A***4
发帖数: 326 | 1 if you are important enough, people will go all the way to make sure that
your name is spelled and pronounced correctly. |
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发帖数: 39524 | 2 jesus flores
pronounced hay-sue-s. |
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发帖数: 39524 | 3 pronounced whore-hay.
haha. |
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b*****e
发帖数: 5476 | 4 人NYT原文里都说了，这种事只能做不能说，更不能公开承认
A spokesman for the Chinese commerce ministry declined Thursday morning
to discuss the country’s trade policy on rare earths, saying only that
Mr. Wen’s comments remained the government’s position. News agencies
later reported that Chen Rongkai, another ministry spokesman, had denied
that any embargo had been imposed.
Any publication of government regulations or other official
pronouncements barring exports would allow Japan to file an immediate
complaint with the Wo |
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发帖数: 5476 | 5 说了多少遍了，这事只能做不能说，NYT最开始报料的时候就说了
A Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman declined on Thursday morning to
discuss the country’s trade policy on rare earths, saying only that Mr. Wen
’s comments remained the Chinese government’s position. News agencies
later reported that Chen Rongkai, another ministry spokesman, had denied
that any embargo had been imposed.
Any publication of government regulations or other official pronouncements
barring exports would allow Japan to file an immediate complaint with |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 6 Roland Oliphant, The City of Vladivostok Is a Mixture of Promise and Neglect
. Russia Profile (reprinted by Ria Novostok, Oct. 7, 2010).
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20100924/160671888.html
("One hundred and fifty years ago this June" which was 1860)
Note:
(a) Golden Horn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horn
See the map. In fact, if you click "Bosphorus," you can see clearly that the
Golden Horn is located near the southern outlet of the strait, on the left
bank. While there, read the last pa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 560 | 7 The gap between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest is bigger than at
any time since the 1920s — just before the Depression. According to an
analysis this year by Edward Wolff of New York University, the top 20% of
wealthy individuals own about 85% of the wealth, while the bottom 40% own
very near 0%. Many in that bottom 40% not only have no assets, they have
negative net wealth.
A gap this pronounced raises the politically divisive question of whether
there is a need for wealth redistribut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 292 | 8 这个描述的很准确。。把白人的虚伪和优越感都写出来了
#115 Promising to Learn a New Language
Throughout history, white people have a pretty poor record when it comes to
promises (see Americans, Native for examples). Thankfully, modern white
people are trying to erase the shame of the past by making promises to
themselves that they will never keep.
Writing a novel, going vegan, or sending their future kid to public school
are just a few of these great breakable promises. But by far the most
common self improvement promise... 阅读全帖 |
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c******n
发帖数: 16403 | 9 A folk etymology suggests that "gook" refers to the Korean word "" meani
ng "country."[7][8] The Korean word is pronounced [kuk] when used alone, but
[ɡuk] when used as an affix, for example in Hanguk, meaning "Korea". Accor
ding to one explanation, American soldiers during the Korean War were often
confronted by Korean soldiers and civilians and would hear them say, "
" [miɡuk] meaning "America." (For a derivation, see 美國.) The American s
oldiers supposedly interpreted this expression as "Me go... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1642 | 11 zz
STOCKHOLM – Two explosions in central Stockholm killed one person and
injured two on Saturday, causing panic among Christmas shoppers.
Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan,
a busy shopping street in the center of the city. Shortly afterward, a
second explosion was heard higher up on the same street, and a man was found
injured on the ground.
He was later pronounced dead. |
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发帖数: 20445 | 12 [快讯](图) 综合新闻
[快讯]亚利桑那州众议员Giffords遇刺身亡
稍早的电视新闻报导
档案照片
据CNN报导，美国当地时间1月8日周六中午，亚利桑那州联邦众议员Gabrielle
Giffords在其选区举行与选民见面的活动时，遭到枪击身亡。在这场枪击事件中总共造
成了7人死亡，多人受伤。
Gabrielle Giffords是民主党联邦众议员。去年11月，她以微弱优势连任众议员。她的
选区包括图桑市（Tucson）。枪击发生时，她正在图桑市一家便利商店举办选民见面会
。当地警方已证实枪击事件，NPR已经报导Giffords伤重不治。枪手是否落网及身份尚
不明了。
Tucson, Ariz. National Public Radio reports that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and
six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday.
The Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office reportedly has co... 阅读全帖 |
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s****i
发帖数: 2993 | 13 having accent doesn't mean she's bad.
and she does have accent.
pronouncing ribeye wrong shows she didn't live in English speaking country
long though. |
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发帖数: 125 | 14 Like I said, those are not my comments, but the ones from a white lady who
used to work as a Tv news anchor. She
told me that her (CCTV anchor's) pronunciation is just a little bit off, but
the pace of sentences is almost pefect. For
her pronouncing "ribeye" as "rib-eye" as pointed out by some comments, she
said that it is barely a problem and she
believes that many native speakers could also "mispronunce" this word.
Anyway she got really impressed by this
CCTV lady.
Btw, you are a genius in ... 阅读全帖 |
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s****i
发帖数: 2993 | 15 doesn't matter it written as two words. just like how tune up is pronounced. |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 16 Transcript: DOD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon. US
Department of Defense, Jan 26, 2011.
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts
/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4758
The pertinent quote:
"Q: Back to F-35 real quick.
"MR. MORRELL: Okay.
"Q: Could you elaborate on the decision to grant Lockheed
permission to speak with Japanese companies on the F-35?
"MR. MORRELL: Well, I mean, when we were in Japan, and you
guys a... 阅读全帖 |
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Z**S
发帖数: 1211 | 17 Of course it is chai-na.
It would be very earthy to pronounce it qi-na:) |
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发帖数: 1211 | 18 Let's put it this way, if you say Chai-na, Americans will
find it a bit off, but will easily understand what you are talking
about.
If you say Qia-na, good luck. Excuse me, what are you referring to?
Those who argue that in the ancient history, our country was
called sina. Who cares, it is now pronounced China in English. period. |
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发帖数: 2136 | 19 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: 达赖要垂帘听政啦
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Mar 10 18:43:04 2011, 美东)
Dalai Lama to retire from political life
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 March 2011 04.23 GMT
The Dalai Lama has announced he will retire from political life within days.
In a speech posted on the internet and delivered in the northern Indian hill
town of Dharamasala, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said he would
ask the Tibetan parliament in exile to make the neces... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8042 | 20 Some of the maneuvers seemed at odds with the most startling assertion
by Mr. Jaczko (pronounced YAZZ-koe) that there was little or no water in
the pool storing spent nuclear fuel at the No. 4 reactor, leaving fuel
rods stored there exposed and bleeding radiation into the atmosphere.
His testimony before Congress was the first time the Obama
administration had given its own assessment of the condition of the
plant, apparently mixing information it had received from Japan with
data it had collect... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2812 | 21 With Quest to Cool Fuel Rods Stumbling, U.S. Sees ‘Weeks’ of Struggle
By NORIMITSU ONISHI, DAVID E. SANGER and MATTHEW L. WALD
TOKYO — Amid widening alarm in the United States and elsewhere about Japan
’s nuclear crisis, military fire trucks began spraying cooling water on
spent fuel rods at the country’s stricken nuclear power station late
Thursday after earlier efforts to cool the rods failed, Japanese officials
said.
The United States’ top nuclear official followed up his bleak appraisal of
t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 22 (1) Daniel Dombey and James Blitz, Precision Weapons prove Effective Against
Pro-Regime Armaments. Financial Times, Mar 29, 2011
(The Pentagon has also brought five Growler electronic attack aircraft.
Britain is relying on British Tornado GR4 aircraft to attack ground targets,
using guided Brimstone missiles. France is using the armament-air-sol
modulaire (air-to-ground modular weapon), a munition involving a 250kg bomb
guided by a global positioning system)
Note:
(a) brimstone (n; Middle Englis... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 23 (1) David A. Fulghum, New Chinese Ship-Based Fighter Progresses. Aviation
Week, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?
channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/asd/2011/04/27/02.xml&
headline=New%20Chinese%20Ship-Based%20Fighter%20Progresses
("Analysts and aircraft watchers in China say the aircraft’s first flight
was made on Aug. 31, 2009, powered by a Russian-supplied AL-31. Ukraine is
the source of China’s Su-33/Flanker D, U.S. analysts agree. 'Russia’s
carrier training... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12853 | 24 本月刚刚心脏病去世的 Omar Ahmad, San Carlos 市长。
Mayor dies of heart attack: San Carlos colleagues shocked at Omar Ahmad’s
sudden death
May 11, 2011, 04:02 AM By Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff
Andrew Scheiner/Daily Journal
San Carlos Mayor Omar Ahmad died of a heart attack Tuesday.
San Carlos Mayor Omar Ahmad, known for his humor and long history with
Silicon Valley ventures as much as his civic duty, died early Tuesday
morning of a heart attack at age 46.
The news left City Hall shocked, with the f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1014 | 25 上访无门，自杀反被击毙
米国人有上访的权利么？ 有， 等着你的是警棍和子弹
米国人有自杀的权利么？ 有， 等着你的是警棍和子弹
堂堂正正的民主制度下想自杀，不毙了你怎么才让你知道民主警察匪徒国家的厉害。
标 题: 圣合塞一自杀男子被警察击毙
(08-29) 20:28 PDT SAN JOSE -- A San Jose man who had tried to kill himself
with a nail gun was shot and killed by police Sunday morning after he
confronted three officers while holding a knife, police officials said.
Police were called to a home on Wong Court about 9:15 a.m. by a woman who
said her estranged 42-year-old husband had tried to commit suicide with a
nail gun, sai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 27 (1) Evan Ramstad, Shipyards Running Aground; Recession's lagging effect on
orders forces South Korean shipbuilders to cut payrolls, shift course. Wall
Street Journal, June 23, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527
02304778304576375972346103698.html
Quote:
"The downturn is affecting shipyards world-wide. China's shipbuilding
association last month said some of the country's yards would suspend
production after completing existing orders.
"Ships are the country's [Korea's] biggest expo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 28 Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but said in a statement
Watford, following the concerns for the welfare of a man who lives at an
address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the
body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly
after."
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but not thought to be
suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing." |
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发帖数: 4978 | 29 死的时机这么巧，警察竟然还说没嫌疑，形势发展越来越像好莱坞大片了。
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the
first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone
hacking by his staff, has been found dead .
Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before
being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, was said to have been found at
his Watford home.
Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15238 | 31 such as the largest democratic country in this world--- Shinning India?
you have to pronounce the India with Indian accent, something like 银地呀. |
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j****i
发帖数: 68152 | 32 how to pronounce his name?
He ma zha? |
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发帖数: 704 | 33 17 August 2011 Last updated at 13:59 ET
German 'unfairly' sacked for marrying Chinese woman
An engineer in northern Germany who was sacked because he married a Chinese
woman was unjustifiably dismissed, a court has ruled.
The man was declared a security risk by his employer after his marriage
because of his new family ties.
The company acted as a supplier for the German armed forces and feared
possible industrial espionage.
But the court said the engineer's employer had violated his right to mar... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7012 | 36 错了. 不管中文英文, Zha 都在 Ma 前面 |
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j****i
发帖数: 68152 | 38 PI pronounces like pee, not pai |
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发帖数: 574 | 39 不出意外，新core将会不日上台。今日下班途中，浮想联翩之时，突然发现新core上台
也许 能带给我 一些 benefits。
现如今在正式场合与人 交往或者去公共场所处理事情，最为不便 即是 show 别人 应
该 怎么样称呼 自己。对方看到我 的id 或者 在自己电脑系统中 找到 我的名字后，
大多数都会 如此反应：
“Mr. ...., how to pronounce your last name?”最起初，我还很负责的回答，是
[X i:]，对方 反应：“oh. [Sei]”，我再纠正，应该是[X i:]，对方反应：“oh. [
Rei]， 久而久之，我发现 被称呼 [Rei] 的时候居多，再后来，我自我介绍的时候，
便 称自己 [Rei]了。
更有甚者，打电话 来直接询问 " May I talk to Mr. Eleven"? 过了N 久，才反应过
来，原来 XI 真的是 eleven.
新core上台，新闻上 肯定少不了 相关报道，美国人耳濡目染 之后，对于 XI的发音应
该不会再有问题了 吧。 |
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发帖数: 1032 | 40 http://listverse.com/2007/08/17/top-10-most-wicked-popes/
Out of the 266 Popes to have ruled the Catholic Church, ten in particular
stand out for their wickedness. This is a list of the ten with a description
of their errors and faults.
1. Liberius, reigned 352-66 [Catholic Encyclopaedia]
Pope Liberius is the first Pope not to be canonised a saint. He reigned
during the height of the Arian crisis during which a large majority of the
Church believed that Jesus was not God, but merely a man. The A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 41 William Lowther, ‘FT’ Source Said to Be From White House. Taipei Times,
Sept 19, 2011 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News
/taiwan/archives/2011/09/19/2003513645
My comment:
(a) carry water for
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carry_water_for
(Related terms carry someone's water)
(b) Speaking on background or being quoted unnamed is not really reliable.
In any event, I do not think something like this is intereference with
another nation.
(c) Most important, most people do not think fo... 阅读全帖 |
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z****e
发帖数: 54598 | 42 是jessie吧，希伯来后裔
Jessie \j(es)-sie\ as a girl's name (also used as boy's name Jessie), is
pronounced JESS-ee. It is of Hebrew origin |
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发帖数: 26222 | 43 流传很久的是， 米犹有建立world government的计划， 毁灭单个的国家政府， 而把
全世界置于米犹的控制之下。
这和正在发生的事情非常相似。
GEORGE SOROS AND THE ROTHSCHILD CONNECTION
Who was George Soros?
[H: Better yet: Who IS this man? Meet one of the most prominent of the
players in your downfall. He very much ‘was’ but he also IS and did, in
fact wreck the economy of Southeast Asia in very short order. He is a top
player in such as Bilderbergers and all the other controlling groups while
doing nothing “illegal”. But then no one can do anything illegal i... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 44 Levkov Igor, Chinese Spy Mania Sweeps the World. Voice of Russia, Oct 7,
2011.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/07/58323601.html
Note: The significance is Voice of Russia is official. Maybe even Russians
have reached the boiling point.
------------------------------------------Separately
(1) Owen Fltecher, Patriotic Chinese Hacking Group Reboots. China Real Time,
Oct 5, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/05
/patriotic-chinese-hacking-group-reboots/
Note:
(a) Honker Union of China (HUC... 阅读全帖 |
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b***y
发帖数: 14281 | 45 外F到底应该怎样pronounce？是wai fa吗？ |
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 46 At most one 里
Unless you do not even know how to pronounce Juan. |
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发帖数: 326 | 47 if you are important enough, people will make every effort to make sure your
name is pronounced correctly. |
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发帖数: 2999 | 48 茉莉花自由双刃剑开始发威了。呵呵
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/clinton-urges-technolo
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on technology companies to make “
good decisions” about how and even whether to do business involving nations
that may use the equipment or software against their citizens.
Clinton, who has made Internet freedom a core element of U.S. foreign policy
, also issued a stark warning today about efforts by countries such as China
and Russia seeking to nationalize the Internet.
In... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3875 | 49 Chinese Students Pushed to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools
2011-12-20 21:00:01.0 GMT
By Daniel Golden
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Haiying Wu’s family in Shandong
Province wasn’t religious. After a born-again Texan teaching
English in China advised her that Christian schools in the U.S.
are safe and academically strong, she enrolled at Ben Lippen
High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
Ben Lippen required her to attend church and chapel, take
Bible class, and join a Bible study group. ... 阅读全帖 |
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t******t
发帖数: 15246 | 50 nasty little man，厚黑学之道，矮帝是大师。 “主权在我，搁置争议，共同开发”
，现在东海油气田TG采得是一片灯火通明。
----Henry A. Kissinger, who helped to engineer the normalization of
relations with China during the Nixon Administration, once pronounced Mr.
Deng a ''nasty little man.'' But others found a certain charm |
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