学习英语

对了 南方公园里那个 唱’uncle f..ker’ 是常用语还是有特别意思？

俗语 正好和中文的操你大爷对应：）

不过一般人不这么说 都是mother f..ker 但说uncle f..ker大家都懂而且很有意思 电视里老说 常用的骂人没意思了

大家说说我理解得对么？

lvcha sez:

这有什么有劲没劲的。 比单词有劲多了。辛苦2周就ok。 而且富于逻辑性。马克思的很多观点是很有道理的。

马克思的哲学观点有道理 但硬要用现实的国情去解释就牵强了

当年GRE单词才痛苦呢。傻背。 英语是傻人的语言，缺乏基本逻辑性。

英语缺乏逻辑是和它的历史有关 英语在历史上吸收了太多其他语言流派的单词规则 从最初6000个单词的古代德语 到拉丁 到希腊文 到scandivia国家语言 到法语 所以同一个事物和状态有太多的说法 构词法也不一样 就是这样 ；）

lvcha问：

对了。novel fiction 有啥区别？

用googole搜索what’s the differnce between novel and fiction

这里主要是说novel和book的区别 http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200...

我还不知道有novella这个词呢： http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=...

想看小说没有reading list么，这个可能有帮助 I have located several lists of great books and novels: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=thre...

但我更推荐直接去Project Gutenberg找。 http://www.gutenberg.org/

现在继续回答问题。网上没有好答案。我们用wordnet来查查看。

fiction

The noun fiction has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (14) fiction — (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact) 2. fabrication, fiction, fable — (a deliberately false or improbable account)

novel

The noun novel has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (17) novel — (an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story)
2. novel — (a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; “his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels”; “he burned all the novels”)

The adj novel has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (6) fresh, new, novel — (original and of a kind not seen before; “the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem”)
2. novel, refreshing — (pleasantly new or different; “common sense of a most refreshing sort”)

看novel第2个sense。说是extended work of ficiton。基本可以理解为在长度上有区别的。这里的extended是专指长度么？那么根据yahoo answer中有人的答案，看来字数可以成为一个不严格的分界线。6000字？还是应该多少字呢？

还有，

lvcha sez:

fiction是小说，包括各种杂七杂八的yellow，violence。。monster。。？ novel是长篇小说或者严肃点算是文学的小说？

novel也可以杂七杂八 感觉这两个基本通用 但 和ficiton对应的有non-ficiton 所以分类图书时候对应是小说类和非小说类 而novel没有这个用法，不能用non-novel 呵呵，这个解释不错 我加上

大家怎么看？

Overall, I hope that XEmacs, GNU Emacs and their various distributors work out the kinks so that such a simple matter as cut and paste is not a matter of medieval alchemical incantations. Until then, I hope my notes are of help to someone else. http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/6162

想不出如何翻译和选那个意思。应该是5，翻译成瑕疵？ define: kink

The noun kink has 5 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. crick, kink, rick, wrick — (a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (rick' andwrick’ are British))
2. kink, twist, twirl — (a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight)
3. kink — (a person with unusual sexual tastes)
4. kink — (an eccentric idea)
5. kink — (a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation; “there are still a few kinks to iron out”)

The verb kink has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink — (curl tightly; “crimp hair”)
2. curl, curve, kink — (form a curl, curve, or kink; “the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling”)

当然这些可参考得很多，随便去大些商业网站都有。我给的这个例子是是因为他它是大学，教育机构的rules of use，供以后自己参考。

Athena Rules of Use (including MITnet) http://web.mit.edu/olh/Rules/#mitnet

http://blogs.mit.edu/

Edward Tufte: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.

… why Edward Tufte hates it: PowerPoint Is Evil. According to him: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. http://blogs.mit.edu/CS/blogs/anjalisastrystude...

Love this quote!

more reference: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch...