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. ...
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.] ...
对于喜欢英语缩写的人来说，可以在TextExpander中Add Group from URL. http://files.zettt.de/textexpander/English_Abbrevations.textexpander [Mac] TextExpander Snippets: English Abbreviations | zHome
我现在搜索关于mac的技术问题，一律用英文google，原因是： 1、google最懂英文，用英文可以直接像对人类说话那样问google，比如我的这个问题就是： mac mini 2009 mic can not record，结果就搜到了这个链接。 http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-187096.html 并且得到了答案，原来是mini的mic孔，不带电流，无源麦克风无法输入信号。应该换成usb的麦克。 同样的，我还有好多问题，都可以用how to, why这样的句子，直接质问google ...
Hey, Dear Jude: You have been waiting for something for many years. But you were disappointed every time when you opened your door. It was the postman, it was the wind, it was nothing at all. You have departed the time of innocence, the time of simplicities, when good is good, truth is truth, and your question always has an answer. Now, everything is different. You have been pushed into a stage, on which you have to act yourself, directed and watched by the audience, whose requirements you may feel powerless to reject. We are living in a changing era; you are in a transitional age. Traditional values lose its favor; other values takes its position. Peace and simplicity is on the way out; sound and fury is on the way in. Many books has been written, few are worth of reading. Every morning when you wake up, you are facing so many choices, so much temptation, let alone conflicts and confusion which makes the circumstance more complicated. ...