国家地理频道-[武士刀传奇]

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大概内容我可以描述一下：主要是介绍一把日本刀制作的过程：分三步：全日本仅有的一个传统人工锻铁作坊；将玉刚进行铸剑；最后进行抛光。

最后穿插介绍，当今日本现代化社会对于传统武士道精神的理解和衍射。

这里谈谈关于自己几个看法：

1） 首先锻造过程，我不相信日本没有马钢宝钢鞍钢练不出好钢。日本都有马自达，尼桑，三菱，本田丰田等汽车公司（好多），钢铁冶炼肯定没问题，但为何坚持传统的炼钢方法？ 这里解说员说到了：这些锻造工人并不仅仅在炼玉刚，更使在坚持一直传统文化。    对于一批刚玉能否作为好的武士刀原料，或者仅仅做一批刀叉，这里我想到了IKEA..

2） 前几个过程，德高望重的师傅都有儿子继承传统武士道精神，最后武士道武馆馆主女儿，抛弃世俗传统态度，接过父亲的革命旗帜。换到中国，除非是垄断行业（包括GWY)我想没有儿子愿意接过父亲的事业。或者是平庸的做一份朝九晚五的工作，或者是找关系做一份毫无相关的职业，更多的是像阿斗那样糟蹋。中文里有：将相王侯宁有种乎，也有 富不出二代，不知道日文里怎么描述这么个过程。

3） 满上海开设的跆拳道馆，柔道馆，我国的少林寺有了CEO，方丈开起了宝马，募捐的箱子塞满了红红的钞票，功德牌坊上刻上名字。正如片中讲到的，人们已住房，车子来描述一个人，而不是是否追求荣誉。当然，房子这种问题，是社会发展的过程。很不幸日本比我们早10年经历这个过程，而我们在经历这个过程中却还正在追涨杀跌。我们的传统文化在哪里？ 红木家具机械CAD制造化，陶瓷批量生产化。大家不免世俗的最后还是回到原点。

写了好多废话，说完。

　　We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment? It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting him in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

　　Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorrydriver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days! 

 这篇课文我非常喜欢。这本教材我也非常喜欢。