一个学生找老师因为他要写的bird migration的报告，但找不到足够多的材料，老师认为不可能材料不够(出现考点：问教授这话什么意思，答案是她认为找resource应该easy)，男生说因为他要写得paper是关于古代鸟类迁徙的，所以资料不够。教授的说：“哦你确实找到了一个好的题目，但是你要知道我的要求是你们的论文要反映你们这学期学了什么。”后来他说想写关于Aristotle关于这个题目的看法之类的，老师说她的要求是希望他们运用所学知识研究来完成paper 不要做summarization,希望他换一种想法,可以写以前的old theory, 然后现在的这些新研究如何支持或者驳斥这些theory，接着他想到可以写bird migrate at night，人们大多只看到大鸟，所以认为小鸟在大鸟的翅膀下迁徙什么的，其实新发现是因为小鸟晚上飞(通过说这个topic来验证自己理解了老师的意图change the topic from ancient torecent)。后来他又想写一种不迁徙而是冬眠的鸟，又被老师拒绝了，老师说才15页的报告就不要那么折腾成这样，但是想法挺不错。最后老师希望他一周后再来一下，看一看他确定的方向。
People think small birds do notmigrate. But birds migrate at night and the small birds are under the wing ofbig wings. So they are invisible to people. Then the student wants to write abird that not migrate but hibernate, but the teacher denies his idea. At last,the teacher hopes that he can come a week later and see his new topic.
He can not find sufficient material for the bird migration. Butthe teacher thinks it is impossible. They he wants to write some ideas from Aristotle.But the teacher says that her request is to apply their knowledge to accomplishthe paper. So he should change the topic. Ragtime musicRagtime介绍了一种流行于美国十九世纪左右名为ragtime的音乐，能够表现年青人的活力(spirit of youth)之类的，此乐流行是由于piano的关系，因为两者真是太搭配了。在那个年代，在各种场合都用钢琴。此乐当时流行程度，（like Rock & Roll在某一时期一样）。这里出现考点，女学生说了一堆后，来了一句 I just don't get it，意思是要教授explain，还说piano 之所以当时那么受欢迎，一是因为它能与音律产生和谐，另一是因为当时它算一种财富地位的象征什么的symbol of wealth and status。再加上，那个年代，大家都没钱，就去public concert or restaurant什么的听音乐，而piano声音够响亮，又和ragtime music rhythm搭配的天衣无缝，所以，两者相得益彰这个音乐年轻人很喜欢，因为很有激情。除了到处演出啊，park演出等不用钢琴，因为难搬(出现考点)because of transportation problem。 同时，此乐也是 jazz的前身，因为演奏者不按牌理出牌，一首曲七个人弹，弹出七种调。 这种regtime音乐影响很远啊，例如现在的jazz就是从那发展来的。
Ragtime 拉格泰姆音乐(1890-1915期间在美国流行的一种音乐) Ragtimeis an Americanmusical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It hashad several periods of revival since then and is still being composed today.Ragtime was the first truly American musical genre, predating jazz. It began as dancemusic in popular music settings years before being published as popular sheetmusic for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march,it was usually written in 2/4 or 4/4 time(meter) with a predominant left hand pattern of bass notes on odd-numberedbeats and chords on even-numbered beats accompanying a syncopatedmelody in the right hand. A composition in this style is called a"rag". A rag written in 3/4 time is a "ragtime waltz". Ragtime isnot a "time" (meter) in the same sense that march time is 2/4meter and waltz time is 3/4 meter; it is rather a musical genre that uses aneffect that can be applied to any meter. The defining characteristic of ragtimemusic is a specific type of syncopation in which melodicaccents fall between metrical beats. This results in a melody that seems to beavoiding some metrical beats of the accomp**nt by emphasizing notes thateither anticipate or follow the beat. The ultimate (and intended) effect on thelistener is actually to accentuate the beat, thereby inducing the listener tomove to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the"King of Ragtime", called the effect "weird andintoxicating". He also used the term "swing" in describing howto play ragtime music: "Play slowly until you catch the swing...".[1]The name swing later came to be applied to an earlygenre of jazz that developed from ragtime. Converting a non-ragtime piece ofmusic into ragtime by changing the time values of melody notes is known as"ragging" the piece. Original ragtime pieces usually contain severaldistinct themes, four being the most common number. 大王花Rafflesia教授一开始就介绍植物分类，提到分类中的species种，genus属，order目。说植物的classification 很难，一些特性比较特殊的植物特别是这个样子。提出植物的分类不能完全依靠它flower的形态和特性。提到Rafflesia(大王花)，开花石会散发腐臭的味道，以吸引蝇类传播花粉。她举了Indonesia的一种植物M，它的flower很特别，超级大（图片显示它的直径有一个手臂这么长，颜色为绛红，也许会牛人知道它是何种植物），有难闻的味道，象什么肉，但是最后发现他们不是一个order 的。生长在很恶劣的环境中,其它的植物都不能生长(题目一:它生长在什么样的环境当中?) 这种植物有事物的来源,但是它还是会抓insect吃,因为它不能从土壤中得到足够的营养,所以要通过这种方式来获取所需的营养(题目二:为什么吃虫?)然后教授说了它怎么抓虫的? 经过很长时间的研究，专家发现它和violet(紫罗兰)、willow(柳树) 等是属于一个order的，后提到幼时的violet，也会散发那种smell的。提到共存（考题，）有提到另一种南美洲的植物和它是同一目的，但是花很小，味道也不难闻，与蓝莓共生coherent。学生提问不能测DNA吗，教授说这种大花基本不进行光合作用，没法提取一般植物能提取到的DNA。在DNA分析技术成熟之前根本无法将他们并为同类，由于他们的特征差异太大。教授还提到这种植物的交配不易，其一气味难闻致使传蜜的动物不易接近，其二它每年只开一次花，且花分雌雄。所以要这么多先天条件凑齐不易，所以很少有人有机会看到开花的全过程。（考题）所以，结论，不可以貌取人。后来又讲了这种花很有可能灭绝，原因是要fly帮忙运花粉，要同种的花在一起，要。。。。要这些条件同时发生，是小概率事件。Small incident 作者: myice 时间: 2009-10-26 10:57
