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Monday, December 29, 2008

"Later" and "recently" are used in past tense

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> What will I be a decade later? Normally, "later" is used in a past tense sentence. Here you can say "in a decade"...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Off-topic: Year end charity - Half the Sky

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Over the past few years I've been searching for the perfect charity. Except for the times when there're natural disasters in China, ...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

No concatenation of sentences with comma

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> 1. There are 50 stars on America's national flag, each ______ a state. > A. standing for > B stands for > C represented ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

关于背单词是背英文解释还是背中文解释?

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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...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

English translation: US Financial Crisis

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Partial translation of an excellent article published on a Taiwanese forum http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/US_financial_crisis.html
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Off-topic: Barack Obama is not an ordinary black man

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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...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Omission of "to" after "is"

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> 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 ...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

牛津双解还是朗曼双解?

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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...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Off-topic: More freedom after Olympics

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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...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Singular or plural: "bird's nest" and "apple tree"

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> 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...
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