B*****e
发帖数: 9375 | 1
It's obviously because of the nature of non-guaranteed contracts.
Tommy Lasorda once quipped that give him 25 players in their contact years,
and he will win you the pennant every time. |
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B*****e
发帖数: 9375 | 2 As one player once quipped about another staunch defense, "Use pistols" |
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z*****a
发帖数: 3809 | 3 How times have changed. Only 3 years ago, Stanford beating USC was the
biggest upset in the history of NCAA football.
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/print?id=14054
This is not your old USC
By Ted Miller
On Nov. 14, 2009, two coaches met for the postgame handshake.
Pete Carroll asked, "What's your deal? Are you all right?" Jim Harbaugh
replied, "Yeah, I'm good. What's your deal?"
In and of itself, the exchange seems pretty innocent, no? More odd than
anything. Of course, context is everything. A... 阅读全帖 |
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G****e
发帖数: 11198 | 4 唉，看不懂这些调侃啊。
Singer Josh Groban writes cheeky tweet about Rich Rodriguez using his song
Eric Lacy / The Detroit News
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez's emotional display of affection for his job
at the team's banquet Thursday night might have won over some true blue
faithful.
But it didn't appear to move songwriter Josh Groban, who seemed to playfully
criticize Rodriguez's decision to play his hit cover of the song "You Raise
Me Up" during the festivities.
"Coach Rodriguez, I'm very flattered," Grob... 阅读全帖 |
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B****N
发帖数: 440 | 5 http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bcH66
The NCAA today stunned Ohio State University’s football program by
banning
it from postseason play after the 2012 season, multiple sources told The
Dispatch.
The penalty means Ohio State automatically is out of the running for any
bowl, or a Big Ten or national championship next year, just as newly
appointed head coach Urban Meyer is wooing recruits to the Buckeyes.
Athletic Director Gene Smith said previously that while Ohio State has
been
declared a repeat vi... 阅读全帖 |
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l*******o
发帖数: 12469 | 6 L'Équipe表示不过大巴黎发现煤球250米的违约金，加上至少15米的年薪和相关税
务，基本上让他们签不了煤球。
据说现在大巴黎已经把目光转向了三炮，准备明年夏天动手。。。 |
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y*j
发帖数: 200 | 7 http://sports.yahoo.com/news/injury-hit-psg-faces-chelsea-last-
Paris Saint-Germain defender David Luiz gave an unusual response when
comparing PSG coach Laurent Blanc with Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
Luiz, who joined PSG from Chelsea during the offseason in a deal worth 50
million euros ($57 million), quipped: "Blanc and Mourinho, they are both
ugly. As simple as that." |
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r*****y
发帖数: 53800 | 8 跟个人荣誉比起来，集体荣誉的确少得可怜：
Individual
Supercopa Libertadores Top Scorer (1): 1993–94
Supercopa Libertadores Team of The Year (1): 1993-04
Campeonato Mineiro Top Scorer (1): 1993–94
Campeonato Mineiro Team of The Year (1): 1994
Eredivisie Top Scorer (1): 1994–95
World Soccer Magazine World Player of The Year (3): 1996, 1997, 2002
FIFA World Player of the Year (3): 1996, 1997, 2002[6]
Trofeo EFE La Liga Ibero-American Player of the Year (2): 1996–97, 2002–03
Pichichi Trophy (2) 1996–1997, 2003-2004
Euro... 阅读全帖 |
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A*********r
发帖数: 8271 | 9 3-1 Gemini/Aries
The combination of your Sun and Moon signs makes you mentally "quick as a
cat," witty, versatile, and mobile, both in mind and body. You are naturally
alert, active, and aggressive. At your best, you have a very ambitious
nature, asserting yourself in a positive and confident manner in whatever
direction you decide to go. You are a fun companion and a dangerous opponent
, especially in a battle of words. You are intellectually motivated with an
inclination for study and educatio... 阅读全帖 |
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b********t
发帖数: 992 | 10 Joan, Melissa Exit E!
Wed Jun 30, 1:15 PM ET Add Television
By Joal Ryan
Joan and Melissa Rivers, who kept watch over the red carpet for E!
Entertainment Television for nearly a decade, have parted ways with the
network, it was announced Wednesday.
The quip queen and her daughter/cohost are bound for the TV Guide Channel.
Melissa Rivers made her final E! appearance Monday during a tearful
Trendspotting segment for E! News Live. Joan Rivers' final appearance came
post-Oscars (news - web sites) |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 11 a quip; a witticism
什么叫wisecracker? |
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B*********e
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d****z
发帖数: 9761 | 13 HOWARD STERN这个人虽恶，不过很同意他的下面这段话，好莱污那帮明星PC的评价假的
不得了，脸上再厚的脂粉都掩饰不住心底的鄙视
“There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen,” he quipped
on Monday. “She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show
business and she’s never going to be in another movie. She should have
gotten the Best Actress award because she’s never going to have another
shot. What movie is she gonna be in?”Co-host Robin Quivers, who usually has
just as much to say as Howard in the shock-worthy department, chimed |
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w*********8
发帖数: 3339 | 14 LOL，现在是黑人当道啊。。。。
quipped
has |
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v****e
发帖数: 19471 | 15 how about "Dancing with The Elephants" or "Jurassic Park IV"?
quipped
has |
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c******n
发帖数: 5697 | 16 howard is an idiot
she could star in a lot of movies and TV, like Food, Inc., Titanic, Star
Wars(Jabba the Hutt), the Biggest Loser, etc...
quipped
has |
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c******g
发帖数: 4889 | 17 文中《漫长的婚约》的票房有问题，翻译的人显然不太明白票房在法国怎么计算。在法
国电影主要是以观看次数来算，而不是按票价的面值（因为按实际面值比较麻烦，法国
影院有月票，如UGC或MK2 illimité，观众可以无计数在上述院线观看）。
他写的法文原文好像和英文翻得不一样：
http://jpjeunet.com/filmographie/lie-of-pi/
Life of Pi
Petit rappel des faits :
Après la sortie du Long dimanche de fiançailles, la Fox m’avait
contacté pour savoir si je serais intéressé par l’adaptation du roman de
Yann Martel : Life of Pi.
Guillaume Laurent et moi, avons donc écrit le scénario, que le studio a
immédiatement adoré. (Ce qui est rare à Ho... 阅读全帖 |
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p****y
发帖数: 23737 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 Vegetarianism 俱乐部 】
发信人: purity (purity), 信区: Vegetarianism
标 题: Bill Gates和Steve Jobs都很幽默啊，呵呵呵
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 6 14:21:44 2011, 美东)
看这段新闻看到笑翻，Gates和他都很幽默啊，呵呵呵
Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview
with Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer,
since Apple's iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions
of Windows PCs.
He quipped: "It's like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell."
When Gate... 阅读全帖 |
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H****g
发帖数: 14447 | 19 Grada论文摘要
Frank Dikötter’s Mao’s Great Famine {henceforth “MGF”} is the
longest and most detailed study of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) famine to
appear in English to date.{…} The tone throughout is one of abhorrence and
outrage, and sometimes MGF reads more like a catalogue of anecdotes about
atrocities than a sustained analytic argument. In style and approach it
recalls Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s controversial Mao: The Unknown Story
(2005); indeed, Chang leads the ”praise” for MGF on t... 阅读全帖 |
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H********g
发帖数: 43926 | 20 还有这回事
The custom of Jewish families dining out at Chinese restaurants, especially
on Christmas Day, has long been a joking matter. “According to the Jewish
calendar, the year is 5749,” one quip goes. “According to the Chinese
calendar, the year is 4687. That means for 1,062 years, the Jews went
without Chinese food.” Even Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan made light of
the tradition during her Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Granted,
Chinese restaurants are typically among the few businesse... 阅读全帖 |
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H******7
发帖数: 34403 | 21 C'était il ya longtemps.
Sur les deux premiers jours de l'éducation physique, la musique Pengcheng
pratique curseur. Lorsque glissé vers le bas, les yeux fermés, tenant le
curseur, immobile. Les étudiants contribuent à l', professeur de santé
infirmerie blanc occupé pendant une longue période, ou pour accompagner
les indices des élèves: le frottement de fer, faire de la musique
Pengcheng soutien des jambes d'une "petite tente"!
Depuis lors, chaque fois que la musique exerce Pengcheng curseur, le... 阅读全帖 |
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M*********m
发帖数: 2024 | 22 有一种别出心裁的幽默，北方话就是“嘎咕”。我感觉比较对应的英文词是“quip”。
比方说，“Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip
round the sun.”预设一个平庸的前提，然后再抛包袱。 |
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S**C
发帖数: 91 | 23 The sandy bank, which we called it “sha she”, a tongue made of sand, was a
narrow stretch of green belt lolled into the sea to protect the bay from
storms.
I walked up the concrete steps constructed alongside the bank, pretending to
be a dock. Here were the same “motor” guys, “ want a ride? Brothers.”
They asked, humbly, questioningly; you can detect a trace of sly in the
corners of their eyes, which would put you off in strange places.
“ get lost, go back to your poker games.” I quipped jokingl |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 24 THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ADAM EWING
Thursday, 7th November—
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of
recent footprints.
Through rotting kelp, sea cocoa-nuts & bamboo, the tracks led me to their
maker, a White man,
his trow-zers & Pea-jacket rolled up, sporting a kempt beard & an outsized
Beaver, shoveling
& sifting the cindery sand with a teaspoon so intently that he noticed me
only after I had hailed
him from ten yards away. Thus it was, I made the acquaintance of... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 25 LETTERS FROM ZEDELGHEM
CHATEAU ZEDELGHEM,
NEERBEKE,
WEST VLAANDEREN
29TH-VI-1993
Sixsmith,
Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with
shelves of
porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall
and smash to bits.
Exactly what happened, but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang
out, half-cello,
half-celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase
affair off its
pedestal—E-flat, whole string section, g... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 26 THE GHASTLY ORDEAL OF TIMOTHY CAVENDISH
One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a
Greenwich
avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those
Regency residences
number among London’s costliest properties, but should you ever inherit one
, dear Reader, sell
it, don’t live in it. Houses like these secrete some dark sorcery that
transforms their owners into
fruitcakes. One such victim, an ex-chief of Rhodesian police, had, on the
evening in qu... 阅读全帖 |
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E*****m
发帖数: 25615 | 27 http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/06/what-the-bible-really-says-a
What the Bible Really Says About Sex
New scholarship on the Good Book’s naughty bits and how it deals with
adultery, divorce, and same-sex love.
Lisa Miller
by Lisa MillerFebruary 06, 2011
©SuperStock
Photos: A History of Multiple-Partner Relationships
More Ways Than Two
The poem describes two young lovers aching with desire. The obsession is
mutual, carnal, complete. The man lingers over his lover’s eyes and hair,
on her teeth... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 28 Study By: Greg Herrick
A. Introduction
Someone has once quipped that the definition of a jury is: “twelve people c
hosen to decide who has the best lawyer.” With the current state of litigat
ion in America, it’s no wonder that people are openly skeptical about truth
and justice in our law courts. Indeed, the problem with justice is that it
appears to be no longer admissible in our practice of law.
There is coming a day, however, when things will be different—radically dif
ferent. It is a day Pau... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 29 Study By: Greg Herrick
A. Introduction
Hypocrisy—carefully presenting one appearance on the outside, while clingin
g to another on the inside—is declared by Jesus to be like a white washed t
omb. Such houses for the dead look great, however, even impressive on the ou
tside, but… and you know how the rest of that goes (cf. Matt 23:27). Two st
ories illustrate well the nature of hypocrisy and the pain that comes with i
t.
The first is related by Stuart Briscoe. He tells the story of the time he wa... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 30 Study By: Greg Herrick
A. Introduction
Hypocrisy—carefully presenting one appearance on the outside, while clingin
g to another on the inside—is declared by Jesus to be like a white washed t
omb. Such houses for the dead look great, however, even impressive on the ou
tside, but… and you know how the rest of that goes (cf. Matt 23:27). Two st
ories illustrate well the nature of hypocrisy and the pain that comes with i
t.
The first is related by Stuart Briscoe. He tells the story of the time he wa... 阅读全帖 |
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a**u
发帖数: 8107 | 31 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
zoun (zoun) 于 (Tue Aug 31 10:31:45 2010, 美东) 提到:
发信人: youcanfly (四海为家), 信区: Military
标 题: 巴菲特：我为什么捐掉99％的财富
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Aug 31 09:22:34 2010, 美东)
国际金融报 2010-08-30 22:48:37
2006年，我曾作出承诺，逐渐将我持有的所有伯克希尔·哈撒韦股票捐赠给慈善基
金。这个决定让我再开心不过。
现在，盖茨夫妇和我正在要求几百位美国富豪至少为慈善事业捐出50%的个人财富
，所以我还是重新解释我的意图及其背后考量为宜。
首先，我承诺，在我有生之年或大去之际，我将把至少99%的个人财富捐献给慈善
事业。以美元衡量的话，这笔钱诚然可观，但从相对价值角度出发，每天都有许多人向
他人赠予更多。
有数以百万计的人常常为教会、学校和其他机构作贡献，从而放弃了原本可以用来
惠及自己家庭的物质财富。他们对贫乞者的接济和给联合之路劝募协会的捐... 阅读全帖 |
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o*****s
发帖数: 1445 | 32 When a Bear Stearns analyst moved to ask a question at a biotechnology
investor meeting, Genentech Chief Executive Arthur Levinson quipped, "There'
s still somebody here from Bear? Let's give him a hand."
"I'm still here," said Bear Stearns analyst Mark Schoenebaum. But pointing
to a JPMorgan analyst, he said, "I think I work for Geoff Meacham now." |
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k********u
发帖数: 2209 | 33 我的书图书馆借的，已经还了，记不住具体的了。
就是一段对话，大致意思网上google到的，
At the end of the novel Langdon ends up having a relationship with Vittoria
Vetra. In the last few sentences of Angels and Demons, Vittoria Vetra asks
him if he has ever had a divine experience. When he replies in the negative,
Vittoria strips and quips, "You've never been to bed with a yoga master,
have you?" |
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p********i
发帖数: 12365 | 34 啧啧
我的书图书馆借的，已经还了，记不住具体的了。
就是一段对话，大致意思网上google到的，
At the end of the novel Langdon ends up having a relationship with Vittoria
Vetra. In the last few sentences of Angels and Demons, Vittoria Vetra asks
him if he has ever had a divine experience. When he replies in the negative,
Vittoria strips and quips, "You've never been to bed with a yoga master,
have you?" |
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i****g
发帖数: 3896 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Mathematics 讨论区 】
发信人: endoscopy (暂时没有), 信区: Mathematics
标 题: 数学界的重大突破，据说Annals已经接受啦
关键字: 素数
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue May 14 05:58:29 2013, 美东)
没有人八卦这个吗？
今天的Nature已经刊登了新闻。
如果最终是对的话，我觉得是近50年来数学的重大结果
可能没有FLT对数学的促进大，但是不比费尔马大定里的影响小
对搞数学的来说 证明相差为70000000的素数有无穷多对和证明相差为2的素数有无穷多
对。并没有实质性的差别。意义是一样的。
http://www.nature.com/news/first-proof-that-infinitely-many-pri
First proof that infinitely many prime numbers come in pairs
Mathematician claims breakthrough towards solving centuries-old problem.
Magg... 阅读全帖 |
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a***y
发帖数: 19743 | 36 这篇文章一语道破天机
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/
和其他家的比较很实在。
While the fundamentals are the same, Apple’s approach to the concept of the
cloud is the opposite of their competitors. Apple’s belief is clearly that
users will not and should not care how the cloud actually works. When Jobs
gave a brief glimpse of their new North Carolina datacenter that is the
centerpiece of iCloud, he only noted that it was full of “stuff” — “
expensive stuff,” he quipped.
The diagrams Jobs sh... 阅读全帖 |
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w*****g
发帖数: 16352 | 37 看来傅思涛自以为是老乔心腹, 得罪了不少人, 果果内部大部分人都拥护中央的决定.
但是软件部现在有些担心未来的走向. 可以理解.
不好的消息是现在果果搞"schedule driven".
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/29/from-inside-apple-the-scott-forsta
There has been a lot of talk about Scott Forstall being asked to sign an
apology letter for the Apple Maps debacle. He refused. None of my sources
were able to confirm this bit of news, though The New York Times reported
that is indeed the case.
Forstall’s firing was met with a sense of quiet jubilation, especially
among people who... 阅读全帖 |
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w*****g
发帖数: 16352 | 38 靠, 还有, 私立中央, 谋反企图, 罪加一等.
这的是果果版的影帝大战平西王.
http://gdgt.com/discuss/senior-vp-of-ios-scott-forstall-is-out-
ter Steve's death, Forstall was known to be consolidating power among the
ranks at Apple. This kind of thing never bodes well -- for anyone. Blatant
power grabs lead to infighting and dysfunction as senior management all of a
sudden have to start watching their backs instead of collaborating on
product and direction. It's simply never healthy, and definitely never
sustainable. Something has t... 阅读全帖 |
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v*****r
发帖数: 2325 | 40 有个性有思想这是肯定的. 妇联网博客的一个现象就是cultivate unrestricted Self-
righteousness
不过有独到见解多, 没有成就做后盾, ...
a big bull programmer is measured with entrepreneur success or widely used
tool/framework creation, or great books by good publishers.
one side of big bull maybe has some politics, the other side of big bull is
that you have to do something winning(whatever that is) to command the
authority.
a golf great, lee trevino, used to quipped: "nobody laughed my jokes until I
won major championships"
Tool |
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l*******b
发帖数: 2586 | 41 https: //quip.com/r69HA9GhGa7J
哈哈哈 |
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w******e
发帖数: 1187 | 42 The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95
theses
to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply
a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that
Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral thesis is
both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one
is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of students who embar... 阅读全帖 |
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p****y
发帖数: 23737 | 43 苹果教主很有个人魅力，前两天看一则新闻看到笑翻：
Earlier in the day, before Gates arrived, I did a solo onstage interview wit
h Jobs, and asked him what it was like to be a major Windows developer, sinc
e Apple's iTunes program was by then installed on hundreds of millions of Wi
ndows PCs.
He quipped: "It's like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell."
When Gates later arrived and heard about the comment, he was, naturally, enr
aged. In a pre-interview meeting, Gates said to Jobs "so I guess I'm the rep
resenta... 阅读全帖 |
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