k******d
发帖数: 21 | 1 为什么象gonna, gotta这样简单的俚语单词在 Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
(215,000-word)中都没有收录？(包括online version: www.merriam-webster.com/)
这些词在一般的英汉词典中都有的啊。 |
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M*******n
发帖数: 10087 | 2 直接google不就行了，还用啥Merriam Webster阿 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 3 (1) Barton Swaim, A Definitive American Life; Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary
embodied a nation grown self-confident enough to celebrate its own language
. Wall Street Journal, Apr 14, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274
8704013604576247334173406802.html
(book review on Joshua Kendall, The Forgotten Founding Father; Noah Webster'
s obsession and the creation of American culture. Putnam, 2011)
Note:
(a) Noah Webster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
(1758-1843)
Quote: "Poli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 5 MSG in Chinese food isn't unhealthy -- you're just racist, activists say
Analysis by Jessie Yeung, CNN
Updated 7:13 PM EST, Sat January 18, 2020
[A jar of Ajinomoto MSG (monosodium glutamate) seasoning.]
(CNN)If you've heard of the term "MSG," you might have also heard of its
common -- but inaccurate -- connotations.
For years, monosodium glutamate, a food additive known as MSG, has been
branded as an unhealthy processed ingredient mainly found in Chinese food,
despite a lack of supporting scien... 阅读全帖 |
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h***i
发帖数: 24 | 6
战
协
hou",
陆
军
Google 了这么一篇，
大意是某人把这个词带到marine,
作为团结协作之座右铭，
压根就搞错了，原意是“中国工业合作社”，简称“工合”，
也可能象前面有人说的，
本来是“共和”，是考据错误，
考据的人不懂中文，查了半天，查到一个“中国工业合作社”
>>>
Merriam-Webster's
Word for the Wise
Script for November 10, 1997
It was on November 10, 1775, that the U.S. Marine Corps was established. We
commemorate its founding with a look at a term that owes its existence to the
enthusiasm of a certain U.S.M.C. officer.
When Marine Lieutenant Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson went to China in 1942, he
was impressed... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 9 Edward Rothstein, Masters of Math, From Old Babylon; A precursor to the
theoretical flowering of Greek math. New York Times, Nov. 27, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27tablets.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=cuneiform&st=cse
Note:
(a) Pythagoras (c. 570- c. 495 BC)
Wikipedia
(b) The report states, "But Neugebauer, and then his many students and
rivals, also showed how sophisticated Babylonian mathematics was and how
many similarities existed to later Western systems ?if, that is, you coun... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******e
发帖数: 150 | 10 顶一个。
在英文里面，虽然现在 mandarin 在日常用语里越来越特指 Mandarin Chinese，但是
还是有些时候还是作为这个词的本义 (public official, a person of standing and
influence) 被用的，打个比方：
The officious mandarins in the motor vehicles department refused to let him
renew his license without all of the required forms.
对于 Mandarin 这个词的词源，查一下任何一本权威的英文词典，都可以给出它的
etymology。比如参照最权威的美国英语词典 Merriam-Webster，词源如下：
Origin of MANDARIN
Portuguese mandarim, from Malay mĕntĕri, from Sanskrit mantrin
counselor, from mantra counsel — more at mantra
Firs... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******e
发帖数: 150 | 11 顶一个。
在英文里面，虽然现在 mandarin 在日常用语里越来越特指 Mandarin Chinese，但是
还是有些时候还是作为这个词的本义 (public official, a person of standing and
influence) 被用的，打个比方：
The officious mandarins in the motor vehicles department refused to let him
renew his license without all of the required forms.
对于 Mandarin 这个词的词源，查一下任何一本权威的英文词典，都可以给出它的
etymology。比如参照最权威的美国英语词典 Merriam-Webster，词源如下：
Origin of MANDARIN
Portuguese mandarim, from Malay mĕntĕri, from Sanskrit mantrin
counselor, from mantra counsel — more at mantra
Firs... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 12 (1) Andrew Higgins, In Taiwan Military, Chinese Spy Stirs Unease. Washington
Post, Sept 27, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific
/in-taiwan-military-chinese-spy-stirs-unease/2011/09/20/gIQA9aYm2K_story.
html
(the espionage went on seven years; Taiwan’s government was tipped off
about Lo’s double game by the United States; FBI had tried to turn Lo and
recruit him as a double agent;
Note:
(a) Kuanshan 台東縣 關山鎮
(b) York CHEN 陳 文政 (assistant professor at Tamkang University’s Gradua... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1035 | 13 不是想支持错别字。但我在merriam-webster.com差了一下，发现了这个含义：
4 [Middle French investir, from Old Italian investire, from Latin, to
surround] : to surround with troops or ships so as to prevent escape or
entry
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/invest
所以不改也行。(也改不了。) |
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a**t
发帖数: 3833 | 17 September 20, 2009
Stephanopoulos points out Merriam-Webster definition of taxes to president
in interview
President Obama and George Stephanopoulos disagreed on what actually defined
a tax increase in a feisty exchange on ABC’s This Week, causing the host
to pull out the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes.
Stephanopoulos pressed the president on his health care plan in the
interview airing Sunday morning, specifically on the individual mandate—
which essentially forces people to buy |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 奥巴马当政头2年，美国联邦政府拥有的豪华轿车增加了73%
During the recession, one of the most trying economic periods in the nation
’s history, the U.S. government was purchasing a fleet of new limousines —
or so suggests a new report from iWatch News, part of The Center for Public
Integrity. According to the study, the number of limousines owned by the
federal government increased 73 percent during the first two years of
President Barack Obama’s presidency.
According to FOX News:
Some of the details are a bit hazy. M... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3 | 20 要離開波士頓了,出清一些立即可以拿走的用品.
一律自取,大型或是重物在Brighton Center的郵局和CVS附近的住處取,小物品可在BU
Central附近的辦公室取.
1. 17吋LCD電腦螢幕(Acer AL1716) $5 (sold)
2. 13吋RCA電視 免費: 要裝轉接盒才能看一般電視,適合拿來看DVD
3. 檯燈 $2 送兩顆燈泡: 開關壞掉了,但是使用狀況良好 (sold)
4. 小窗扇 $5: 適合放在窗邊的小電風扇 (sold)
5. 全新未拆封影印紙,每包$2,3包$5
6. 全新Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 11th edition $10
7. 全新The Synonym Finder(同義字字典) $10
8. 全新Roget's International Thesaurus $10
9. 全新咖啡磨豆機(Grinder GMCR Logo Blade) $5
10. 全新樂扣樂扣瓷器保鮮碗(可進微波爐,烤箱和電鍋),每個$6, 4個$20 (sold)
11. Face Off widescree... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 21 About--and continuing from--the previous posting attached below).
Correction:
(a) "(2) Then there are essential amino acids." The "amino" should be "fatty
."
(b) Bacteria do not make an essential fatty acid. Fungus does.
Note:
(a) The carbons in the chain (as opposed to occasional branches) of fatty
acids are counted in the same manner as those of amino acids: alpha, beta,
gamma and so on. But fatty acids can be long-chain, more than 20 carbons. To
refer to the other end (opposite from the alpha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8613 | 23
我觉得要按小孩的个人情况定。
最浅的是字典名字里有Children's dictionary的。它们（有常见的有六本以上）的单
词数主要在
1500到4000之间。里面有不少图片。我们在图书馆借过。小孩自己survey了里面的单词
（对认识的不
看词条）。如果发现只有10%以下的单词不认识，就不会再用那本字典了。就这样，从
字少的到多的几本
词典，用处大点的时间都不长。（其实只有一、两本用了一段时间。）Merriam-
Webster's
Children’s Dictionary很特殊，单词很多，图片也特别多，应该够用几年。我们买过
，但是后来又
退了（因为有更新的出来了，虽然差别很小）。我觉得这本是很不错的。最多选一本前
面提的字典过渡
一下。
美国有三大字典系列。Merriam Webster有系列字典。American Heritage也有，但是数
目少些。
（还有Random House的。）按这三个系列选择字典应该最好。我们家的字典不少。不过
，给小孩看的
只有World Book的一套两本（其实对她太深了些）。 |
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发帖数: 1199 | 25 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
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请问在４Ｓ Ranch 住的同学给讲讲住在那里的好或者不好的地方．我个人觉得ＭＯＮ
ＴＨＬＹ ＦＥＥ很高．离上班远．好处就是孩子多，房子新.
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Pretty good school, good community. Only problem is traffic on highway 56.
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spectrum805 (spectrum805) 于 (Fri Aug 26 02:59:26 2011, 美东) 提到:
4S孩子的活动特别丰富多彩。课后班有育才，园泉，新东方。游泳有Noonan，Pacific。各种体育... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 35 Edward Rothstein, Masters of Math, From Old Babylon; A precursor to the
theoretical flowering of Greek math. New York Times, Nov. 27, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27tablets.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=cuneiform&st=cse
Note:
(a) Pythagoras (c. 570- c. 495 BC)
Wikipedia
(b) The report states, "But Neugebauer, and then his many students and rivals, also showed how sophisticated Babylonian mathematics was and how many similarities existed to later Western systems if, that is, you count... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2311 | 36 给大家上上english课，轻松一下气氛，请留意item 3：
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发信人: SeeU (See you), 信区: Wisdom
标 题: 版务声明
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 27 01:34:21 2012, 美东)
1. 为了版面尽快回复正常讨论，本版首页无关佛道儒的帖都已经删除。如果有误删的
，请在版务帖下回帖要求恢复，并说明内容为什么属于佛道儒。讨论网友的帖，在新版
版规产生前，暂时不予恢复。
2. bigfool 虽然在无关佛道儒的帖被删后重复贴，不过版规对这一点并不明确，版主
也并没有事先警告这是扰乱版面行为，处理欠周，所以已经解封。
3. 对于 Hermes99 投诉 bigwolf 使用 bitiching 是 PA, 依据 Webster dictionary,
这不是 vulgar language. See
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitching?show=0&t=133
for an example of vulgar langu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10521 | 37 本次统计截止时间为：2012-08-07 02:00:00 （美东时间）
成功奖励 20 伪币的用户: posh, AQ14, sharpcool, jewelry, waterstream, ironboy
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发帖数: 95 | 39 Dragon =!=> 龙
每次看到有人把“龙”翻译成“Dragon”，或者是把“Dragon”翻译成 “龙”，都觉
得很郁闷和气氛。这完全是两码事吗。
dragon
a mythical animal usually represented as a monstrous winged and scaly
serpent or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws (merriam-webster).
龙
龙者鳞虫之长。王符言其形有九似∶头似牛，角似鹿，眼似虾，耳似象，项似蛇，腹似
蛇，鳞似鱼，爪似凤，掌似虎，是也。其背有八十一鳞，具九九阳数。其声如戛铜盘。
口旁有须髯，颔下有明珠，喉下有逆鳞。头上有博山，又名尺木，龙无尺木不能升天。
呵气成云，既能变水，又能变火。(尔雅: 中国最早的词典)
其他的和龙有关的词汇还有很多，其中有：有翅膀的叫应龙（辞源）。但他们都不等同
于龙。
这两个词“Dragon”和“龙”八竿子打不着的。
西方人常将“龙”翻译成“Dragon”，而不是更接近其本意的“Seraphim”。我们可能
不能控制。其实... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24 | 40
战
协
hou",
陆
军
Google 了这么一篇，
大意是某人把这个词带到marine,
作为团结协作之座右铭，
压根就搞错了，原意是“中国工业合作社”，简称“工合”，
也可能象前面有人说的，
本来是“共和”，是考据错误，
考据的人不懂中文，查了半天，查到一个“中国工业合作社”
>>>
Merriam-Webster's
Word for the Wise
Script for November 10, 1997
It was on November 10, 1775, that the U.S. Marine Corps was established. We
commemorate its founding with a look at a term that owes its existence to the
enthusiasm of a certain U.S.M.C. officer.
When Marine Lieutenant Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson went to China in 1942, he
was impressed |
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发帖数: 3102 | 41 唉，满拧。中文的古典音乐一词有狭义和广义两个定义。我说的古典音乐是古典主
义音乐，维也纳古典派。你说得是现代流行音乐前的整个欧洲音乐。完全两回事。
我第一次见你这种定义，还是来了美国后，和同学谈起来，才发现还有这个歧义，
美国人是把欧洲 9 世纪至今的整个这类音乐叫做 classical music。而狭义的古典
音乐，在美国被称为广义的古典音乐的古典时期（classical period of classica
l music）。至于哪个更权威呢？我倾向于欧洲人自己的观点。
在美国的权威的字典 Merriam Webser 的词条上，classical 是：
3 a: of or relating to music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries c
haracterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity, and moderation
b: of, relating to, or being music in the educated European tradition th
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发帖数: 119 | 42 英语中的mandarin源于葡萄牙语，之前是马来语，再之前是梵语
Portuguese mandarim, from Malay mĕntĕri, from Sanskrit mantrin
counselor, from mantra counsel(来源：Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
西方人最早用是葡萄牙人占据澳门之后。用来指中国官话，当年肯定是明朝的官话。后
来说成是“满大人”之音译，似乎比较牵强。 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 45 Stuart Fugerson, From the Rhine to the Wild West; Four months after
Tocqueville, another European aristocrat toured America and wrote down what
he saw. Wall Street Journal, Feb 2, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703439504576116711270258944.html
(book review on Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher (ed), The North
American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied. Volumes I & II. University
of Oklahoma Press, 1833)
My comment:
(a) American Fur Company
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发帖数: 6973 | 46 Justin Lahart, Using a Dictionary to Define Inflation Can Spell Trouble;
Merriam-Webster eventually took note of how inflation's meaning had evolved
over time. Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
52748703730804576319173360183278.html
Note: The report says, "In the English writer Samuel Johnson's 1755
dictionary inflation is defined as: 'The state of being swelled with wind;
flatulence.'
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发帖数: 3441 | 49 我刚刚学习了一下英语，发现你的解释是从金山词霸来的。
韦氏词典的解释：
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halt
Main Entry: 4 halt
Function: verb
Date: 1656
intransitive verb
1 : to cease marching or journeying
2 : discontinue, terminate transitive
verb 1 : to bring to a stop
2 : to cause the discontinuance of : end
Wiki词典：
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halt
to halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle
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