Attack could set back Olympic goodwill

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports Aug 9, 9:45 am EDT

BEIJING – The Chinese government tried to control everything in the run-up to these Olympics. From architecture to air quality, from restaurant menus to suggested interaction with foreigners, everything was weighed against how it would be perceived.

For China, this is not just a sporting event. This is its window for the world, the chance to define itself as more than a mysterious, communist power rising in the East, more than totalitarianism, human rights abuse and choking pollution.

There is simply no comparative event in America that could mean so much or swell such national pride as this. We’re an open society. We’re a known quantity. We’re forever being defined.

China is being defined, too, and on Saturday, the first day of these long anticipated and meticulously planned Games, the Chinese learned a lesson.

As desperately as they try, they can’t control everything.

A 47-year-old Chinese man, Tang Yongming, stabbed two Americans, killing a man and seriously wounding a woman as well as their Chinese tour guide at the Drum Tower, a popular 13th Century tourist attraction. The Americans are Todd and Barbara Bachman, the in-laws of U.S. men’s indoor volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon and parents of former U.S. women’s volleyball player Elisabeth Bachman.

After the savagery, the man committed suicide by jumping from the tower that once served as Beijing’s principle clock. And just like that, whatever goodwill a flawless Games was supposed to produce with the United States may have been lost. Just hours after a spectacular Opening Ceremony, things changed.

The greatest loss, of course, is the Bachmans. They were innocent. They were doing just what China has tried to invite the world to do, to “come and see us, come and meet us.”

It’s a sad and senseless event, the kind that can cast a pall on all the competition.

On all of China, even.

“It makes me very, very sad to hear this,” a 20-year-old woman from the Yunnan province, obviously moved when she heard the news while standing outside the Water Cube, said through a translator. “I can represent the Chinese people in saying, ‘I apologize.’ I feel so sad.”

It was a familiar theme among locals around the Olympic complex where Chinese without tickets gathered just to soak in the historic atmosphere. The news of such an act disturbed and shocked many. Some couldn’t believe it was even true. Others had no idea how to react.

This was everything they did not want.

“That person does not represent China,” said a 20-year-old woman from the Guangdong province. “He may have (mental) health problems. It should not represent China.”

It shouldn’t, of course. One person should never define a country, let alone one with 1.3 billion people. Inexplicable violence occurs everywhere, and the statistics say Beijing is one of the safest major cities in the world. Crimes against foreigners are particularly rare, and Chinese law punishes such acts with extra severity.

The last time the Summer Olympics were held in the United States, 1996 in Atlanta, an American named Eric Rudolph set off a bomb in Centennial Park. It killed a woman from Georgia. A Turkish cameraman died from a heart attack as he covered the event.

This does little, though, to ease the shock for the family involved or the fears for American athletes who also have family and friends here making the rounds as tourists.

Rapid change – of which China is in the midst of – can breed all sorts of anger and displacement. But did this attack occur because the couple was American? While they apparently weren’t wearing anything that distinguished them as such, were they targeted in another way?

There are only questions now, no answers. There may never be any.

For the most part, the Chinese have been unfailingly nice – the smiles and laughs, the almost uncomfortable level of politeness. They care so much about what others think of their burgeoning homeland. The government did everything from banning dog on local menus to cars from the road to dissident voices from Beijing in various public-relations ploys.

Nothing can change opinions, though, like interaction with residents. Whatever wariness the world may have about China’s government can be quickly disarmed by China’s people.

On Friday, I sat in a refugee shelter home – a single-room box with no running water – in Southwest China and talked to a woman who had lost virtually everything in May’s devastating earthquake.

She insisted on being a proper host despite having nothing to offer. There was no tea, no coffee and no food. She decided she would serve me a cup of water from a nearby supply. It was all she had. It was a gesture more meaningful than the most opulent of meals.

That is China, perhaps the true China. It won’t get headlines, though.

“This kind of stuff shouldn’t happen,” said a 52-year-old man from Tianjin. “It’s not good for China.”

That’s the risk of opening up a nation for examination. You can’t determine who defines the event, who defines the people. Not even a communist government that believed it had thought of everything.

A billion acts of kindness can be lost in an instant.

On Saturday, there was one American dead, another wounded at an ancient Chinese treasure. There was a grieving, devastated family and a saddened mood on the street, leaving many in this most image-conscious nation suddenly on edge.

01.  
Enough talk！Let's fight！

啰嗦什么，打吧！


02.  
There's no charge for awesomeness or attractiveness !

牛人不收费，迷死人不偿命！

03.  
Nothing is impossible.

没有事是不可能的（一切皆有可能）

04.  
One often meets its destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

子欲避之,反促遇之

05.  
Your mind is like this water, my friend , when it is agitated ,it becomes difficult to see ,but if you allow it to settle , the answer becomes clear.

心若此水，老兄。 扰则乱之，乱则不明。静以处之，其义自见（通：现）。

06.  
One way in, one way out.

一夫当关，万夫莫开

07.  
There are no accidents.

一切早已注定。

08.  
Quit, don’t quit. Noodles, don’t noodles.

做不做呢，要不要呢？

09.  
There is a saying. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it’s called the present.

俗语说，既往者之不鉴，来着尤可追！那就是为什么今天是present(现在/礼物)

10.  
-Yes, Look at this tree, Shifu.I cannot make it blossom when it suits me.Nor make it bear fruit before it's time.
-But there are things we can control.I can control when the fruit will fall.I can control where to plant the seed.That is no illusion, Master.
-Yes. But no matter what you do,that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange，but you will get a peach．
-But peach can not defeat Tai Lung．
-Maybe it can,if you are willing to guide it, to nurture it, to believe in it.

乌龟：是的，看着这棵树，我不能让树为我开花，也不能让它提前结果。　　
师傅：但有些事情我们可以控制，我可以控制果实何时坠落。我还可以控制在何处播种，那可不是幻觉，大师。
乌龟：是啊，不过无论你做了什么，那个种子还是会长成桃树。你可能想要苹果或桔子，可你只能得到桃子，那个种子还是会长成桃树。 
师傅：可桃子不能打败太郎。
乌龟：也许它可以的，如果你愿意引导它、滋养它、相信它。
　　

11.  
You cannot leave! A real warrior never quits.

你不能走！一个真的武士是决不退缩的。

12.  
-why didn't you quit? You knew I was trying to get rid of you. Yet you stayed.
-Yeah. I stayed. I stayed because every time you threw up a brick at my head or said I smelled, it hurts! But it could never hurt more than it did everyday in my life just being me. I stayed because I thought if anyone could change me, could make me not me... it was you. The greatest Kung Fu teacher in the whole of China!

师傅：那你以前为什么不退出呢? 你知道我一直想赶你走，可你还是留下来了
阿宝：是啊，我留下来了。我留下来是因为每次你往我头上丢砖头，或说我难闻，这很伤我的心。可最伤我心的是，我每天努力练习，却还是这个我。我留下来，因为我以为，如果还有人能改变我，能让我焕然一新，那就是你——中国最伟大的功夫师父！
　　

13.  
Oh, Po, I'm sorry things didn't work out. It...it just wasn't meant to be. Po, forget everything else. Your destiny still awaits. We are noodle-folk. Broth runs deep through our veins.

阿宝，天不遂人愿，况且这本不是天意，阿宝，忘了其它的事情，你的使命一直都在向你召唤。我们是面条家族，血管中流着这样的血。
　　

14.  
The secret ingredient is...nothing.

秘方其实就是...什么都没有
　　

15.  
To make something special, you just have to believe it is special.

殊者信其殊也

Anyway,I am coming back，Brian is back.

酒旗，随着沙漠中来来去去的风孤独地摇晃着，酒旗下面是一个孤独的人，在等待着来往于沙漠中的一个个落寞的江湖客。画面的背景是蓝天白云，如同静止的时光一般。

这是《东邪西毒》国外上映时的海报，一直以为这才是这部电影所要诠释的，胜过碟装版的封面，那是片中所有演员的面孔，或孤寂或迷茫，色彩绚烂却失了蕴涵。李碧华说过：“那些情情义义、恩恩爱爱、卿卿我我，都瑰丽莫名，根本不是人间的颜色。人间，只是抹去了脂粉的脸。”只是抹去了脂粉的人的脸。

开场：“佛祖有云，旗未动风也未动，是人的心自己在动。”本已归于寂寞的灵魂却有着善变的心，当黄药师带着一坛醉生梦死的酒找到欧阳锋，欧阳锋平静的面庞下是暗涌的情愫。他们为了忘记过去而开怀畅饮，做着欺骗自己的梦，为了演西毒，张国荣蓄起了胡子，蓄起了沙漠中的苍凉，这也许是他唯一一部放弃自己华美妆容的电影，成了一个孤独的影子。沙漠是心海，那一个个路过、停留、纠缠的人物其实是西毒心中一遍遍的幻想，是他的扣问。反复，缠绵却永远情思不断，摇晃的是西毒的心。

这部片子的英文名是“时间的灰烬”。它讲述的是一个关于时间、生命与爱情的呓语。欧阳锋在出现的女子身上找他恋人的影子，幻化着家乡那个女子如花的容颜。流逝的时光在每一个女子脸上留下烙印，他为之嗟叹却又不知所措，喝着醉生梦死的酒，为了忘却却是一遍遍地记取。沙漠中每天太阳升起，他永远不停地翻着黄历，痴痴念着，某年某月，忌出行。过一天便是他与白驼山的恋人分离又增一日。

终于盲武士来了，他激起西毒胸中未灭的爱恋，他以他对妻子热烈而又迷惘的爱让西毒念起了在白驼山与她共度的日月，盲武士家乡的桃花开了又落，年年岁岁，情未移心已老，至死他也没有再见过他的妻子，如果剑足够快，声音会像风一样，没想到第一次听见的却是自己消逝的生命。

茅屋破落，阴暗，令人窒息。西毒相信山那边还是山，他在自我放逐时，也关闭了自己通向天堂的门。从此陪伴他是无边的黑暗，如同盲武士那日渐看不见太阳的眼睛。

他在茅屋中一碗碗喝着醉生梦死的酒，试图抛弃所有的回忆，从此不爱，自在。在他恍惚中空无一物的脸上是努力忘情忘爱的凄狂。如同片中那一幕幕乱花扑面的片段。直到有一天他看到洪七公带着自己的老婆行走江湖，吵吵闹闹，却又自得其乐。他才明白自己错过了太多，家乡的恋人守在窗台，看桃花落尽，看黄叶满天。眼角眉梢已有了细细的皱纹，一个女人从此不再年轻。欧阳锋终于离开了沙漠，开始了新的流浪，醉生梦死不过是上天的玩笑，可以拒绝爱与被爱，但是谁也无法忽视心中最美的回忆。

寂寞是每个人心里的蛊，纠缠不断，又自生自灭。

害怕被抛弃，却又害怕拥有。西毒是爱情中的逃逸者，是不敢，是不愿。于是红颜都付空城，沧海桑田，逃不开的是造物的手。

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