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Friday, July 8, 2022
dastardly
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安倍晋三遇刺身亡,美国田纳西议员Steve Cohen 称 刺杀行为是a dastardly act,日本首相岸田文雄对刺杀行为的 说法 被英译为dastardly and barbaric。英语词dastardly不很常用,它兼有“怯懦”和“邪恶”的意思,似乎没有合适的汉语词...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Use International Phonetic Alphabet to help improve pronunciation
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In my last posting , I said "成年后学外语,口音几乎不可能完全消除,略带外国口音不是坏事,但如果华人希望更好地与人交流、或从政、或跻身公司高层,减少口音即使不是必须的,也是有益的。它需要仔细听、模仿、学习,和长时间不懈的努力" (...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Words often mispronounced by Chinese learners
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以前讲过中国学生或华人 最容易读错的英语字母N ,应读/ɛn/,但中国人读作/n/,或/ɛ/变得很弱。这里讲几个容易读错的词: * southern:它的第一音节元音是/ʌ/(即cut的元音),不是/aʊ/,虽然south中的元音是/aʊ/。的确有词典说加拿大或苏格兰方言有...
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Saturday, May 29, 2021
Chinese-English coincidence of words
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Apart from onomatopoeias, borrowed or transliterated words, or cognates [note], what are some English and Chinese words that happen to have...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Chinese translation of a history professor's summary poem
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At the end of Dr. James C Davis 's The Human Story , a great overview of world history, he wrote a four-line poem that summarizes his p...
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Mutual intelligibility to distinguish between language and dialect: case of Chinese and Cantonese
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Sometimes it is debatable to say that two language varieties are two different languages, or that they are two dialects of one single langu...
Thursday, February 4, 2021
2021: The Year of "牛"
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Of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, some are translated into English as various names, such as 羊 as "sheep", "goat" o...
Sunday, January 24, 2021
English teacher's accent (英语老师的口音)
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Facebook一 语言学习群 有人说他在法国一所小学教英语。学校招了一名印度裔英语老师(英语是她的母语),他是这名新老师的领导。学校其他老师向他抱怨说新老师的口音对小孩是个问题,特别是发r这个音时。他认为这些老师不对,因为他认为习惯不同口音是非常好的一件事。(他说“i don...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
First floor vs ground floor 楼层的称谓
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美国英语称底楼为first floor,往上依次是second floor、third floor等,英国英语称底楼为ground floor,往上是first floor、second floor,至今仍然如此。欧洲各国遵循英国惯例,世界很多地区也是如此。但在拉丁美洲,楼层的...
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
"drawing" and "painting"
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On Weibo or Microblog, the Chinese social network, the blogger 芝加哥艺术博物馆 (Art Museum of Chicago) made a posting about Claude Monet, and q...
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