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留德博士劉明德: 英語是魔鬼+垃圾 II

英語是魔鬼+垃圾 其實是他出版的一本書的書名. 
為什麼 英語是魔鬼+垃圾?

Here are hints:

p139: 我們漢民族.... 人類..最重要的發明..都是源自我們的祖先.
p140: 如果沒有我們的祖先發明的羅盤...哥倫布也無法發現美洲大陸.
...火藥... 印刷術...
如果沒有我們的祖先發明的風箏...美國人萊特兄弟可能永遠都無法進行歷史性的飛行.
p140:
我們的漢字是世界上最神奇最奧妙的文字.
我們的漢語是世界上最美妙的語言.
我們漢民族是世界上最偉大的民族.
然而, 今天漢民族的子孫竟然淪落到主動要去...學人家的語言

In another post, I wrote

豈止學人家的語言.  我們也淪落到學人家用電, 用電燈, 用電腦, 開汽車, 坐飛機.  有骨氣的漢人應拒絕用電, 不坐車, 絕不坐飛機.

豈止學人家的語言.  我們也淪落到學他們的物理, 化學, 數學.  有骨氣的漢人應拒念物理, 化學, 數學.

Let me show a little more of what he wrote:

p. 141: 從今天起, 我們要正式(對英語)宣戰, 而且必定能戰勝它.

有一天, 汽車的車牌不再出現英文.
...

有一天, 中文將成為世界語言, 全世界的人都想來學我們的漢語.  全世界的人都想去上漢語補習班.  全世界的人都愛上我們的漢語.
到那一天,  我們漢民族的靈魂才能得到真正的自由.

Why stop at 汽車的車牌不再出現英文?  Be proud of your Han ancestry and stop using electricity, stop riding cars, stop using computers and cell phones, and never ever fly.

Instead of promoting racism, I believe it is much better to promote democracy, such as demanding referendums and demanding a fair judicial system.

習慣用語 idiomatic expressions 重要嗎?

謝謝 Yah Walen 寄來下面這個教英文的中文網頁:
「美国习惯用语」第一讲 

這網頁教了五個 idiomatic expressions (习惯用语):

give me a hand

foot the bill

blow out

lock, stock and barrel

hook, line and sinker

I duplicated the page at the very end.

我要回答Yah Walen 的問題

習慣用語重要嗎? 

I will also say that 「美国习惯用语」第一讲 ,像 每曰一字(句)學英文 不很有用. 

習慣用語重要嗎?

To write clearly,  you do not need to use idioms, unless you know them well.

When you read, and you encounter idiomatic expressions, you can use browser extension such as Answer to get their meaning.  For example, clicking on barrel of the expression lock, stock and barrel, and you get a popup that shows its meaning:

The entirety; all of something. For example, Jean moved out of the house, lock, stock, and barrel. This expression alludes to the three elements of a firearm--the lock or firing mechanism, the stock or handle, and the barrel or tube. [Early 1800s]

Note that this explanation is much better than the one offered in the Chinese lesson below, which does not bother to explain the origin of the expression.

Using Answer to get the meaning of an expression, when you need to know what it means is more useful than reading a lesson that presents some randomly selected expressions that you may or may not have an interest.

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「美国习惯用语」第一讲  

give me a hand

foot the bill

blow out

lock, stock and barrel

hook, line and sinker

每一种语言都有它独特的成语和俗语。而学习外语的人经常在理解这些习惯用语时会感到很困难。这是因为你不可能从组成某个习惯用语的字面上来懂得它的意思。 比如,美国人经常说:“Give me a hand.” 按照字面来理解, “give me hand”就是“给我一只手。”可是,它的意思却是“帮我一下忙。”
另外一个例子是: “Foot the bill.”
“Foot”的意思是 “一只脚”,而“bill”在这儿的解释是“账单”。“Foot the bill.”并不是把帐单踩在脚底下,而是付账的意思。
另外,有的时候,一个词汇有好几种解释。就拿下面一句话来作例子吧:
 例句-1:“We arrived two hours late at the big blow-out for Charlie’s birthday because our car had a blow-out.”
这句话里第一个blow-out是指规模很大的聚会,第二个blow-out是指汽车的轮胎炸了。整个句子的意思是:“由于我们车胎炸了,所以我们晚了两个小时才到达查理举行生日宴会的地方。”
还有一些习惯用语从字典上的意思来看是相同的,但是它们使用的场合却不同。
下面两个习惯用语就是很好的例子。
一个是“Lock, stock and barrel”,另外一个是:“Hook, line and sinker”。
Lock, stock and barrel和Hook, line and sinker都是全部的意思,可是用法却不同。
我们先来举一个Lock, stock and barrel的例子:
 例句-2:“Mr. Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel.”
这句话的意思是:“洛克菲勒先生把整个石油公司买了下来”。换句话说,也就是他买了这个石油公司的大楼丶油井和其他属于这个公司的资产。
Hook, line and sinker虽然也和lock, stock and barrel一样是全部的意思,可是它还带有受骗的意思。例如:
 例句-3:“I warned Sally not to believe that man's stories about how rich he was, but she swallowed them hook, line and sinker. After she married him, she found out that he owed everyone in his office money.”
他说:“我告诉沙利不要相信那个男人说的他多么有钱之类的话。可是沙利却一点都没有怀疑他。等到结婚才发现这个人几乎向每个同事都借了钱。”
 
刚才我们讲解了在学英语过程中经常会碰到的一些问题。有些习惯用语从字面上看不出它们的确切意思,例如:give me a hand和foot the bill。另外还有些习惯用语在不同场合却表达不同的意思,如blow out。还有一些俗语,它们在字典上的解释是相同的,但是却有不同的用法,就像lock, stock and barrel和hook, line and sinker。

好,「美国习惯用语」第一讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。

每曰一字(句)學英文 有用嗎?

For examples of such offerings, please go to the very end.  This post will argue that such service is not useful because 每日一句 is similar to learning English by randomly reading carefully selected dictionary entries.

每日一句 talks about things you may or may not have an interest.  It is not that you have a question, and the teacher answers it.  Teaching you when you don't have a question is not as effective as teaching you when you do have a question.

In contrast, when you Read the New York Times emailed to you daily for free, and use browser extension Answer to instantly obtain the meaning and pronunciation of a word, your learning is in a far more meaningful context.

Furthermore, the habit of reading the New York Times everyday is much more useful than the habit of doing 每日一句.

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免費閱讀每天自動送上門的紐約時報Read the New York Times emailed to you daily for free

• 因為 Google Chrome 跟 Google Translate 的結合使得英翻中在 Google Chrome 中極為容易, 本文用 Google Chrome 做例子.  如果你尚未安裝 Google Chrome, 請花一分鐘的時間下載及安裝.
• 首先, 造訪紐約時報的網站.  即使你不懂得芵文, 我也會讓你看懂.  見下圖
  
  
  
  上圖的第四行的末端有這個連結: Register Now.
  第二行問你是否想將這英文的網頁翻譯成中文, 如下:
  
  
   
• 第一圖的 Register Now 變成第二圖的 現在註冊.
  你可以用這個連結來註冊, 成為紐約時報的用戶.  一切免費.  在註冊的時候你有機會要求紐約時報每天寄一份文摘給你.
  
• 從今以後, 你會每天收到一份紐約時報文摘的 email.  假如你用 Gmail 的 account 登記, 你可以很輕易地把每天的文摘翻成中文.  細節請見 One click to translate a message.  如果湏要, 請用 Google Chrome 把它翻成中文. 
  
  

One click to translate a message

one click on your mailer can have Andy's Japanese message translated into a language of your choice

Please tell us how to do that? Where is the button or link that can be clicked to do the translation job?

In the following, I will use Gmail to illustrate.  Below please find a snapshot of my Gmail.  One click on the third line of the picture, inside the blue rectangle, translates the Japanese message into English. 

Note that the blue rectangle is not there by default.  In order to have the blue rectangle in your Gmail, you need to do two things in Gmail settings:

• Enable Lab
• In the Lab entries, look for and enable Message translation

Let me know if you have questions.

 

除非英文變成台灣人生活的一部份, 我們將只能吸引為數越來越多的中國學生, 加速台灣的西藏化.

除非英文變成台灣人生活的一部份, 我們將只能吸引為數越來越多的中國學生, 加速台灣的西藏化. ===== TAIWAN: Bid to attract more overseas students

Yojana Sharma 16 January 2011 Issue: 154 In a major speech last week Taiwan's President Ma Ying-Jeou (pictured) outlined the country's bid to become a higher education hub, and said some universities could begin to teach in English - a move that could draw students from mainland China and elsewhere in Asia away from universities in Britain, Australia and the US. Taiwan's universities are currently suffering a downturn in enrolments for demographic reasons, but the new policy is more than an attempt to fill seats in lecture theatres. "The tertiary education sector brings not just lucrative income, but it also expands a country's soft power and influence in the world," Ma said in a speech at the Commonwealth Economic Forum in Taipei on 10 January. It would not only help the development of Taiwan's universities but also promote Taiwan in Asia through 'student ambassadors' who would maintain an attachment to Taiwan even when they returned to their home countries, Ma said. He said the ministries of foreign affairs and education, as well as the Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission under the country's parliament, the Executive Yuan, would draw up a plan to attract more students to Taiwan. Universities already employing English-speaking lecturers "may soon offer curricula taught fully in English", Ma said. "I have been told, on more than one occasion by officials from Southeast Asian countries, that if universities in Taiwan provide more programmes taught in English, the country will be very attractive to their high school students." Citing estimates by international consultancies, he said Taiwan had the potential to attract some 160,000 foreign students, mostly from Chinese-speaking countries. However that target could be difficult to meet. Mainland China is itself attempting to attract more international students, investing in major new facilities to house foreign students at top universities including Peking University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai. Peking University, the most prestigious in mainland China, launched a major recruitment campaign in Hong Kong last month. Hong Kong also attracts large numbers of top mainland students. Meanwhile Hong Kong and China have also been developing joint programmes, with the first joint masters degree in law between Peking University and Hong Kong expected to begin soon. With a nod to the emerging competition from China, Ma said: "We cannot compete with mainland China in terms of market size, but we have an edge over [them] in terms of the quality of our courses and our ability to teach both traditional and simplified Chinese." Traditional Chinese characters are used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and many overseas Chinese communities, while simplified characters are in use in mainland China and Singapore. Taiwan faces stiff competition from Hong Kong, whose universities are ranked among the highest in Asia, although students from the mainland are restricted to a small percentage of the student body. In addition Hong Kong has been drawing students from Taiwan and also attracting Taiwanese academics with higher salaries than they can get in their own country. That will have to be reversed for Taiwan to compete as a higher education magnet. Singapore also has more than a decade-long head-start as an education hub in Asia, attracting some 91,000 foreign students with a stated aim of increasing this number to 150,000 in the next five years. A declining birth rate in Taiwan has led to predictions that almost 28% of the island's 164 colleges of higher education could close by 2021 for lack of students. yojana.sharma@uw-news.com

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