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三峽老街介紹(一) goteamjosh.com
Sanxia Old Street (三峽老街) otherwise known as San Jiao Yong Old Street (三角涌老街) is located in the Sanxia district of New Taipei City and is a popular old street for the residents of northern Taiwan. The street is about 260 meters long, but don't tell that to the people going on the weekends who will ultimately have to endure a massive traffic jam to get there!
The Sanxia area is steeped in history and there are several other notable attractions in the area that make the old street a worthwhile day trip out of the city. The street has a similar history to that of the Daxi Old Street (大溪老街) in Taoyuan and was once an economic powerhouse due to its location next to the Dabao River.
Sanxia had a long history of trade and exporting goods (mostly wood) from the mountains nearby to other parts of the island and to China which brought with it quite a lot of prosperity. When methods of transportation improved and transport by way of boat became less useful the town started to decline, merchants moved away and the economy suffered.
The buildings we see today are a reflection of the former prestige of the town - Much like Daxi, Hukou and other old streets throughout the country, the facades of the buildings on the street were built in the baroque (巴洛克式風格) style. Sanxia stands out from the rest however due to the fact that the facades of the buildings were built uniformly in red brick and that both sides of the street have an arched sidewalk. The street was renovated by the local government in 2007 in an attempt to attract more tourists but that doesn't take away from the fact that the buildings on the street are said to be an excellent example of the architecture of the Japanese colonial era.
I’m not particularly a huge fan of crowds so I usually visit the street during weekdays - If you visit on weekdays like I do you won't get the full “old street” experience and not all of the stores will be open, but what you will get is the opportunity to take some great photos of this historic relic dating back to 1685.
I've been to Sanxia Old Street dozens of times and I've found that I now enjoy walking along the road and checking out the wood carvings on the houses as well as the small alleys you might not notice if it were full of people.
On days when the street isn't that busy, the locals seem to be much more willing to have a chat and explain the history than they would if there were thousands of people walking along the road. On my last visit for example I was walking around alone shooting some stuff and I ran into an old man wearing a fedora who struck up a conversation with me. He told me I should pay close attention to a few things along the road and showed me an ancient “door bell” that was beside the door on his house. The door bell was a carved horse and was actually a bell that you would have pulled a string to ring which I never would have noticed on my own or even if I did think it was historically significant.
These days the street is full of vendors selling traditional handicrafts, antiques, tea and kitschy things that tourists would buy. There are also tea houses, restaurants, shaved ice dessert places and the streets most popular product: A type of hard and sugary croissant called a “bulls horn” (牛角) that I can't say I'm particularly fond of. Whenever I visit the street I find that I don't spend any money and for me, I think that is a problem. The government invested a lot of money into the rejuvenation of the old street, so I think that it should be more than something that people just walk through once in a while.
我們睡覺是為了要遺忘!
We sleep to forget things, new study finds Mihai Andrei February 3, 2017
Sleep is as mysterious as it is vital for our wellbeing. Over the decades, researchers have proposed several mechanisms through which sleep rejuvenates us, but we still don’t fully understand the big picture. Now, two recently published studies come up with an interesting explanation: we sleep to forget some of the things we learn during the day.
We store memories in networks in our brains. Whenever we learn something new, we grow new connections between neurons, called synapses. In 2003, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli, biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed something very interesting: during the day, we learn so much and develop so many synapses that things sometimes get fuzzy. Since then, the two and their collaborators have made quite a few interesting additions to that study.
For starters, they showed that neurons can prune out some synapses, at least in the lab. But they suspected the same things happens every day, naturally, in our brains — probably during sleep. So they set up a painstaking experiment, in which Luisa de Vivo, an assistant scientist working in their lab, collected 6,920 synapses from mice, both awake and sleeping. Then, they determined the shape and size of all these synapses, learning that the synapses in sleeping mice were 18 percent smaller than in awake ones. That’s quite a big margin. “That there’s such a big change over all is surprising,” Dr. Tononi said. This was a big tell and helped direct their efforts.
After this, they designed a memory test for mice. They placed the animals in a room where they would get a mild electrical shock if they walked over one particular section of the floor. They injected some of the mice with a substance that had been proved to prevent the pruning of new synapses. The mice that experienced this were much more likely to forget about the section and after a good night’s sleep, they tended to walk over the section again, while mice that slept normally remembered better.
Then, Dr. Tononi and his colleagues found that the pruning didn’t strike every neuron. Some 20% were unchanged, likely well-established memories that shouldn’t be tampered with. In other words, we sleep to forget — but in a smart way. Another interesting consequence might concern sleeping pills. These pills might interfere with the brain’s pruning process and might prevent the brain from forming memories properly.
Q:
What do you think the viewpoints that “we
sleep to forget things”?
How long about your sleeping hours?
How much sleep do we really need?
Why seven hours of sleep might be better
than eight?
What are the factors that affecting
sleeping patterns?
How to get rid of bad memories?
英文慣用語介紹: (我們會用此 做英文練習)
英文諺語
Every minute counts
Every minute counts 分秒必爭
Every minute counts, and every moment counts.
Meaning
Time is very important.
Examples:
Every minute counts , as the test is very important
分秒必爭,因為這個測驗非常重要。
Every minute counts, and Every moment counts.
Fig. time is very important. (Used especially in situations where time is very limited.)
Examples:
Doctor, please try to get here quickly. Every minute counts.
When you take a test, you must work rapidly because every minute counts.
When you're trying to meet a deadline, every moment counts.
start from scratch這個短語的含義 (epochtimes.com)
例句-
He started from scratch with a small chicken restaurant down south. But he worked hard, had some luck and now Kentucky Fried Chicken is sold around the world.
“肯德基炸雞店”的創辦人白手起家，從南方的一家路邊小餐館做起。他既勤奮又有運氣，發展成今天行銷全球的肯德基炸雞。
scratch這個詞在start from scratch這個習慣用語裡意思。整個短語的意思是“從零開始”，“白手起家”。
start from scratch 白手起家
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to start from the very beginning; to start from nothing.
Ex:
1. I built every bit of my own house. I started from scratch and did everything with my own hands.
1. I built every bit of my own house. I started from scratch and did everything with my own hands.
2. So these images are entirely unlabeled, so i have to start from scratch.
這些圖片完全沒有標題，我必需從零開始。
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