拿上钥匙回家吧!

下午二点多在公司走廊里走着，就觉得有点雾气迷漫的样子，叫来同事深究一下。一位说看不出来，闻着没味应该没事。另一位则指责收发室大热天不关门，以他的高见，应是冷热空气相遇缠绵之结果。三点过后火警铃声大作，众人纷纷离开。我有先见之明地将包也拎上了。走廊里雾气更为严重地迷漫，脑子里幻想着这回象是真的有点啥事了，步伐也不自觉地加快了些。走出来没多久就见三辆消防车开了过来。大家在停车场上按程序报完到,然后各自找块树阴地凉快去了。半小时后头头说话了，手里有车钥匙的就先回家吧。组里好几个人没带钥匙，我也就没立刻离开奉陪到底。又过了一会儿大楼管理员说快进去拿上钥匙赶紧回家吧。以往火警都是假警报,或者是微不足道的小烟雾，这回看来是真有点事了。难得四点钟就到家了，不过还老在琢磨到底是啥妖风迷雾造成的火警。


boy meets girl; they fall in love; boy takes girl home to meet dad; girl’s husband (oops!) takes offense; husband follows wife and brings 50,000 close friends to set things right; boy’s brother pays huge price; extended intermission.

希腊神话中的美女海伦（Hallen，海琳为海伦的异体），是宙斯的女儿，从鹅蛋中生出来，16岁时被迫嫁给斯巴达王美内劳斯（Menelaos），为斯巴达王后。后来特洛伊王子赫克托耳和二王子帕里斯（Paris）到访斯巴达，帕里斯把她拐去，带回特洛伊。斯巴达王大怒，他向哥哥迈锡尼国王阿加门农求助，希腊联军组织一千艘的船舰出征，而引起著名的特洛伊战争。后世有人形容这场战争为“使千艘战舰齐发的容貌，海伦的美引发了特洛伊战争。”海伦为自己引起的战争内疚不已，她走向特洛伊城上，俯望两军战士，当数万战士望着她时，全看傻了，海伦美到两军战士连战都不想打，于是双方休兵一天。十年后特洛伊陷落，希腊大军从巨型木马内部杀出，男的被屠尽，女人、小孩全变奴隶，美内劳斯要取海伦性命，举剑的手却不忍下手，海伦重回了美内劳斯的身边。而特洛伊城则永远的消失。希罗多德称她是希腊世界最美丽的女人，古希腊盲诗人荷马在《伊利亚特》（Iliad）中，描述海伦“白皙的手臂”、“飘飘的长袍”、“闪闪发光的面纱”。

特洛伊木馬是木馬屠城記裡記載著的那隻希臘軍隊用來攻破特洛伊城的大木馬。而木馬屠城記則是古希臘詩人 - 荷馬，在其兩部著作伊利亞特與奧德赛裡所記載的特洛伊戰爭的一部份。木馬屠城記一直被後人視為神話故事，直至十九世紀時，業餘考古學者蘇利曼才證實木馬屠城記真有此事。

帕里斯（Paris）又名亞歷山大（Alexander）為荷马史诗《伊利亚特》中的特洛伊王子。出生前因母親夢見火炬，先知預言會為國家帶來災禍，出生後被丟棄山中，被一位牧羊人所扶養。中間經歷了金蘋果事件，在一次入城的機會中，被姊姊卡珊德拉認出，父母見他長相美好而欣喜，而將他接回家中。後來因为爱上斯巴达王后海倫并将其带回特洛伊而引发了长达十年之久的特洛伊战争。


 


特洛伊木马是木马屠城记里记载着的那只希腊军队用来攻破特洛伊城的大木马。而木马屠城记则是古希腊诗人 - 荷马，在其两部著作伊利亚特与奥德赛里所记载的特洛伊战争的一部份。木马屠城记一直被后人视为神话故事，直至十九世纪时，业余考古学者苏利曼才证实木马屠城记真有此事。

据荷马与希腊神话所载，这个故事的起因是源自一个金苹果。这个故事的开端，就是忒提斯（Thetis）与佩琉斯（Peleus）的婚礼，原本宙斯与忒提斯相恋，但那时传说忒提斯的儿子（也就是未来的阿基里斯(Achilles)）会比他的父亲还强大，宙斯害怕当年推翻他父亲的事重演，于是将她嫁给了著名英雄珀琉斯，避免影响他的政权。婚礼上邀请了很多神，唯独争吵女神没有被邀请。她很生气，便抛出一个金苹果，上面写“给最美丽者”。雅典娜，阿佛洛狄德和希拉都宣称自己应该获得这个苹果。最后她们请求特洛伊王子帕里斯裁决。三个女神都贿赂帕里斯：雅典娜以天下第一聪明人作贿赂；希拉以王位作贿赂；阿佛洛狄德以天下第一的美人作贿赂。最后帕里斯选择了阿佛洛狄德。作为回报，斯巴达王后，世界上最漂亮的女人海伦和他堕入爱河。在一次访问斯巴达的过程中，帕里斯绑架了海伦，把她带到特洛伊。帕里斯的行动惹怒了斯巴达国王，使其联合希腊各城邦向特洛伊宣战。

斯巴达国王美内劳斯因为其太太海伦被帕里斯所带走，因此向希腊各城邦求助，共同出兵特洛伊。但特洛伊因为有亚马逊女战士和黎明女神儿子梅农的帮忙，与维纳斯暗中协助，所以能抵抗希腊联军。但因为雅典娜得不到金苹果，所以不愿放过特洛伊，而且指示奥德修斯向希腊联军献上木马屠城之计。 有一天，希腊联军突然撤退，并留下一只木马，特洛伊人将其当作战利品带回城内。在当天晚上，当特洛伊士兵为胜利而庆祝时，藏匿在木马中的希腊兵悄悄打开城门，将城外的军队迎进，在一夜间消灭特洛伊城，城内男丁悉数被杀。

据古罗马传说所载，就在特洛伊城城破之际，有一人在乱军中逃脱，并到达今天的意大利，成为罗马人的始祖。而在特洛伊战争后，东地中海成为希腊人的天下，并使为希腊人能够向小亚细亚殖民，这亦使东西方的文化有初步交流。

苏利曼因为自小对这神话感兴趣，并坚信荷马所著的这篇木马屠城记并不是凭空捏造，而是真实记载。因此他花了很多时间赚钱，在储足发掘所需的金钱后，开始着手研究特洛伊城所在地，最后终于在土耳其爱琴海畔挖出特洛伊古城，并在第六层考古地层证实与史实吻合。...

Synopsis of Scenes

Part I: The Capture of Troy

Act I

Site of the abandoned Greek camp on the plains of Troy

After ten years of siege by the Greeks, the Trojans rejoice at the prospect of peace. They marvel at the gigantic wooden horse the Greeks left behind as an offering to Pallas Athena.

King Priam’s daughter Cassandra, a prophetess, looks for the significance behind the Greeks’ disappearance. In a moment of revelation, she saw her brother Hector’s ghost on the ramparts and has tried unsuccessfully to warn her father and Chorebus, her fiancé, of further calamities. When Chorebus begs her to join the celebrations, she urges him to flee the city, because she foresees death for both of them.

The Trojans offer thanks to the gods with the sacred objects of Troy. A somber note is introduced when Andromache, Hector’s widow, brings her son Astyanax to King Priam and Queen Hecuba. Aeneas arrives and reports that the priest Laocoon, suspecting the wooded horse to be some kind of trick, threw his spear at it and urged the crowd to set fire to it, whereupon two sea serpents devoured him and his two sons. Aeneas proposes they make amends to Athena by bringing the horse into the city as a holy object. As the Trojan march sounds in the distance and the horse is hauled closer, Cassandra realizes it bears disaster.

Act II

First Tableau: A room in Aeneas’s Palace

Aeneas is visited by the ghost of Hector, who tells him to escape, since his destiny is to found an empire that someday will rule the world. As the ghost disappears, Aeneas’ friend Panthus rushes in to report on the Greek soldiers who emerged from the horse and are devastating Troy. Aeneas hasten to lead the defense forces.

Second Tableau: Interior of Priam’s palace

Trojan women pray for deliverance from the invaders. Cassandra foretells that Aeaneas and some of the Trojans will escape to Italy to build a new Troy. Chorebus is dead, and Cassandra prepares for her own death, asking the women whether they will submit to rape and enslavement. Some are afraid of death; driving these away, the others make a vow to die free. Greek soldiers, entering in search of Trojan treasure, are aghost at the sight of the women’s mass suicide. Aeneas and his men escape with the treasures of Troy.

Part II: The Trojans at Carthage

Act III
A vast hall in the palace of Dido at Carthage
Dido, Queen of Carthage, greets her subjects who hail her with an anthem. She reminds them that in only seven years, since they had to flee from Tyre, they have built a flourishing new kingdom. Her sister, Anna, assures Dido, who is a widow, that one day she will be able to love again.

When Iopas, the court poet, announces visitors who have narrowly escaped ship-wreck in a recent strom, Dido welcomes them. They are the remnants of the Trojan army, asking a few days' hospitality en route to Italy and offering Dido what is left of their treasure.

When word reaches Dido that the Numidian ruler, Iarbas, is about to attack Carthage because she refused his offer of marriage. Aeneas steps from among the sailors' ranks, identifies himself, and offers to fight alongside the Carthaginians. Dido accepts, and Aeneas rallies his forces to repel the invader, entrusting his son, Ascanius, to the queen's care.

Act IV
First Tableau: Royal Hunt and Strom
Aeneas has returned victorious to Carthage. During a hunting party, a storm breaks, and Dido and Aeneas seek shelter in a cave. They discover their passions for each other.

Second Tableau: Dido's gardens by the sea; sunset
Several months have passed and evening has fallen in Dido's palace. Anna askes Narbal, the queen's adviser, why he seems worried, now that the Numidians have been defeated. He repies that since Dido fell in love with Aeneas, she has been neglecting her duties, and that Aeneas' destiny is to go on to Italy -- no good can come of the romance. Narbal is afraid that in extending hospitality to the strangers, Carthage has invited its own doom.

Dido enters with Aeneas and her court. She provides entertainment for him. She asks him to tell her more about Troy’s last days. When he says that Andromache, Hector’s widow, at length succumbed to love and married Pyrrhus, one of the enemy, Dido sees a parallel to her own situation. She and Aeneas rhapsodize about their love, but they are interrupted when the god Mercury reminds Aeneas of his duty and destination – Italy.

Act V

First Tableau: The seashore, covered with Trojan tents; Trojan ships are visible in the harbor; night

In the Trojan camp with their ships moored near at hand, Hylas, a young sailor, expresses his longing for home in a ballad and falls asleep. Panthus tells other Trojan soldiers their delay is burdensome; daily omens and apparitions remind them of the gods’ and the dead Hector’s impatience with their failure to move on. Determined to leave the next day, they retire to their tents as two sentries pass, making way for Aeneas, who struggles to banish misgivings and do what he must. As he resoves to see Dido one more time, the ghosts of Priam, Hector, Chorebus, and Cassandra appear, pressing their demands. Forced to give up Dido, Aeneas wakens the Trojans and tells them to set sail befor sunrise. Dido finds him planning to depart, however, and rages at his desertion. Though he protests that he loves her, she curses him. As she rages, the distraught Aeneas boards his vessel.

Second Tableau: A room in Dido’s palace; dawn

As dawn breaks, the queen asks her sister to go to Aeneas. She will try to persuade him to stay a few more days, but the Trojan ships are sighted already on their way out to sea. Dido laments that she did not foresee Aeneas’ treachery and burn his fleet. Instead, she will burn his gifts and trophies; she orders a pyre built.

Third Tableau (Ritual for the Dead): Dido’s gardens by the sea; a huge pyre, with steps ascending on each side

A pyre has been set up, with relics of Aeneas. Priests pray for the peace of Dido’s heart, while Anna and Narbal curse Aeneas’ venture to Italy. Dido predicts that her fate will be remembered, along with Aeneas’ infamy; a future Carthaginian general, Hannibal, will avenge her against Italy one day. Seizing Aeneas’ sword, she stabs herself. With her dying breath, Dido tells the shocked bystanders that fate is against Carthage; it will be destroyed, and Rome will rule eternal. Turning their backs on a vision of the Roman Capitol, the survivors pronounce undying hatred on Aeneas and his descendants.

黛多创建的“迦太基”兴旺昌盛，而这种富庶却因特洛伊城的王子埃尼亚斯的出现而消亡。特洛伊城沦陷后，埃尼亚斯带着随从仓惶逃难。七年后，在地中海上漂泊的埃尼亚斯部队被冲到“迦太基”，此时衣不覆体，食不果腹的埃尼亚斯，被母亲维纳斯领到黛多的王宫前，为帮儿子找到一个稳固的驻地，维纳斯暗中施法，让黛多喜欢上埃尼亚斯。
黛多对埃尼亚斯一见钟情，自愿委身于他，并允许埃尼亚斯以及他的部队在“迦太基”长期驻守。夜夜欢歌的埃尼亚斯引起宙斯的不满，他派使者下凡找到埃尼亚斯，让他光复特洛伊城。埃尼亚斯顿悟其使命，当晚便离开“迦太基”。失望之极的黛多用埃尼亚斯留下的宝剑结束了自己的生命，并在临终前发下毒誓：让迦太基人和埃尼亚斯的后人永世为仇。
后来，埃尼亚斯的子孙完成了复兴特洛伊的大业，建立了辉煌的罗马帝国。

儿子干的好事

 

俺家儿子从小就酷爱运动。当年树雄心立大志地要进NHL，还给自己找了条退路，如果NHL不成，那就退而求次转进NBA。这些年来，在经历了校队的洗刷洗礼，当然也没少了老妈的讽刺打击，儿子意识到NHL，NBA不是像进出YMCA那般简单。进职业球队的梦想破灭，以及Tryout校队遭受到的挫折，并没有减轻他对运动的狂热，反倒激励了他习武练球的热情，导致俺家的私有财产遭受到了前所未有的践踏。

 

先是车库门上均匀布满了球痕累累的小坑，在老妈的训斥下，儿子转移阵地，到房子左侧墙面习武练球。墙面随即开始出现断裂的木条。看着擦瓜拉新的房子被打成这样，老妈俺欲哭无泪，更加严厉地训斥了儿子。小祖宗又换了战场，转移到右侧墙面上，逐而造成右侧墙面木条也开始断裂的现象。NND，单打一面就得了，还来个左右对称。曾经郁郁葱葱的草地如今成了瘌痢头，偶尔停在Driveway上的车也惨遭到流弹袭击落下疤痕。俺也不好再说了，不然哪天再转移到屋顶上去开练，那离揭瓦差不远了。老公也无可奈何地说，等这小子离家上学之后咱们再请专业人士打理草坪，修补墙面，目前就随他折腾吧！

为振兴经济做贡献，将爬梯进行到底！

要过节了，虽然经济十分的不好，可琴还得练（这没俺的事），饭还得吃，梯更要爬（有俺的份）。朋友们平日里据说开始吃起糠面野菜，可爬起梯来却大鱼大肉的一点也不马虎，


知足吧，还是美国好！

转个网上看到的帖子

豆芽的主要活动空间是厨房，可是德国的厨房又小又不实用，盘盘碗碗都没有地方放。在这个时刻，我才念起美国的好，开始怀念我美国的大厨房，无限的储物空间。

昨天去中国超市购物，因为要买很多东西，要等豆子下班开车过去。到了中国超市的门口6.35，已经关门了，老板和几个员工刚刚走出来。

豆芽抱怨道，拜托，6.30就下班了，太早了吧，特别提前下班来买东西，你们却关门了，再怎么着，总归要开到7.30吧。

老板和员工根本没有人理我，匆匆的上了车离开了。这个时候我开始想念美国，华人超市都是8.00钟关门，而且东西又都有便宜。

星期天想出去吃饭，所有的商店全部关门，我们喜欢的几家餐馆也没有营业，为什么德国的服务业这么差劲。饿得饥肠辘辘的时候看见了麦当劳叔叔，虽然是垃圾食品，但是总比忍饥挨饿强吧！这个时候我开始思念美国，超市24小时营业，餐馆全年营业，随到随吃。

在德国餐馆就餐，坐下来后20分钟内才看见服务员拿着菜单过来，点菜还得要招呼服务员，要不然她肯本就忘记了你的存在。点好饮料和食品，还要等，20-30分钟不等，一次居然等了45分钟。在这个时候，我开始思念美国，到了就点菜，5-10分钟全部上齐，吃完后10分钟递上账单，肯本就不需要召唤。虽然德国的小费在5%，我还是给得心不甘情不愿。

和好友凤仙和婴儿去购物，出了商场是一条乡间马路（时速应该在20公里/小时），一个司机以自杀式的速度向我们冲过来，我们只好推着婴儿车飞奔，在飞奔的过程中，一向温柔平和的凤仙向这个司机竖起中指。凤仙说，在她怀孕的日子里，每次坐公交车，没有一个人给她让过坐。电视里刚刚报道过，电视台让一个女性化妆成临产孕妇，然后去公交车里跟踪拍摄，300个人里只有2个人给孕妇让座，这两个人一个是摩洛哥人，一个是英国人。在这个时候我开始思念美国，在美国的乡间马路上，汽车远远的就减速，然后停下来，向你摆手让你过去。

德国的高速公路是世界上唯一没有限速的国家，高速公路上有高速，中速和低速车道。很多奔驰宝马奥迪的车主们在高速车道上以每小时200-230公里/小时飞驰而过，你听到声音的时候，它已经远去了。上次从婆婆家回来，我们开在中速车道上，在高速公路上有一台大众汽车，在180公里/小时左右，这个时候后面一辆宝马以230公里左右的冲过来，而且没有任何减速的意思，如果大众汽车不转到中速车道，肯定要撞上了。大众车赶快转到中速车道，那辆奔驰转眼既逝。豆子说，几年前一场车祸就是这样发生的，一个妇女从后视镜里看到一辆奔驰冲过来，没有任何减速的意思，她匆忙变道，一紧张就滑出公路，撞倒树上，车毁人亡，车里面还有2个孩子。那个奔驰司机的行为受到谴责，但是只是间接责任，监狱里面呆了2年就出来了。看着飞驰的汽车，我开始思念美国，大家开车都是一个速度，美国人真的做到了礼让三分。

在德国百安居买了一块厨房面板，对面另外一家建材超市一看，同样的货品居然比百安居便宜30%，于是回去退货，服务员眉头紧锁，为什么？这个时候，我很思念美国，在美国退货品，从来没有人问为什么，而且态度还特别热情，除了灿烂微笑，还会说，祝你有美丽的一天。

到今天，我才意识到美国是我的第二个家，每个细节回忆起来都那么温馨。刚开始很讨厌美式英语，儿话音很重，像有个小土豆在嘴里面，可是现在每次有机会听到美式英语都觉得特别亲切，收拾屋子就会打开电脑听CNN新闻，仿佛又回到了美国的日子。

最怀念是每个星期去付伯家包饺子，我擀皮，小裘包，付伯煮，一边做一边侃大山。每次包饺子，都是我最开心的时刻。今天和两个同学一起包饺子，也是一个愉悦的下午。

我很少吃零食，这些零食是我在美国朋友Judy从底特律邮寄过来的，当时我正在咳嗽，Judy讲，这些东西可以压制咳嗽，包裹里面还有榨菜和其他的中国食品。看着沉甸甸的包裹我开始想念我的美国朋友们，你们好吗？我很想你们，真的，很想（我把一只手按在胸口写下这句话）。

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