您正在查看 "学单词" 分类下的文章 2010-05-28 1:19 新闻周刊这一期的封面文章是关于中国游客,作者Katie Baker,我把它译为“中国人走四方”。
封面,很美,应该是桂林山水吧,黛色群山,浅蓝色天空,倒映在水中,一人一舟,那人戴斗笠着蓑衣,舟上挂着明晃晃一盏汽油灯(?),几只鸬鹚安静地待着。

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2010-01-12 0:33 And yet even if terrorists have been reduced to wearing explosives in their underwear, they are still able to find aimless, religiously fired or underloved young men to carry out suicide missions.
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Napolitano has eschewed the word terrorism for "man-caused disasters," explaining, "We want to move |
2009-08-24 2:58 1 褫权令(acts of attainder)是一种议会程序,即议会通过的针对某个被控告者的司法判决,最早出现于14世纪,当时议会借助这一程序罢免了爱德华二世国王的一个宠臣。究其实质而言,褫权令取代了法官和陪审团,充当了司法判决。在英国,国王或议会经常用这种程序来对付政敌,而不去冒法庭审判的风险。
褫权经常发生当事人死后,用以没收他们的财产。在政治和宗教动荡不安的英国内战时 |
2009-08-17 19:30 来源: www.bookschina.com/1713041.htm
[A] abjection抑斥 aboriginality原质 absence缺席 African American非裔美籍 agency能动性 allegory寓言 alternative modernity另类现代性 ambivalence模棱 anamorphosis扭曲折射 animation动画 anti-colonial反殖民 apartheid种族隔离政策 art as institution艺术机制 art cinema艺术电影 Asian American亚裔美籍 audience观众 aura神韵 auteur编剧兼导演 avant—garde前卫艺术 [B] binary opposition二元对立 black |
2009-07-19 3:09 by W. H. Auden
She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead.
A plain without a feature, bare and brown, No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood, Nothing to eat and nowhere |
2009-07-08 0:38 找Verbal contortion这个词,搜到钱锺书先生的论述,如下。或许,在我看到的语境里,应该对应“诘屈聱牙”或“艰涩、晦涩”。
造車合轍,事勢必然,初非刻意師仿。說《詩》經生,於詞章之學,太半生疎,墨守“文字之本”,覩《詩》之鑄語乖剌者,輒依託訓詁,納入常規;經疾史恙,墨 炙筆鍼,如琢方竹以為圓杖,蓋未達語法因文體而有等衰也。葉氏舉例有《小雅·賓之初筵》:“三爵不識,矧敢多又”,“室人入又”,毛、鄭皆釋“又”為“復 ”,則歇後 |
2009-05-21 21:55 1)jewels five-words long 字字珠玑
出自英国诗人丁尼生。他在长诗《公主》第二部中称赞贺拉斯《颂歌集》,说它给世人留下“字字珠玑,在一切时代的拇指上,永远闪亮”。
The Odes (Latin Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace.
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2009-02-19 11:02
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After reading The Future of an Illusion (1927c), in a letter dated December 5, 1927, Romain Rolland wrote to Freud: "By religious feeling, what I mean—altogether independently of any dogma, an |
2009-02-08 22:56 Curve ball
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