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Terrible texting etiquette — and ways to combat themBy Victoria Lowe for CosmopolitanUnless you’re living a seriously alternative lifestyle, you’ve probably been communicating via text for a while now. You text your friends, your dates — even your parents. It’s quick, convenient, and usually makes your life more pleasant… except when you come face to face with the 10 worst texting offenses in the world. Check ‘em out below, plus some advice on how to stop offenders（惹人生气的人，冲犯者） in their tracks.1. The Mass TextIt’s Friday night, you’re at home on the couch, and you get a text that goes something like this: “What are you getting into tonight?” You know for a fact that this very same text just went out to 20 other people at exactly the same time, and that the sender is just waiting to receive all his/her options before deciding what to do. So what if the only thing you have planned for the night is that lame (but sooo good) Lifetime movie at 11? You refuse to hang out with someone unless they make specific plans to hang out with you. You know how you can block those newsletters that you never signed up for by sending an email with “unsubscribe（刊出）” in the body? We suggest doing the same thing in a reply-text.2. The Texting CultThere is always at least one point in the night — a lull（暂停，间隙） in the conversation, a pause between thoughts — when it gets really quiet, and you look around and realize that all your friends are busy texting. One person pulls out her iPhone while everyone else is looking at the dinner bill, and then someone else starts doing it, and before you know it, you’re in the middle of the sacred circle of text. Resist（抵当，压抑） the urge to choose some random person in your contacts to send a useless message to. Instead, pull out your phone and send a text to everyone at the table asking, “Should we order something else?” It will make everyone laugh but also point out the silliness of the situation.3. The Double MessageOf course you screen calls. Everyone does. Sometimes you’re in the middle of something and sometimes you just don’t feel like talking. But your phone is still working, and you see the missed call and the voice message alert. So why — why?! — do certain people feel the need to send a text letting you know that they just left a message? Don’t they realize that if someone is smart enough to read a text, they’re also capable of understanding what the little bobble head with the sound waves coming out of him symbolizes? Text back, “What’s next, a carrier pigeon?”4: The Texting TeaseYou’re seeing a really cute/smart/funny/cool new guy, and your heart skips a tiny beat every time you get a text from him. In the middle of the week, you get one asking what you’re up to this weekend. Assuming he wants to do something together, you let him know that it’s looking pretty relaxed so far. Does he then proceed to make a plan with you? No. He responds, “Oh OK, cool.” You stand there with a perplexed（猜疑的） look on your face. Respond “Yeah, but call my secretary if you want to schedule something.” This way, the ball is in his court, but ultimately you’re the one who is in charge, thanks to your confident attitude.5. The Bulk TexterAn example of what a series of texts from this person might look like:Hey! What’s up?What are you doing tonight?Some of us are going to Cool People Club tonight.Around 10It’s gonna be me and ChrisAre you coming?Let us knowByeee!lolzAn example of what that exchange should look like:Text 1: Hey, Chris and I are going to Cool People Bar around 10 tonight. Let us know if you wanna come.An example of what you could text back:Please never text me this way again.(one minute pause) For “realz.”6. The Bored TexterYou’ve just finished a sufficiently long and entertaining texting exchange with someone, and now you’re ready to put your phone down for a little while. But your phone dings, and it’s another text from said person. It looks like this: “Soooo…” Or, “What upppp.” Or, “la la la…” Clearly, they have nothing else to say and just want something to do. Send a text saying, “Running, watching movies, reading books, baking.” Your buddy will get the point that some people actually have a life.7. The Show-and-TellerLove is wonderful. We’re huge advocates（倡导者，拥戴者） of love and being in love and enjoying that love. People gushing（迸出，涌出） on and on about their amazing love life? Not so much. Not only do you have to listen to them tell every insignificant story about how cute it was that their boyfriends ate pancakes for dinner and woke up with a funny hairdo（发型）, but you also have to read all of their SUPER-cute texts. “Guys, look what he wrote to me! Omg look at what he said now! Haha aww, look at this one!!” The cure? A dose of（一服，一次） their own medicine. “Hey, look what my mom said about her gallbladder（胆囊）! Omg you won’t believe how I’m planning to organize my sock drawer（抽屉）! Aww, my dog is wagging（摇动的，摆动的） his tail. Oh, he’s doing it again!!”8. The Goobers-and-PopcornTexter The previews are over, you’ve been waiting to see this movie for weeks, and here you finally are, snacks in hand. But the guy in front of you insists on ruining your experience by texting for the entire 96 minutes. Here’s a little secret he doesn’t know: EVERYONE sees his phone lighting up. And hears it vibrating violently every two minutes. When the lights come up at the end of the flick（轻弹）, call up a friend and loudly discuss how rude the guy texting throughout the entire movie was. Then get ready to start running.9. The Lingering KThis one is especially aggravating（末路火的） if you’re not on an unlimited texting plan. You get a message asking how your day went or if you’ll be free at a certain time, so you send back a detailed and informative reply. Your phone dings again. You open the message and it says…”k.” Do people not even have the decency（得体，礼貌） to include the o? The offender doesn’t even need to reply to the message. But if they feel the need to, could they not at least drum up（极力争夺，招揽） something a little more personal/creative/not totally unnecessary? Respond by letting them know how much, to the cent, they owe you for superfluous（多余的） texts the next time you’re together. Then hold your palm out expectantly.10. The Needs-to-Grow-UpTexter Guys should never, ever get comfortable with using text slang（俚语） and abbreviations（缩写）. Whether he’s a friend, date, or boyfriend, no girl wants to associate the men in their lives with tween-speak. The next time he sends you a “TTY L8ER” or “C U 2morrow,” tell him that he should really consider an iPhone, BlackBerry, Sidekick, or “anything that gives you more room to text.” He’ll realize how outdated（后进的，过期的） his text-talk is.

美国一名社会勾当家曾说：“糊口就是习觉得常；而习觉得常，就是回尽求知。”当我们措置一系列有关心理健康的题目时，我们常常堕进惯常的反应中，不成自拔。当我们赶上挑战，也常常不由自立地奉告本身，“管他呢，回正我不成能成功。”我们对本身的反应习觉得常。但是，一旦我们意想到这个题目，我们便可以从头开端。 那么，你糊口中有哪些习觉得常的习惯？Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the leading American Rabbis, theologians（神学者）, and social activists of the 20th century. He said something that I’ll never forget and that has stayed with me since the moment I heard it. In his book God in Search of Man, he wrote, “Life is routine and routine is resistance to（对……的阻力） wonder.”There’s a true story of a man I have worked with who has spent his entire life believing that his ears were not symmetrical（对称的） and therefore sunglasses always looked crooked（曲折的，歪的） on his face. He came to accept this over time, until he came in touch with mindfulness practice.One day as he was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom he chose to take a moment to come down from his busy mind, become present, and really look at himself. What he noticed was astonishing.He suddenly realized that he had not been standing straight and that one shoulder was slightly lower than the other. In that moment, he chose to stand up straight and low and behold his eyeglasses were no longer crooked on his face. All this time he thought his face was lopsided（不服衡的） in some way when in effect, it was his posture.This story is just a metaphor for the rest of us in our lives. Over time, what do we just get used to and learn to accept that keeps us limited in how we see things? What in our lives has become routine to a point that we have lost our sense of wonder in this world?When dealing with a myriad of（无数） mental health conditions (e.g., stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction), we get stuck in routine ways of reacting to things. A challenge may arise and the automatic reaction is “who cares, I’ll never succeed anyway.” As we become accustomed to this, it can be likened to unknowingly walking around with crooked posture. Once we become aware of it, we can begin the process of straightening ourselves out.It’s a worthy question to explore: What do you notice in your life that’s routine?Do you watch TV every night? Do you take the same route to work every day? If you are in a relationship, do you sleep on the same side of the bed night after night or does only one of you cook the meals or clean? Do you often shoot down new ideas? Do you react to stress or pain with routine avoidance? Is this routine taking away the wonder in everyday life?”To do: Pick one thing from your “routine list” and choose to begin becoming aware of it and switching it up.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling（玩杂耍） some five balls in the air. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends, Spirit. And you re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back（反弹） . But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably（不克不及打消地） scuffed（磨损） , marked, nicked（割进，刻痕） , damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.How?Don’t undermine（粉碎，风险） your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don’t take for granted（以为……不移至理） the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would cling to your life, for without them, life is meaningless.Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us each together. Don’t be afraid to encounter（遭受） risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.把糊口想象成一个在空中抛接五只球的游戏。这五只球被你别离称为：工作、家庭、健康、友情和精力。你尽力不让它们从空中掉落下来。你顿时就发现唯有工作是一个橡皮球。若是你将它掉落到地上，它还会弹回来。但其它四只球— — 家庭、健康、伴侣和精力都是玻璃的。若是你把任何一个掉落到地上，便会不成挽回地留下疤痕、裂缝、受损乃至摔得粉碎。它们永久也没法恢答复复兴样。你必须知道这一点并在糊口中尽力保持均衡。如何做到这一点呢？不要总拿本身与他人比从而贬低本身的价值。正因为我们彼此的差别分歧，我们才会各有所长。他人以为首要，实在不克不及作为你肯定方针的按照。只有你本身知道，甚么东西对你最好。与你心里最切近的东西，切莫等闲视之。要像死守生命一样死守住它们，因为掉往它们，糊口就会毫无意义。不要耽于畴昔或将来，而让生命从指间暗暗溜走。一次只活一天，活在本日，你就充分地活过生射中的每天。若是你还可以支出，就不要轻言放弃。在你遏制尽力那一刻之前，甚么都没有真正结束。正因为我们都不完美，我们才会彼此需要。不要惊骇遭受风险。只有经由过程冒险，我们才能学会若何变得英勇。别说真爱难求，而将爱拒之门于糊口以外。获得爱的捷径是赐与爱，掉往爱的捷径是扼住爱，而守住爱的捷径是给爱插上同党。不要平生奔波，仓促而过，乃至于忘了本身从何而来，往何而往。不要健忘一小我最大的豪情需如果获得他人的理解。不要惊骇进修。常识没有重量：它是你随时可以轻松携带的宝躲。不要漫不尽心肠打发时候或口无遮拦地措辞，掉往的时候和说出往的话都没法挽回。糊口不是一场竞走，而是每步都宜细细咀嚼的人活路程。

起首，让我们看看来自作家Anais Nin的一段话：“胡想转化为实际，实际又催生胡想，这类互生关系成绩了保存的最高境地。”放弃完美主义，给本身留些时候……要想成为一名成功的女性，需要养成哪些好习惯呢？These 10 habits of highly successful women range from maintaining your hormonal balance（激素均衡） to letting go of the past — and they will positively affect your mind, body, and soul.First, check out this quotation from writer Anais Nin:“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence（彼此依靠） produces the highest form of living.”Taking action is a crucial habit of successful women…and so is dreaming! Don’t let go of your passions…1. Maintain your hormonal balance. Are you moody（表情不稳的，易怒的）, exhausted, irritable, or sad? Check your hormones. If they’re out of whack（混乱，不正常）, then you’ll struggle to be successful! Make sure you’re getting enough protein and vitamins, and decrease your refined sugars（精制糖，白沙糖） and carbohydrates（碳水化合物，糖类）.2. Forgive yourself for your mistakes. Highly successful women don’t obsess or feel guilty about past choices or failures. They make mistakes, move on, and apply what they’ve learned to new situations.3. Connect with who you are. Being a daughter, wife, or mother is one aspect of your life. It doesn’t define who you are as a woman. To connect with who you are, find and express your authentic（靠得住的，可托的） self. The more authentic you are, the more appealing you’ll be to others – and to yourself!4. Avoid energy vampires（能量接收器）. Do you feel drained（耗尽） or sad after spending time with a particular friend, coworker, or relative? Limit the time you spend with him or her. Note how you feel after visiting with a certain person; if you feel energized and happy, then you’re in good company. Highly successful women choose their companions wisely.5. Speak kindly to yourself! If you beat yourself up for being overweight, a “bad” mom, or not exercising enough, you just create a downward spiral（延续降落）. Highly successful women remind themselves of their achievements and successes. They refuse to tell themselves negative things; they accept themselves.6. Listen to your body. I heard Oprah Winfrey say this about 10 years ago: listen to what your body is telling you. Are you emotionally hungry or physically hungry? Feed yourself properly. Are you sad, furious, or depressed? Follow your body’s cues（初步，线索）.7. Volunteer your time. Find something that takes you out of your comfort zone or that you love to do. You’ll feel great that you’re helping others out – and volunteering directly improves your physical health. Highly successful women step out of their comfort zones and takes risks.8. Let go of perfectionism. Strive to do your best, but let go of perfectionist tendencies. Accepting that you’re doing the best you can is a habit of highly successful women. Letting go of perfectionism is vitamins and exercise for the soul!9. Use your core strengths. Are you a natural mathematician（数学家）, writer, or party planner? Discover your core strengths by trying different things until you find what fits. To take risks and try new things, take short-term volunteer positions or volunteer for new projects at work or in your community.10. Take time for yourself. This habit for highly successful women is my favorite: take time to recharge your batteries and refuel your emotional, spiritual, and physical energy. Spend at least a few minutes alone each day – even if you have to lock yourself in the bathroom to do it!Have a missed a habit of highly successful women – or do you have any comments on any of the above? I welcome your thoughts below!

The best thing about bad dates is that we walk away with a great story, and little doubt that the perpetrator（作恶之人） is not the person for us.I was thinking about some of the common errors made on first dates. I came up with 10 common mistakes that could kill the chances for a second date:Arriving lateEven five minutes of lateness is inexcusable（不成饶恕的） on the first date. People are already anxious on these excursions（郊游，短途观光）, so making someone wait and think more about everything is pretty rude. Seems like the trend in NYC is to be late for things regularly. On one date, I texted the girl and told her I was running late. She said she was too. We ended up just having the date 1/2 hour later than planned and technically no one was late because we were both 1/2 hour late together.Wardrobe malfunction（服装故障，走光）Make sure you cater（逢迎，逢迎） what you wear to what you’re doing. I try not to make a girl walk too much if she’s in heels. Also, I’ve seen girls wear pearls and a nice blouse to trashy（碎屑的，没用的） outdoor drinking events, or heels to sporting events.Talking politics or religionStaying away from debatable content is a good idea the first time out. It’s fun to argue with your significant other, but I think it’s important to reach a comfort level first. If you try to proselytize（使改宗） someone, or battle them over a hot topic like abortion, you may reach a point of no return.Checking out other peopleYou’d think that no one would do this, but guys are always looking at waitresses, or other patrons when out. One of my friends got in hot water because his date told me he made cat calls at other girls while on a date. Talk about a mistake!Bringing friends (Non group date)If you bring friends along you look immature and insecure. You also throw the other person for a loop if they were expecting the date to be one-on-one. Make sure you establish that it is a one-on-one date, and follow the rules and show up alone.Getting too drunkSome people turn into a completely different person when they are drunk. Let the other person learn about you while you’re sober（复苏的，沉重的）, before you get wasted with them. Alcohol should be introduced into the relationship slowly, but if a drink or two takes the edge off（使钝，减弱）, and wine adds romance it’s fine. Just don’t push it too far.Being too aggressiveNo one wants to deal with someone’s wandering hands before they are ready. It is one of the best ways to creep someone out. Just because someone is getting dinner with someone once doesn’t mean it’s an invitation into the sack. It’s best to be hands off on the first date.Being too unaggressiveMy friend Margaret warns me to be more aggressive all the time. She said that if I don’t kiss someone at the end of a date, or make a move when they hop in my bed they will begin to think something’s wrong with them, or that I’m not into them. Maybe that’s true, but sometimes I am just being too safe so that I don’t break the rule I just mentioned above.Canceling at the last minute or standing someone upCanceling for a legitimate reason is fine, but respect your date’s time so that they can plan their night without you. Canceling one hour before a date is not cool — most of the date prep has already started at this point. Standing someone up is so rude. What does it accomplish? If you change your mind, at least have the strength to just cancel. No need to make someone feel bad and waste their time just because you’re too chicken（怯懦，惊骇） to cancel the date.Dominant speakerTry to breathe in between sentences, and don’t talk too much. Give your date a chance to talk. Aren’t you trying to get to know one another? And don’t speak for that other person (i.e. order for them at dinner) unless they invite you to help with their order.Do you agree or disagree with any of these? Ever have these happen to you, or have you ever made these mistakes? Would you go on a second date after any of these mistakes? What would you add to this list?

Looks like a brush fire（灌木丛火警）, Kim Cooper thought as she spotted an orange glow ahead on Interstate 75. It was near dusk（傍晚） , and she and her husband, Steve, were trucking through northern Kentucky hauling（搬运，牵引） auto parts from Louisville to Detroit for a freight（货运） company. Steve, 59, was fast asleep in the truck’s living quarters as Kim, 52, drove up to the scene. That’s when she saw it was much worse than a brush fire.”Steve, wake up!” she shouted. “There’s a truck on fire!” A big rig had tumbled down（破败） an embankment（路堤） , and flames were crawling across its cab. Kim yanked（猛拉） their truck to the side of the road, and Steve pulled on（戴，穿） his clothes. Then he scrambled down the slope.Inside the burning truck, Ronnie Sanders, 38, was fighting for his life. He’d been running a heavy load of tractors and forklifts（铲车） from Georgia to Indianapolis when a Grand Caravan in front of him stopped suddenly in traffic on the icy road. As Ronnie bore down, he could see children in the backseat. The truck’s bulk（体积，容量） would probably protect him from the worst of the impact, but the momentum of 23 tons would likely crush everyone inside the van.”In Kentucky, the hills are steep, but at that moment, I didn’t think about it,” he says of that evening last November. “I figured instead of killing other people, I’d just put the truck in the ditch（水沟，壕沟） .” He jerked（猛拉，痉挛） the wheel to the right, somehow keeping the truck upright as it plowed 60 feet down the embankment. At the bottom, rocks pierced a fuel tank, which ignited（点燃，燃烧） . A tree branch smashed through the windshield（挡风玻璃） and knocked Ronnie unconscious. He came to a couple of minutes later to find the cab in flames and his legs on fire.Ronnie yelled for help as he struggled to escape. But the cab was smashed in, and try as he might, he couldn’t untangle（清理，清算） himself from his seat belt.As Steve bolted down the slope, he could hear Ronnie’s cries ahead. Then a thundering sound erupted behind him.A Ford Taurus, which had lost control in the melee（混战，搏斗） above, had skidded off the highway and was now barreling down the slope directly at him. With no time to dive out of the way, he leaped upward and sailed over the car’s hood.The Taurus came to a halt close to the truck. Kim was already scrambling toward the car. Its passengers appeared shaken but unharmed as she helped maneuver（演习，调遣） the car away from the burning truck. Meanwhile, Steve dashed to Ronnie, who was dangling headfirst from the passenger door. Ronnie had used his pocketknife to cut himself free from the driver’s-side seat belt only to get his boot ensnared（诱进圈套） in another one. Steve climbed into the burning cab to free him.”All that was going through my mind was, My God, I do not want to be here,” Steve recalls. “It was so hot, I could hardly stand it.”He tried three times to pull Ronnie out before finally freeing him. But Ronnie’s legs were still burning, so Steve laid him on the ground, ripped off his own shirt, and beat the flames with it. He’d managed to drag him about 20 yards when one of the truck’s 150-gallon fuel tanks exploded.”It was like a cannon（大炮） blast,” says Steve. “The percussive（敲击的，冲击的） force hurt my chest. It just picked me up and blew me back.” Fortunately, the explosion was aimed skyward.Steve got up and peeled off（剥往，脱掉落） what was left of Ronnie’s smoldering（闷烧，阴燃） jeans and held his hand while they waited for the ambulance, as Kim raced up and down the slope, grabbing wet towels and a blanket.Both Steve and Ronnie paid a price for risking their lives for strangers. Ronnie spent two months in the hospital and received skin grafts（植皮手术） on both of his legs. He now wears compression garments（服装，穿着） for his scars and gets physical therapy twice a week. “If Steve hadn’t done what he did, I probably would have been toast（烘，烤） ,” he says. Steve suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns, and shrapnel（弹片） from the explosion broke a tooth.In February, the Coopers received a Hero of the Highway award from the Open Road Foundation for rescuing an injured driver. Steve insists Ronnie is the real hero: “If he hadn’t gone into the ditch, he would have hit that van. It was his decision to drive off the road.”"I feel pretty good about it,” says Ronnie. “A lot of people could have been hurt.”

With red palatial（宫殿般的，宏伟的） walls, red national flag and red lanterns, together with the red “Dancing Beijing” and the red Olympic torch, lives in Beijing are immersed in（沉浸在） the red. The red is the color of Beijing and that of China.From among a world of colors, red stands out（显眼） the most. The color red is fresh and pure, and in China we call it China Red. Chinese people are fascinated by the color red not only because of its intoxicating（醉人的，令人兴奋的） vibrancy, but also because of its rich meaning in Chinese culture and history.It is believed that no country in the world has ever adopted a color in such a thoroughgoing（完全的，完全的） way as China, where red is a symbol that gives color to the soul of the nation. In the past, red stood for dignity and mystery. Even now, Chinese people adore the color much more than we love it. It is can be said that “China Red” is an eternal theme for China, and an essential color for the Chinese people. “China Red” has become a quite popular word, attracting the world’s attention.Shooting red-colored things in China is an easy task, as its powerful presence can be found everywhere. All traditional red things have been playing special roles in China: the walls of ancient palaces, the national flag, Chinese knot（中国结）, lantern, couplet（对句，春联）, clothes, traditional paper-cuts for window decorations, and even red tanghulu (sugar-coated haws山查 on a stick).Red is the color of the auspicious（吉利的，荣幸的）, signifying reunion, health, happiness, harmony, peace and prosperity. Only real things and events can fully display and explain its beauty. Only in its relation with people can the color be alive and meaningful.In China, red is more than just a color. It carries the ancient history and culture of the Chinese nation. China Red is filled with mysterious charm beyond description and it is right here in China waiting for you to feel, to discover!

The grey Great Wall winds in（环抱纠缠） mountains and grey Siheyuan courtyards lie in hutongs. The grey is the tone of traditional architectures（建筑学，建筑物） in Beijing.The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was enlisted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus（高原）, stretching approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles ) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2,000 years, it is one of the most appealing attractions all around the world owing to its architectural grandeur（肃静，伟大） and historical significance.For those who want to experience the real Beijing, the hutongs and Siheyuan (quadrangle) are indispensable and best place to visit.Hutong means street, lane and alley, and is in fact the passage formed by lines of siheyuan (quadrangle) where most Beijing residents live. One hutong connects with another, and siheyuan connects with siheyuan, to form a block, and blocks join with blocks to form the whole city.A hutong is an ancient city alley or lane typical in Beijing, where hutongs run into the several thousand. Surrounding the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties (1271-1911). In these dynasties the emperors planned the city and arranged the residential areas according to the etiquette（礼节，礼节） systems. The center of the city of Beijing was the royal palace — the Forbidden City.A standard siheyuan usually consists of houses on its four sides, and the house which stands at the north end and faces the south is called the “main house” or “north house,” the ones on both sides are called “side houses,” and the one which stands at the south end and faces north is called “south house.”Not only residences but also ancient palaces, government offices, temples and monasteries（禅林，修道院） were built basically on the pattern of the siheyuan, a common feature of traditional Chinese architecture. All the siheyuans, from their size and style one could tell whether they belonged to private individuals or the powerful and rich.Hutong and siheyuan are not only a kind of architecture, but also serves as a window into Beijing folk life and the “encyclopedia of the history and culture of Beijing.”

Step one: Plant yourself deep in a bed of faith, and pack it down solid and tight. Drench（浸润，湿透） daily with positive thinking, and keep saturated（饱和的） just right. Mulch（覆盖） often with forgivenss, for this will help you grow. Quickly remove any seeds of worry, for they will soon germinate（抽芽，发展） , and keep out the weeds of despair. Nourish（滋养，供给） disappointments with hope whenever it is neeeded, and always stay cool and shaded when you feel irritated or heated（冲动的） . Trim away（修剪掉落） guilt or depression, for they create decay（腐臭，阑珊） , and cultivate with happy memories as often as every day. 　　Step two:Harvest the lessons of the past; just dig, pick, and hoe（锄） . And nurture the roots of the present, for now is when you flourish and grow. Start planting for the future; set your goals in a row（持续，成一长行） . Spade（铲） the bed well for all your dreams to grow. 　　Step three:Remember that grief is a natural predator（食肉动物，掠食者） , so learn to tolerate some damage. Protect your garden with daily prayers, for this will help you manage. Bury the criticism and complaining, for they are injurious（有害的，离间的） pests. Sow the seed of love wherever you may go–for joy, love, and laughter are surely bound to grow. Although the thorns（荆棘，刺） of life may be here to stay, just sprout（萌芽） a smile along the way…and be thankful for what you have today!