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我没兴趣听。存一下。也许有人喜欢。

The deterioration of translation quality is related to the dire situation of the industry for translated works.

Over the past twenty years, the salaries for most professions have increased by twenty fold. But the salary for translators has only doubled. In the early 1980’s, the basic fee for translation was 30 yuan per 1,000 words. At the moment, the basic fee for translation is only 60 yuan per 1,000 words.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20071124_1.htm

这样看来，与其挣翻译费。不如免费翻译或者通过翻译作为手段用其他方式挣钱。

The problem is that translation is also the kind of work that has a high requirement on the quality of the worker. A person who graduated from a university foreign language department (or even someone who has studied overseas) can become a simultaneous interpreter at a large conference, but this person may not be able to handle the job of translating a work of literature. Translation requires that a person must know the foreign language, have good Chinese-language skills as well as have a deep understanding and grasp of the culture and history of the foreign country. http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20071124_1.htm

true, very true.

最后总结：

This is the true crisis that the Chinese cultural industry must face up to. Over the past century, there were two popular waves of translation on mainland China. The first time was in the 1930’s. Through the efforts of translation masters such as Yan Fu, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun and others, works such as the social evolutionary theory of Herbert Spencer, of Karl Marx, the Cosmos of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the philosophy of Bertrand Russell were introduced to the troubled China. The second wave occurred in the 1980’s, when , and other famous works were no longer banned, and they gave a breath of freshness to the Chinese people coming out of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution into these formerly banned worlds. Today, the world economy is converging into one body even though regional cultural clashes are also becoming fiercer. But the situation with translation in China today may lead the Chinese to fall into a new and voluntary self-imposed blockade from the outside world.

A Conspiracy of Hecklers http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20071112_1.htm

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President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) shrugged off hecklers at two functions in Taipei City yesterday, a departure from a few days earlier, when he responded to their challenge. “It was quite a fanfare,” Chen told reporters as he was leaving the International Conference Center where he attended the opening ceremony of a medical forum.

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The president has since been confronted by hecklers on other occasions, including during a visit to a school and a medical facility. Each time the hecklers are spirited away by security officers, the president has publicly chided his critics and reaffirmed his own sense of self-righteousness. According to our outspoken president and vice president, all of their critics are either agents of the opposition-dominated press, dolts or just plain wrong.

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Yesterday in Miao Li, President Chen Shui-bian sent this message to the hecklers over the past few days: “If you don’t like Taiwan and you think that China is so great, you should know that there is no lid over the Pacific Ocean. If you like China, you should swim over there!”

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The storm created by Charlie and Ah Chu is worthy of contemplation. In ancient times, even a humane emperor who observes the hardship of his people might be sympathetic to their plight. But we now have a democracy in which whenever a citizen dissents, the government immediate invoke “conspiracy” — the hecklers are “China fellow travelers,” the media set up the show, it is the “Red Shirts” or it is “Ma Ying-jeou’s relatives.”

heckler

The noun heckler has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. heckler, badgerer — (someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections)

all you web 2.0 startup wanna be, go register the domain name hecklr~! hah hah

Together, ACLU attorneys Ben Wizner and Steven Watt represent six plaintiffs in two cases against the CIA’s practice of extraordinary rendition. So they know a thing or two about the practice.

So when they read “5 Myths About Rendition (and That New Movie)” by Daniel Benjamin, an article that purports to debunk myths about rendition in The Washington Post, they found some of that debunking required debunking itself. Their letter to the editor was published today:

http://blog.aclu.org/index.php?/archives/322-De...

我想不出中文是什么？帮助？

rendition

The noun rendition has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) rendition, rendering — (a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; “they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert”)
2. interpretation, interpreting, rendition, rendering — (an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; “the edict was subject to many interpretations”; “he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables”; “often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child’s intended meaning”)
3. rendition — (handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed)
4. rendition, rendering, interpretation — (the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; “her rendition of Milton’s verse was extraordinarily moving”)

If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?

haha

lvcha让我猜ergo的意思，前提是不翻字典

我记得在west wing这部电视剧中主人公总统曾经说过一个拉丁俗语然后问有没有人知道意思，没人知道，他就自己翻译成英语。我当时感觉ergo是therefore的意思。于是我回复。我蒙对了。

看看wordnet解释

The adv ergo has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. ergo — ((used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently)

记得wikipedia上有专门一些条目解释拉丁俗语还是希腊俗语啊。当时收藏了网页地址。

现在访问不了wikipedia也无法查找。有人能上给个链接我以后上去学学看看

Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/11/10-piercing-in...

gem !

Reflections on the brain of an idiot 文中说到人们称呼智力有问题的词一直在变化和变化的原因是什么很有意思

我这个题目用额不好。但我想不出如何称呼那些开始被称为idiot（开始的时候是医学术语没有贬义），后来因为idiot有贬义医学术语就改为其他词，后来那个其他词也有贬义医学界有用了个新词，如此几次。这也是我对这篇文章感兴趣的地方。

Back in 1871, the term ‘idiot’ was a proper medical term. It referred to someone we would now describe as having learning disabilities or intellectual impairment.

As the word became used as an everyday form of abuse, it left the realms of medicine because it was deemed inappropriate, and has been replaced by seemingly more appropriate terms. There is a long history of this process and it continues to this day.

Reflections on the brain of an idiot http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/11/reflectio...

The author goes on to give two more examples. Interesting read.

Sexual deviancy ; paraphillia

我竟然在wordnet中没有查到这两个词！！

The noun epilepsy has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. epilepsy — (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)

Gold price – seasonality Over the last five years, the gold price exhibited some seasonality with a strong trend to higher gold prices in December through to March. We believe the strong seasonal upward trend in prices is linked partly with similar seasonal trends in the oil price and also partly linked to increased demand for gold during the festive and marriage season in India together with the traditional seasonal demand from the Middle East. According to US Energy Department data, global oil demand peaks in Q4 when refiners in the US, Europe and North Asia make heating fuel for the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Interesting!

buy gold!

this is not a investmetn advice from me and i don’t intend to create a client relatioinship with the reader!

so much for disclaimer.

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buy gold!

wanna get fancy, buy silver!

fiat money. if you don’t know what fiat money is, go find it out!