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译道探微是我非常喜欢的一个探讨英语学习和翻译的博客，至少在购买英语工具书方面，我受它影响很大。以下是在卓越下单购买的一批书单。 《新时代汉英大词典》 《最新通俗美语词典》 葛传槼:《英语惯用法词典》 《英语搭配大辞典》 日本人的压卷之作，比《牛津搭配词典》还要好。 《The Elements of Style》 《中式英语之鉴》

译道探微是我非常喜欢的一个探讨英语学习和翻译的博客，至少在购买英语工具书方面，我受它影响很大。以下是在卓越下单购买的一批书单。 《新时代汉英大词典》 《最新通俗美语词典》 葛传槼:《英语惯用法词典》 《英语搭配大辞典》 日本人的压卷之作，比《牛津搭配词典》还要好。 《The Elements of Style》 《中式英语之鉴》

工欲善其事，必先利其器。 如果用mac学英语会事半功倍，我现在的学习方法是： 安装《牛津英语辞典》OED，这是所有英语辞典之王，纸质版有20多卷，电子版有一张光盘，幸运的是借助bt，我们可以下载到。 安装一个碎片信息整理软件，yojimbo是一个选择，当然未必是最好的选择。不过用起来十分爽利。 Let’s go. 我的方法是： 首先为yojimbo设定一个快捷键。我设定的是：⌥⌘z（无它，三个键挨着很方便） 具体设置方法如下：进入preference-keyboard. ...

New York Times: Journalist Is Detained in China for Article on Sex Slaves By ANDREW JACOBS Original Link of the article BEIJING — For a nation not yet inured to lurid and senseless crime, a report that a former civil servant in central China kept six women enslaved in an underground** bunker** — and that he killed two of them — was shocking enough. But perhaps almost as disturbing, at least to some readers, was that the journalist who exposed the crime more than two weeks after the suspect’s arrest was detained by security agents who accused him of revealing state secrets. After his release from questioning on Thursday, the reporter, Ji Xuguang, wrote an article that accused the authorities of trying to keep the public in the dark about a** heinous** crime that unfolded less than two miles from the city’s public security bureau. ...

Chinese man held over killing sex slaves locked in basement | World news | guardian.co.uk Man **allegedly **raped six women held hostage in rooms he had dug under rented apartment, local newspaper reports。 alleged: 1.1 Produced in court, brought forward or adduced as legal ground, or as a reason. 1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 225 The sharp thorny points Of my alleadged reasons. 1689 Tryal of Bish. 26 The Fact alleadged in the Commitment. 1790 Paley Hor. Paul i. 4 The coincidences alleged. 1840 Hood Up Rhine 326 The alleged reason for my recall. 1844 Lever Tom Burke xxxiv. (1857) 324 The charges alleged against me. 2.2 Cited, quoted (properly as an authority). c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. xvii. 391 Poul also in his alleggid text. 1559 Morwyng Evonymus Pref., The authors alledged in this Boke. 1656 Bramhall Replic. iii. 149 The Author alledged, doth testifie. 1836–7 Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxvii. II. 334 Which Aristotle has so well illustrated in the passage alleged to you. ...

**vindictive **/vin’diktiv/ 出处：“Celebrity may at least help Ai Weiwei avoid vanishing for too long into this legal black hole. But it will do little to shield him from the wrath of China’s vindictive rulers.”（文章来源） adj. Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. 例句：the criticism was both vindictive and personalized. 辞源：from Latin：vindicta 意思是 vengeance 词语辨析： vindictive: Someone who is motivated by a desire to get enven might be described as VINDICTIVE, a word that suggests harboring grudges for perceived wrongs. (a vindictive person who has alienated friends and neighbors alike.) spiteful: is a stronger term, implying a bitter or vicious vindictiveness. ...

一个没必要回避的事实是，几乎所有的主流词典都出了光盘版，而这些光盘的文件可以在网上找到。我们可以利用中国网民得天独厚的条件对这些词典进行试用，但是也应当尊重字典出版商的劳动，如果确实喜欢，而且条件允许，还是要购买正版。 我一口气试用了以下电子词典。 1、牛津英语词典 OED （单光碟老版，2光碟V3版） 2、简明牛津 COED11 3、朗文当代 （LDOCE 4.2） 4、牛津高级（OALD7） 5、剑桥高级（CALD3） 6、韦氏第3版新国际英语足本词典 (W3 v2.5) ...