Fairy shrimp Branchinella kugenumaensis displays sensitivity to microplastic exposure

The increasing global concern regarding plastic pollution has prompted the research into the consequences of microplastics(MPs)on aquatic ecosystems.Fairy shrimp Branchinella kugenumaensis are freshwater planktonic organisms that have existed for 250 million years.This study aimed to uncover the harmful effects of MPs,with a particular focus on their size variations(0.1,1,and 5μm),on the fairy shrimp.We focused on how MPs could significantly affect the survival and growth of fairy shrimp.Notably,larger MPs,especially those measuring 5μm,caused higher mortality rates and hindered the growth compared to smaller ones.The impact of MPs continued even subsequent to depuration in clean water.The accumulation of MPs within the intestines of fairy shrimp resulted in intestinal blockages,disrupted excretory functions,and harmed intestinal epithelial cells.Examinations at the histological,cellular,and molecular levels showed that exposure to MPs triggered necroptosis in intestinal cells,accompanied by alterations in pathways related to transcription,translation,digestion,energy metabolism,and neurological functions.Furthermore,the effects of MPs on gene expression and pathways varied based on particle size,with larger MPs having a more significant effect and causing a strong response in xenobiotic biodegradation and metabolism pathways.We suggest that the increasing severity of MPs pollution could pose a significant threat to the survival of fairy shrimp.This study provided vital insights into the complex relationship between microplastics and aquatic organisms,and highlighted the urgent need to address the potential devastating impact of plastic pollution on freshwater ecosystems.Additionally,due to their rapid growth,strong reproductive capacity,sensitivity,and ease of cultivation,fairy shrimp hold the potential candidate to serve as a model organism for studying the effects of MPs and other pollutants on freshwater ecosystems.

从“意境”到“译境”:基于翻译美学视域下的中译英歌词研究——以“Fairy Tale”为例

随着文化全球化的深入发展,中译英歌词翻译已经成为跨文化交流的一个重要领域。歌词翻译中如何协调“意境”(原歌曲传达的情感与美感)与“译境”(源语言与目标语言之间的差异)的平衡,依然是一个充满挑战与争议的问题。文章回顾了翻译美学的发展,强调其在跨文化交流中的作用,通过分析“Fairy Tale”的翻译实践,展示了如何在不同的美学层面上实现文化适应和情感表达。研究结果强调了翻译作为一种文化表达方式的重要性,提出将翻译美学应用于实际翻译工作中,以促进跨文化交流和理解。

Expression and Application of Fairy Tale Elements in Experiential Agricultural Garden:A Case Study of Ji'an Shiyang Fairy Tale Garden

After more than 30 years of development,leisure agriculture has developed rapidly as a new star of China's emerging industries.With the upsurge of the nostalgic market and the parent-child market,the application of fairy tale elements in the experiential agricultural garden has enhanced the product competitiveness of the experiential agricultural garden.Through the application and expression of the material elements,spiritual elements and emotional elements in the fairy tales in the experiential agricultural garden,the fairy tales are expressed by reality,and the reality is beautiful by fairy tales.The fairy tale elements are used to increase the vitality of the agricultural park,and the good medicine in childhood is used to cure the"sequelae of stress",relieve the mental stress that people in the city cannot relieve,and regain fun dreams of childhood.Taking the planning of Ji an Shiyang Fairy Tale Garden as an example,the expression and application of fairy tale elements in the experiential agricultural garden are explored,and the expression of material,spiritual and emotional elements in the fairy tale is expounded from the planning level,design level and scheme level.

Subverting the Traditional Function of Fairy Tales

Through analyzing Carter' s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories,it is meant to expose the fact that the traditional function of fairy tales,namely the vehicle to enslave and indoctrinate children,has been subverted as a " loudspeaker" for long restrained,voiceless fe males to speak out their rights and identities,so as to dismantle the deeply-rooted patriarchy.

Audience Intoxicated by Acrobatic Fairy Story——Large Acrobatic Play of Fairy Story Red Dancing Shoes of Chongqing Acrobatic Artistic Troupe

In order to celebrate Chongqing as a directly governed city region for ten years and also the First China Chongqing Cultural Artistic Festival, Chongqing Acrobatic Artistic Troupe gave a large acrobatic play of fairy story Red Dancing Shoes. From June 1st to June 3rd, the performance in public of Red Dancing Shoes got a complete success. The media including Chongqing TV Station,

＂Historical Rewriting＂ and ＂Alternative Fairy Tales＂ in Contemporary Vietnamese Prose： Intertextuality or Incredulity Towards Grand Narratives

At the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, Vietnamese literature witnessed unprecedented innovations in the aesthetic thinking of writers and the narrative structure of their works. One of the most interesting manifestations of this new movement was not merely the introduction of new aesthetic materials and factors, but the adoption and positive ＂reprocessing＂ of traditional factors---especially historical factors and folk narrative factors. Based on intertextual theory, we would like to address the strong penetration, reproduction, and transformation of some folk storytelling models and historical materials in Vietnamese literature since 1986. Two corresponding phenomena we examine are ＂historical rewriting＂ and ＂alternative fairy tales＂--as part of the whole process of incredulity towards grand narratives and postmodernism in the contemporary Vietnamese prose.

On Culture-Bound Words in the Brothers＇ Grimm Fairy Tales and Their Equivalents in English Translations

The aim of the article is to connect the model of cognitive metonymy with the model of types of denotative equivalence highlighting the explanatory potential of the model of cognitive metonymy for describing and clarifying the use and occurrence of word equivalents in the English translations of the Brothers＇ Grimm fairy tales by Margaret Taylor （1914） and Jack Zipes （1987）. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm （GFT） can be seen in a wide sense as a source of the history of culture and social life in the German speaking countries of the nineteenth century. Culture-bound words refer to a special cultural knowledge, which is in a historical sense not or not completely compatible with the structure of knowledge in our present days, and refer to a common cultural knowledge of the community of German speaking countries as well. This article describes the ways of using English equivalents in the translations of the GFT including lexical and cognitive procedures, which stand behind the use of certain equivalents. This leads to the theoretical question： Is it possible to extend the model of denotative equivalence using features of conceptual metonymy in rendering culture-bound words in the target texts？ Investigating this, there can be established modifications in the theory of conceptual metonymy in the framework of cognitive linguistics.

On Subversion of Traditional Male and Female Images in Angela Cater's Modern Fairy Tales

Angela Carter is a famous contemporary British female writer with a variety of creative styles, famous for Gothic style, magic realism and new feminism. As one of the representatives of feminist writers in the last century, Angela Carter devoted her life to prosecuting patriarchal society from the perspective of women, calling on women to find themselves and realize personality libera-tion. At the same time, she is also a rational feminist, advocating the establishment of harmonious rather than antagonistic social re-lations with men and women.This article will mainly use text analysis and contrast and comparison to study the image of the male and female image in Angela Carter's modern fairy tale, and explore the reasons. On the basis of the text analysis, this paper will study the transformation of female image from the change of female status and personality. The laws of comparison and comparison will be used to explore the differences between men and women in the traditional fairy tale and the modern fairy tale of Angela Cart-er. The study found that in Carter's reconstruction of the fairy tale, the female image dares to break through the inherent status, and constantly launches the impact on the men's rights, seeking individual independence and self-liberation, and the male image is more diversified and more realistic and vivid. Through this study, it is hoped that the reader will have a deeper and more compre-hensive understanding of Angela Carter and his work, and find out the new feminist connotation contained in his work, thus ending the dualistic confrontation of the male and female and establishing a harmonious relationship.

A New World to Discover——Grimm's Fairy Tales

Nowadays, the fairy tales have been on hot discussion. Some say that the very original Grimm's fairy tales is capricious that we may be more cautious whether it's suitable for children. With the rethinking of fairy tales, many other scholars argue that the fairy tales can be valuable with its hidden German customs in the original version and the current versions are acceptable to children.The hot discussion raises our thinking. This new discussing wave may indicate something at a degree that the Grimm's Fairy Tales is worthy going deeper to study. We think that the Grimm's ferry tales is valuable for its pure essence and the German culture it hides that even adults should read it. Children can read the current version of Grimm's Fairy Tales with their innocence,getting the basic judging system of good and bad. The core question is that Adults also should pick it up. That's because usually people will find that all the experiences and reasons can be dated back to the simple truths in fairy tales. Meantime, the Grimm's Fairy Tales reflects lots of unthinkable customs and culture. The only thing we need to do is try to find new aspects and directions to explore the classic. With the spiritual and academic help, shouldn't the Grimm's fairy tales be necessary for both children and adults to read?

Develop the Adult Value in Andersen's Fairy Tales from Humanitarianism

The Andersen’s fairy tales have made many research results since 20thcentury,but they mainly concentrate on its effect on children.Andersen’s Fairy Tales characterized by their"childishness",are unconsciously referred to as"kids reading".People don’t understand the real meaning of Andersen’s fairy tales.This paper attempts to regard Anderson’s Fairy Tales as a great literary work but not only a fairy tales for children to read.And do a detailed research about"the adult value"in Andersen’s fairy tales from humanitarianism in the book.The whole paper is divided into three parts.Apart from the introduction,the paper starts with a series of specific examples and analysis about humanitarianism in the book.Upon that,it carries on analysis of adult value in Andersen’s Fairy Tales based on some serious problems in nowadays society.It seeks to expound the quality and contemporary value of Andersen’s fairy tales.And it also attempts to put it into good use for guiding the adults and help to solve social problems to some degree.

Habitat-specific changes of plant and soil microbial community composition in response to fairy ring fungus Agaricus xanthodermus on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Fairy rings are common in diverse global biomes and often appear as lush vegetation in one to three concentric zones caused by the spread of mycelia in grassland ecosystems.However,the underlying mechanisms and environmental adaptation of fairy rings remain largely unclear.In this study,two fairy rings(A and B)caused by Agaricus xanthodermus were sampled on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during a time when fairy rings are most obvious.By conducting a vegetation survey and high-throughput sequencing,the changes of plants and soil microorganisms to fairy ring fungi were examined.Plant above-ground biomass at both fairy rings was greatly increased by fairy ring fungi,but the response of dominant plant species is different at two fairy ring sites.In addition,bacterial and fungal communities significantly varied within distinct sampling zones across the fairy rings,and showed variable genus-specific responses at two fairy ring sites.At fairy ring A,soil available N:P ratio was essential in shaping the structure of plant and microbial community,while soil available N concentration was the most important predictor at fairy ring B.Taken together,our results indicated Agaricus xanthodermus fairy rings have variable effects on alpine meadow plants and soil microbes at different habitats.We propose that the impacts of fairy ring fungi on plants and microbes are determined by the level of soil available N concentration and available N:P ratio.These results contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms through which fairy rings affect the vegetation of alpine meadows.

Encountering Yourself in a Fairy-Tale World: Fairy Tale Narrative of Short Stories by Chi Zijian

The short stories written by Chi Zijian always breathe life into the daily trifles of ordinary people with hope and compassion,exploring a spiritual power that overcomes suffering and universal love beyond life and death.Through the mysterious connection between humanity and nature,her stories attempt to paint a landscape of the real world of interconnection and inter-transformation.It is essentially a form of fairy tale narrative.Consequently,the essence of"poetry"is achieved in the dialectical unity between childhood and maturity,lightness and weight,constituting a foundational dimension of the artistic spirit.

THE SCIENTIFIC FAIRY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

That Sherlock Holmes solves his nu-merous cases by means of an especiallyrigorous use of method is a common as-sumption.The great detective has him-self outlined the method for Watson:“Tocarry the art,however,to its highest pitch,it is necessary that the reasoner sould be ableto utilize all the facts which come to hisknowledge and this I have endeavored inmy case to do(“The Five Orange Pips”).But a formal study of some typical instancesreveals them all as no more than variantsof a fixed pattern—for Holmes to

"Pipa Fairy Maiden" Zhang Hongyan

WHEN Zhang Hongyan plays the completely traditional Chinese musical instrument, the pipa, she is called a "pipa fairy maiden" by her audiences, "the pipa queen with outstanding talent and appearance" by the Hong Kong press and "a national flower of the Women Philharmonic Orchestra" in Singapore. Having completed her master’s degree program at the folk music department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Zhang is continuing there as a teacher. On the unforgettable night of June 9, 1992, Zhang Hongyan presented her first solo concerto concert at the Beijing Concert Hall, in cooperation with the celebrated Central Philharmonic Orchestra based in Beijing and its famous conductor Hu Yongyan. This concert made her the first folk musical instrument player to present a special concerto concert in cooperation with a Western style orchestra. It is the result of many years of effort. Zhang was born in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, famous as the home of Yue Opera. Her father is a musician with a Yue

A September Fairy Tale

THE mild May sunshine was like hot springs; it embraced me in its warm arms, washed over my body and made me feel light. Spring is a good season for bicycle riding. I would never miss the froedom of bicycle riding. The vehicle is light and practical; my comings and goings are easy and free. Riding on the bike, my gaily flowered pleated skirt blew up by the breeze, I felt as if I were sitting in a basket full of blooming flowers,

GRIM FAIRY TALES

外国传教士眼中的中国神怪大观和民间信仰Vampires,ghosts,and were-beasts:How foreign demonologists catalogued China’s homegrown horrorsThe tale,over a century old,starts simply:A researcher asks a former governor why he keeps moving his arms,as if swinging bells.The answer:vampires.Dutch demonologist Jan Jakob Maria de Groot was researching China’s supernatural history in 1907

童话故事:一种有效的儿章艺术治疗空间

文学作为一种艺术形式,对于儿童可以发挥巨大的治疗作用。故事是儿童最为喜闻乐见的形式,以童话故事为治疗手段的艺术治疗,往往对儿童有较好的治疗效果,且有很强的操作性。被治疗者通过重读自己的故事来理解“自己”,进入积极模式,将自身引向平衡,从而获得治疗。