工商時報【N.Dannenbring】
閱讀暖身 國道高速公路局在2013年12月29日的深夜停止了人工收費站的服務。人工收費也因而走入了歷史。下次當你開車經過被拆除了的收費站原址時，腦海中如果浮現出一個戴著口罩，身手敏捷的收費員，你已經不知不覺的流露出懷舊的情緒了。進入本文前，請先想想怎麼表達這些想法：A.天真 B.補償心態 C.內涵(更深層的意思)
Nostalgic experiences are when you hear someone says "Oh…back in my day we had blah blah blah". Now you might interpret this remark as a sign of getting old and he probably envisages society as becoming an undesirable place to live. But we all in fact do this (1)to a certain degree.
你應該聽過人家在懷念過往生活時常會講到：啊，你知道嗎，我們以前都…..。你可能會覺得說這話的人一定是老了。而且不怎麼喜歡他現在的人生。 事實上，我們每一個人都會有懷舊的時候。
When I was growing up, we had VCR and tape and MSN was the hype, now there is facebook and twitter and blueray. Although I’m not even of an old age, what I have just done is evoke a statement of nostalgia.
我小的時候流行錄影機和錄影帶。那時大家還使用msn，可是現在大家都用fb、twitter還有藍光光碟。雖然我的年紀還沒那麼老，我也忍不住懷念舊日時光。
All of us will have a time in the past when things were less perplexing and we were more (A)innocent. Those times are long gone and it’s impossible to go back to them. So (B)in return, we can daydream about those moments of happiness.
在每個人的過往生活中，總是有段單純又天真的時光。可惜時光一去不復返。補償心態，這時的白日夢就可以把我們帶回美好的過去。
Past research has shown nostalgia to be a sign of depression, that nothing is good anymore and there is a longing for the past. In fact nostalgia was always diagnosed as a disorder, only recently has it become associated with positive (C)connotations of memories.
過去研究發現，懷舊是一種憂鬱症的徵兆，你渴望回到過去，因為現在的一切令你失望。 懷舊長久以來一直被認為是種病兆，直到最近才開始出現正面的意涵。
Nostalgia actually has this power to counteract anxiety, loneliness and boredom. It makes us closer to strangers, and it makes that cold night in a cold room, a little warmer. We are afraid to look back on the past because it reminds us of our flaws. For example, in the past you got cheated by a close friend of yours, but does that mean we should stop trusting people? The answer is no! By visiting our past, we can learn from our own mistakes to become a better person. We might have been cheated but we still managed to get back on our feet; there were still other supportive people helping us through.
懷舊其實可以用來對抗焦慮，寂寞和無聊。它可以拉近與陌生人的距離，也可以讓寒夜裡的冰冷房間，因為懷舊而顯得溫暖。懷舊時，無可避免的也會勾起一些不愉快的經驗。 這些事情提醒了我們之前犯過的錯誤。比方說，你曾經被一個好朋友欺騙過。 當時受騙的感受讓你對人失去了信心。可是，想起陪你度過那段痛苦時光的親朋好友，你會藉著回想過往的經驗，記取教訓，以免重蹈覆轍。
Memories are all around us and the tiniest thing can evoke this sense in ways unimaginable. Let’s say the shop you used to visit closed down but decided to reopen. The shop might have changed hand and it has lost that atmosphere, but that’s old memory coming back to life.
我們擁有無數的回憶，身邊的一花一草隨時都能喚起我們對往事的回憶。一間很久以前關門的老店突然又開張了，雖然老闆換了，可能也沒有以前的氣氛，可是卻有了回憶成真的感受。
Having a nostalgic moment can be very relaxing. It relieves our stress and gives us a break. When things are tough and nothing is going right, that little sense of nostalgia can get you (2)back on track.
懷舊是一帖放鬆劑。壓力過大時讓我們休息一下。事情不妙時，覺得什麼都無法進行時，不要放棄一切，用懷舊來讓你繼續往前走。
2014年，珍惜你在英文裡犯的每一個錯
世界公民文化中心裡不管是在【Harvard Business Review Club】或【一對一】，每一個學生用英文表達或多或少都會犯錯：有時候是過去式，忘了單複數，錯用on或in，偶爾也詞窮，或不知哪兒錯，就是說很中文的英文。
我們的學生和老師都很珍惜每一次的錯和錯了又被糾正的震撼經驗。外商公司做國際業務的，國外MBA回來的都說，很多講錯的英文，已經錯了十幾年。
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