Archive for September, 2007

don’t tell nobody/anybody 有什么区别?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

in a email to lvcha, i wrote:

don’t tell nobody.

lvcha wrote back

nobody?

means?

anybody can known.

here’s my response

我知道你可能有这个疑惑所以专门那么写的 正确的语法是 don’t tell anybody 但是,在日常口语中为了更口语化(其实 是受早期黑人英语不标准的影响),也有 人愿意打趣地说 don’t tell nobody

这是我的解释。不知道对不对啊?

shepheard是sheep加herd么?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

lonely shepherd 好听的曲子 刚发现shepherd这个词应该是 sheep 和 herd的组合 sheep就是羊 herd 是一群羊的群 所以组合就是牧羊狗吧 :) 一条狗看一群羊萨。 我这种猜测对么?

shepherd

  • a clergyman who watches over a group of people
  • watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
  • sheepherder: a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
  • tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

  • A shepherd is one who takes care of sheep, usually in flocks in the fields. Shepherding is one of the oldest professions, beginning some 10,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat, and especially their wool. Over the next millennia sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd

herd

  • a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
  • cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; “We herded the children into a spare classroom”
  • move together, like a herd
  • a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
  • ruck: a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; “his brilliance raised him above the ruck”; “the children resembled a fairy herd”
  • keep, move, or drive animals; “Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?” wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

  • A herd is a large group of animals. The term is usually applied to mammals, particularly ungulates. Other terms are used for similar phenomena in other types of animal. For example, a large group of birds is usually called as flock and a large group of carnivores is usually called a pack. In addition, special terms may be used for particular taxa: for example a flock of geese is sometimes called a gaggle. … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd

lute

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

…[l]ater titles in the cycle included The Six-Fingered Lord of the Lute (1965) and Sacred Fire, Heroic Wind (1966).[2]

这个一定是 六指琴魔 了。哈哈。他弹的是什么琴啊。

刚看到其实第一批武侠电影在30年代就很流行了,而且是最流行。后来国民党政府和当时文化界精英觉得这些内容宣传迷信和无政府注意。

The boom came to an end in the 1930s, caused by official opposition from cultural and political elites, especially the Kuomintang government, who saw it as promoting superstition and violent anarchy.[2]

两段都来自wikipedia的Hong Kong action cinema文章。

lute

  • a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
  • chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

  • The lute is a plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. It evolved from an instrument originally developed in the Middle East, which was also the ancestor of the superficially similar oud. The words ‘lute’ and ‘oud’ are both derived from Arabic al‘ud, “the wood”. The player of a lute is called a lutenist, and a maker of lutes (or guitars) is called a luthier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute

Anima and Animus 对应的专业名词是什么?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Anima and Animus

Jung identified the anima as being the unconscious feminine component of men and the animus as the unconscious masculine component in women. However, this is rarely taken as a literal definition: many modern day Jungian practitioners believe that every person has both an anima and an animus. Jung stated that the anima and animus act as guides to the unconscious unified Self, and that forming an awareness and a connection with the anima or animus is one of the most difficult and rewarding steps in psychological growth. Jung reported that he identified his anima as she spoke to him, as an inner voice, unexpectedly one day.

Often, when people ignore the anima or animus complexes, the anima or animus vies for attention by projecting itself on others. This explains, according to Jung, why we are sometimes immediately attracted to certain strangers: we see our anima or animus in them. Love at first sight is an example of anima and animus projection. Moreover, people who strongly identify with their gender role (e.g. a man who acts aggressively and never cries) have not actively recognized or engaged their anima or animus.

via wikipedia on carl jung

一见钟情,或者看某个异性特别有感觉的原因那个例子我非常喜欢。:)哈哈

我这么说,我心中的那个anima按身边朋友的审美观点不算好看。所以我看着有个感觉的他们都说“这(zhei4)不行~”。哈哈!

我没有信用卡 也不怎么网上购物

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

PayPal sucks! It has all the allusions of being a bank, but without needing to fulfill any of the regulations necessary. It doesn’t have to answer to its customers in the way that a real bank does, and it doesn’t provide a balanced service. They are judge, juror, and executioner of any dispute. I don’t want to give my credit details to such an establishment. Alas, I can’t attend the next meeting of my local magicians group if I don’t. So I must duly submit my attendance fee by creating a temporary account, since it doesn’t support one-off transactions. Stupid! I then closed the account, and when submitted the “why have you closed your account” form by ticking the box “other”. Alas, it then required me to fill in a description for “other”. With a final sense of irony I wrote, “because I am required to fill in a description for ’other’”. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/and_t...

我也不相信paypal等。作者写的原因我同意。特别我不想让我信用卡信息和paypal帐号关联。当然,我暂时也没有信用卡。;)

我也不相信银行!

我根本就不太相信货币了现在!!为什么不信任现行的货币是一个很理论性的问题。同时也有很多现实的证据。注意:我说的是不信任货币,不是人民币,是所有现在使用的货币。(你说我怎么心里压力那么大啊,说点什么都得解释一下,就怕别人扣我破坏金融秩序的帽子。)

不是开玩笑。真的不是。

… yes, I do use my CC online - I’m not that paranoid! But, after having payment approved by Visa, two other sites popped up (Nochex, and SecureSuite, in case you’re interested) asking for my credit card information again. And date of birth. Although I’ve been assured these are not phishing sites, how am I to know? Since my schooling in security says that I shouldn’t give my details to any domain that doesn’t explicitly belong to my bank, I can’t shop. So, I’m being edged out of the virtual shopping malls, too.

What?! 还好,我网上唯一买过一次东西是lyon在amazon上买的时候我让他帮我也买了些。刷他的卡。我网上购买网络服务等也是刷他的卡。自己承担较小风险。lyon在amazon两次购物后卡就被恶意刷了70美元。还好他有短信即时通知。当时打电话给银行。似乎1个月后把那笔支付追回来了。

dragon gate inn / dragon inn 必然是 龙门客栈 了 :)

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The New School wuxia wave marked the move of male-oriented action films to the centre of Hong Kong cinema, which had long been dominated by female stars and genres aimed at female audiences, such as romances and musicals. Even so, during the 1960s female action stars like Cheng Pei Pei and Connie Chan Po-chu were prominent alongside male stars, such as former swimming champion Jimmy Wang Yu, and they continued an old tradition of woman warriors in wuxia storytelling. The signature directors of the period were Chang Cheh with One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and Golden Swallow (1968) and King Hu with Come Drink with Me (1966). Hu soon left Shaw Brothers to pursue his own vision of wuxia with independent productions in Taiwan, such as the enormously successful Dragon Inn (1967, aka Dragon Gate Inn). Chang stayed on and remained the Shaws’ prolific star director into the early 1980s.

dragon gate inn / dragon inn 必然是 龙门客栈 了 :)

Wong Fei Hung 就是黄飞鸿

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Wong Fei Hung 就是黄飞鸿

Wong Fei Hung 就是黄飞鸿,就是 huang fei hong,就是 “Master Wong,就是 黄师傅!

Well, there is not much to say about that.

问:第一种拼音是叫什么韦式拼音么?在香港和海外用得多。

英国电信报时员的历史; THE VOICES OF THE BT SPEAKING CLOCK

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/speaking_clock.ht... THE VOICES OF THE BT SPEAKING CLOCK A London telephonist, Jane Cain, also known as Ethel Cain, became the first voice on 24 July 1936 and lasted until 1963.

记录了英国电信/british telecom (是这么说吧)历史上的报时员的声音来自哪些人。

我记得以前老用电话获取时间。小学的时候。现在很少打了。但街上很少能看到报时的表。其实在街上如果没有表想知道时间不容易。当然可以问路人。现在主要看手机知道时间。

funny: prediction of private jet business in China;

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

re: How not to give a sympathetic quote Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:17 PM by will

It’s only a matter of time. And I predict:

1) All the planes will be black

2) They’ll all have those “whonk whonk!” official sounding horns

3) There will be a lively black market in military and official hull registration numbers.

4) If you think it sucks to have private planes preempting commercial traffic in the US, wait until the same dynamic starts to infest China’s overmatched civil aviation infrastructure. Having watched the second ring get closed for a motorcade in Beijing yesterday yet again…

http://news.imagethief.com/blogs/china/archive/...

prediction 1 2 3 , gems. pure gems. :)

I don’t understand the word hull in prediction 3. Somebody please help.

“Let’s see your Tiger-Crane style match my Eagle’s Claw!”

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

“Let’s see your Tiger-Crane style match my Eagle’s Claw!” http://blog2.eastmoney.com/tomcarter,395520.htm...

太喜欢这句了。鹰爪我是知道。这是虎什么拳啊?谁知道?

我武打片也看了不少,怎么想不出来呢?

more from that post

Forms, which are actual fighting techniques with the appearance of a choreographed dance, are the most elegant. The animal styles, for example, involve strength, speed and psychology; the Tiger for external force and a strong attack, the softer Crane style for patience and concentration, and so on down the animal kingdom.