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We know and , or , but are conjunctions. If a conjunction is at the head of a sentence or clause, this clause cannot be used as the subjec...

Mean (the average value, 均值) Median (the middle value, 中位数) Mode (the most common value, 众数) The three words are easy in Chinese becau...

Black Lives Matter的汉译 有 文章 说 ---引文始--- 试看“Black Lives Matter”哪一个正经媒体和体面人会译为“黑命贵”？那是恶意歪曲加种族歧视的垃圾。它的直译是“黑人的命同样重要”，而更为符合中文语法习惯而又准确表达原意的...

英语He hit the man with a crutch有歧义，既可能是“他用拐杖打了那个人”（with a crutch作状语修饰hit），也可能是“他打了那个拄拐杖的人”（with a crutch作定语修饰the man）。但在汉语中不可能造出兼有这两种意思的歧义语句...

[English version follows] 马克思关于家庭的一段中文翻译： “那时就可以看出，妇女解放的第一个先决条件就是一切女性重新回到公共的劳动中去；而要达到这一点，又要求个体家庭不再成为社会的经济单位。”（《马克思恩格斯全集·二十一卷·二、家庭》 http...

以前写过一篇 Incorrect English in a petition to the White House （或见 微博 ），其中我对一篇请愿书做了改病句、改错词。最近读到内容相似的一篇 '>请愿书 ，英语相对好很多。文章如下，我的评论在括弧中。 S...

牛津逗号（Oxford comma），又称连续逗号（ Serial comma ），是指如果并列三个或更多的名词，在倒数第二个名词之后添加逗号。例如 France, Italy, and Spain 假如省略这个逗号，就写成 France, Italy and Spain...

When I learned English thirty plus years ago in China, we were taught to say "I shall", "we shall", and "you will...

Many English dictionaries published in China use /i/ and /u/ symbols to represent the sounds /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ respectively. As a result, some lea...

Steve Kaufmann is an undisputed celebrity in the language study community. According to Wikipedia , "[a]s of 2023, he has an understan...