The Comparison Between Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard By Thomas Gray and To Live By Yu Hua

As Shakespeare observed,'To be or not to be,that is the question.' To live or to die is the eternal theme of life.To live by Yu Hua and Elegy Written in a Churchyard by Thomas Gray both talk about the two themes and write from the perspective of peas-ants,expressing an open mind to life.In this article,I will focus on the theme and analysis of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray and To Live by Yu Hua,and the comparison between them,then lead readers to think about the attitude towards life and death.Every one will return to the bosom of his Father and his God,we should be born to die,facing life bravely and positively.

从跨文化交际视角论方言英译的功能对等——以《儒林外史》杨译本为例

以尤金·奈达功能对等理论为指导,从跨文化交际视角,结合吴地方言所包含的人物称谓、风土人情、名物制度的文化功能,分析《儒林外史》杨译本中的方言翻译如何通过归化、异化和折中翻译法来实现文化功能对等。

Struggling to live a new normal life among Chinese women after losing an only child:A qualitative study

Objectives:Losing an only child is a life-altering event that destroys Chinese women’s lives and health in several dimensions.However,there is no unified theory exists to guide nursing practice.This study aimed to discover the substantive theory of how Chinese women live with the loss of their only child.Methods:This qualitative study used the grounded theory method.Purposive sampling,snowball sampling,and theoretical sampling were used to recruit participants.Saturated data from the in-depth interview,observation,and field notes with 13 Chinese women who have lost an only child in Southwest China were analyzed using the constant comparative method concurrently supplemented by the ATLAS.ti program,memo writing,and diagramming.Findings:Struggling to live a new normal life among Chinese women after losing an only child emerged as the substantive theory.It consists of three phases:living in agony,coming to terms,being alive in a new way.Receiving support motivated them to deal with such a loss.However,it brought them back to the previous phase(s)whenever they encountered adverse triggering situations.Therefore,they moved back and forth between these phases.The findings also illustrated that this process was profoundly affected by Chinese culture and personal beliefs.Conclusions:This substantive theory may guide nursing practice based on understanding the living process by working through the three phases.It would help develop a professional care plan recognizing individual diversity and incorporating socio-cultural and religious knowledge to effectively support women to deal with the loss of an only child.

Two Truths to Live By

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox:it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.The rabbis of old put it this way:

How to Find A Place to Live in China?

Housing options in China include apartments,dormitories,villas(houses),serviced apartments and hotels.Many foreigners in China live on a school campus.English teachers are given apartments on the campus,foreign students normally live in a dormitory.If you want to immerse yourself into Chinese culture and quickly learn Chinese,you should consider renting a room in someone else’s apartment or a shared flat You can find ads from people looking for flatm ates on Chinese housing websites or in Engish maazines.

Comparative Analysis of Satire Between Running for Governor and The Scholars

As representatives of Chinese and Western satirical literature,Mark Twain’s Running for Governor and Wu Jing-zi’s The Scholars are very prominent in satirical art.With comparative analysis between these great works,this paper makes a contrastive analysis of the differences in the expression of satire between the two,to find deep understanding of satirical literature and the differences in literary satire expression between China and the West.

On the Translation of Idioms in Terms of Functional Equivalence-The Scholars

Idioms translation is of special importance both in English and Chinese languages.It is necessary to understand its implied meaning.This paper has made a summary of idioms translation techniques employed by the Yangs in The scholars,laying emphasis on the relationship between Functional Equivalence and idioms translation.Introducing six ways of idioms translation in The Scholars,the author explores the common ground between Yang Xianyi and Nida's translating ideas--the translation should consider both the readers and translators,be faith-ful to the original point of view and so on.

Learning to Live with Religious Plurality in Personhood Formation

Every person has a more or less articulated worldview that I define in its most brief form as ＂a view on life＂. That might be a religious view and could be with or without a God-concept, but the religious domain forms a sub-domain of the embracing domain of worldview. We can make a distinction between organized and personal worldviews. I will argue that pedagogically speaking schools should be aware of the value and relevance of worldview education especially focusing on the development of the students＇ personal worldview as an integral part of their personhood formation （＂Bildung＂）. Worldview and/or religion are part of the public and the social domain, although not undisputed, and that is why I make a plea for worldview education as part of citizenship education. Already in the school as an embryonic society （John Dewey） students should learn to live together with differences and this should also include the ability to recognize differences between worldview/religious. The results of empirical research projects in the Netherlands and also from a European Commission granted project ＂Religion in Education＂ have shown that students really want to learn from and are interested in the worldview of their fellow students. They are also in favor of schools where they can meet a diversity of worldviews among teachers and students. Dialogue and encounter are important to them. So, worldview education as part of citizenship education can foster students to learn to live peacefully together.

How Do Chinese Students Adapt to Live Overseas?

In today's society,more and more students choose to study abroad.This paper focuses on illustrating that why Chinese students cannot adapt new environment easily from two main aspects which are academic achievement and social experience.In academic achievement section,this paper explains students5 motivations,education background,culture,and language proficiency.Since many Chinese students come to American to obtain higher education,academic achievement is the essential part of this paper.In social experience,there are two aspects:different culture and English problems.

Try Hard to Live a Normal Life

Many years ago in India there lived a young couple. The young couplewanted a child very much, and when they finally had a male baby, theyloved him whole-heartedly.

A Study on the Factors Influencing Consumer Purchase Decision Under the Live-Streaming Sales Model

In recent years,with the rapid development and popularization of Internet information technology,many new media platforms have risen rapidly,and major e-commerce companies have begun to explore the mode of livestreaming.Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic,due to the lockdown,live-streaming has become an important means of economic development in many places.Owing to its remarkable characteristics of timeliness,entertainment,and interactivity,it has become the latest and trendiest sales mode of e-commerce channels,reflecting huge economic potential and commercial value.This article analyzes two models and their characteristics of live-streaming sales from a practical perspective.Based on this,it outlines consumer purchasing decisions and the factors that affect consumer purchasing decisions under the live-streaming sales model.Finally,it discusses targeted suggestions for using the live-streaming sales model to expand the consumer market,hoping to promote the healthy and steady development of the live-streaming sales industry.

The Best,Worst Places to Live?

选注者言:排名,也许是市场经济的一个特点或是标记。Mercer Human Re-source Consulting每年都要给世界城市进行排名,排名的主旨是居民的生活质量。其具体标准不得而知,但是,本文告诉我们共有39项标准,涉及政治、社会以及经济。本次名列榜首的是瑞士的苏黎世。在被排名的215个城市中,伊拉克首都巴格达被排名倒数第三,即第213名,因为那里的天空战云密布。

Liver transplantation and resection in patients with hepatocellular cancer and portal vein tumor thrombosis: Feasible and effective?

Patients with locally advanced hepatocellular cancer(HCC)and portal vein tumor thrombosis(PVTT)have a dismal prognosis since limited treatment options are available for them.In recent years,effective systemic therapy,and advances in the understanding of technicalities and effectiveness of ablative therapies especially radiotherapy,have given some hope to prolong survival in them.This review summarized recent evidence in literature regarding the possible role of liver resection(LR)and liver transplantation(LT)in patients with locally advanced HCC and PVTT with no extrahepatic disease.Downstaging therapies have helped make curative resection or LT a reality in selected patients.This review emphasizes on the key points to focus on when considering surgery in these patients,who are usually relegated to palliative systemic therapy alone.Meticulous patient selection based on tumor biology,documented downstaging based on imaging and decrease in tumor marker levels,and an adequate waiting period to demonstrate stable disease,may help obtain satisfactory long-term outcomes post LR or LT in an intention to treat strategy in patients with HCC and PVTT.

Expansion of the hepatocellular carcinoma Milan criteria in liver transplantation: Future directions

Milan criteria are currently the benchmark related to liver transplantation(LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma. However, several groups have proposed different expanded criteria with acceptable results. In this article, we review the current status of LT beyond the Milan criteria in three different scenarios-expanded criteria with cadaveric LT, downstaging to Milan criteria before LT, and expansion in the context of adult living donor LT. The review focuses on three main questions: what would the impact of the expansion beyond Milan criteria be on the patients on the waiting list; whether the dichotomous criteria(yes/no) currently used are appropriate for LT or continuous survival estimations, such as the one of "Metroticket" and whether it should enter into the clinical practice; and, whether the use of living donor LT in the context of expansion beyond Milan criteria is justified.

Proposal of new expanded selection criteria using total tumor size and ^(18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose- positron emission tomography/computed tomography for living donor liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma:The National Cancer Center K

AIM: To expand the living donor liver transplantation(LT) pool of eligible patients with hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) using new morphological and biological criteria.METHODS: Patients with HCC who underwent living donor LT(LDLT) from March 2005 to May 2013 at the National Cancer Center Korea(NCCK) were enrolled. We performed the 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography(PET/CT)before LDLT. Overall and disease-free survival analysis was done in patients to evaluate the usefulness of new NCCK criteria using PET/CT and total tumor size(10 cm).RESULTS: We enrolled a total of 280 patients who pathologically confirmed to have HCC and performed the PET/CT before transplantation. Among them, 164(58.6%) patients fulfilled the NCCK criteria and 132 patients(47.1%) met the Milan criteria. Five-year overall and disease-free survival rates for patients who fulfilled the NCCK criteria showed 85.2% and 84.0%, respectively, and were significantly higher than those beyond the NCCK criteria(60.2% and 44.4%, respectively; P < 0.001). The correlation analysis between preoperative imaging tests and pathologic reports using Cohen's Kappa demonstrated the better results in the NCCK criteria than those in the Milan criteria(0.850 vs 0.583). The comparison of diseasefree analysis among the NCCK, Milan, and University of California, San Francisco(UCSF) criteria using the receiver operating characteristics curves revealed the similar area under the curve value criteria(NCCK vs Milan, P = 0.484; NCCK vs UCSF, P = 0.189 at 5-years).CONCLUSION: The NCCK criteria using hybrid concept of both morphological and biological parameters showed an excellent agreement between preoperative imaging and pathological results, and favorable survival outcomes. These new criteria might select the optimal patients with HCC waiting LDLT and expand the selection pool.

Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation for malignant metastatic melanoma to the liver

BACKGROUND. Metastases from malignant melanoma to the liver are rare in China, and surgical resection may be of potential benefit. Liver transplantation for this disease has never been reported. METHODS. We report a case of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (A-A LDLT) for metastatic melanoma. With a surgical history of ocular melanoma, the recipient presented with emaciation from a large right hepatic mass which also probably had portal vein invasion. A-A mur was successfully performed and no postoperative complications were observed in either the donor or the recipient. Postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis of metastatic malignant melanoma; however no adjuvant chemotherapy was employed after transplantation. We also reviewed the literature on the surgical treatment of metastatic malignant melanoma to the liver and discussed the LDLT indications. RESULT: Recurrence occurred 6 months after surgery and the patient died from recurrence of the disease 8 months post-transplant. CONCLUSIONS. Review of the literature suggested that only a small subset of selected patients may benefit from liver resection. Large metastatic disease in the liver potentially involving a major vessel, as in this case, should be contraindicated for liver transplantation. (Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int 2010; 9: 329-332)

Is It Better for Older People to Live With Their Children?

EVER since there have been families in China, it has been traditional for the elderly to spend their later years living at home with their children; if the children have married and presented their parents with grandchildren, the household may consist of a large extended family in which three to four generations live under one roof. Nowadays, many elderly Chinese still fit into this mold. According to a sampling survey taken in 1995, among households with older members, 67.64 million seniors—or 74.73 percent of the total—lived with their adult children. Though some older people live

New Progress regarding the Use of Lactic Acid Bacteria as Live Delivery Vectors, Treatment of Diseases and Induction of Immune Responses in Different Host Species Focusing on <i>Lactobacillus</i>Species

Lactobacillus species are non-spore-forming, gram-positive bacteria and lactic acid producing bacteria (LAPB) that naturally inhabit the human and animal gastrointestinal and mouth organs. The aim of this review was to evaluate the new progress regarding the use of Lactobacillus species as live delivery vectors, prevention, and treatment of pathogenic and metabolic diseases. Lactobacillus strains of probiotics have been extensively studied and have confirmed that they can absolutely improve performance as live delivery vectors, a treatment option of various diseases such as: Hemorrhagic cecal coccidiosis in young poultry, hypertension, avian flu, obesity, diabetes, Derzsy’s disease or parvovirus infection, human immunodeficiency virus infections, irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, Fungal infections, vaginal eubiosis, fish and shellfish species diseases. We give you an idea about that Lactobacillus species have been proficient in preventing and treating both disorders in animal models and some are used for clinical trials. We present the most current studies on the use of Lactobacillus strains that had an impact on an effective immune response to a specific antigen because a variety of antigens have been expressed. Therefore Lactobacillus strains can be considered as good candidates because of its potential for diseases treatment and vaccine development as heterologous protein secretion to date.

Weight loss interventions in living donor liver transplantation as a tool in expanding the donor pool: A systematic review and metaanalysis

BACKGROUND With increasing rates of liver transplantation and a stagnant donor pool,the annual wait list removals have remained high.Living donor liver transplantation(LDLT)is an established modality in expanding the donor pool and is the primary method of liver donation in large parts of the world.Marginal living donors,including those with hepatic steatosis,have been used to expand the donor pool.However,due to negative effects of steatosis on graft and recipient outcomes,current practice excludes overweight or obese donors with more than 10%macro vesicular steatosis.This has limited a potentially important source to help expand the donor pool.Weight loss is known to improve or resolve steatosis and rapid weight loss with short-term interventions have been used to convert marginal donors to low-risk donors in a small series of studies.There is,however,a lack of a consensus driven standardized approach to such interventions.AIM To assess the available data on using weight loss interventions in potential living liver donors with steatotic livers and investigated the feasibility,efficacy,and safety of using such donors on the donor,graft and recipient outcomes.The principal objective was to assess if using such treated donor livers,could help expand the donor pool.METHODS We performed a comprehensive literature review and meta-analysis on studies examining the role of short-term weight loss interventions in potential living liver donors with hepatic steatosis with the aim of increasing liver donation rates and improving donor,graft,and recipient outcomes.RESULTS A total of 6 studies with 102 potential donors were included.Most subjects were males(71).All studies showed a significant reduction in body mass index postintervention with a mean difference of-2.08(-3.06,1.10,I2=78%).A significant reduction or resolution of hepatic steatosis was seen in 93 of the 102(91.2%).Comparison of pre-and post-intervention liver biopsies showed a significant reduction in steatosis with a mean difference of-21.22(-27.02,-15.43,I2=56%).The liver donation rates post-intervention was 88.5(74.5,95.3,I2=42%).All donors who did not undergo LDLT had either recipient reasons or had fibrosis/steatohepatitis on post intervention biopsies.Post-operative biliary complications in the intervention group were not significantly different compared to controls with an odds ratio of 0.96[(0.14,6.69),I2=0].The overall post-operative donor,graft,and recipient outcomes in treated donors were not significantly different compared to donors with no steatosis.CONCLUSION Use of appropriate short term weight loss interventions in living liver donors is an effective tool in turning marginal donors to low-risk donors and therefore in expanding the donor pool.It is feasible and safe,with comparable donor,graft,and recipient outcomes,to non-obese donors.Larger future prospective studies are needed.