Fulfilling the dream
| Bolin Chen, 29, won his first award after ten years of acting. XINHUA | |
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陈柏霖：实现梦想需要时间和耐心。
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HOW long will you wait to succeed in your dream career?
Ten years or longer, Taiwan actor Bolin Chen would say. The 29-year-old finally earned back all his hard work when he won Best Leading Actor for his role in the popular TV ries In Time With You (《我可能不会爱你》) at the 47th Golden Bell Awards, which was held in Taipei on Oct 26.
From a very young age, we have a dream, whether it’s to be a painter, a scientist or a writer. But the desire (渴望) to paint, discover or tell stories fades (消褪) as we grow up, until that moment of finding our deep calling hits us.
For Chen, this came when he was discovered by director Yee Chih-Yen in front of an ice cream store at the age of 19. Chen had considered becoming an excellent dancer, a model and a singer before he played the male lead in Yee’s movie Blue Gate Crossing (
《蓝色大门》). His first taste of fame with the well-received drama showed him what he really wanted to be.
However, show business didn’t favor him instantly (立刻). Fame was not of interest to him as his rule for picking roles was to try something new each time.
社团活动计划躁狂抑郁性精神病Over the next ten years he engaged (使……忙碌) himlf in genres as different as fantasy (魔幻) action in The Twins Effect II (2004), horror (恐怖片) in The Eye 10 (2005) and coming-of-age drama in Buddha Mountain (2010).
Nothing made much of an impact until he successfully played a thoughtful and dedicated (忠心的) partner in a relationship of undeclared love (暗恋) with his best friend (played by Best Actress winner Ariel Lin). The TV drama was the biggest winner at the awards ceremony (仪式), sweeping ven awards out of its eight nominations (提名).
Like his winning role, Li Daren, critics say Chen is just like a fine wine that will get better with age. There’s something about the way he carries himlf – that sincere and down-to-earth demeanor (气质) fans can’t help but fall for.
不怕冷
Many believe the Golden Bell trophy (奖杯) will take Chen’s acting career to new heights. But Chen says that the greatest gains are actually personal lessons.
“You’ll succeed in time as long as you love it with a passion (热情) becau life will give back what you put into it,” he told Taiwan newspaper The China Times.午餐英语
“If your dream requires time and patience, give it.”
甜石榴高考词汇
succeed vi. 成功
If you try hard, you will succeed in the end.
impact n./vt. 影响
The computer has made a great impact on modern life.
Crossing the line
| 讨厌女人 | A group of pedestrians jaywalk across a road in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province. CHINA DAILY | |
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做我自己
终结“中国式过马路”到底需要什么？
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THE traffic light turns red. As a pedestrian (行人), what do you do? The rule says “stop and wait,” but we often e groups of people running red lights.
Internet urs have jokingly named this phenomenon “the Chine-style street crossing”. While many people criticize it as bad manners, recent rearch reveals (揭示) another possible reason – the duration (持续时间) of red lights in China exceeds (超过) what people can mentally bear.
“Pedestrians have a maximum (最大) bearable (可忍受的) waiting time in their mind,” Ni Ying, a member of a rearch team at Tongji University’s School of Transportation Engineering, was quoted (引述) by Xinhua News Agency as saying. “If they wait longer than that, they will be more likely to ignore the light.”
From 2008 to 2010, Ni’s team carried out rearch on pedestrians’ waiting times at variou
s road crossings. They found a correlation (相互关系) between running red lights and the length of time they had to wait before the light changed. They concluded that, on average, Chine can wait for the traffic lights no longer than 70 conds, and in downtown areas this number could extend (扩大) to 90 conds.
Many countries work out pedestrians’ maximum bearable waiting time and u it to design traffic lights, according to Ni. For example, rearchers found that it is 60 conds for Germans and 45 conds for Britons. Seldom does a red light in the countries exceed the limits.
But the duration of red lights in China often exceeds the 70 or 90 cond limit. Take Beijing for example. At Zhongguancun Avenue a red light lasts longer than 2 minutes, during which you could finish reading a short story on Teens. Pedestrians are then given just 30 conds to cross the street.
“I stop for red lights. But if I’m really in a hurry or the traffic interval (区间) is long enough for me to cross, I move slowly forward (向前) conds before the light turns green,” said
Qi Xin, 17, living in Fengtai district in Beijing.
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