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In this essay you'll find a few specialized martial-arts words, but it's not really the vocabulary that places this in the "advanced" category. It's more that most of the text is full of wax-on, wax-off Karate Kid statements, as the martial arts master talks about how putting oneself in a position of inferiority allows you to attain superiority. 

This kind of "making logic out of illogical-sounding contradictions" is very typical of martial arts and Eastern mysticism, and most of this type of stuff comes strait out of Taoist philosophy. 

You'll enjoy this if you're an upper-intermediate or advanced reader, and are interested in some specialized vocabulary. 

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马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia
性骚扰 - [pinyin]xing4 sao1 rao3[/pinyin] - Sexual Harassment
据 - [pinyin]ju4[/pinyin] - According to (reports, etc.)
挡风玻璃 - [pinyin]dang3 feng1 bo1 li5[/pinyin] - Windshield
吉隆坡 - [pinyin]ji2 long2 po1[/pinyin] - Kuala Lumpur
妇女、家庭和社会发展部 - [pinyin]fu4 nv3 jia1 ting2 he2 she4 hui4 fa1 zhan3 bu4 [/pinyin] - Department of Women, Family and Community Development
项 - [pinyin]xiang4[/pinyin] - Classifier for projects, actions, decisions and tasks
举措 - [pinyin]ju3 cuo4[/pinyin] - Action, decision
担忧 - [pinyin]dan1 you1[/pinyin] - To be concerned 
袭击 - [pinyin]xi2 ji1[/pinyin] - An attack, esp. by surprise
埃及 - [pinyin]ai1 ji2[/pinyin] - Egypt
伊朗 - [pinyin]yi1 lang3[/pinyin] - Iran
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一名<strong>剑客</strong>去拜访一位<strong>武林泰斗</strong>，<strong>请教</strong>他是如何练就非凡武艺的。武林泰斗拿出一把只有一尺长的剑，说:“<strong>多亏</strong>了它，才让我有了今天的成就。”

    剑客<strong>大为不解</strong>，问:“别人的剑都是三尺三寸长的，而你的剑为什么只有一尺长呢?<strong>兵器</strong><strong>谱</strong>上说:剑短一分，险增三分。拿着这么短的剑无疑是处于一种<strong>劣势</strong>，你怎么还说这剑好呢?”

    武林泰斗说:“就因为在兵器上我处于劣势，所以我才会时时刻刻想到，如果与别人对阵，我会是多么的危险，所以我只有勤练剑招，以剑招之长补兵器之短，这样一来，我的剑招不断进步，劣势就转化为优势了。”

    的确，优势和劣势有时候并不是绝对的。把自己放在劣势，就是给自己压力，为自己注入进取的动力，敢于把自己放在劣势的人，最终就有可能把劣势转化成为优势，从而取得胜利。
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A swordsman went to pay a visit to a martial arts master [literally: a leading figure in martial arts circles] to ask for guidance on how to train [so as to attain] exceptional martial skill. The martial arts master took out a sword that was only 1 foot long, and said: "Thanks to this, I've accomplished what I have today." 

Bewildered, the swordsman asked, "Other people's swords are all 3 feet 3 inches long, so why is yours only one foot long? The weapons chart says that: if your sword is one-fold shorter, the danger to you is threefold greater.  兵器谱上说:剑短一分，险增三分。拿着这么短的剑无疑是处于一种劣势，你怎么还说这剑好呢?”

    武林泰斗说:“就因为在兵器上我处于劣势，所以我才会时时刻刻想到，如果与别人对阵，我会是多么的危险，所以我只有勤练剑招，以剑招之长补兵器之短，这样一来，我的剑招不断进步，劣势就转化为优势了。”

    的确，优势和劣势有时候并不是绝对的。把自己放在劣势，就是给自己压力，为自己注入进取的动力，敢于把自己放在劣势的人，最终就有可能把劣势转化成为优势，从而取得胜利。
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