l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Tennessee State Rep. Joe Carr told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he is
running against Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the state’s GOP primary for
U.S. Senate over Alexander’s vote for the Senate’s “Gang of Eight”
immigration bill.
In a phone interview shortly after he announced his candidacy on a local
radio station, Carr told Breitbart News exclusively that Alexander’s vote
for the Gang of Eight bill “is going to be one of the three critical issues
in the campaign going forward.”
“Sen. Alexand... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Obama Pushes Syria Intervention with Same Argument He Ignores on Iran »
President Obama has turned to Congress to save him from staggering political
isolation on the global stage. It is an isolation that is the inverse of
the promise of a passionate and reciprocal multilateral embrace that carried
him into office.
Asking Republicans to rescue him from a foreign policy catastrophe entirely
of his own making is not a neat political trick. It dramatically cheapens
the office of commander-in-ch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 3 Americans by a 2-to-1 ratio disagree with President Barack Obama’s
contention that Congress should raise the U.S. debt limit without conditions
.
Instead, 61 percent say that it’s “right to require spending cuts when the
debt ceiling is raised even if it risks default,” because Congress lacks
spending discipline, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Sept.
20-23.
That sentiment is shared by almost three-quarters of Republicans, two-thirds
of independents, and a plurality of Democrats.... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 Who is the worst president since WWII ?
Posted by
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser
(CNN) - President Barack Obama tops the list of the worst presidents since
World War Two, according to a new national poll.
And the survey, released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University, also indicates
that a plurality of voters nationwide say in hindsight that the country
would be better off if Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election.
Thirty-three percent of people questioned in the poll say that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 A Rasmussen poll finds that voters approve of the U.S. Supreme Court’s
Hobby Lobby decision by a 10-point margin.
Results of the survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters indicate that 49 percent
of those polled agree that business owners should have the option of
exempting themselves from ObamaCare’s HHS contraceptive mandate if it
violates their religious beliefs. By comparison, 39 percent oppose the high
court’s decision and 12 percent are undecided.
In addition, the poll found that 58 percent of vo... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 6 Senate Liberals Narrowly Lose Bid to Reverse SCOTUS Religious Freedom
Victory
via Breitbart Feed
Senate liberals--a mix of almost all Democrats and a few Republicans--missed
by a hair last week in a bid to overturn the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby
decision, which ruled unconstitutional the Obama administration’s heavy-
handed requirement that business owners provide abortion services for
employees, even in violation of their constitutionally protected religious
beliefs.
As reported by Politico:
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发帖数: 6276 | 7 我发觉你学原文作者的“英语”还学得真像：
Founding fathers of this country means NOTHING to me.（MEAN,since "fathers"
is plural)
Why do a Chinese have to care what a white shit says? (DOES,since "a
Chinese" is singular)
Chinese has different value system, which is different from the white trash
system. (has A different system, since "system" is countable)
trash |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 8 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/26/Jerry-Brown-
Gov. Jerry Brown to Mexican Illegals: 'You're All Welcome in California'
by Tony Lee 26 Aug 2014, 9:07 AM PDT 6206
On Monday evening, California Governor Jerry Brown said all Mexicans,
including illegal immigrants, are welcome in California.
According to the Los Angeles Times, while introducing Mexican President
Enrique Peña Nieto, who said America is "the other Mexico," Brown "
spoke about the interwoven histories of Mexico an... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 9 Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Could Face Jail Time and
Exorbitant Fines
October 21, 2014 - 11:21 AM
By Ryan T. Anderson
For years, those in favor of same-sex marriage have argued that all
Americans should be free to live as they choose. And yet in countless cases,
the government has coerced those who simply wish to be free to live in
accordance with their belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By Justin Sink
President Obama’s approval rating has dipped below 40 percent on the heels
of his controversial decision to take executive action on immigration,
according to Tuesday poll.
Some 54 percent of Americans surveyed by Quinnipiac University disapprove of
the president, while 39 percent approve. That’s approaching the president
’s all-time low of 38 percent approval in December 2013, during the botched
HealthCare.gov rollout and anger over revelations about National Security
Agency surv... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 11 January 15, 2015 - 5:32 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – Within 24 hours of Rev. Franklin Graham calling on Duke
University to end its policy allowing a Muslim Call to Prayer from the bell
tower of the campus chapel, the school did just that, saying it was “
committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant” environment but that the
Muslim prayer “effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”
“I am glad to hear that Duke University reversed its decision to allow the
Muslim call to pra... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 SLIPPERY SLOPE: Politico Writer Calls for Legalization of Polygamy
Michael Cantrell
June 26, 2015 4:33 pm
When a conservative is debating a fruitcake liberal about why homosexual
marriage shouldn’t be legal and uses the “slippery slope” theory, he or
she is immediately ridiculed, laughed at, made fun of, and called every
kooky name in the book.
Mr. Liberal will tell you there’s no such thing, that no one intends to
legalize any other kind of nuttiness, you’re just a bigot!
Well, just a few hours... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 13 I expect this one will be 5-3, Kennedy will write the plurality opinion,
joined by Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas.
Sotomayor will write dissenting opinion, joined by Ginsburg and Breyer.
Kagan will recuse herself.
The chance is about 60-40, again, all eyes on Kennedy. |
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f*******7
发帖数: 2210 | 14 请认真读规则，这叫proportional么？我真的无语了，请多学习下再发言。
108 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based
on the primary results in each of the 36 congressional districts: each
congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These
delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows:
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that
candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates. [General Rules for
All Conventions and Meet... 阅读全帖 |
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f*******7
发帖数: 2210 | 15 请认真读规则，这叫proportional么？我真的无语了，请多学习下再发言。
108 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based
on the primary results in each of the 36 congressional districts: each
congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These
delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows:
If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that
candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates. [General Rules for
All Conventions and Meet... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 16 Trump昨天赢了三个州，不仅Trump开始为过去两周的屈辱开始反击，别人也开始反击。
看看Romney和Rubio还嚣张不？
好文链接：
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/09/hey-republicans-stop-
好文内容：
Will Republicans please stop insulting Trump voters? Just stop. I know that
many hate Trump, but his voters too?
Mitt Romney derides Trump voters as “suckers.” Others have sneered that
Trump has an army of “low information voters” who have been “duped,” and
that “these people” shouldn’t be able to decide on the fate of a Grand
Old Party. Trump’s voters, th... 阅读全帖 |
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m****g
发帖数: 2215 | 17 Hogue’s senate colleague Dick Dever is also getting cold feet. “What I
have said is I’m leaning towards Cruz, but I’m not committed to anybody,”
he says. “And after [Tuesday’s vote], I think Trump has the momentum
going forward.” Dever was impressed by the way Trump broke fifty percent in
all five of last Tuesday’s primaries, after relying on pluralities to
propel him to victory in previous contests. And he finds it just as telling
that Cruz lost to John Kasich in all but one of those contests. ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 18 The shorter version of what President Barack Obama said Tuesday: Donald
Trump is an idiot.
The slightly longer version: The presumptive Republican nominee is a
dangerous manipulator who's either willfully or ignorantly out to damage the
country and put more Americans in danger, all for the sake of propelling a
brand of politics that responsible Republicans know they can't support.
Story Continued Below
As Obama himself put it—the day after Trump breached whatever was left of
nonpartisan respect ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****n
发帖数: 14445 | 19 An open letter to my fellow Republican national delegates
June 24, 2016
Stefani Williams
[Updated June 27, 2016]
When Donald Trump entered the presidential race in June 2015, I decided to
give him a look. After I paid close attention, however, he completely lost
me.
He lost me because his statements were erratic, contradictory, and
untrustworthy, and many of his positions were actually very liberal. What
troubled me the most was his well-known playboy lifestyle – exemplified by
widely circulated... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 20 我是Trump的坚定支持者。看了一个poll总结，Trump和Romney相比， 在黑人， latino
，asian选民里的选情比Romney好。
Trump的弱项反而是白人自己 - 支持建制派的，和白左。有的时候不得不说，白人自己
要死，别人也挡不住。
real problem is, oddly enough, with whites and Republicans. While he does
well with Latinos and is winning a plurality of independents, he is lacking
white voters, especially college-educated whites, and GOP voters.
Among white voters, Trump wins just 42 percent. For historical purposes, it
’s worth noting that Romney won 59 percent of the white vote.
Read more at http... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 21 Chi·nese
ˌCHīˈnēz/
adjective
adjective: Chinese
1.
of or relating to China or its language, culture, or people.
belonging to or relating to the people forming the dominant ethnic group of
China and widely dispersed elsewhere.
noun
noun: Chinese; plural noun: Chinese
1.
the Chinese language.
2.
a native or inhabitant of China, or a person of Chinese descent. |
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发帖数: 176 | 22 The one great service of Donald Trump's extended peregrinations on
immigration policy is to have demonstrated how, in the end, there's only one
place to go.
You can rail for a year about the squishy soft, weak-kneed and stupid
politicians who have opened our borders to the wretched refuse of Mexico.
You can promise to round them up -- the refuse, that is, not the politicians
(they're next) -- and deport them. And that may win you a plurality of
Republican primary votes.
But eventually you have t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 772 | 23 再补充一点，他一开始支持率很高的，而且很多人支持他选总统的，虽然这是不可能的：
the Field polls released in August and October 2004 showed that
Schwarzenegger's approval rating remained at 65%. Additionally, in October,
for the first time in four years a plurality of Californians felt the state
was "on the right track".
However, when asked if they would support Schwarzenegger if he could run for
president, 50% said they would oppose, while only 26% said they would
support the governor in a presidential bid
要知道65%的事非常高的了，对比里根在任时从未到过60%... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6804 | 24 什么定语后置，不带冠词的可数名词复数代表general。还是那句话，玩文字游戏之前
先看看自己语言过关没有。
https://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/grammar/articles.html
Rule #3 - All things or things in general: Use no article with plural count
nouns or any noncount nouns used to mean all or in general.
Trees are beautiful in the fall. (All trees are beautiful in the fall.)
He was asking for advice. (He was asking for advice in general.)
I do not like coffee. (I do not like all coffee in general.) |
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发帖数: 58 | 25 Individualism, pluralism, incrementalism是美国的核心价值观。希拉里必胜！ |
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发帖数: 6571 | 26 Vox: No, The Electoral College Won’t Give Clinton The Presidency (And It’s
Not Going Away Either)
Matt Vespa
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Posted: Nov 16, 2016 12:30 PM
Yes liberals, we hear you: Clinton is winning the plurality of the popular
vote, while Donald Trump took the Electoral College handily. It’s not fair
(to you). So, we’re all watching with disgust as you take your temper
tantrum to the streets, vandalizing buildings, and setting things on fire.
Do I empathize? Hey, I know how it felt to lose in 2012, but I n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11198 | 27 最怕的是这种只知其一，不求甚解的应试英语。
去看看the 的定义：
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/the
a. Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote
particular, specified persons or things: the baby; the dress I wore. |
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发帖数: 1 | 29 呵呵，你是那种 you don't know what you don't know 的那种人。
noun, plural bullies.
1.
a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and
intimidates smaller or weaker people. |
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发帖数: 11319 | 30 黄左又开始玩白左玩剩下的招数了
这不就是concern trolling么
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll
concern troll (plural concern trolls)
(Internet slang) Someone who posts to an internet forum or newsgroup,
claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals,
typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive
activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage
the group's credibility, or alternatively to give up on group projects
enti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17225 | 31 Dear Friends and Colleagues in the Academy of Management:
I’m writing to you today as President of the AOM in the wake of the
Executive Order signed by President Trump to suspend entry into the United
States of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.
Thank you to those who have written to me and to other officers about the
new restrictions on travel and their implications for AOM. Thanks as well
to those of you who have posted on listservs and social media. The sc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 43471 | 33 Trump-backed immigration bill draws significant support: Poll
Americans generally favor a more selective legal immigration system that
would reward those who speak English and those who bring desired skills to
the U.S., according to a new poll released Wednesday that could boost the
new immigration bill President Trump is backing.
The Morning Consult/Politico poll found 62 percent support for giving would-
be immigrants who can speak English a leg up, and found 61 percent support
for creating a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4718 | 34 缸男的英文怎么学的？别见了警察话都说不清楚，那就麻烦了。
en·coun·ter
verb
unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
"we have encountered one small problem"
synonyms: experience, hit, run into, come up against, face, be faced with
, confront
"we encountered a slight problem"
noun
noun: encounter; plural noun: encounters
an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something.
synonyms: meeting, chance meeting
"an unexpected encounter"
这里警察怎么就不该出现？看见有人在旅馆房间把枪伸出窗口，不该报警？美国现在那
么多mass sho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4718 | 35 缸男的英文怎么学的？别见了警察话都说不清楚，那就麻烦了。
en·coun·ter
verb
unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
"we have encountered one small problem"
synonyms: experience, hit, run into, come up against, face, be faced with
, confront
"we encountered a slight problem"
noun
noun: encounter; plural noun: encounters
an unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something.
synonyms: meeting, chance meeting
"an unexpected encounter"
这里警察怎么就不该出现？看见有人在旅馆房间把枪伸出窗口，不该报警？美国现在那
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发帖数: 29853 | 36 Nor is the dissent’s reading of the NLRA any more
available to us than its reading of the Arbitration Act.
The dissent imposes a vast construction on Section 7’s
language. Post, at 9. But a statute’s meaning does not
always “turn solely” on the broadest imaginable “defini-
tions of its component words.” Yates v. United States, 574
U. S. ___, ___ (2015) (plurality opinion) (slip op., at 7).
Linguistic and statutory context also matter. |
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发帖数: 2749 | 37 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: sgrastar (人马座A星), 信区: Military
标 题: CNBC：疮破再打贸易战会丢掉6个关键州
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 7 14:51:02 2018, 美东)
伊利诺伊，印第安纳，密苏里，宾西法你啊，田纳西和德克萨斯。
Trump risks midterm voter backlash for GOP if he expands China trade war, as
tariffs are unpopular in six key states
President Donald Trump is considering even more tariffs on Chinese goods in
an expanding trade conflict.
It's a politically risky move, as voters in six key midterm states have not
gotten behind the trade barriers.
Repu... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 38 "wheel"
noun
plural noun: wheels
1.
a circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or
other object to enable it to move easily over the ground |
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发帖数: 7385 | 39
酸着了？
看看人家odyssey的意涵 比您家马自达用的23456不知强多少
Definition of odyssey
plural odysseys
1 :a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
2 :an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest
牛津as noun an odyssey A long and eventful or adventurous journey or
experience.
剑桥a long trip or period involving a lot of different and exciting
activities, esp. while searching for something: |
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发帖数: 1 | 40 你不是说奥德赛的故事吗？为什么扯个词条上来干啥？真没文化。马自达名字确实取的
不好。宝马取的好，比如1，2, 3, 5,7,8，你有脾气吗？911名字你觉得怎么样？918呢
？P1呢？
车型取名字是为了让人好记，取个奥德赛，死一船人的名字我说不吉利，你有什么不服
气？ 本来你说词条就算了，非要扯荷马史诗。在荷马史诗里奥德赛的故事的确是死了
一堆人么！
[在 XJL99 (本田-梦想的力量) 的大作中提到：]
:酸着了？
:看看人家odyssey的意涵 比您家马自达用的23456不知强多少
:Definition of odyssey
:plural odysseys
:1 :a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
:牛津as noun an odyssey A long and eventful or adventurous journey or
:experience.
:剑桥a long trip or period involving a lot of different and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 370 | 41 Sometimes, you just need to follow conventions – just do it; don't ask why.
In your examples, I think when you talk about something abstract, such as "
real analysis", you usually use singular. But when you say you did two
types of analyses, you use plural. |
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发帖数: 110 | 42 faculty 本身就是集体性名词，就像PEOPLE
SEE WEBSTER DICTIONARY
3 a: the members of a profession b: the teaching and administrative staff
and those members of the administration having academic rank in an
educational institution
cfaculty plural : faculty members |
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S***n
发帖数: 102 | 43 You goof around and have shown your poor written English here. To just point
out a few errors as an example:
in your first English sentence, "faculty" should not be used as a plural; (2
) "whose research" is not "are"; and
you might want to add "is" before "intolerably". I often see some students
who think they are smarter than
others, but in fact they are not. Advice: try to be a nice person!
to me.
whenever |
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C**k
发帖数: 275 | 44 好不容易一个phone interview，把问题贴出来，并请教大家如何回答才得关键，尤其
是2、5两个问题：
1. When did you begin your current position? Why do you want to leave your
current position?
2. How do you fit into the university’s continuing commitment to cultural
diversity, pluralism?
3. What fields do you want to be in?
4. What courses do you want to teach?
5. What would you like your student to talk about you? |
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发帖数: 4 | 45 1. When did you begin your current position? Why do you want to leave your
current position?
2. How do you fit into the university’s continuing commitment to cultural
diversity, pluralism?
3. What fields do you want to be in?
4. What courses do you want to teach?
5. What would you like your student to talk about you?
(copied from another post, please add more ...) |
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发帖数: 2293 | 46
No. The job talk is usually 1.5 hours long with presentation and Q&A
included. You can spend a few minutes to give an overview of your research and spend most of your time on one or two projects that you think best represent your abilities and achievements.
No. The people who will make the hiring decision all have access to your vitae.
BTW, I assume you are talking about an onsite interview for a faculty position. You will be the only person there to give a seminar. I know there may be some dif... 阅读全帖 |
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m***e
发帖数: 428 | 47 华人社会里的西方社会科学
丁学良
一 引言
自从一九八○年代中期以来，笔者有机会在数所大学和研究院里任教、作研究或参与短
期学术交流项目。这些大学和研究院分别属于三个华人社会——香港、中国大 陆和台
湾，及两个西人社会——美国和澳大利亚。本文便是基于我在这些教育和学术机构里讲
解社会理论和比较社会学时对学生的观察和思考。在行文讨论中，我会 作两个层次上
的比较：把华人学生与西方学生进行比较，和把不同华人社会里的学生进行比较。前一
层次上的比较有助于凸现在非西方社会及文化背景下成长起来的 华人学生，在接受西
方社会科学过程中遭遇的一系列特定的困难。后一层次上的比较则有助于我们更仔细及
深入地分辨出这些特定的困难之根源何在。这里所说的 “学生”是广义的，包括社会
科学的新从业者。
简要说来，这些特定的困难有三方面的根源。其一是语言性质的 (linguistic，包括翻
译技术) 。有一些西方社会科学的概念和术语，很难在中文里找到对等物，即便被费力
地译成中文，扭曲的程度也颇显著，往往不是启发而是蒙蔽和误导了读者(包括学生) 。
第二个方面的困难根源是本体性质(ontological)，即... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 77 | 48 今天的Merrian-Webster每日一词 -
waif
Meaning
1 a : a piece of property found (as washed up by the sea) but unclaimed b
plural : stolen goods thrown away by a thief in flight
2 a : something found without an owner and especially by chance *b : a
stray person or animal; especially : a homeless child
n. 无家可归者，迷途动物，无主失物
其实跟今天的引申意 - foreign f 颇有相似之处…… |
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m****8
发帖数: 627 | 49 hehe
Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Day
April 9
waif
\WAYF\
noun
Meaning
1 a : a piece of property found (as washed up by the sea) but unclaimed b plural : stolen goods thrown away by a thief in flight
2 a : something found without an owner and especially by chance *b : a stray person or animal; especially : a homeless child
Example Sentence
The book is about a charming 10-year-old waif who embarks on a series of adventures with a scruffy canine sidekick. |
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D******e
发帖数: 1085 | 50 Pay attention to Singular-Plural forms of nouns.
Compare apples to oranges.
的。 |
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