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发帖数: 6973 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: A Somber View of China
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 9 11:50:30 2008)
John Pomfret, A Long Wait at the Gate to Greatness. Washington Post, Jul. 27
, 2008 at page B1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502255.html
A quote:
"But is China really going to be another superpower? I doubt it. * * * For
four big reasons -- dire demographics, an overrated economy, an environment
under siege and an ideology th |
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发帖数: 901 | 2 A rocket carrying NASA's newest climate satellite failed to reach orbit
today (March 4) and likely crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean after its
nose cone failed to separate on time, space agency officials said.
The rocket, a four-stage Taurus XL booster, launched from a seaside pad at
California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at about 2:10 a.m. PST (1010 GMT)
carrying NASA's $424 million Glory satellite to study Earth's climate.
"We failed to make orbit," NASA launch director Omar Baez told re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 688 | 3 "Japan is Back", Policy Speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Friday, February 22, 2013
Japan is Back
By Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
22, February, 2013 at CSIS
Thank you, Dr. Hamre, for your warm introduction.
Thank you, Secretary Armitage. Thank you, Ambassador Schieffer. Thank you,
Governor Parnell. Thank you, Dr. Green. And thank you all for joining me
today.
Last year, Richard Armitage, Joseph Nye, Michael Green and others pu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 53 | 4 Boston University Office of the President
Robert A. Brown
President
One Silber Way
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
T 617-353-2200 F 617-353-3278
April 16, 2013
Dear Friends,
I write to you with great sadness to inform you that one of the fatalities
in yesterday’s bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon has been
identified as a Boston University graduate student. In addition, as I
reported to you yesterday, another Boston University student was seriously
injured in the blast and is being ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 5 美国和北约群殴俄罗斯
1.
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military/41214611.html
发信人: unceasing (老母鸡和鸡蛋), 信区: Military
标 题: 补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Mar 5 18:51:53 2014, 美东)
补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多, 要被唾沫星子淹死了
要被唾沫星子淹死了
2.
Big power talks on Ukraine crisis make little progress
Mar 5th 2014 5:47PM
PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a
press conference at the US embassy on March 05, 2014 in Paris, France.
Negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17243 | 6 然后被抓了
CNN) -- A judge on Wednesday set bail at $100,000 for a man accused of carry
ing a fake bomb near a Boston crowd that was marking the first anniversary o
f the Boston Marathon bombings.
The judge also ordered the suspect, Kevin Edson, also known as Kayvon Edson,
to be seen at a state hospital that evaluates defendants' sanity after a me
ntal health professional told the judge that Edson has a history of psychiat
ric disturbances.
Police said they arrested Edson, 25, on Tuesday evening afte... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 7 基督教的好处：不管做了什么邪恶的坏事，礼拜天去去教堂又心安理得了。
President Barack Obama somberly warned on Friday that a forthcoming Senate
Intelligence Committee report will show that the United States “tortured
some folks” before he took office. But he dismissed “sanctimonious” calls
to punish any individuals responsible and rejected calls for CIA Director
John Brennan’s resignation.
“When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques —
techniques that I believe, and I think any fair-minded person would beli... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 40861 | 8 At the end of a somber, two-hour hearing Monday in downtown Manhattan,
former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma received a tough
sentence for his insider-trading conviction: nine years in prison and the
forfeiture of $9.4 million.
That punishment, meted out in federal court by Judge Paul Gardephe, who
presided over Martoma's five-week trial in February, came after a heated
written exchange between lawyers for both the government and the defendant
over the desired length of Martoma's p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 502 | 9 An Omaha police officer was killed during a shootout with a suspect
Wednesday, a day before her three-month-old baby was to be released from the
hospital, authorities said.
The officer, Kerrie Orozco, 29, had given birth to a daughter, Olivia Ruth,
in February, but the baby was premature and remained in the hospital,
according to police. The baby, who turned three months old on Sunday, was
expected to leave the hospital on Thursday, the same day Orozco’s maternity
leave was set to begin.
“This i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 12 从国防部，到越战纪念碑，到CNN，洛杉矶时报，西雅图时报，华盛顿邮报的报道来看5
万4这个数据更为正式和为大众接受。比如华盛顿邮报的论述
President Clinton and veterans from across the nation will gather in somber
remembrance this afternoon at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, where it is
carved into stone that 54,246 Americans died in the war that began 50 years
ago today.
For decades, the number has been enshrined in almanacs, histories, memories
and monuments, cited as proof of the war's cost. |
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发帖数: 53800 | 13 美军战史的数字一直都是3.6万，比如《朝鲜，我们第一次战败》
http://www.shuku.net:8080/novels/wars/cxwmdycsb/cxwmdycsb62.htm
美国在整个战争中的伤亡总数为139272人，尚不包括冻伤及其他受伤人数。
其 中有24965 名死亡，101368名负伤，另有12939 名失踪，估计已经死亡。南朝鲜共
损失272975人，其中有46182 名死亡，15972 名负伤，另有66436 名失踪。其他联 合
国军成员共损失14103 人，其中2597名属于死亡，9581名负伤，1925名失踪。共 产党
方面，据参谋长联席会议估计：北朝鲜620264人死伤总数中，有214899名死亡，
303685名负伤，101680名失踪。中国死伤总数909607人，其中401401名死亡，486995
名负伤，21211 名失踪。
因此在整个战争中，双方伤亡总数达到195.6 万人。北、南朝鲜共有200
多万 平民死亡。此外，南朝鲜大部分地区及实际上全部北朝鲜遭到巨大破坏，要想恢
复 需耗时数年。
朝鲜战争刚结束，美国时代杂志有下面初估数字，约38,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8613 | 15 关于这些数据的追究已经比较彻底了。
最早就没有36000-37000的死亡数字，死缠硬搅的离奇维只能找到最常见的33000多的数
字。
最初引起长期混乱的基本原因也是比较清楚的，下面的报道也有提及。最早公布的死亡
是先陈述了因敌对引起的死亡（died from hostile action）之类的数据，然后列出“
其它死亡”一类的数据作为韩战伤亡统计数据陈列的一部分。对此，长期的理解是那些
“其它死亡”与韩战有关。
5万4这个数字曾经深入人心。
1993年版的大英百科全书第6卷第963页仍然用那个数字：“The Korean War resulted
in the deaths of about ...; and about 54,000 Americans..."
1997年版的The World Book Encyclopedia在J-K卷的第384用的是“54,246”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/asia/korean-war-fast-facts/
The casualty toll had been reported as 54,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3093 | 18 Mama Merkel Still Wants Unlimited Terrorist Quota for Germany
In a somber statement hours after the attacks, she urged her countrymen to
uphold European values of humanity and compassion in the face of terror.
‘We believe,’ she said, ‘in the right of every person to seek happiness
and to enjoy it, in the respect for others and in tolerance.’ |
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发帖数: 15372 | 19 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: TravisBickle (Travis), 信区: USANews
标 题: 纽约市长亲自到汉堡参加抗议
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jul 7 09:24:17 2017, 美东)
De Blasio races to Germany to protest G20 summit
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday skipped an NYPD swearing-in ceremony made
somber by this week’s assassination of a cop — then hours later revealed
he was busy preparing to jet off on a surprise trip to join leftist
protesters at the G-20 summit in Germany.
Hizzoner’s overseas jaunt was kept under wraps until just 90 mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 20 SHANGHAI, CHINA—African swine fever (ASF), a deadly virus in pigs and wild
boar, continues to spread in China and will almost certainly wreak havoc in
other countries in Asia soon. That's the somber conclusion from a meeting of
animal health experts organized by the United Nations's Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Bangkok late last week. "It's no longer ‘
if’ [spread beyond China] will happen but when, and what we can do
collaboratively to prevent and minimize the damage,” FAO Chief V... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8422 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: snowfish888 ($Player$), 信区: Military
标 题: NASA's satellite fell into Ocean, costing more than $N00M
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Mar 4 15:43:00 2011, 美东)
A rocket carrying NASA's newest climate satellite failed to reach orbit
today (March 4) and likely crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean after its
nose cone failed to separate on time, space agency officials said.
The rocket, a four-stage Taurus XL booster, launched from a seaside pad at
California's Vandenberg Air Forc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20290 | 22 http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/chinas-deceptively-weak-and-dang
In April 2003, the Chinese Navy decided to put a large group of its best
submarine talent on the same boat as part of an experiment to synergize its
naval elite. The result? Within hours of leaving port, the Type 035 Ming III
class submarine sank with all hands lost. Never having fully recovered from
this maritime disaster, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is still the
only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 23 By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer – 19
mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama took a significant step toward
retooling his presidency with a challenge to lawmakers to rise above
partisan differences to tackle economic and budget problems "decades in the
making."
And while there remained stark differences in approach between the president
and the Republicans with whom he now shares power, Obama made some striking
concessions in the name of national unity... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1822 | 24 http://www.gayinamerica.us/
In this first-ever photographic survey of gay men in America,
stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary
gay life is revealed through stunning personal portraits and narratives.
Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all fifty states
over a three-year span gathering stories and documenting the lives of 140
gay men from all walks of life. At turns joyful and somber, reflective and
celebratory, each narrative and i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 25 By BRIAN KNOWLTON
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday soundly rejected a bill approved
by the Senate that would have extended the payroll tax cut for most
Americans beyond the end of the year and allowed millions of unemployed
people to continue receiving jobless benefits.
The House vote, which passed 229 to 193, also calls for establishing a
negotiating committee so the two chambers can resolve their differences.
Seven Republicans joined Democrats in opposition.
But the Senate has left t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6327 | 26 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/oct/13/
The country's economic woes were a somber topic at the presidential debate
in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 7, 2008, with both candidates explaining their
thoughts on the root of the crisis.
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke,
and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did
anything about it."
It's undisputed that Obama wrote the two officials a letter on March 22,
2007.
"The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8227 | 27 “Let’s be blunt. Barack Obama gave a dull and pedestrian speech tonight,
with nary an interesting thematic device, policy detail, or even one turn of
phrase,” wrote Michael Tomasky, the editor of the progressive journal
Democracy, at The Daily Beast.
“This was the rhetorical equivalent, forgive the football metaphor, of
running out the clock: Obama clearly thinks he’s ahead and just doesn’t
need to make mistakes. But when football teams do that, it often turns out
to be the biggest mistake of al... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 I See England, I See France
by Matt Purple
The left and much of the center are launching a scorched-earth assault
against the right's position on taxes.
Republicans are being told they must hike taxes on top earners if they're
serious about paying down the debt. Grover Norquist is being portrayed as a
mad sorcerer, staggering around and misfiring spells in fits of pique while
his entranced minions slowly come to. Here in Washington, meaningless
buzzwords are fluttering through the air like dead ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Venezuela Without Chavez: Chaos The Most Likely Successor
by Jammie
A somber Chavez announced Saturday for the first time that he was
turning over the reins of power to former bus driver Nicolas Maduro, who’s
served as his foreign minister since 2006. Chavez urged Venezuelans “from
the bottom of my heart” to vote for Maduro if “anything happens to me.”
He meant death, and was referring to the proviso in Venezuela’s
constitution that elections be called within 30 days if a president dies
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发帖数: 315 | 30 我知道你说的，我记得用的词的是somber，不是sober，是好的。
意思是他显得很沉稳。 |
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发帖数: 1 | 31 Golden Globes is nothing but a room full of snowflakes. Should be renamed
the Snow Globes.
Meryl Streep Cries Over Donald Trump at Golden Globes
Donald Trump wasted no time responding to Meryl Streep's remarks at Sunday
night's Golden Globe Awards where the actress gave a somber speech about the
President-elect.
Trump called Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" in a
tweet Monday morning calling her a "Hillary flunky who lost big."
Shortly after the 74th annual Golden Globes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 32 De Blasio races to Germany to protest G20 summit
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday skipped an NYPD swearing-in ceremony made
somber by this week’s assassination of a cop — then hours later revealed
he was busy preparing to jet off on a surprise trip to join leftist
protesters at the G-20 summit in Germany.
Hizzoner’s overseas jaunt was kept under wraps until just 90 minutes before
he took off from Newark Airport. A last-minute announcement said he “will
attend several events surrounding the G-20 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2721 | 33 1. Select an appropriate coffin:
2. Family members gather together somberly, with the child who assumed
primary responsibility for the pet assuming the role of minister
3. Say a eulogy praising the pet's qualities.
4. Offer some sort of prayer, if you are religious.
5. Bury the pet's coffin in a flower bed or restful area of your towns
cemetery...
http://www.wikihow.com/Conduct-a-Pet's-Funeral |
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发帖数: 956 | 34 谢谢你的无聊给我们这些对孩子充满了的深情的爱的父母有一个认真讨论的机会。这帖
没有想改变你和其他拥枪者的立场，但是看到你那么无聊一呼就引出拥枪的结论，觉得
有不同 意见， 而且想给其他看帖的父母一个不同的视角。
美好的愿望的却不能保证接下来的行动是正确的， 但它却是接下来的正确行动的开始
和方向。
谢谢你赞赏我为我的主张做的努力，因为我们是时时需要鼓励和激励。
Dear xxx,
Thank you supporting the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence with your
gift of $xx.xx. In this election year — when our political leaders are
asking for our votes — your voice and your support for sensible gun laws
make all the difference.
April 16thmarked the tragic anniversary of Virginia Tech, the wor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7517 | 35 Boston University Office of the President
Robert A. Brown
President
One Silber Way
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
T 617-353-2200 F 617-353-3278
April 16, 2013
Dear Friends,
I write to you with great sadness to inform you that one of the fatalities
in yesterday’s bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon has been
identified as a Boston University graduate student. In addition, as I
reported to you yesterday, another Boston University student was seriously
injured in the blast and is being ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 36 Business 9/21/2014 @ 9:38AM 1,843 views
Alibaba's Success Is Another Wake-Up Call From China To Americans. Hear It?
I grew up in New England, a part of the U.S. with relatively few connections
to China compared with, say, California. I’ve lived here in Shanghai for
almost the past dozen years, been in Asia even longer, and regularly try to
get one of my sisters back at home to visit China. Her clan by marriage
travels to other continents. “No thanks,” she says.
To be sure, there are plenty of r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2321 | 37 Why this kind of fucking stupid person can be a Ceo?!!!
Yeah, not so much. GoPro’s launch of the Hero5 camera and Karma drone were
befouled by production issues, executives said Thursday. GoPro had reduced
inventory of older cameras in preparation for a wave of new products, and
now expects to be unable to provide the action cameras fans want in their
stockings this holiday season.
“As a consequence of our compromised production ramp, we were unable to
fully restock channels, which have been cle... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6053 | 39 下一步看一下马驹是否会搬到密西西比州去。。
在同一个NEW PARK AVE街区，马驹现在在的厂子曾和Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool
和 Chandler Evans为邻， 高峰时期，三个厂当初员工过五千，PWMT早已关门， 原地
建立了BJ和HOMEPOT， CE也被卖了几次，NEW PARK AVE 和 FLATBUSH交接的火车道口边
（WALMART西面)的酒吧也关门了，那个酒吧可是当初家庭主妇下班找老公论理的地方哈
。。。
政客通过一个地方法规将17亿产值的著名公司赶走， 在中国是不可能发生的哈。。。
康州工业外迁的趋势是不可阻挡的， 但愿保险业不会外迁， 否则对HARTFORD的经济影
响太大了。。
Connecticut has approved far-reaching gun control legislation that will be
the toughest in the United States.
Following hours of respectful and at times somber debate, the House... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3617 | 40 I miss you like the sunrise –
I miss you like the sunrise
Winter nights became reality’s home,
Snowmen stand here like soldiers of Rome,
My tears freeze before they kiss the wind,
I think of warmth and miss you then,
Since when when did rose petals crack while pondering love,
Dressed in pitch black with this somber sun,
I sit and fish, out of the river Styx,
Catching cold souls with their quivered lips,
They whisper sweet like lemons drip,
And gaze my eyes like Medusa’s gift,
My bait is smiles.
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发帖数: 6053 | 41 Connecticut has approved far-reaching gun control legislation that will be
the toughest in the United States.
Following hours of respectful and at times somber debate, the House voted
early Thursday in favor of the 139-page bill crafted by leaders from both
major parties in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly. It passed the
Senate in a 26-10 vote on Wednesday.
Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy plans to sign it into law at noon on Thursday.
The bill strengthens an existing ban on semiautomatic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 28835 | 42 他的潜台词，JOE PA为了超过我，所以cover了真像. 虽然没有那么直白，但我们可以
解读出来。
ALBANY, Ga. -- Former Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden said this
week that now-fired Penn State coach Joe Paterno was "a little negligent"
for not acting more decisively to stop alleged child abuse by one of his
assistant coaches.
The Albany Herald reported that Bobby Bowden said Friday that Penn State
officials could have acted years earlier to prevent sexual abuse. Bowden has
the second-most major college football wins behind Paterno.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3634 | 43 Yea, when that episode first aired ppl on reddit's r/himym was crying all
over the place. The hints were too obvious
And then there was a scene last season when Ted metaphorically ran to The
Mother's house 45 days before they met, as Future Ted said: "I want this
extra 45 days with you, I want each one of them." This seemed all rather
somber and emotional, as if he was saying that he wanted to spend as much
time with her as possible before she was gone. The Mother has also never
featured in any ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3373 | 44 来，我给你贴一个。老头讲究起来真讲究，啰嗦起来真啰嗦，逗的时候真逗，恶的时候
真恶。
Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov
By ALVIN TOFFLER • PLAYBOY • JANUARY 1964
Playboy: With the American publication of Lolita in 1958, your fame and
fortune mushroomed almost overnight from high repute among the literary
cognoscenti—which you had enjoyed for more than 30 years—to both acclaim
and abuse as the world-renowned author of a sensational best seller. In the
aftermath of this cause célèbre, do you ever regret having written Lolita?... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 45 我抄一段她书里开头的一节，是她刚到中国时的深切体会，她非常吃惊和羡慕中国老师
只教单科，因此有足够的时间备课、互相听课和交流，这些是美国老师缺乏的：
It dawned on me for the first time that these Xuzhou elementary teachers did
not teach all subjects to one class. I asked what they taught.
"I teach Chinese to the lower grades...," said one.
"I teach math," said another.
"I'm the art teacher."
...
"You teach those all day?" I asked. "How many periods?"
"We teach three or four classes a day, depending on our other
responsibilities," explained the head teacher, a woman wit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1288 | 47 DC is such an epicenter of power and press. Even buildings in DC have
newspaper terms, columns, posts, and poles.
I did the sound check in the morning, then everyone had to leave for a 3
hour security sweep of the building. Later I went to the VIP pre-dinner
party where I met senators Lamar Alexandar and Orrin Hatch.
The dinner for the most part was a pretty somber affair. It started with the
national anthem. A group of marines carried the flag to the front.
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发帖数: 8307 | 48 languid
sullen
sluggish
somber
gloomy
melancholy
saturnine |
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发帖数: 2276 | 50 我有armstrong和cash的版本。你要听？两个感觉很不一样。Luis的比较乐观，cash相
对比较严肃或者说somber（？）。
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