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Saturday, February 15, 2025
How to remember "mean", "median", "mode"
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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...
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Monday, January 6, 2025
Chinese translation of "黑命贵"
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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...
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Thursday, June 13, 2024
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
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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...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Questionable English translation of Karl Marx's words
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[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...
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Correcting a petition
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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...
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Oxford comma (牛津逗号)
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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...
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Shall or will?
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When I learned English thirty plus years ago in China, we were taught to say "I shall", "we shall", and "you will...
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Phonetic symbols /i/ and /u/ in some dictionaries mislead English learners
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Many English dictionaries published in China use /i/ and /u/ symbols to represent the sounds /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ respectively. As a result, some lea...
Friday, April 28, 2023
Study time: vocabulary vs. grammar
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Steve Kaufmann is an undisputed celebrity in the language study community. According to Wikipedia , "[a]s of 2023, he has an understan...
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Grammatical particle 把 in Chinese and word order
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According to Wikipedia , 42% of world languages follow the subject-verb-object (SVO) order, and 45% follow the SOV order. In a Facebook gro...
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