· “狗”亦不同！
· Idiom: Memory like an elephant
· 英语气数已尽？
· 英语会衰落吗？
· China’s Copycat Culture(山寨文化）
· 人教版新课标高中英语必修一UNIT1中定语成份形式与宾补句式
· Trust
[转帖]2012 皮鞋很忙
2012-4-26 12:06:54 阅读4 评论0 262012/04 Apr26
过去一周，“皮鞋”成当之无愧的新闻主角。老酸奶、果冻里有没有工业明胶还“云山雾罩”，更耸人听闻的消息传来：用来治病救人的“放心药、良心药”，其胶囊制作原料竟然来自烂皮鞋，其中超标的铬对人体有毒害。
皮鞋一忙起来，许多人就得跟着忙：忙毁证据、忙公关、忙通知、忙推卸、忙澄清……最忙的数以下几位：
涉事企业忙着辩解。其中之一的修正药业称，“央视送检的批号生产日期在新国标实施之前，此前铬元素含量并未纳入检测范围”。但这样的逻辑是如此苍白：国标没有，这样一种有毒物质就能出现在胶囊里，这样用烂皮鞋制成的工业明胶就能用来制作胶囊吗？
监管部门忙着下通知、搞检查。其实早在2004年，央视就曝光过阜城镇工业明胶流入食品行业的丑闻，8年后再次爆出，可见地方监管部门的监管基本失灵。
专家忙着澄清，抛出“六个毒胶囊无害论”。这一言论也许没错，但这位专家显然忘了，中国人在“一天6个毒胶囊”前已经遭遇了毒牛奶、地沟油、毒火腿等，很难说那含铬量不多的六个胶囊是“增量”还是“变量”。
除了被动“忙”的，还有主动“忙”的。如IT企业在过去几天就忙着掐架。网易指责腾讯抄袭其新闻客户端产品风波未平，网易自家却“后院起火”，大众点评网指责网易于近日上线的移动客户端“饭饭”抄袭。若再加上腾讯和奇虎360在广东省高院上演第二季“3Q大战”，“三国杀”已演变为“四国大战”。
电商忙着打赌，当当网CEO李国庆称竞争对手——京东商城太烧钱，对此京东商城CEO刘强东重启微博，邀李国庆以1000万为赌注，赌京东商城有不低于6
皮鞋一忙起来，许多人就得跟着忙：忙毁证据、忙公关、忙通知、忙推卸、忙澄清……最忙的数以下几位：
涉事企业忙着辩解。其中之一的修正药业称，“央视送检的批号生产日期在新国标实施之前，此前铬元素含量并未纳入检测范围”。但这样的逻辑是如此苍白：国标没有，这样一种有毒物质就能出现在胶囊里，这样用烂皮鞋制成的工业明胶就能用来制作胶囊吗？
监管部门忙着下通知、搞检查。其实早在2004年，央视就曝光过阜城镇工业明胶流入食品行业的丑闻，8年后再次爆出，可见地方监管部门的监管基本失灵。
专家忙着澄清，抛出“六个毒胶囊无害论”。这一言论也许没错，但这位专家显然忘了，中国人在“一天6个毒胶囊”前已经遭遇了毒牛奶、地沟油、毒火腿等，很难说那含铬量不多的六个胶囊是“增量”还是“变量”。
除了被动“忙”的，还有主动“忙”的。如IT企业在过去几天就忙着掐架。网易指责腾讯抄袭其新闻客户端产品风波未平，网易自家却“后院起火”，大众点评网指责网易于近日上线的移动客户端“饭饭”抄袭。若再加上腾讯和奇虎360在广东省高院上演第二季“3Q大战”，“三国杀”已演变为“四国大战”。
电商忙着打赌，当当网CEO李国庆称竞争对手——京东商城太烧钱，对此京东商城CEO刘强东重启微博，邀李国庆以1000万为赌注，赌京东商城有不低于6
泰坦尼克号沉船新解
2012-4-10 22:41:15 阅读21 评论0 102012/04 Apr10
泰坦尼克号沉船新解
The Iceberg Was Only Part of It
from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/a-new-look-at-natures-role-in-the-titanics-sinking.html?src=dayp
What doomed the Titanic is well known, at least in outline. On a moonless night in the North Atlantic, the liner hit an iceberg and disaster ensued, with 1,500 lives lost.
Hundreds of books, studies and official inquiries have addressed the deeper
The Iceberg Was Only Part of It
from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/a-new-look-at-natures-role-in-the-titanics-sinking.html?src=dayp
What doomed the Titanic is well known, at least in outline. On a moonless night in the North Atlantic, the liner hit an iceberg and disaster ensued, with 1,500 lives lost.
Hundreds of books, studies and official inquiries have addressed the deeper
“狗”亦不同！
2012-2-1 15:26:28 阅读17 评论0 12012/02 Feb1
同一客观事物,在不同文化里可以包含不同的价值,引起不同的联想,具有不同内涵。如汉语和英语中“狗”的含义就大不一样。在西方,狗是忠诚的伴侣动物;但在我国,人们通常对狗有种厌恶的心理。中西方人对狗所持的不同态度,自然而然也在各自的语言中反映出来。
(一)汉语表示法狗腿子(lackey),狗崽子(son of bitch),狗急跳墙(a cornered beast will do sth. desperate),狗嘴吐不出象牙(a filthy mouth can't utter decent language)。
(二)英语表示法 love me,love my dog.(爱屋及乌).top dog(最重要的人物),lucky dog(幸运儿),dog-tired (筋疲力竭),to lead a dog's life(过着牛马不如的生活)。
从以上汉英表示法来看,我们发现二者在语义上很不相同。在英语中,虽然“dog”间或含贬义,如“this/that dirty dog”(这/那个狗东西),“They say English is going to dogs”(人们说英语糟糕得快完蛋了)。但一般说来,这个词或含有这个词的各种说法大都含褒义。或是含中性意义。从这一角度上说“狗”和“dog”除了本义相偶合以外,其余引申义、喻义基本是属于语义彼此空缺的范畴。
还有Every dog has his day人人皆有得意时。
(一)汉语表示法狗腿子(lackey),狗崽子(son of bitch),狗急跳墙(a cornered beast will do sth. desperate),狗嘴吐不出象牙(a filthy mouth can't utter decent language)。
(二)英语表示法 love me,love my dog.(爱屋及乌).top dog(最重要的人物),lucky dog(幸运儿),dog-tired (筋疲力竭),to lead a dog's life(过着牛马不如的生活)。
从以上汉英表示法来看,我们发现二者在语义上很不相同。在英语中,虽然“dog”间或含贬义,如“this/that dirty dog”(这/那个狗东西),“They say English is going to dogs”(人们说英语糟糕得快完蛋了)。但一般说来,这个词或含有这个词的各种说法大都含褒义。或是含中性意义。从这一角度上说“狗”和“dog”除了本义相偶合以外,其余引申义、喻义基本是属于语义彼此空缺的范畴。
还有Every dog has his day人人皆有得意时。
Not just Mother!
2012-1-29 16:14:20 阅读14 评论0 292012/01 Jan29
A woman, renewing her driver's licence ,was asked by the woman at Registry to state her occupation.She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.
'What I mean is, ' explained the woman at Registry,'do you have a job or are you just a ...?'
'Of course I have a job,' snapped the woman.'I'm a Mum.'
'We don't list 'Mum' as an occupation,'housewife' covers it,' said the recorder emphatically.
I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation.
The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, 'Official Interrogator' or 'City Registrar.'
'What is your occupation?' she probed.
'What I mean is, ' explained the woman at Registry,'do you have a job or are you just a ...?'
'Of course I have a job,' snapped the woman.'I'm a Mum.'
'We don't list 'Mum' as an occupation,'housewife' covers it,' said the recorder emphatically.
I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation.
The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, 'Official Interrogator' or 'City Registrar.'
'What is your occupation?' she probed.
Idiom: Memory like an elephant
2012-1-2 20:14:50 阅读26 评论0 22012/01 Jan2
'An elephant never forgets' is a saying, so if a person has a memory like an elephant, he or she has a very good memory indeed.
在高中人教必修2 Unit 3中L20P18有一句：Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told!其中的like an elephant学生认为是大象的脑总量比较大，或是脑细胞形状比较大等。而英国科学家们证明了这一现象的真实原因。请看下文：
Why elephants don't forget
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1285532.stm
Thursday, 19 April, 2001, 18:01 GMT 19:01 UK
By BBC News Online's Helen Briggs
The saying that elephants never forget has been backed by science.
And
在高中人教必修2 Unit 3中L20P18有一句：Over time my memory has developed so much that, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told!其中的like an elephant学生认为是大象的脑总量比较大，或是脑细胞形状比较大等。而英国科学家们证明了这一现象的真实原因。请看下文：
Why elephants don't forget
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1285532.stm
Thursday, 19 April, 2001, 18:01 GMT 19:01 UK
By BBC News Online's Helen Briggs
The saying that elephants never forget has been backed by science.
And
英语气数已尽？
2011-12-7 11:25:37 阅读25 评论0 72011/12 Dec7
The death of English
Henry Hitchings
from http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001035490/en
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel, by Nicholas Ostler, Allen Lane RRP ?20, 313 pages
People whose first language is English are apt to be complacent about its pre-eminence. English is seen as indomitable – ruling the worlds of business, science and entertainment. Yet in The Last Lingua Franca, Nicholas Ostler serves up a bold corrective to Anglo-centrism and its familiar flag-waving myopia.
Ostler, a Briton who chairs the Foundation for Endangered Languages, opens with the provocative
Henry Hitchings
from http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001035490/en
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel, by Nicholas Ostler, Allen Lane RRP ?20, 313 pages
People whose first language is English are apt to be complacent about its pre-eminence. English is seen as indomitable – ruling the worlds of business, science and entertainment. Yet in The Last Lingua Franca, Nicholas Ostler serves up a bold corrective to Anglo-centrism and its familiar flag-waving myopia.
Ostler, a Briton who chairs the Foundation for Endangered Languages, opens with the provocative
英语会衰落吗？
2011-12-7 11:21:22 阅读34 评论0 72011/12 Dec7
Nation will not stop talking unto nation in English
from http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001036243/en
By Michael Skapinker
Whatever uncertainties the US and Britain face, their language still rules the world.
No scientist can flourish without publishing in English. When Germans trade with Brazilians, or Frenchmen with Angolans, they probably do so in English.
Goldman Sachs has predicted that China’s economy could overtake America’s by 2027. Yet, far from insisting that the world master their language, the Chinese are busily learning English, adding an estimated 20m speakers a year. Walt
from http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001036243/en
By Michael Skapinker
Whatever uncertainties the US and Britain face, their language still rules the world.
No scientist can flourish without publishing in English. When Germans trade with Brazilians, or Frenchmen with Angolans, they probably do so in English.
Goldman Sachs has predicted that China’s economy could overtake America’s by 2027. Yet, far from insisting that the world master their language, the Chinese are busily learning English, adding an estimated 20m speakers a year. Walt
China’s Copycat Culture(山寨文化）
2011-11-2 11:43:10 阅读125 评论0 22011/11 Nov2
China’s Copycat Culture
By ALEXANDRA HARNEY
from http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/chinas-copycat-culture/?ref=opinion
HONG KONG — If you’re worried about China overtaking the United States as one of the world’s leading innovators, consider this: While Americans mourned the passing of Steve Jobs last month, the Chinese had just finished closing near-perfect copies of Apple retail outlets in the southwestern city of Kunming. While one country celebrated a man who represented three decades of new ideas,
By ALEXANDRA HARNEY
from http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/chinas-copycat-culture/?ref=opinion
HONG KONG — If you’re worried about China overtaking the United States as one of the world’s leading innovators, consider this: While Americans mourned the passing of Steve Jobs last month, the Chinese had just finished closing near-perfect copies of Apple retail outlets in the southwestern city of Kunming. While one country celebrated a man who represented three decades of new ideas,
乔布斯成功的7秘诀
2011-11-2 11:36:35 阅读45 评论0 22011/11 Nov2
Steve Jobs and the 7 Rules of Success
from http://www.secondact.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-the-seven-rules-of-success/?cm_mmc=Market-_-Outbrain-_-NA-_-NA
Steve Jobs' impact on your life cannot be overestimated. His innovations have likely touched nearly every aspect -- computers, movies, music and mobile. As a communications coach, I learned from Jobs that a presentation can, indeed, inspire. For entrepreneurs, Jobs' greatest legacy is the set of principles that drove his success.
Over the years, I've become a student of sorts of Jobs'
from http://www.secondact.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-and-the-seven-rules-of-success/?cm_mmc=Market-_-Outbrain-_-NA-_-NA
Steve Jobs' impact on your life cannot be overestimated. His innovations have likely touched nearly every aspect -- computers, movies, music and mobile. As a communications coach, I learned from Jobs that a presentation can, indeed, inspire. For entrepreneurs, Jobs' greatest legacy is the set of principles that drove his success.
Over the years, I've become a student of sorts of Jobs'
不得对孩子说的九句话
2011-11-2 10:30:29 阅读57 评论0 22011/11 Nov2
Positive Reinforcement: 9 Things You Shouldn't Say to Your Child
from http://www.parenting.com/article/things-you-shouldnt-say-to-your-child?ppc=out_health
Learn what phrases to banish from your vocabulary and how to talk so you're kids will really listen
By Paula Spencer
I was trying to do two things at once -- cook (in the kitchen) while deciphering some paperwork (in the next room). I'd been interrupted a thousand times with requests for snacks, shrieks over spilled paint water, questions about what squirrels like to eat, and arguments over whether
from http://www.parenting.com/article/things-you-shouldnt-say-to-your-child?ppc=out_health
Learn what phrases to banish from your vocabulary and how to talk so you're kids will really listen
By Paula Spencer
I was trying to do two things at once -- cook (in the kitchen) while deciphering some paperwork (in the next room). I'd been interrupted a thousand times with requests for snacks, shrieks over spilled paint water, questions about what squirrels like to eat, and arguments over whether
The Wrong Inequality
2011-11-2 8:47:18 阅读28 评论1 22011/11 Nov2
The Wrong Inequality
from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/brooks-the-wrong-inequality.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
By DAVID BROOKS
We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it’s inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too.
In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality. This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco,
from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opinion/brooks-the-wrong-inequality.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
By DAVID BROOKS
We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it’s inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too.
In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality. This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco,
人教版新课标高中英语必修一UNIT1中定语成份形式与宾补句式
2011-9-13 11:26:06 阅读69 评论0 132011/09 Sept13
第一单元教学中发现不少定语成份及不同的形式，值得让学生注意：
(P1) a very interesting film: 形容词前置定语
go somewhere quiet to calm ...：形容词后置定语
taking your end-of-term exam: 将词组或句子用连字符变为前置定语：a what-do-you-do question; 另可延伸为加引号将词组或句子变成前置定语：a "what do you do?" question, a "where are you going?" greeting
Your friend, who doesn't work hard, asks you to help ...：非限定性定语从句
look at someone else's paper： 所有格作定语
(P2) Do you have a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts?：限定性定语从句
...grown crazy about everything to do with nature: 不定式作定语
the thundering clouds:-ing作前置定语
through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows: -ing词组作后置定语
(P1) a very interesting film: 形容词前置定语
go somewhere quiet to calm ...：形容词后置定语
taking your end-of-term exam: 将词组或句子用连字符变为前置定语：a what-do-you-do question; 另可延伸为加引号将词组或句子变成前置定语：a "what do you do?" question, a "where are you going?" greeting
Your friend, who doesn't work hard, asks you to help ...：非限定性定语从句
look at someone else's paper： 所有格作定语
(P2) Do you have a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts?：限定性定语从句
...grown crazy about everything to do with nature: 不定式作定语
the thundering clouds:-ing作前置定语
through dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows: -ing词组作后置定语
Trust
2011-3-30 9:00:53 阅读519 评论0 302011/03 Mar30
Trust
Andy Rooney
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, Pa., a distance of about eighty miles. It was late, I was late and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving, I’d have to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching my fists with impatience.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red and I braked to a halt. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I
Andy Rooney
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, Pa., a distance of about eighty miles. It was late, I was late and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving, I’d have to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching my fists with impatience.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red and I braked to a halt. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I
the lost necklace (play and short story)
2011-3-7 22:24:29 阅读222 评论0 72011/03 Mar7
大陆高中人教版英语中的是剧本版，让人想像不少。现将原作者的小说版故事收集于此，比较中学习英语之妙，及原作者用笔之趣。
PLAY PLAY
The Lost Necklace
Place: a park in Paris
Time: a summer afternoon in 1870
People: Mathilde Loisel, wife Pierre Loisel, husband
(Jeanne is sitting in the park. Mathilde walks towards her, she stops and speaks to
Jeanne.)
Mathilde: Good afternoon, Jeanne.
Jeanne : (Looking at the other woman) I，m sorry, but I don，t think I know you.
Mathilde: No, you wouldn’t but many years ago you knew me well. I，m Mathilde Loisel.
Jeanne : Mathilde! My old school friend. Is it possible? But yes, of course it is .Now I
remember. Where have you been all these years, Mathilde? I hope you weren，t ill .
PLAY PLAY
The Lost Necklace
Place: a park in Paris
Time: a summer afternoon in 1870
People: Mathilde Loisel, wife Pierre Loisel, husband
(Jeanne is sitting in the park. Mathilde walks towards her, she stops and speaks to
Jeanne.)
Mathilde: Good afternoon, Jeanne.
Jeanne : (Looking at the other woman) I，m sorry, but I don，t think I know you.
Mathilde: No, you wouldn’t but many years ago you knew me well. I，m Mathilde Loisel.
Jeanne : Mathilde! My old school friend. Is it possible? But yes, of course it is .Now I
remember. Where have you been all these years, Mathilde? I hope you weren，t ill .
If I were a freshman again
2010-12-15 17:03:41 阅读480 评论1 152010/12 Dec15
If I were a freshman again------Thomas Arkle Clark
1)It is the habit of age to give sage advice to youth.One of the pastimes in which everyone periodically indulges is the pleasant hallucination that if he were given the opportunity to live his youth over again he would do it differently and more successfully.We are all of us,even though we have no more than reached middle age,given to regretting our neglected opportunities and our lost youth.It gives one a virtuous feeling in imagination to dodge all error but it is extremely doubtful if many of us,even if we had a second chance,would avoid many of the pitfalls into which we stumbled,or follow a straighter path than that by which we have
1)It is the habit of age to give sage advice to youth.One of the pastimes in which everyone periodically indulges is the pleasant hallucination that if he were given the opportunity to live his youth over again he would do it differently and more successfully.We are all of us,even though we have no more than reached middle age,given to regretting our neglected opportunities and our lost youth.It gives one a virtuous feeling in imagination to dodge all error but it is extremely doubtful if many of us,even if we had a second chance,would avoid many of the pitfalls into which we stumbled,or follow a straighter path than that by which we have