關於 how to become more attractive ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

國外知名喜劇演員Gary Gulman在自己的推特上寫了366個講單口的小訣竅
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Tip No. 16: Be the Comedian You Wanted to See, Be the comedian you wanted to see.Think about the things that you wished someone made jokes about when you sat in the audience. Make a list of topics and ideas that you’d be excited to see someone discuss. Become that comedian. You’ve got 30 years.

Gary’s thoughts on Tip No. 16: This one can guide every decision and choice you make regarding your jokes, your act, and behavior on and off stage.
提示16：當一個你想看到的喜劇演員
當一個你想看到的喜劇演員。想想看當你是觀眾時，你想看到台上演員開什麼事情的玩笑？
把你最有興趣、最希望聽到別人討論的那些主題或想法寫下來，成為那樣的喜劇演員，你可以走30年。
Gary對提示16的想法：這個提示可以引導你對於笑話、表演、或是行為的每個決定跟選擇

Tip No. 37: My favorite writer Kurt Vonnegut said he wrote for an audience of one, his sister Alice. I write for a 21-year-old me. Today, think about your ideal audience member. This should help you narrow your writing focus and help you find your voice.
提示37：
我最愛的作家Kurt Vonnegut說過他只為了一個觀眾而寫，就是他姐姐Alice。我是為了21歲的我。現在，想想看你的理想觀眾類型，這可以幫助你找到寫作方向，找到你的聲音

Tip No. 113: Be aware of the constraints your appearance may put on jokes. For example, if you’re really attractive, it can be hard to convince the audience that you’re having a hard time finding a date. Wearing expensive clothes will contradict claims of poverty.
提示113：小心你外表對你笑話的限制。比如說，如果你超帥/漂亮，就很難說服觀眾說你找不到約會對象。穿得一身名牌就很難跟別人說你很窮。

Tip No. 211: “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” — Emerson. Where are you going? Define your mission. Be specific. It will guide how you spend your time.
提示211：「如果你知道你的方向，世界會幫你開路。」－Emerson。你要去哪裡？明確地定義你的去向，這會引導你如何運用你的時間。

Tip No. 228: Assuming a persona/character onstage? Once again, Kurt Vonnegut says it perfectly: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what we pretend to be.” — Mother Night.
提示228：建立一個舞台上的人設？再一次，Kurt Vonnegut說得很好：「我們假扮的人就是我們，所以我們要非常小心地去假扮我們想假扮的人。」－Mother Night.

Tip No. 242: In 2018, I struggled during an early iteration of The Great Depresh. The club manager showed me negative comment cards, one of which said: “DON’T TALK ABOUT DEPRESSION!!!” Don’t ever let one audience decide the fate of a joke or your path.
提示242：2018年，我在表演我的專場The Great Depresh遇到了瓶頸，俱樂部的主管給我看觀眾寫的負面意見，有一個寫「不要再談憂鬱症了！」別讓一個觀眾決定你笑話的命運或是你的方向。

Tip No. 280: I think in order to become other people’s favorite comedian you have to strive to be your own favorite comedian. This means enjoying your topics, your takes, your presentation. Am I my favorite? Close, I’m right behind Todd Glass and Brian Regan.
提示280：要成為別人最喜歡的喜劇演員前，你要先全力成為你自己最喜歡的喜劇演員。這代表著要喜愛你談論的話題，你的看法，你的表現方式。我是我最愛的演員了嗎？接近了，我就快追上Todd Glass 跟 Brian Regan了

Tip No. 356: Don’t compromise your beliefs to get a laugh. I’ve done it and I cringe at the memory. You didn’t get into this to suppress your identity. Have faith that you’ll think of something more honest.
提示356：不要為了笑聲跟你的信念妥協。我曾經試過，而我不敢再回想起那段回憶。你不是為了壓抑自己才入這行的。保持自己的信念才能講出你自己也確信的話。

經濟學人的封面，圖片是龍的嘴咬向香港，爪子伸向台灣

中國在香港用恐懼來統治
全世界應該感到擔憂

https://www.economist.com/…/china-has-launched-rule-by-fear…

Dragon strike
China has launched rule by fear in Hong Kong
The rest of the world should worry, too

The people of Hong Kong want two things: to choose how they are governed, and to be subject to the rule of law. The Chinese Communist Party finds both ideas so frightening that many expected it to send troops to crush last year’s vast protests in Hong Kong. Instead, it bided its time. Now, with the world distracted by covid-19 and mass protests difficult because of social distancing, it has chosen a quieter way to show who’s boss. That threatens a broader reckoning with the world—and not just over Hong Kong, but also over the South China Sea and Taiwan.

On May 21st China declared, in effect, that Hong Kongers deemed to pose a threat to the party will become subject to the party’s wrath. A new security law, written in Beijing, will create still-to-be defined crimes of subversion and secession, terms used elsewhere in China to lock up dissidents, including Uighurs and Tibetans. Hong Kong will have no say in drafting the law, which will let China station its secret police there. The message is clear. Rule by fear is about to begin.

This is the most flagrant violation yet of the principle of “one country, two systems”. When the British colony was handed back to China in 1997, China agreed that Hong Kong would enjoy a “high degree of autonomy”, including impartial courts and free speech. Many Hong Kongers are outraged (see article). Some investors are scared, too. The territory’s stockmarket fell by 5.6% on May 22nd, its biggest drop in five years. Hong Kong is a global commercial hub not only because it is situated next to the Chinese mainland, but also because it enjoys the rule of law. Business disputes are settled impartially, by rules that are known in advance. If China’s unaccountable enforcers are free to impose the party’s whims in Hong Kong, it will be a less attractive place for global firms to operate.

China’s move also has implications far beyond Hong Kong. “One country, two systems” was supposed to be a model for Taiwan, a democratic island of 24m that China also sees as its own. The aim was to show that reunification with the motherland need not mean losing one’s liberty. Under President Xi Jinping, China seems to have tired of this charade. Increasingly, it is making bare-knuckle threats instead. The re-election in January of a China-sceptic Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, will have convinced China’s rulers that the chances of a peaceful reunification are vanishingly small. On May 22nd, at the opening of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the prime minister, Li Keqiang, ominously cut the word “peaceful” from his ritual reference to reunification. China has stepped up war games around Taiwan and its nationalists have been braying online for an invasion.

China is at odds with other countries, too. In its building of island fortresses in the South China Sea, it ignores both international law and the claims of smaller neighbours. This week hundreds, perhaps thousands of Chinese troops crossed China’s disputed border with India in the Himalayas. Minor scuffles along this frontier are common, but the latest incursion came as a state-owned Chinese paper asserted new claims to land that its nuclear-armed neighbour deems Indian (see article). And, as a sombre backdrop to all this, relations with the United States are worse than they have been in decades, poisoning everything from trade and investment to scientific collaboration.

However much all the regional muscle-flexing appals the world, it makes sense to the Chinese Communist Party. In Hong Kong the party wants to stop a “colour revolution”, which it thinks could bring democrats to power there despite China’s best efforts to rig the system. If eroding Hong Kong’s freedoms causes economic damage, so be it, party bigwigs reason. The territory is still an important place for Chinese firms to raise international capital, especially since the Sino-American feud makes it harder and riskier for them to do so in New York. But Hong Kong’s gdp is equivalent to only 3% of mainland China’s now, down from more than 18% in 1997, because the mainland’s economy has grown 15-fold since then. China’s rulers assume that multinational firms and banks will keep a base in Hong Kong, simply to be near the vast Chinese market. They are probably right.

The simple picture that President Donald Trump paints of America and China locked in confrontation suits China’s rulers well. The party thinks that the balance of power is shifting in China’s favour. Mr Trump’s insults feed Chinese nationalist anger, which the party is delighted to exploit—just as it does any tensions between America and its allies. It portrays the democracy movement in Hong Kong as an American plot. That is absurd, but it helps explain many mainlanders’ scorn for Hong Kong’s protesters.

The rest of the world should stand up to China’s bullying. On the Sino-Indian border, the two sides should talk more to avoid miscalculations, as their leaders promised to in 2018. China should realise that, if it tries the tactics it has used in the South China Sea, building structures on disputed ground and daring others to push back, it will be viewed with greater distrust by all its neighbours.

In the case of Taiwan China faces a powerful deterrent: a suggestion in American law that America might come to Taiwan’s aid were the island to be attacked. There is a growing risk that a cocksure China may decide to put that to the test. America should make clear that doing so would be extremely dangerous. America’s allies should echo that, loudly.

Hong Kong’s options are bleaker. The Hong Kong Policy Act requires America to certify annually that the territory should in trade and other matters be treated as separate from China. This week the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, declared that “facts on the ground” show Hong Kong is no longer autonomous. This allows America to slap tariffs on the territory’s exports, as it already does to those from the mainland. That is a powerful weapon, but the scope for miscalculation is vast, potentially harming Hong Kongers and driving out global firms and banks. It would be better, as the law also proposes, to impose sanctions on officials who abuse human rights in Hong Kong. Also, Britain should grant full residency rights to the hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers who hold a kind of second-class British passport—much as Ms Tsai this week opened Taiwan’s door to Hong Kong citizens. None of this will stop China from imposing its will on Hong Kong. The party’s interests always trump the people’s. ■

Always Choose “No Deal”

“Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’” Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.” (Matthew‬ ‭4:8-11‬ ‭WEB‬)

“You’re going to lose it all. It’s too risky. Just take it and run.”

That’s what may be going through a contestant’s mind on the game show “Deal Or No Deal”.

In the game, the contestant is presented with many metal cases each containing a piece of paper with an amount of money written on it. In one of the many cases is a paper that reads “$1,000,000”.

If the contestant manages to narrow down his choices and keep that case with him until the end, he wins that prize money.

But just when the game is down to a few cases and the million dollar case hasn’t been eliminated yet, a mysterious ‘buyer’ will call the contestant, offering a sum of money that’s lower than the million, to convince him to take the lower amount of guaranteed money and go.

This is what the devil was doing with Jesus. He didn’t want Jesus messing around with his kingdom on earth, so he gave a counter offer, saying that he would transfer his ownership of all the nations of the world and their treasures to Jesus.

All Jesus had to do was very simple: just bow down and worship Satan.
Yes, Jesus’ eventual goal was to reclaim ownership of the whole earth back to Himself—just like how every contestant on “Deal Or No Deal” is there to win prize money.

However, to choose the devil’s method would be wrong. Obeying the devil would have corrupted Jesus and caused him to become a slave of sin.
When Satan offers a benefit, he always takes something much more precious from you.

I love Jesus’ response to the temptation: Get behind Me, Satan!”
This means that the devil was an obstacle in His way, and He didn’t even want to consider the offer.

Dear brethren, when your big breakthrough is close, demons may show up with tempting offers to sway you to settle for less.

It may appear as a lucrative but illegal business opportunity, an attractive person who is not your spouse suddenly flirting with you, or new fun friends that draw you away from Jesus.

It’s not a risk to follow Jesus. Unlike “Deal Or No Deal”, you’re not guessing where the million dollar prize is—the Holy Spirit will surely lead you from within to take the correct path, and His paths overflow with abundance (Psalm 65:11).

Like Jesus, you can say “Get behind me, Satan”. Don’t even consider his offer. He’s just a faulty signpost to walk past in your blessed journey with the Lord!

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It's a serious question! A lot has changed in the Chinese Automotive industry since I bought my Chinese car 8 years ago, come and find out if Chinese cars can now stand up to their international competition.

The automotive industry in China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008. Since 2009, annual production of automobiles in China exceeds that of the European Union or that of the United States and Japan combined.

The traditional "Big Four" domestic car manufacturers are SAIC Motor, Dongfeng, FAW and Chang’an. Other Chinese car manufacturers are Beijing Automotive Group, Brilliance Automotive, BYD, Chery, Geely, Jianghuai (JAC), Great Wall, and Guangzhou Automobile Group. In addition, several multinational manufacturers have partnerships with domestic manufacturers.

While most of the cars manufactured in China are sold within China, exports reached 814,300 units in 2011. China's home market provides its automakers a solid base and Chinese economic planners hope to build globally competitive auto companies that will become more and more attractive and reliable over the years.

China's automobile industry had mainly Soviet origins (plants and licensed auto design were founded in the 1950s, with the help of the USSR) and had small volumes for the first 30 years of the republic, not exceeding 100–200 thousands per year. Since the early 1990s, it has developed rapidly. China's annual automobile production capacity first exceeded one million in 1992. By 2000, China was producing over two million vehicles. After China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, the development of the automobile market accelerated further. Between 2002 and 2007, China's national automobile market grew by an average 21 percent, or one million vehicles year-on-year. In 2009, China produced 13.79 million automobiles, of which 8 million were passenger cars and 3.41 million were commercial vehicles and surpassed the United States as the world's largest automobile producer by volume. In 2010, both sales and production topped 18 million units, with 13.76 million passenger cars delivered, in each case the largest by any nation in history. In 2014, total vehicle production in China reached 23.720 million, accounting for 26% of global automotive production.

The number of registered cars, buses, vans, and trucks on the road in China reached 62 million in 2009, and is expected to exceed 200 million by 2020. The consultancy McKinsey & Company estimates that China's car market will grow tenfold between 2005 and 2030.

The main industry group for the Chinese automotive industry is the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会).