http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu 一起写 一起学 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:03:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1578/ 由于参与人不多，新内容发到这里了。 直到有多个作者参与的时候，再回到这里。 http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1559/ 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？ http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1525/ 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 ；） http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1524/ 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=20061022145901AA7NUkx http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070720125846AA2CrB6 我还不知道有novella这个词呢： http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070511021434AAnJJOt 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=threadview&id=229884 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. ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1523/ 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1522/ 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/ http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1521/ 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/anjalisastrystudents/archive/2007/11/30/66420.aspx Love this quote! :) more reference: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1 http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1520/ China Talk Radio http://thechinabusinessnetwork.com/China-Talk-Radio/China-Talk-Radio/ 我没兴趣听。存一下。也许有人喜欢。 http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1519/ 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1518/ A Conspiracy of Hecklers http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20071112_1.htm 1 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1517/ 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1516/ If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress? haha ;) http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1515/ 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 http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1514/ Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/11/10-piercing-insights-into-human-nature.php gem ! http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1513/ 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1512/ 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) http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1511/ 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 ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1510/ Once I've finished editing the interview and posted it to our podcast, I send it to CastingWords to be transcribed. They just changed their pricing structure. They charge .75 per each minute of your recording, and you can send them the RSS feed or upload an ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1506/ china girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPm9eZG5iPk lyrics http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics%20china%20girl who is the girl in the video? rebel rebel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v18Y4aXSxeY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOn6oVKG95k lyrics http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics%20rebel%20rebel learn to play the song on guitar ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7gUFSSXXE i just dont understand the lyrcis of david bowie this is no "little wonder" ;) http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1505/ http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apoignant affecting: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1504/ http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aharlot prostitute: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (examples: oral sex, sexual intercourse) for money. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute, a type of sex worker. In a more general sense of the word, anyone selling their services for a ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1503/ Somewhere in the middle of this spectrum are the individuals that I conduct day-to-day communication with, usually consisting of white collar Chinese employees in large multinational companies who have graduated from some of the top universities in China and speak a smattering of English and who, as a ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1502/ Me: We don't have a contract with the hotel, we can't just write them cheques willy-nilly! And we most certainly cannot act as a guarantee for all our clients. Harpy: They won't bank it in, they just want a guarantee. It doesn't need to say ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1501/ DVspot is on hiatus until further notice. We hope that we'll have the resources to return in the future. http://www.dvspot.com/ http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Ahiatus suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) foramen: a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1500/ 问：alliteration是头韵么？ http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Alliteration use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1499/ http://www.koko.org/friends/conservation.koko.html Thousands of gorillas with communicative and emotional capacities similar to Koko, Michael and Ndume are being killed in their African forest homes each year by commercial poachers in the illegal "bushmeat" trade. http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Abushmeat wild animals killed for food. 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Drag queens often do drag to perform, singing or lip-syncing and dancing, participating in events such as gay pride parades, cabarets, discotheques, and ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1496/ Then, he told us how desperate he often felt before he became a success: “When I was living in New York and didn’t have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I’d think, that’ll ... http://www.rijiben.org/yingyu/1495/