读新闻,学英语:New York Times报道洛阳性奴案

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. ...

2011-09-25 · 王佩

Anti Says: 《致欧盟》——波兰诗人托马斯·皮昂泰克

Anti Says: 《致欧盟》——波兰诗人托马斯·皮昂泰克 mranti: 发自Tomasz Piątek 亲爱的欧盟: 抱歉我的破英文,还有我在这门语言中犯下的语法错误。您知道,我是波兰人,波兰人就代表教育程度不高。我们波兰人很容易说好几门语言,但一门也不精通。我们必须学习外语但我们不喜欢,因为外语常常是我们敌人的语言。 亲爱的欧盟,我要请求您过来占领波兰。我要您统治波兰。您可以称之为侵略、占据或者您可以简单说买下波兰。我们生活在商业时代,所以也许买波兰现在是没问题了。 ...

2011-09-25 · 王佩

读新闻,学英语:卫报报道洛阳性奴案

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. ...

2011-09-24 · 王佩

OED Study Notes: anger, élite

OED增加了很多新单词 在anger项下,就有一条2001年新增加的词条: ▸ anger management n. orig. U.S. control of one’s anger, esp. when the emotion is frequently felt and is likely to result in violent behaviour; freq. attrib., esp. designating a course, support group, etc., which helps achieve this control. élite: 精英这个词来自法语,是“挑选”“选中”的意思。 [F. élite (in OFr. eslite, elite; see prec.) selection, choice; in mod. use concr. that which is chosen:—med.L. ēlecta choice, f. L. ēligĕre: see elect v.] ...

2011-09-24 · 王佩

Some Masterpieces from the Public Domain: Botticelli   Daystar

Some Masterpieces from the Public Domain: Botticelli Daystar 维纳斯的诞生等大画

2011-09-23 · 王佩

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary for Mac OS X

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary for Mac OS X 这本大词典我有纸质版,搬家一次,累个半死。这次也不准备买app版,只是存下来以后推荐给别人。 什么欧陆辞典,所有中国人开发的辞典,一言以蔽之,通通不买。 update:This app is a sham. Thanks to my apple account for US store. In MAS, it got 3 comments, 2 of them is ONE star.

2011-09-22 · 王佩

我为什么要重新订阅《纽约时报》?

虽然缺乏逻辑,甚至蛮不讲理,但我们这代人,还是喜欢那些果断而豪迈的句子,并且把这些句型内化在心里。我今天想说的一个句子是: 自从有了Kindle,我们获取信息的方式就焕然一新了。 没有Kindle之前,在国内想看外文书,只能去外文书店购买。外文书店是一个神奇的存在,它们展销的图书非常奇怪,不知道是哪个领导一拍脑袋、还是哪个采购员兴之所至,才会下这样的订单。我在外文书店里,看到过一面墙的各种版本的《圣经》,也看到过达赖喇嘛的著作,还有一大批标着“纽约时报畅销书”的滞销书,因为这些书的畅销,已经是几年前的事了。更有千古不变的世界名著,好像中国人学外语就是为了读名著的。而那些在西方畅销,在中国也受欢迎的新鲜图书,比如:Factory Girls, Oracle Bones, On China,在外文书店里休想看到。 ...

2011-09-21 · 王佩