Riverbrook
隨意漫步，即興而言
幾年前因希望將一篇刊登在文學城上自己喜歡的文章保存在文學城裏，我需要有一個《個人書簽》。於是就隨便想了一個以前似曾聽聞過的一個叫作“Riverbrook” 的詞作為我的帳戶名注了冊，以取其中“小溪”的意思。之後就沒怎麽用過它，因為我幾乎不上文學城。直到近幾日，心血來潮又來到這兒並在同一賬戶名下開了個博客。
向博客前輩們學習，也為代表我的“形象”，我得找一張與我賬戶名接近的圖像to go with it。可上網敲入 "Riverbrook + images"後卻沒找到任何與溪（或河）有關的圖像。查了一下字典,才恍然大悟 --- 原來本就沒這個詞;有人隻是把 river + brook = Riverbook 來作人名,公司或組織名罷了。
帶著好奇的心情,我查了單詞 brook, creek,steam, river, pond, lake, sea an d ocean, 包括他們各自的定義、相同處和不同處。對比之下，我個人感覺是英文的解釋較仔細易辨。如在中文將"brook" 和 "creek" 都譯成 “溪”，而英語字典和網上則說(大意）---
All of brooks, creeks, streams, rivers, seas, and oceans are flowing waters,while ponds can be still water. Brooks are smallest water channels. Creeks are often larger than brooks, and they are also sometimes referred as streams. However the word “stream” is a generic term of any body of flowing water, which could be on the surface of the earth, underground, and even within an ocean, such as Gulf Stream. Rivers are large streams flow over land. Ponds are small lakes, usually contains water by nature compressions. Lakes are any accumulation of water surrounded by land in considerable sizes. A very large lake that contains salt water is known as sea, and sea can be attached to or even a part of ocean. Oceans are the ultimate bodies of water and refers to the five oceans in the World - Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern. *
對於上述內容我雖然沒去考證它的準確性,然而卻覺得挺有意思的。通過查找“小溪”這個小詞的過程,我得到一個小心得,那就是 ---- 學無止境。
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罪惡啊，竟被流感“戀”上了！現在已好多了。 謝謝！
Jiyi，才看到這個回帖，太晚了，你感冒好些了？最近天氣變化無常，似乎得流感的很多，抱抱你，注意休息，保重！
書不著急，身體要緊，慢慢寫你的讀後吧：））
嗨，梅蘭友： 不好意思---近十日我被流感＂盯＂上了，加上工作忙，隻好荒蕪了我這塊小＂自留地＂啦。
我有這夲書。最近確有在看夲新書，非常喜歡。過幾日一定介紹給你和大家。
謝謝來訪和畄言！
最近看啥書涅？剛剛網購來《Man from Mars， Women from Venus》，據講很8錯，想不想瞅瞅，俺看完了給你？：））
人生中大大小小有太多好學---真好！
周末愉快！:-)
哈哈，不愧是學science的，連名字的準確度都毫不含糊---這叫“水落石出”，應和了你的第一幅插圖：））
文筆流暢，條理清楚，像潺潺溪水，好！