Learning Chinese calligraphy
As someone who paints, draws, and loves all
After taking the lesson, I now understand the difficulty of calligraphy and that it will take efforts and commitment
2 . Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us. Physicists have created fascinating theories, but their time is measured by a pendulum (钟摆) and is not psychological time, which leaps with little regard to the clock or calendar. As someone who understood the distinction observed, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours.”
Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wings as we age. They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass. For example, a day at the office flies compared with a day at the beach.
Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly. Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere we’ve never been before. Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no real idea of when we’ll arrive, we experience the trip as if lasting a long time. But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time. The novelty of the outward journey has become routine.
When days become as similar as beads (小珠子) on a string, they mix together, and even months become a single day. To counter this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your day — to stop time, so to speak.
Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passage of time. One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of learning and discovery. For many of us learning ends when we leave school, but this doesn’t have to be.
1. What can we know about time from Paragraph 1?A.Physical time has little to do with the calendar. |
B.Physical time is distinct from psychological time. |
C.Time should not be measured by a pendulum. |
D.Psychological time is quite more fascinating. |
A.A day spent exploring something unknown. |
B.Staying with a person who you dislike. |
C.A day packed with appointments to handle. |
D.Driving to a new place for the first time. |
A.Unfamiliarity. | B.Excitement. | C.Imagination. | D.Amusement. |
A.To show the difference between physical and psychological time. |
B.To explain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologically. |
C.To describe how most of us experience time psychologically. |
D.To give various explanations about fascinating time theories. |