读书会

At the bookish assembly hosted by Secretary General Huang Chin-ying on June 5, Miss Liu Mei-chin presented the first report on The Nokia Revolution: The Story of an Extraordinary Company That Transformed an Industry written by Dan Steinbock, a research fellow of Institute for Mobile Markets Research, Columbia Business School.

6月5日读书会在黄晋英秘书长主持下，第一篇由刘美琴小姐报告《NOKIA！

The research project has supported a very active research team: Workshop in Institional Analysis and Public Policy, RUC.

在这一课题的支持下，IAPP课题组每周举行一次读书会，进行理论研究和研究成果评议；每月举行一次学术报告会，邀请有关专家进行相关的学术研讨；每3月举行一次学术研讨会，邀请相关专家进行学术研讨。

At the ARF Bookish Assembly hosted by Secretary General Huang Chin-ying on May 15, Mr. Chin Ken-pa presented the first report on the book Leviathan authored by Thomas Hobbes, a 17th Century British thinker. In the book he stated that natural state of man ended because of transfer of rights. The book also explored the building of a nation, the status of sovereign and how to protect natural rights.

5月15日的读书会在黄晋英秘书长主持下，第一场由曾庆豹先生报告《利维坦》，为17世纪英国政治思想家霍布斯所著，书中论述「人」的自然状态因「让渡权利」而结束、探讨国家的形成与主权者的地位，并思辨如何维护自然权利。

Using the idea of action and reaction, explain why the scale reading will be less when you push down on the top of the sink. Why will the scale reading be more if you pull up on the bottom of the sink.

用作用力与反作用力的理论，解释一下为什么在你用力向下压水槽顶部时秤的读数会少于体重，而当你用力拉水槽底部时秤的读书会多于体重。

At the first session of bookish assembly hosted by Secretary General Huang Chin-ying on July 7, Miss Tsai Han-chieh reported on The Unchained Memories , authored by Lenore Terr. This book had analyzed on how childhood memories of traumatic incidents were stored in the brain and on what conditions they could be taken out.

7月7日的读书会在黄晋英秘书长主持下，第一场由蔡函洁小姐报告《推开记忆囚门》，作者为精神病学临床教授Lenore Terr，本书分析童年创伤事件所造成的记忆会如何被储存於脑中，又在哪些特定条件下会被提取出来。

At the ARF Bookish Assembly hosted by Secretary General Huang Chin-ying on May 29, Mr. Chuang Wen-fu presented the first report on the book Boule de Suif, a masterpiece by French writer Guy de Maupassant. The book took the background of "Franco-Prussian War" in 1870. It is a story about a prostitute nicknamed Boule de Suif and other famous French refugees.

5月29日的读书会在黄晋英秘书长主持下，第一场由庄文福先生报告《脂肪球》，为法国作家莫泊桑之代表作，以1870普法战争为背景，一位绰号为脂肪球的妓女与其他法国有名望的逃难者所发生故事。

At the first session of bookish assembly hosted by Secretary General Huang Chin-ying on Feb. 12, Ms. Ou Hung-lan reported on the book Happiness:Lessons from a New Science authored by economist Richard Layard. He was once an advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The purpose of this book was to describe factors influencing "happiness." The author believed that less competition could be achieved through the design of social system and increase people's happiness.

2月12日的读书会在黄晋英秘书长主持下，第一场由欧虹兰小姐报告《快乐经济学》，作者为经济学家Richard Layard，曾担任英国首相Tony Blair的顾问，本书旨在陈述影响「快乐」的因子，认为可以透过社会制度的设计减少竞争，增加心灵快乐。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。