Ⅰ
收假第一天，略微小困，但状态还算不错。
职场规则：不要让同事看到你哭泣，看笑话的人不同情人的人要多；不要穿得比你的上司好，要尊重上司。
Ⅱ
哲学的故事：
天才与天才难以相处，正如火药一遇到火就会爆炸一样。柏拉图与亚里士多德这两位伟大的哲学家也免不了会出现这种现象。
Aristotle and Greek Science
I. The Historical Background
Plato recognized the greatness of this strange new pupil from the supposedly barbarian north, and spoke of him once as the Nous of the Academy, —as if to say, Intelligence personified. Aristotle had spent money lavishly in the collection of books (that is, in those printless days, manuscripts); he was the first, after Euripides, to gather together a library; and the foundation of the principles of library classification was among his many contributions to scholarship. Therefore Plato spoke of Aristotle's home as "the house of the reader," and seems to have meant the sincerest compliment; but some ancient gossip will have it that the Master intended a sly but vigorous dig at a certain bookwormishness in Aristotle. A more authentic quarrel seems to have arisen towards the end of Plato's life. Our ambitious youth apparently developed an "Œdipus complex" against his spiritual father for the favors and affections of philosophy, and began to hint that wisdom would not die with Plato; while the old sage spoke of his pupil as a foal that kicks his mother after draining her dry. The learned Zeller, in whose pages Aristotle almost achieves the Nirvana of respectability, would have us reject these stories; but we may presume that where there is still so much smoke there was once a flame.
foal: n. 小马驹
Nirvana: n. 涅槃
腓力二世想让儿子亚历山大接受最全面的教育，于是请来了亚里士多德做老师，“帝师”亚里士多德由此进入人生又一新的阶段。
Aristotle and Greek Science
I. The Historical Background
The other incidents of this Athenian period are still more problematical. Some biographers tell us that Aristotle founded a school of oratory to rival Isocrates; and that he had among his pupils in this school the wealthy Hermias, who was soon to become autocrat of the city-state of Atarneus. Afterreaching this elevation Hermias invited Aristotle to his court; and in the year 344 B.C. he rewarded his teacher for past favors by bestowing upon him a sister (or a niece) in marriage. One might suspect this as a Greek gift; but the historians hasten to assure us that Aristotle, despite his genius, lived happily enough with his wife, and spoke of her most affectionately in his will. It was just a year later that Philip, King of Macedon, called Aristotle to the court at Pella to undertake the education of Alexander. It bespeaks the rising repute of our philosopher that the greatest monarch of the time, looking about for the greatest teacher, should single out Aristotle to be the tutor of the future master of the world.
Philip was determined that his son should have every educational advantage, for he had made for him illimitable designs. His conquest of Thrace in 356 B.C. had given him command of gold mines which at once began to yield him precious metal to ten times the amount then coming to Athens from the failing silver of Laurium; his people were vigorous peasants and warriors, as yet unspoiled by city luxury and vice: here was the combination that would make possible the subjugation of a hundred petty city-states and the political unification of Greece. Philip had no sympathy with the individualism that had fostered the art and intellect of Greece but had at the same time disintegrated her social order; in all these little capitals he saw not the exhilarating culture and the unsurpassable art, but the commercial corruption and the political chaos: he saw insatiable merchants and bankers absorbing the vital resources of the nation, incompetent politicians and clever orators misleading a busy populace into disastrous plots and wars, factions cleaving classes and classes congealing into castes: this, said Philip, was not a nation but only a welter of individuals—geniuses and slaves; he would bring the hand of order down upon this turmoil, and make all Greece stand up united and strong as the political center and basis of the world. In his youth in Thebes he had learned the arts of military strategy and civil organization under the noble Epaminondas; and now, with courage as boundless as his ambition, he bettered the instruction.
▍语言点
oratory: n. 雄辩；演讲术
Isocrates: 伊苏克拉底，雅典爱国演说家
autocrat: n. 独裁者
elevation: n. 提升
bestow upon: 赐予；赠与
hasten: vi. 着急
affectionately: adv. 深情地；热情地
It bespeaks ... : 不言自明；不言而喻
monarch: n. 君王
illimitable: adj. 无法限制的
conquest: n. 征服
vice: n. 罪恶
subjugation: n. 臣服
foster: vt. bring up，抚养
exhilarating: adj. 令人振奋的
insatiable: adj. 难以满足的；贪得无厌的
cleave: vt. 劈开
congeal: vi. 凝结；凝固
caste: n. 印度社会中的种姓制度
welter: n. 大杂烩
turmoil: n. 混乱；骚动
better: vt. improve，提升
