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> 由于现在一些“适合中国人的英英词典”面世， > 我本人也使用了多年，觉得是比英汉词典查 > 得更多单词，但是在记忆词汇的释义时不知 > 道该记 中文释义还是英文释义？如果记英文 > 释义，觉得效率似乎不高，如果记中文释义 >，又怕...

Partial translation of an excellent article published on a Taiwanese forum http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/US_financial_crisis.html

While economy is definitely the top issue, Asian Americans have one other item in the top priority list, i.e., personal safety, or crime rat...

> All you can do is remove yourself from her mailing list > remove 这事做什么词性 充当什么成分 You can omit "to" only if it follows ...

I used Longman a long time ago. The example sentences are the best among all dictionaries I've used. Longman also has a rule that the ex...

Blogspot.com and wikipedia.com used to be blocked in mainland China, until some time before the Beijing Olympics. I was not sure whether the...

> 为啥鸟巢用 bird's nest 而苹果树没有's呢？ > 还有为啥是bird's nest 而不是birds' nest呢？？ > 为啥是apple tree 而不是apples tree呢？ I'm not su...

~ tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to non-technical people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy" ! exclama...

It's better to listen to a good speaker. I think most Chinese have problems with "ou" in "found" or "ow" i...

> up till now一般是和现在完成时搭配的，表示个时间一直持续到现在。 > Until now, doctors have/had been able to do very little to treat > this disease. Ge...