发帖数: 1 | 1 Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery | by Mary Beard
The truth is that these famous icons are largely modern. As any sharp-eyed
visitor to the Heraklion museum can spot, what survives of the original
paintings amounts in most cases to no more than a few square inches. The
rest is more or less imaginative reconstruction, commissioned in the first
half of the twentieth century by Sir Arthur Evans, the British excavator of
the palace of Knossos (and the man who coined the term “Minoan” for this
prehi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 2 英国已故著名考古学家梅拉特1962年在土耳其发现了著名的加泰土丘新石器时代遗址，
距今9500多年，是目前已知的人类最古老定居点之一。不过，瑞士考古学家灿格日前经
梅拉特儿子同意在其故居寻找未公开的考古资料时，却意外发现其中藏有梅拉特伪造的
壁画和碑文，这些东西此前被伪装成是在加泰土丘遗址发现的。梅拉特的部分考古研究
涉嫌造假的事实也被曝光，尽管2012年去世的他已无法为此承担责任。
英文链接在这里 Tales of the past: Renowned British archaeologist accused of
fabricating Bronze Age history
https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bronze-age-archaeologist-james-mellart-
fakes/
最著名的还是克里特岛遗迹 百分之九十五以上都是假的 那又如何 羊人不是照样天天
宣传
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery | by Mary Beard
The truth is that these famou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6723 | 3 http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20181204/china-films-movies-hengdian/dual/
Epic Battles, Palaces and Concubines: A Chinese Studio’s Vast World of
Fantasy
STEVEN LEE MYERS
2018年12月4日
横店影视城是世界上最大的户外影视制作基地。
横店影视城是世界上最大的户外影视制作基地。 Lam Yik Fei for The New York
Times
HENGDIAN, China — If you are going to make a movie in China today about
ancient warriors defending a mythical kingdom or a partisan resisting the
Japanese occupation in the 1930s, or involving any variation of that staple
of China’s entertainm... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3509 | 4 看到一篇文章，说的虽然和土鳖国毫无关系，而是说的我帝的公司，但是如果知道土鳖
国情况的，对比一下，妈的太吓人了。这人有才。小黄人就没有人能写这样的文章，就
算是王沪宁你拿枪指着他，他也写不出来。哀叹买提为什么没有highlight功能。这里
面至少一半的句子值得highlight后再细细品味。
Fascism
The dual opposite of a republic would be a society where the governed must
compete, merely to survive. Meanwhile, the powerful are immune to challenge
from below. There is only one political party and it will always be that way
. Those with power have no responsibilities to those below them, because
power is subject to no appeal but itself.
T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 5 http://www.gay.net/news/2011/08/23/breaking-news-bisexual-men-e
BREAKING NEWS: BISEXUAL MEN EXIST!
BY: JOE THOMPSON
8.23.2011
Bisexuals. It's a label that can cause great controversy among gay and
straight folk alike. Some people believe they're like unicorns—mythic
creatures living in a magical land of rainbows as long as it suits their
sexual needs; or, to put it more bluntly, they think these people are gay,
but they don't want to admit it to themselves. Others suspect it varies
between the s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6327 | 6 有20个ID回答就奔Video
What is your most favorite mythical creature?
(a) Dragon
(b) Pixie
(c) Mermaid
(d) Phoenix
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发帖数: 3978 | 7 http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/01/daily-char
This Chinese new year could bring good fortune to stockmarket investors
CHINESE people across the world ushered in their new year on January 23rd,
which according to 3,000 year-old Chinese astrology is the year of the
dragon. This critter is not a mythical beast. Physignathus cocincinus, to
give its Latin name, is associated with power, authority and good fortune.
For those looking for good news among the grim January headlines, thi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1257 | 8 Utopia--President Obama signed an agreement with Utopia today in which the
mythical ideal society agreed to supply the United States with all the goods
and services it would need during America's transition to a system of more
government control and less personal responsibility.
Utopia also agreed to take part in an educational exchange program in which
dissent would be replaced with an equally distributed admiration for America
's platonic leader.
"Under this inter-idealization agreement," said |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 参议院民主党领袖、极左的Harry Reid，现在是最富有的参议员之一，住在首府华盛顿
的超豪华的Ritz公寓中。他的财富从哪里来？
http://www.dirtymoneyharry.com/reidmoney.html
Where Reid's Money Came From
By Daxton Brown
d*********[email protected]
In the Sharron Angle vs Reid debate on October 14th, Angle asked Senator
Reid how he was able to accumulate so much wealth on a politicians salary.
One would suppose that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is a fairly
important person and many in the media would already have answers to this
question. However, other than... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 April 23, 2011
By Stella Paul
This week is Passover, the season of deliverance, and I'm praying for
deliverance from America's failed Jewish leadership. As Jews confront the
most dangerous era since World War II, whom are we stuck with for leaders?
A clueless bunch of mini-Pharaohs, strutting around proclaiming their moral
superiority, blissfully unaware the Jewish people's mortal enemies are
pulling down their pants and laughing at them.
Cataloguing their collective acts of evasion, cowardice... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Dr. Victor Davis Hanson拆穿奥巴马的各种此一时彼一时：2006年投票反对提高借贷
上限的奥巴马，现在说反对提高借贷上限是胡闹
Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible
for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own
contribution of $5 trillion? Why is there a debt limit standoff now, rather
than, say, in 2009 or 2010? Why did this latest $1.6 trillion Obama budget
prompt the current crisis? Why did not Obama earlier start debt limit talks
the moment that his own... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Hollywood’s Vision of Conservatives: Nasty, Filled With Hate, And Near
Psychotic
April 5, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Aaron Sorkin is about to unleash his vision of what conservatives and
Republicans are like in a new HBO series called The Newsroom and it ain’t
going to be pretty. It seems like more proof that liberal Hollyweirders don
’t know anything about conservatives. They are all Pauline Kaels now.
The premise of the series gives us a famous, trusted, objective, unbiased
cable network new... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Fact Checking False Claim Obama Budget Plan ‘Reduces Deficit by $5.3
Trillion in a Decade’
October 3, 2012
Warner Todd Huston
outlandish claim that the President’s budget will reduce the deficit by $5.
3 trillion over a ten-year period. But a closer look at this claim proves
that it just isn’t true.
Don’t look behind that curtain!
Firstly, Obama and his surrogates don’t even claim a savings of $5.3
trillion, so it is a mystery where Calmes got this number. At the late
Democrat convention, for in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 14 By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 2, 2012 481 Comments
WASHINGTON
ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a tornado watch. And that
was the best thing that happened to the White House all week.
As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on
national security, he was being rapped by a Times editorial for being too
aggressive on national security.
A Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane revealed that the liberal law
professor who campaigned against torture and t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 Another Black Racist Whines About Whites ‘Murdering’ Blacks
February 21, 2014
As the nation’s African American community continues to wallow in an
epidemic of black-on-black murder each and every day, we get the likes of “
CrunkFeminist” Brittney Cooper claiming that the real problem in the black
community is “an onslaught of white murder,” a badly formulated phrase for
which she offers no evidence but one case.
In a hyperbolic piece in Salon, Brittney Cooper desperately tries to make
the case ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Imagine That: Supposedly Mythical 'No-Go Zones' Are Back in the News — But
Not at U.S. Media Outlets
By Tom Blumer | January 11, 2016 | 10:27 AM EST
Despite reports and statements containing the term coming out of Germany
during the past week, searches at the Associated Press on "no-go zones," and
even on "no-go," return nothing. The New York Times has no recent report
identifying European no-go zones, but has at least demonstrated that it
might be getting over its nearly allergic reaction to th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1600 | 17 "I pointed out last week that we not only have men who identify as women (
and vice versa), but we have whites who identify as blacks and human beings
who identify as animals, including cats, dogs, parrots, and even mythical
dragons. (For my illustrated video commentary on this, go here.)
Yes, we not only have the categories of transgender and transracial but also
transspecies, better known as “otherkin.”
As noted by Max Read on Gawker.com back in 2012, “An otherkin is a being
born into the wron... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 18 The Dream Of Muslim Outreach Has Become A Nightmare
When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change
messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over
the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U
.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease.
But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama's remedies proved worse
than the original illness.
Obama gave his first presidential interview to Al Arabiya,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 19 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 把美国粘在一起的胶已经失效
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Aug 16 09:14:59 2016, 美东)
Glue Holding America Together No Longer Binding
http://www.tanosborn.com/columns/2016/glue-holding-america-together-no-longer-binding
It was this economic advantage over most other countries in the world that
created a much higher standard of living, the glue that kept the diversity
that was America united. The United States of America became an ec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tyuZw_UFwA
Published on Mar 13, 2017
Laura Ingraham Show 3/13/17 | GOP needs to ensure it doesn't "walk the plank
" with Obamacare replacement
Sen. Cotton: 'Phase Two & Three Of The Obamacare Replacement Plan Sounds '
Mythical' Rep. Jordan: Republicans Need to Fulfill Promise to Voters with '
Clean Repeal' of ObamaCare |
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发帖数: 29576 | 21 How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House
DEVIL’S BARGAIN
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
By Joshua Green
Mellivora capensis — better known as the honey badger — is a thick-skinned
and sharp-toothed little creature that in 2011 became a YouTube sensation
thanks to a short video called “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.” In the
clip, a honey badger chases off jackals, raids a beehive, survives a cobra
bite and eats venomous snakes h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ZZGR (闲逛), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: 本期Science是中国考古特刊 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Aug 21 13:14:22 2009, 美东)
原文在此：
Archaeology in China:
Founding Dynasty or Myth?
Andrew Lawler
A new crop of archaeologists, less willing to take ancient texts at face
value, are challenging the existence of a legendary dynasty.
Figure 1
(Figure caption: Mythical creature? A turquoise dragon found at Erlitou, an
important early site in the central plains area of the Yellow River. When
discove |
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发帖数: 6973 | 23 Marc Champion, Anglers Are in Dire Straits Along Istanbul's Bosphorus; Mass
fish migration celebrated by Aristole has slowed; Why tuna steered right.
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 5, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870472310457606199
(a) Istanbul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul
Quote:
"Byzantium is the first known name of the city. Around 660 BC, Greek
settlers from the city-state of Megara founded a Doric colony on the present
-day Istanbul, and named the new colony after t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10 | 24 "Myth #1: The US economy has achieved the critical mass of a self-sustaining
cyclical recovery. The theory is very straight-forward: Jobless recoveries
don’t generate enough income to drive consumer demand. Counter-cyclical
policy stimulus -- fiscal as well as monetary -- can fill the void, sparking
an inventory and production dynamic that spurs income and spending growth.
From there, the “multipliers” take over, and the self-sustaining recovery
can then successfully be weaned from policy stimul |
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发帖数: 10 | 25 "Myth #3: Oil doesn’t matter. Every time oil prices go up, we are always
subjected to the same dismissive cop-out: Since the energy efficiency of US
GDP has continued to improve, the role of oil in shaping both production and
consumption has steadily diminished. As such, the impact of a given increment
in oil prices is not what it used to be. So don’t worry.
I have never bought this one either. The record is pretty clear on this risk
factor: Each of the five recessions since the early 1970s has |
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发帖数: 10 | 26 "Myth #5: The world is now on the cusp of synchronous recovery in the global
economy. The hope here, of course, is that an unbalanced US-centric world has
now been rebalanced, thereby providing the global economy with a broader
platform of support. That, of course, would come in quite handy in the event
of a shortfall in the US economy. On the surface, a broadening out of the
global growth dynamic offers encouragement in this regard -- underscored by
our estimates of 5% growth in the Japanese ec |
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m*****n
发帖数: 251 | 27 有志于这方面的可以早看看啊
• Box, Don. Essential .Net, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime.
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
• Brooks, Fredrick. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software
Engineering. Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995.
• Cormen, T.H., C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Reivert, and Cli
Stein, eds.
Introduction to Algorithms. McGraw-Hill, 1990.
• Howard, Michael, and David LeBlanc, eds. Writing Secure Code.
Microsoft Press, 2001.
• Maguire, Steve. Writing Solid Code: Micro |
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发帖数: 94654 | 28 我后边一个帖子说了
也可以再重复一下
手机，我是手机合约到期，原先是tmobile为了保留号码换到了att
amazon加入的plan，免费手机免开线费
我选了samsung的mythic，样子特别像iphone，很山寨，哈哈
不过我不是为了这个，就是随便当时占便宜心态选了个贵的。
samsung lcd技术不错，大电视牛，小小一个iphone大小的手机，电视
也特别清晰
电视plan，不需要签合约，随时加入随时cancel，一个月9.99
有，
abc, nbc, comedy central, mtv, msnbc, fox, foxnews, cnn, 几个小孩动画片
台， disney， flotv， espn，等等
节目嘛，比天线电视好，天线电视白天基本上就是无聊节目
我每天路上看基本上都是前一天的show的重播，都是我原本就超级爱看的
jon stewart, stephen colbert, david letterman, jay leno, sarah silverman.
还有啥heros, desparate housewives, csi miami之类的，不过 |
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发帖数: 293 | 29 http://www.mythicpaint.com/ 我家用这个，很好，没什么味道，但是比其他牌子都贵。刚开始买BEHR，味道大得难以忍受。后来听一个白人同事介绍Mythic，说他家宝宝房是刷这个漆，而且整个市只有一家ACE有卖。买了4罐试用后觉得很好，后来全部都用这油漆刷墙了。 |
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发帖数: 1431 | 30 多谢楼上的各位，好像白墙刷白漆不需要primer。那个mythic的dealer离的太远了，打
算试试harmony, 请问是在homedepot可以买到吗？ |
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发帖数: 2179 | 31 BM natura, mythic paint, AFM safecoat, yolo colorhouse are all 0 VOC. |
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发帖数: 606 | 32 一直不是很喜欢孩子们现在的房间的颜色，小朋友们也强烈要求重新粉刷好看的颜色。
可是考虑到paint对孩子的健康威胁，一直很犹豫。现在最好的方法就是先把他们放一
个房间住，然后空出来一个，刷好一个，在换过来。做了一些study，感觉以下几个牌
子的non-VOC non-toxic 的paint可以考虑，希望请有经验的童鞋大力推荐，我也好早
下决心。：-）
1. Sherwin-Williams Harmony Interior Latex：这个好像版上讨论比较多的一个。
local store也很方便，价格不算便宜，大概$50/galon, 大家推荐吗？
2. Benjamin Moore Natura： zero-VOC
3. Mythic Paint:这个有几个网站评价不错，可是是英国牌子，俺们这嘎达好像买不
到啊
4. YOLO Colorhouse： water based, 评价不错，可是他们的store太少了，俺周围是
没有的。paint总没办法网上买吧。
请推荐！ |
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发帖数: 6923 | 33 When we first brought our baby home, we were stricken with terror. Would the
baby suddenly stop breathing? What if she choked? Did the other people on
the road always drive this dangerously?
As the days wore on, the fear ebbed. Okay, we could keep the baby alive. But
what were we supposed to do with her? She stared into space, showing no
particular interest in our efforts to sing or dangle toys in front of her
face. "Look, baby, look at the monkey!" Nope. Just vacant stares, and then
some crying... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3319 | 34 1. Introduction
My interest in studying creativity was inspired by the frustrations that I
felt as a student, then as a professor. I wanted to know how I could
encourage creativity in myself, my students, and my colleagues.
Politicians, industrial managers, academic administrators, and other leaders
often say that innovation is critical to the future of civilization, our
country, their company, etc. But in practice, these same people often act as
if innovation is an evil that must be suppressed,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10908 | 35 另外这个家伙的小众的说法也是蛮好玩的：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Educated_Mind#How_knowledge_gr
[quote from wiki]
According to Egan, individuals can pick up sets of cognitive tools that will
coalesce into five distinctive kinds of understanding:
Somatic - (before language acquisition) the physical abilities of one's own
body are discovered, as are our emotions; somatic understanding includes the
communicating activity that precedes the development of language; as the
child grows and learns language, this ki... 阅读全帖 |
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m******n
发帖数: 6327 | 37 女儿的作业，做Survey，有100个答复最好，现在只有七十多。
问题是：
What is your most favorite mythical creature?
(a) Dragon
(b) Pixie
(c) Mermaid
(d) Phoenix
请回答a，b, c或者d, 单选。
上段女儿拍的Video |
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f*****2
发帖数: 235 | 38 如題: 請問最近有油漆paint打折嗎?
如Behr, Benjamin Moore, Mythic Paint, Sherwin Williams, 或任何Zero VOC
paints.
謝謝提供情報~~ :) |
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c**m
发帖数: 757 | 39 它的3.5mm Headphone jack好用吗？ 我听说就是一个摆设，没法打电话也没法听音乐。 |
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n**x
发帖数: 110 | 40 Take a look at Samsung Mythic, not a smart phone, no require for data plan,
very cool. |
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i****x
发帖数: 17565 | 41 在这里潜水，发现大家经常说一个无所不能、鬼神莫测、把每个股票和每个股民都玩弄
于鼓掌之间的mythical being，叫MM
股票涨了，是“MM拉盘”
股票跌了，是“MM砸盘”
股票动荡不断，是”MM震仓“
股票大涨后小跌，是“MM趁乱吸货”
股票大跌后小涨，是“MM给点甜头等你上钩”
股票小涨后大跌，是“MM养肥了开始宰猪”
股票小跌后大涨，是“MM吸足了货开始抬盘”
节前股票涨，是“MM给发个红包安抚一下，节后开始收割”
节前股票跌，是“MM吸点干货过节，节后给自己发红包”
总之无论什么，都是这个MM在冥冥之中操纵，你看不透也逃不脱，只有马后炮才能道出
几句箴言。
可惜我没有艺术天赋，否则我真想给MM画一系列漫画，把它百变的姿态都画出来 |
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发帖数: 18037 | 42 By MICHAEL TURTON | From today's Wall Street Journal Asia.
Chinese culture warrior: Ma Ying-jeou observes Confucius's birthday, Sept.
28, 2005.
Earlier this month Ma Ying-jeou, the president of Taiwan, presided over a
ceremony honoring the Yellow Emperor, the mythical ancestor of all Han
Chinese. This event may seem minor at first blush, but it demonstrates a
growing trend: The Ma administration is gradually redefining Taiwanese
culture as more "Chinese" than Taiwanese. This subtle nod to China' |
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N**D
发帖数: 10322 | 43 mythic?
ok, agree, it has a not-best browser |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 44 Too bad I was not there, otherwise I should go.
I know little bit about the Cantonese version of 《牡丹亭》(which was
actually derived from 昆曲's version) and I could sing a few pieces. It's a
touching, pure, genuine and beautiful love story with Chinese mythical
characteristic.
So, any after-performance comments? |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 45 That's what I believe that's what the author would like to convey,
regardless of how realistic the story could be. It's mythical anyway... |
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发帖数: 1774 | 46 The last team, period, to win outright national titles in back-to-back
seasons was Nebraska in 1994 and 1995. That 1995 Nebraska team is widely
considered to be the greatest college football team of the modern era.
The Gators hope to have something to say about that come January.
There’s already a mythical feel about this team. They can join Nebraska as
the only program since 1950 to claim three national titles in four years.
The Cornhuskers won in 1994 and 1995 and then shared the title in 1997 |
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d*******n
发帖数: 4913 | 47 “不给力”一词就这样变成“英语”
西安晚报12月22日报道新闻出版总署日前下发《关于进一步规范出版物文字使用的通知
》。通知指出，随着经济社会的发展，在报纸、期刊、图书、音像制品和电子书、互联
网等各类出版物中，外国语言文字使用量剧增，出现了在汉语言中随意夹杂英语等外来
语、直接使用英文单词或字母缩写、生造一些非中非外、含义不清的词语等滥用语言文
字的问题，严重损害了汉语言文字的规范性和纯洁性，破坏了和谐健康的语言文化环境
，造成了不良的社会影响。
通知要求，各出版媒体和出版单位要充分认识规范使用汉语言文字的重要意义，严格执
行规范使用汉语言文字有关规定。
通知要求，高度重视规范使用外国语言文字。出版媒体和出版单位要进一步加强外国语
言文字的使用规范化，尊重并遵循汉语言及所使用的外国语言文字的结构规律和词汇、
语法规则。在汉语出版物中，禁止出现随意夹带使用英文单词或字母缩写等外国语言文
字；禁止生造非中非外、含义不清的词语；禁止任意增减外文字母、颠倒词序等违反语
言规范现象。汉语文出版物中需要使用外国语言文字的，应当用国家通用语言文字作必
要的注释。外国语言文字的翻译应当符合翻译的基本... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2041 | 48 人民的智慧是无穷的，呵呵
先猜猜，答案在后面
ungeliable geliable
Smilence
Democrazy
Togayther
Freedamn
Shitizen
Divoice
Animale
Amerryca
Innernet
Yakshit
Carass
Canclensor
Sexretary
Chinsumer
Vegeteal
Jokarlist
Corpspend
Don’train
Suihide
Departyment
Emotionormal
Harmany
官方叫停"不给力" 网友笑而不语 盘点中国特色自创英文 综合
“不给力”一词就这样变成“英语”
西安晚报12月22日报道 新闻出版总署日前下发《关于进一步规范出版物文字使用的通
知》。通知指出，随着经济社会的发展，在报纸、期刊、图书、音像制品和电子书、互
联网等各类出版物中，外国语言文字使用量剧增，出现了在汉语言中随意夹杂英语等外
来语、直接使用英文单词或字母缩写、生造一些非中非外、含义不清的词语等滥用语言
文字的问题，严重损害了汉语言文字的规范性和纯洁性，破坏了和谐健康的语言文化环
境，造成了... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 469 | 49 Smilence 笑而不语
vi. When you are expecting some answers from your Chinese audience, you may
just get a mysterious smile and their silence only.
动词 当你期望从中国听众那里获得一些回答的时候，你只得到了神秘的微笑和他们的
沉默。
n. the facial expression with smile while keeping ones mouth shut.
名词 笑而不语的表情
ie. Once asked about what happened after July, 5th, 2009 in Xinjiang, the
western province of China, many Uygurs smilenced.
例句：当被问及新疆七・五事件之后发生了什么，许多维族人笑而不语。
Democrazy 民主妄想
n. Democrazy is an illusional system of government in whic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 95 | 50 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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