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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. - Richard Dawkins "Selfish Gene"

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators.
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
- Richard Dawkins "Selfish Gene"

一昨日のライティング

勉強したことをさらそう。たぶんこれもすぐ飽きるけど。


今日書いた文章。今練習しているセクションでは、最初にreadingを読まされて次にそれに関するレクチャーを聞く。その後レクチャーを要約しつつreadingとの関連を述べる。
書いた文章をさらして、解答と比較した反省をかく

標準語も一種の方言、というレクチャーについて

The lecturer said that the word "standard" is anbiguous ambiguous, so we should consider "standard" as an one of diarects dialects.

  • スペルミス
  • 短い

記憶と忘却について

The lecturer maintains that not only remenbering, but olso forgetting is an important aspect of human activity.
He accept rading passage, but he says that without forgetting, we cannot remenber anything, and will be totaly confused.

  • different aspectsという表現が抜けてる
  • forgettingのbenefit
  • namely

ストレスに対する2つのタイプ

The woman maintains that there are two type of personal quality in the face of stress. Type A, she said, is open to mental and physical damage from stress, while type B can relax when they are in stressful situation.
These types are not mentioned in the reading, but reading shows children's different types of reaction. So the main point of the talk supports the idea of reading.

  • 8 minの制限付き(制限あるほうがよくかける)