@波obsession So far I can remember that my englisch teacher in the university gave the following Interpretation of that above-mentioned sentence.
她曾经荣华富贵过。

i thought it was something more complicated more profound than this. in fact that is it：她曾经有过好日子。

《实习医生格蕾》我喜欢的台词
请小心剧透
There is no paticular order of the episodes.
Season 6 Episode 1 – Good Mourning
Meredith:
According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a
catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into
denial. Because the loss is so unthinkable we can’t imagine it’s true. We
become angry with everyone, angry with survivors, angry with ourselves, then we
bargain. We beg, we plead. We offer everything we have. We offer up our souls,
in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed, and the anger
is too hard to maintain, we fall in depression, despair, until finally we have
to accept that we have done everything we can, we let go. We let go and move
into acceptance.

I am a big fan of medical and forensic dramas. Personally, I think House is one of the best and most influential medical drama ever aired on TV. It is not that Grey's isn't good. It is only a matter of preferences. Grey's Anatomy and House both are hospital dramas. Obviously they are different enough to justify their independent existances. I want to say House overshadowed Grey's, but again it is only my perspective.
Grey's Anatomy is more of a soap opera with plenty of eye-catching romances involved. To add icing on the cake, handsome doctors and their gorgeous female colleagues in Grey's are even more eye-catching, and hospitals always have plenty of unoccupied rooms where two characters can sneak away to have sex in. That is just so pathetic. House is more of a character study and it's intense. I have met some characters but never had a physician with such an unspeakable terrible bedside manner like House. He is arrogant, egocentric and sarcastic. He is someone whom people would like to refer as an "a**hole" in the workplace when they gossip in a shadowy place such as the cafeteria, the elevator or the parking lot. But people love him, hate him, and love to hate him because the bottom line is that he cares in his psychotic ways. He cares about medicine and his patients. He is mean and nasty and lovable at the same time all because of hugh Laurie, a phenomenal actor who can carry the show on his own. What more can you expect from a competent doctor apart from his knowledge and razor-sharp instinct?
Nevertheless, I could only justify that people are drawn to hospital dramas probably because having the balance of life and death at one's fingertips is mysterious and compulsive.

Jinguan,
I think I can understand why you like House more than Grey’s. I agree with you
that Grey’s Anatomy is more of a soap opera whereas House is about medicine.
I watched the first 4 seasons of House and enjoyed the series. Hugh Laurie IS
a phenomenal actor. I was surprised to learn that he is British, and was
surprised again when my colleague told me that he is a musician. He has so
many talents and he’s amazing!
However, when I watch House, somehow I just couldn’t get myself emotionally
involved. I think the show keeps Dr. House a bit distant from his patients on
purpose, so that he can work more effectively to diagnose. To me, House is
more like a detective show because those medical terms don’t make much sense
to me, what I see is a brilliant doctor solving a medical mystery similar to
a brilliant detective solving a mysterious crime. I read somewhere before
saying that the creator is a big fan of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and
similarities between House and Holmes appear throughout the series.
On the other hand, I oftentimes get very emotional when I watch Grey’s Anatomy. Even though the series probably don’t resemble what real doctors are when they
are working, the setting of a hospital where life and death happens every day
gives the writers plenty room to develop gripping plot lines. In real life,
I’m a very calm person and rarely get emotional. But every once in a while,
I find myself looking for a good cry. I don’t know why, but I do know that it
has a somewhat therapeutic effect on me. Grey’s Anatomy makes my cry, a lot.
And it is that kind of good cry I look for because after all the tears, it
doesn’t send me to despair, it gives me hope. And everything happening in that
surgical wing of Seattle Grace Hospital, people struggling during probably the
most difficult times of their lives with the help from family and friends,
makes me appreciate the life I have today more. Plus, it does have a
sensational soundtrack and those doctors are hot.

最近曼德拉住院的新闻让我想起去年看的一部电影《Invictus》，故事讲述的是曼德拉在当选南非总统后，利用国家主办英式橄榄球世界杯的契机，激发所有人，包括白人和黑人，的国家荣誉感，作出种种努力消弭种族隔阂，而最终南非队不负众望，赢得了杯赛的胜利。
Invictus是一首William Ernest Henley的诗。电影中曼德拉告诉南非橄榄球队的队长说，这是他最喜欢的一首诗，这首诗曾在他27年的牢狱生涯中给过他激励和力量。
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

最近好像老看到wherever you go, there you are这句话。前面贴的本伯南克在普林斯顿的演讲里有，前两天看的Grey's Anatomy的Season 3 Episode 7 - Where the Boys Are里面chief也有说到：
（小心剧透）
这段情节是说：Derek认为他需要一点空间理清楚他和Mereditch之间的感情，所以约了Burke跟他一起去钓鱼，后来chief还有其他几个人也跟着一起去了。
Derek: I thought if I just got away for a while by myself, I’d get some
answers. Get a fresh start.
Chief: Yeah? Getting away by yourself? Hugely overrated. And fresh starts?
No such thing. They’re the reason the cliché is that wherever you go,
there you are.
Derek: Any other words of wisdom there, chief?
Chief: I’m living in a hotel. I buy most of my clothes from the hotel gift shop
and my wife won’t speak to me.
Burke: Don’t look at me. I came out here for the same reasons you did. I have
no wisdom. There is no wisdom here.
Derek: Hmm. So, in other words, we’re all a bunch of idiots.
Chief & Burke: Yes.

我对这句话的确切意思把握不住，就去网上查了下，发现不同的人对这句话的理解也不一样，不过其中Lindsay Curtis的这篇我觉得挺能说服我的。
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a friend who was telling me how much she can’t
stand Toronto and can’t wait to get out of this city. Hey – sometimes I feel
the same way, can’t blame her. She was lamenting over her mediocre relationship, her crappy job & lack of expendable income and decided that moving would be the
answer to all of her problems. After a few minutes of complaining, she had an
epiphany of sorts: she’s moved around a fair bit in her adult life and realized the same “crappy” thing happens in each city. She then realized the only
constant was her. I share this story because I think a lot of us can relate: if
we could only change this, that or the other thing, we’d be happier. And while
that may be true, it’s not always the case.

Wherever you go, there you are.
I used to think that saying was so stupid and pointless. It’s like saying “It
is what it is.” Well, duh. It’s only been in the past several months that I’ve
really understood what that means. I think I wasn’t fully ready to embrace the
concept – that no matter where I am, who I’m with or where I’m working I am
responsible for my happiness. No person, place or thing can – or should –
responsible for my happiness. Happiness is an inside job.
So, what does “Wherever you go, there you are” mean? It means that it doesn’t
matter if you change jobs, cities, relationships or the style of underwear you
wear. If haven’t made peace with yourself, if you haven’t found happiness
within yourself, then it doesn’t matter if you land the “perfect job” in your
ideal city after marrying your dream-come-true soul mate. You’ll still be you –
and if you’re not happy inside, then you will find fault with your outer life.
Sometimes we are so wrapped up in the things we’re doing and that which we want
that we forget to enjoy the process. We think we will relax when we “get
there”, when we “arrive”. Then and only then will we finally be happy –
we’ll do fun things and think happy thoughts and live a happy life. Now isn’t
a good time for it b/c we don’t have this, that or the other thing.
Let’s give a different perspective a try: Tell yourself you’ve already arrived.
You’re exactly where you should be. Everything that’s in your life is exactly
what you need at this juncture in your journey. Wherever you go, there you are.
So take a deep breath…and then let yourself feel some peace.
Just for today, be happy in the place you are now.

主楼里聊到《牛虻》，贴一下亚瑟最后给琼玛的信：
Dear Jim,
I am to be shot at sunrise tomorrow. So if I am to keep at all my promise to tell
you everything, I must keep it now. But, after all, there is not much need of
explanations between you and me. We always understood each other without many
words, even when we were little things.
And so, you see, my dear, you had no need to break your heart over that old story
of the blow. It was a hard hit, of course, but I have had plenty of others as
hard, and yet I have managed to get over them - even to pay back a few of them -
and here I am still, like the macherel in our nursery book (I forget its name)
"Alive and kicking, Oh!" This is my last kick, though, and then, tomorrow
morning, and -- "Finita la Commedira!' You and I will translate that: 'The
variety show is over', and will give thanks to Gods that they have had, at least,
so much mercy on us. It is not much, but it is something, and for this and all
other blessings may we be truly thankful!
About the same tomorrow morning, I want both you and Martini to understand
clearly that I am quite happy and satisfied, and could ask no better thing of
Fate. Tell that to Martini as a message from me; he is a good fellow and a good
comrade, and he will understand. You see, dear, I know that the stick-in-the-mud
people are doing us a good turn and themselves a bad one by going back to secret
trials and executions so soon, and I know that if you who are left stand together
steadily and hit hard, you will see great things. As for me, I shall go out into
the courtyard with as light a heart as child starting home for the holidays. I
have done my share of the work, and this death-sentence is the proof that I had
done it thoroughly. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more
can any man's heart desire?
It desires just one thing more, though. A man who is going to die has a right to
a personal fancy, and mine is that you should see why I have always been such a
sulky brute to you, and so slow to forget old scores. Of course, though, you
understand why, and I teel you only for the pleasure of writing the words. I
loved you, Gemma, when you were an ugly little girl in a gingham frock, with a
scratchy tucker and your hair in a pig-tail down your back, and I love still. Do
you remember that day when I kissed your hand, and when you so piteously begged
me 'never to do that again'? It was a scounderelly trick to play, I know; but you
must forgive that; and now I kiss the paper where I have written your name. So I
have kissed you twice, and both times without your consent.
That is all. Good-bye, my dear.
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live
or if I die.

亲爱的琼：
明天早晨太阳升起的时候，我就要被枪毙了。因此，如果我要履行把一切都告诉你的诺言，现在就得履行了。但毕竟，你我之间是不大需要解释的。我们一直都用不着多说话就能互相了解，还是小孩子的时候就已经这样了。
那么，你一定明白，亲爱的，你尽可以不必为从前那一记耳光的事情伤心。当然，那是一次沉重的打击，但同样沉重的打击，我受过很多次了，而且我都熬过来了。-- 其中几次我甚至还曾给以回击。-- 而现在我仍旧在这儿，就像我们幼时同看的书（书名已忘记）上所说的那条鲭鱼：“活着、跳着、活泼泼地。”不过这是我的最后一跳了。一到明天早晨，就要----“滑稽剧收场”！你我不妨把这句话解释成：“杂耍收场了”；而我们要同声感激那些神，他们至少已经对我们发了慈悲，慈悲虽然不多，但总算有一点；对于这一点慈悲以及别的恩惠，我们就应该真心感激了。
说到明天早晨的事，我希望你和玛梯尼都要明白了解，我是非常快乐的、满意的，觉得不能向命运之神要求更好的结局了。请你把这意思告诉玛梯尼，算是我带给他的一个口讯；他是一个好人，也是一个好同志，他会了解的。你瞧，亲爱的，我知道得很清楚，那些陷在泥淖里的家伙，这样快就重新使用起秘密审问和处决的手段来，这就给了我们一个有利的转机，同时使他们自己处于一个极其不利的地位；我又知道得很清楚，如果你们留下来的人能够坚定地团结起来，给他们以猛烈的打击，你们就要看到伟大的成就了！至于我，我将怀着轻松的心情走到院子里去，好象一个小学生放假回家一般。我已经尽了我工作的本分，这次死刑的判决，就是我已经彻底尽职的证明。他们要杀我，是因为他们害怕我。一个人能够这样，还能再有什么别的心愿呢？
只是我还有这么一个小小的心愿。一个快要去死的人有权利可以提出他个人的心事的，我的一点心事就是要你明白，为什么我一直都象一头含怒的野兽一样对待你，为什么迟迟不肯把夙怨一笔勾销。当然，这是你自己心里也明白的。我所以还要唠叨，也不过是写着玩玩罢了。我是爱你的，琼玛，当你还是一个难看的小姑娘，穿着一件花格子布的罩衫，围着一个皱缩不平的胸褡，背上拖着一条小辫子的时候，我已经爱上你了。我现在也还爱着你。你还记得有一天我吻了你的手，而你那样可怜地央求我“请你以后不要再这样”那件事吗？这是一种不光明的把戏，我也知道的；可是你一定得饶恕我；现在，我又在这张纸上写着你的名字的地方吻过了。这样，我已经跟你亲过两次吻，两次都没有得到你的允许。
话已经说完了。别了，亲爱的。
不论我活着
还是我死掉,
我都是只
快乐的飞虻

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Talking about spoilers, just thought maybe it's better to start a new post for Grey's Anatomy. This way I don't have to worry that the spoilers will ruin the fun for those who haven't watched the show.

Grey's Anatomy的下一集要等到2月底了。
最近在看Sherlock，被第三季里的台词感动的一塌糊涂。
慢慢地放些上来。

The beatiful speech Sherlock made at John's wedding
MC: Pray silence for the Best Man.
Sherlock: Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, and, um, others. Er, …. Also....
John: Telegrams.
Sherlock: Right, um…. first thing first, telegrams. Well they’re not actually telegrams, we
just call them telegrams, I don’t know why. Wedding tradition. Because we don’t have
enough of that already, apparently.
“To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, so sorry I am unable to be with you on your special day. Good
luck and best wishes. Mike Stanford. “
“To John and Mary, all good wishes for your special day. With love and many big, big
squishy cuddles, from Stella and Ted.”
“Mary, lots of love, Poppet. Oodles of love and heaps of good wishes. From CAM. Wish
your family could have seen this.”
“Special day”, “very special day”, “Love…” “Love…”, “Love…”, “Love…”
Bit of a theme, you get the general gist. People are basically fond.
John Watson. My friend, John Watson. John. When John first broached the subject to
being Best Man, I was confused. I confess at first I didn’t realize he was asking me.
When finally I understood, I expressed to him that I was both flattered and surprised.
I explained to him that I’d never expected this request and I was a little daunted in the
face of it. I nonetheless promised that I would do my very best to accomplish a task
which was, for me, as demanding and difficult as any I had ever contemplated.
Additionally, I thanked him for the trust he placed in me and indicated that I was, in
some ways, very close to being moved by it. It later transpired that I’d said none of this
out loud.
Done that. Done that. Done that bit, done that bit. Done that bit. Hmm.
I’m afraid, John, I can’t congratulate you. All emotions, particularly love, stand opposed
to the pure, cold reason I hold above all things. A wedding is, in my considered opinion,
nothing short of a celebration of all that is false and specious and irrational and
sentimental in this ailing and morally compromised world. Today we honor the
deathwatch beetle that is the doom of our society, and in time one feels certain our
entire species. But anyway, let’s talk about John.
John: Please.
Sherlock: If I burden myself with a little helpmate during my adventures, it is not of
sentiment or caprice, it is that he has many fine qualities of his own that he has
overlooked in his obsession with me. Indeed, any reputation I have for mental acuity
and sharpness comes in truth, from the extraordinary contrast John so selflessly provides.
It is a fact, I believe,that brides tend to favour exceptionally plain bridesmaids for their
big day.There is a certain analogy there, I feel. And contrast is, after all, God’s own plan
to enhance the beauty of his creation. Or it would be if God were not a ludicrous fantasy
designed to provide a career opportunity for the family idiot.
The point I’m trying to make is that I am the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant, and all
around obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the misfortune to meet.
I am dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful,and uncomprehending in the
face of the happy.
So if I didn’t understand I was being asked to be Best Man, it is because I never
expected to be anybody’s best friend. And certainly not the best friend of the bravest
and kindest and wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing.
John, I am a ridiculous man. Redeemed only by the warmth and constancy of your
friendship. But as I am apparently your best friend, I cannot congratulate you on your
choice of companion.
Actually, now I can.
Mary, when I say you deserve this man, it is the highest compliment of which I am
capable. John, you have endured war and injury and tragic loss, so sorry again about
that last one. So know this – today you sit between the woman you have made your
wife and the man you have saved. In short, the two people who love you most in all this
world. And I know I speak for Mary as well when I say, we will never let you down and
we have a lifetime ahead to prove that.

可怜北美的同学要明天晚上才能看到Sherlock的第三季。
转一篇MacLean's上的文章
The 609-day cliffhanger

by Patricia Treble
During Sherlock's hiatus, its stars have gone global - and taken the show with them
For Sherlock fans, the seemingly endless wait is almost over. Nearly two years ago,
Sherlock Holmes flung himself off the roof of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in front of his
horrified friend Dr. John Watson, only to appear in the very last frame of the episode
alive but in hiding. Called one of TV's best cliffhangers, it's kept viewers theorizing
madly about how he survived what appeared to be a fatal plunge. Finally, the
acclaimed series' new season begins on PBS's Masterpiece on Jan. 19, with a
"logical solution," co-creator Seven Mffat promises.