Sunday, August 23, 2009

Off-topic: 罗家伦"新人生观"

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Luo Jialun's "A New Point of View of Human Life" is full of interesting little stories and quotes of historical figures. Other...

Off-topic: 读章太炎“国学概论“有感

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近读章太炎“国学概论“，感字字珠玑，隽语良多。然章谓“历观中国古代，在太平安宁之时,治哲学的极少,等到乱世,才有人研究。”颇出人意料。盖哲学思辨之学，本当衣暖食饱然后静坐而治之，何以至乱世才有人研究？或许中国哲学皆入世之学，或以入世为最终目的，非泰西哲学之纯思辨。
Thursday, July 23, 2009

想练习英语口语总是感到没有话说怎么办？

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Others have excellent suggestions. Let me add that for now, you can imagine you're giving a presentation in your native language, Chines...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Off-topic: Language education to solve Chinese ethnic conflict

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The ethnic conflict, or riot, in Xinjiang of northwestern China, caused more than 150 deaths. To be politically correct, the central govern...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

"ever" for 曾经?

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Many Chinese say "ever" when they mean to say 曾经 (ceng2jing1). But that word can be translated as 曾经 only when it's in a quest...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Learn English from native speakers

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No doubt there's great benefit in learning English by talking with a native speaker. But most people don't realize that talking to n...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

"Last January" vs "January last year"

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> He arrived in New York last January.其中的last January > 书上解释为今年一月，而不是去年一月~困惑~ > 如果按这样翻译那last该怎么分辨是今年还是去年？ "Last" is...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

"no more than" vs "not more than"

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> Any difference in meaning between these two sentences? > > "His victory in the final was no more convincing than I had expec...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"idea" not to be pronounced like "idea-r"

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> yuzhoucn said: > > 不少中国人滥用美音的儿音，如China、India、puma、idea这 > 种字里根本就没有r，也去给它附加一个儿音，听起来就很怪。 I can't agree more on that! We sho...
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"...