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In this story 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 made by the master to the student, as the 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 most of this type of stuff comes strain 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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一名剑客去拜访一位武林泰斗，请教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:“多亏了它，才让我有了今天的成就。”

    剑客大为不解，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?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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