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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

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 […]

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)

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 […]