学习到底需要掌握多少词汇量？这个问题并不好回答，关键是看学英语的用途和要达到的程度。大学四六八级英语考试，对词汇量的要求就是要分别达到4000、6000和8000，这就是四六八级考试名称的由来。而如果你是出于兴趣学习英语，并以英语作为自己的职业、事业甚至是将来奋斗的目标，至少也应该有5万的词汇量，这相当于一本中级英语词典的词汇量。据说，读懂一份星期日版的《华盛顿邮报》至少需要10万的词汇量。

外语界中“北许南葛”的南葛是指复旦大学的葛传槼，据传葛教授曾背诵了某英语词典中的大部分词汇。多年前我也曾见一报道：一年轻人被判为政治犯，将一本四角号码英汉词典带进了监狱中，17年的狱中生活，他竟把词典能够背诵下来，出狱后，竟成了大学英语老师。

可见，词汇的学习和掌握并非易事。

我的建议是先要学一点《英语词汇学》，了解英语词汇的前缀、后缀以及构词法等，然后通过大量的阅读，在阅读中记忆单词，而不要死记硬背。否则，记得快，忘得也快。

这正如你经常碰到一个人一样，虽不相识，却慢慢就熟悉了。即使突然有一天，他换了一顶帽子或者一双鞋、一件衣服，你也能把他认出来。大量阅读，经常看到某些词一样，渐渐就认识了，即使有了词形的变化，根据学过的构词法，你也能辨认出来。如：create—creation—creative—creativity credible—credibly—incredible

二、关于语法的学习

现在的英语教材，我发现无论是中学的还是大学的，几乎都不讲解语法。记得上初中时，每课要学的语法点在每课后都有详细的解说。在学习课文前，老师都要先学习课后的语法知识。可现在的课本连语法也没有了，学生们死记硬背，知其然不知其所以然。

即时多少有点讲解，也不过是蜻蜓点水，不能做到举一反三，更不敢拿来与汉语进行比较，反而怕学生学混了。

我个人的经验就是要找一两本英语语法书，仔细研究，要彻底弄明白，不能一知半解，否则有些知识点你永远弄不清楚。我的那本《新编英语语法》（章振邦编 上海译文出版社）至今已30多年的时间了，语法讲解的很详细，非一般的语法书能够企及。

有了词汇，掌握了语法，才能步入英语世界的殿堂，去探究那个奇妙的世界。

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