L*****y
发帖数: 4290 | 1 "cash back"
"yes"
"how much"
......
"as much as possible"
1.有次房东问我 did u eat anyting yet? 我说no.
她听后重复了一遍 so u didn’t eat anyting. 我说 yes...
房东老太太犹豫了下
又问did u eat ？
我说 no. 她接着说 so u didn’t eat .
我说 yes ......
估计她当时要崩溃了
2.刚上班不久，有个公司的A/R打电话来催支票，我循例问了一下他是哪间公司打来的，
那男的很有礼貌的说：“This is xxx calling from Beach Brother." 听懂了很开心，
不过由于对公司名字还不熟，心想先用笔记下来公司名，省得等下忘记了，正得意忘形
之间，顺嘴开始拼写人家公司的名字，还说得一本正经："b.i.t.c.h......bitch, cor
rect?"。。。。。那男的终于还是没能忍住怒火，近似于怒吼似的对我喊道："NO!!! B
.E.A.C.H.....BEACH!!!!!!"
接下来的一年里，没再跟这间公司又... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1272 | 2 1.有次房东问我 did u eat anyting yet? 我说no.
她听后重复了一遍 so u didn’t eat anyting. 我说 yes...
房东老太太犹豫了下
又问did u eat ？
我说 no. 她接着说 so u didn’t eat .
我说 yes ......
估计她当时要崩溃了
2.刚上班不久，有个公司的A/R打电话来催支票，我循例问了一下他是哪间公司打来的
，那男的很有礼貌的说：“This is xxx calling from Beach Brother." 听懂了很开
心，不过由于对公司名字还不熟，心想先用笔记下来公司名，省得等下忘记了，正得意
忘形之间，顺嘴开始拼写人家公司的名字，还说得一本正经："b.i.t.c.h......bitch,
correct?"。。。。。那男的终于还是没能忍住怒火，近似于怒吼似的对我喊道："NO!
!! B.E.A.C.H.....BEACH!!!!!!"
接下来的一年里，没再跟这间公司又过任何生意往来......汗
5.我男朋友以前在温哥华乘skytrain的时候，一个白人女人说：I am sorry. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3897 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: matrice (matrice), 信区: Military
标 题: 老外眼里的中式英语PK标准英语zz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jul 10 23:42:49 2011, 美东)
在各个英语学习论坛上，经常可以看到有关Chinglish（中式英语）的文章，但一般都
是中国人写的。不过我看到一篇长文，也是有关Chinglish的，但却是美国人写的，很
有意思。这篇长文的标题是Chinglish 2 English（从中式英语到标准英语），作者是
浙江大学的美国外教Chuck Allanson，内容则是Chuck在中国五年任教期间所听到、所
看到的各种Chinglish说法。
比如Chuck第一次来中国，下飞机后，负责接待他的东北某大学英语系陈老师说：
您刚到，我们吃点饭吧。我们要点Chinese dumpling（饺子）和Chinese beancurd（豆
腐），您看可以吗？Chuck以前从未听说过这两种东西，但出于好奇，就说可以，结果
饭菜端上来一看，原来就是ravioli（饺子，来自意大利语... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 365 | 4 http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/26/did-shakespeare-have-a-co-w
Did Shakespeare Have a Co-Writer?
According to Oxford researchers, the bard may have collaborated with another
playwright on at least one of his works.
By ANOOSH CHAKELIAN | @anooshchakelian | April 26, 2012 |
Perhaps, when Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 85, “I think good thoughts whilst
other write good words,” he was giving us a hint.
After thorough analysis of the language, rhyme, and style of the bard’s
1606-7 play All’s Well That ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2939 | 5 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
andrewkdc (andrewkdc) 于 (Thu Apr 18 18:03:34 2013, 美东) 提到:
其实也是一件小事。
背景介绍：事情缘起我现在在一所community college上的一门英语课。老师要求每个
工作日写一篇journal练笔，college rulled大小的本子，两页，大概1000个单词左右
。按老师的话，写journal主要是为了练笔，所以她不会看质量，只看重数量，只要你
写满两页，写够要求的篇数，就能拿到分，除此之外每篇journal需要有标题，日期，
以及编号。“You just write down whatever just comes to your mind, don't
worry about grammar, vocabulary spelling etc.” 按老师的要求，这样一篇
journal需要在20-30分钟写完，但是对于我这个刚来美国的学生，每篇journal我都要
花掉1个半小时以上。我算过，即使我抄那么多字也要40-60分... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 383 | 6 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
orithia (orithia) 于 提到:
争取一个月内达到10万的签名，奥巴马就必须publicly adress这个问题了
转自华人，把孙鉈赶出美国.该请愿只是针对sunwei非法移民。
大家有钱出钱，有力出力，有医疗资源出医疗资源。新浪现在把zhuling的关键词屏蔽
了，实在太过分了，这真是官逼民反，民不得不反。
******************发出请愿的华人楼主MM已经向白宫网站申请修改错别字和部分内容
，谢谢各位提醒，非常感谢大家支持。
别吵了，投票达到150后，就searchable，华人楼主设的关键词 Zhu Ling， Sun Wei，
Jasmine Sun都可以搜到
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你知道什么叫陪审团制度吗？
☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
wiggler (wiggler) 于 ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1321 | 7 一个单词引发的血案（2）
如果说，因为12、12这个周五upload到github上去的review docs上一个词特别刺眼，
那一定是批在review第二页纸下方的这个“practice”了。
记得那个周五中午，我见代课老师的办公室门是开着的，便敲门应允进去了。老师说他
正在改我的review。说到最后，他指给我看我review的最后几段的“practise”说，他
知道英国等一些国家名字也用“practise”，但在美国，作动词用时是practise, 但作
名词用的时候还是用“practice”，并把这名词规规矩矩、端端正正地写在了这页纸的
下方。我不以为意。
及至这天下午紧接着系里发出的邮件，我也以为天上掉馅饼，系里有多的奖学金的话，
不是说我春天也可以拿到TA了吗？LinkedIn上当天也刮这种风，虽然自己当时并不没有
回，但晚上临睡前还是发信回复给系里，问一下到底是什么情况。但系里小秘第二天中
午用她的周末时间给我的回复是，那是发给全系的邮件，即使系里有奖学金，我是没有
资格的，因为先前导师与我已经讲好了春天我只能注册一个学分。我友好地回复系里小
秘的邮件。不给奖学金不是... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5250 | 8 lol~~~~ happy spell spell~~~~
太强乐~~~！ |
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发帖数: 787 | 9 来自主题: EnglishChat版 - 流行酷语 I don't know who is right here. I just know it is pronounced as "sick", and
I don't think "sic" is even a word, at least not in the dictionary. Maybe
that is how the kids spell it nowadays.
heck, there are many words that i say but don't know how to spell. |
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发帖数: 12430 | 10 are you trying to spell some of these names wrong on purpose?
Clare and Lissa?
I like Clare but not spelled this way. lol
Choice 1: Clare
Choice 2: Jean
Choice 3: Lissa
Choice 4: Anna
Choice 5: Anita
Which one should I choose? |
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n***y
发帖数: 15001 | 11 tai wan people spell Huang, or Hwang...
i believe...
Wang.. or Wong is Cantonese spelling of huang. |
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h***e
发帖数: 20195 | 12 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: matrice (matrice), 信区: Military
标 题: 老外眼里的中式英语PK标准英语zz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jul 10 23:42:49 2011, 美东)
在各个英语学习论坛上，经常可以看到有关Chinglish（中式英语）的文章，但一般都
是中国人写的。不过我看到一篇长文，也是有关Chinglish的，但却是美国人写的，很
有意思。这篇长文的标题是Chinglish 2 English（从中式英语到标准英语），作者是
浙江大学的美国外教Chuck Allanson，内容则是Chuck在中国五年任教期间所听到、所
看到的各种Chinglish说法。
比如Chuck第一次来中国，下飞机后，负责接待他的东北某大学英语系陈老师说：
您刚到，我们吃点饭吧。我们要点Chinese dumpling（饺子）和Chinese beancurd（豆
腐），您看可以吗？Chuck以前从未听说过这两种东西，但出于好奇，就说可以，结果
饭菜端上来一看，原来就是ravioli（饺子，来自意大利语... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12367 | 13 Chuck说的对的有：
① 欢迎你到... ② welcome you to ... ③ welcome to ...
① 永远记住你 ② remember you forever ③ always remember you（没有人能活
到forever）
① 祝你有个... ② wish you have a ... ③ I wish you a ...
① 很喜欢... ② very like ... ③ like ... very much
① 厕所 ② WC ③ men's room/women's room/restroom
① 裤子 ② trousers ③ pants/slacks/jeans
① 修理 ② mend ③ fix/repair
① 入口 ② way in ③ entrance
① 出口 ② way out ③ exit（way out在口语中是crazy的意思）
① 据说 ② it is said ③ I heard/I read/I was told
① 等等 ② and so on ③ etc.
① 直到现在 ② till now ③ recen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29495 | 14 当年俺闹过很丢脸的，俺就不提了，还是看别人的开心开心吧，哈哈哈～
有次房东问我 did u eat anyting yet? 我说no.
她听后重复了一遍 so u didn’t eat anyting. 我说 yes...
房东老太太犹豫了下
又问did u eat ？
我说 no. 她接着说 so u didn’t eat .
我说 yes ......
估计她当时要崩溃了
刚上班不久，有个公司的A/R打电话来催支票，我循例问了一下他是哪间公司打来的，那
男的很有礼貌的说：“This is xxx calling from Beach Brother." 听懂了很开心，不
过由于对公司名字还不熟，心想先用笔记下来公司名，省得等下忘记了，正得意忘形之
间，顺嘴开始拼写人家公司的名字，还说得一本正 经："b.i.t.c.h......bitch, corr
ect?"。。。。。那男的终于还是没能忍住怒火，近似于怒吼似的对我喊道："NO!!! B.
E.A.C.H.....BEACH!!!!!!"
接下来的一年里，没再跟这间公司又过任何生意往来......汗
我男朋友以前在温哥华乘sky... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 15 A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter `c' would be dropped to be
replased either by `k' or `s', and likewise `x' would no longer be part of
the alphabet. The only kase in which `c' would be retained would be the `ch'
formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform `w' spelling
, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might
well abolish `y' replasing it with `i' and Iear 4 might fiks the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16666 | 18 来源请自google
作者：Towser
链接：https://www.zhihu.com/question/269065658/answer/357053376
来源：知乎
著作权归作者所有。商业转载请联系作者获得授权，非商业转载请注明出处。
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which
was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in
plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 311 | 19 I have already sent an email to Chinese Consulate at Chicago about how to
spell my son's name in Pin Yin. I told them that the two Chinese characters in my
son's given name should be separated when using Pin Yin. Also, I told them
that international people should learn Chinese in the way we learn.
I hope more Chinese people send emails/letters to Chinese Consulate to
raise our voice in order to spell our Chinese names in Pin Yin in the
Chinese way. For example, Lao San Zhang; Lao-San Zhan; or Zh |
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n*****k
发帖数: 2801 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: neohawk (neohawk), 信区: Military
标 题: 水木上一个硅谷男征婚被人拍惨了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 24 01:59:43 2012, 美东)
英语一塌糊涂还非要用英语装，笑死了。电视上的东西都是基于生活原型啊，真的有这
样的人。
GG本科国内名校，全奖美国前15计算机硕士, 硅谷工作几年,非常踏实, 勤奋,做事认真
负责；入美籍, 父母教师。身高175cm, 68kg，外表85～90%; 从美公司内部调回北京工
作。 看起来端正干净,身体非常健康(几乎不近视); 不吸烟无不良嗜好，很爱干净，酷
爱音乐运动(2项校队); 主因硅谷电脑业理工科集中女生极少+本人要求又高, 22出国+
12年留美未婚. GG 象多数山东人一样重情义，非常真诚（father from Shandong). 收
入比在中国或美国的80%的美国人高. 硅谷是美国人的梦想之地。加州空气比北京好10
倍（PM2.5低10倍, good environment is priceless. 环境 indi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4593 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 NCAA 讨论区 】
发信人: xiaok1981 (xiaokzhu), 信区: NCAA
标 题: 水木上一个硅谷男征婚被人拍惨了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 24 14:05:27 2012, 美东)
发信人: neohawk (neohawk), 信区: Military
标 题: 水木上一个硅谷男征婚被人拍惨了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 24 01:59:43 2012, 美东)
英语一塌糊涂还非要用英语装，笑死了。电视上的东西都是基于生活原型啊，真的有这
样的人。
GG本科国内名校，全奖美国前15计算机硕士, 硅谷工作几年,非常踏实, 勤奋,做事认真
负责；入美籍, 父母教师。身高175cm, 68kg，外表85～90%; 从美公司内部调回北京工
作。 看起来端正干净,身体非常健康(几乎不近视); 不吸烟无不良嗜好，很爱干净，酷
爱音乐运动(2项校队); 主因硅谷电脑业理工科集中女生极少+本人要求又高, 22出国+
12年留美未婚. GG 象多数山东人一样重情义，非常真诚（father from S... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3956 | 23 Snow buried me
Snow buried me alive
I breathed in the cold air
Snow filled my lung, my stomach
And froze my heart
My baby, you are the only heart
That is still beating, strongly
Pumping persistence through my body
You are the seed that breaks the ice
And reclaims the earth
You are the light that warms me during the night
Love is a word that can't be spelled
Love is a spell I won't be able to break |
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L****o
发帖数: 1642 | 24 最后两句很出彩，还有这句：You are the seed that breaks the ice and reclaims
the earth。
Love is a word I can't spell
Love is a spell I can't break
最后两句这么说怎么样？ |
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f*****o
发帖数: 113 | 25 right. LOL
I agree with your theory about "love", since it is, as you said, what
Dumbledore always emphasised on.
But I am a little confused... when I read book 5, I thought Snape was not as
good at spell as James Potter or Sirius Black. But in Book 6, it seems that he
can even invent the spells. I dunno why he didn't fight back. |
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发帖数: 2236 | 27 Here's one, might be stupid though.
When I am unsure of the spelling of a word, I would type the word
into google search bar and it will come up with something like this
if you made mistakes:
Did you mean: XXX
And this XXX is what the correct spelling should be and from my experience
Mr. Google could almost correct my mistakes 100%.
Doesn't hurt to give it a try, guys. :) |
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x*****u
发帖数: 3419 | 28 A Very Short History of Bad Writing
Now, anyone familiar with the history of English prose might wonder
whether anything we do here will substantially improve its future. Since
the earliest times, many writers have graced us with much good writing.
But others have afflicted us with much that is bad. Some of the reasons for
the bad writing are rooted in history, others in personal experience.
In the last seven hundred years, English writers have responded to
three influence... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30080 | 29 这个还是英文维基更好一点。来源确实有点复杂，但是早就被基督教吸收成自己的节日
了。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloween
Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on
October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian
holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have
expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones.[1][2][3]
Origin of name
The term Halloween, originally spelled Hallowe’en, is shortened from All
Hallows' Even – e'en is a shortening |
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发帖数: 6791 | 30 http://www.franknelte.net/Nelte_HTML/LUCIFER.htm
In the English version of the Bible the name "Lucifer" appears only one time
, in Isaiah 14:12. This verse reads:
"How are you fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER, son of the morning..." (Isaiah
14:12)
Now the word "Lucifer" is not an English word, but a LATIN word. And so the
question is:
WHO GAVE THE WORLD THIS LATIN NAME "LUCIFER"? AND WHY DID THEY GIVE US THIS
LATIN NAME?
HOW WE CAME TO HAVE THIS NAME "LUCIFER"
In 382 A.D. Pope Damasus commissioned ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38403 | 31 Ezekiel’s prophecy of Tyre is very interesting to look at. In fact, it’s
one that is often used as evidence by both sides of the inerrancy debate.
Ezekiel 26-28 details a prophecy against the island city of Tyre. It was a
great trade center that features fairly prominently throughout the Bible.
Once the nation of Judah was led into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
, Ezekiel prophesied destruction for Tyre, since they were glad at the
destruction that had been wrought on Jerusalem. And the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6791 | 32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEEy67VdaQA
Foul Play, Mark of the Devil
Build an empire on the lies that you pedal
You had your staff to run your coven
The ship has sunk, the rats have gone there's no one left to cast your spell
on.
Shave her head, build the fire and bring the chains
Come on, children, bring a match and start the flame.
There's gonna be a fire tonight
We're gonna see a woman burn
Sit down, enjoy the screeeeams
We're gonna burn the witch
We're gonna burn the witch
We're gonna bur... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6300 | 33 看看这个，看来Stephen Jay Gould反对Darwin's theory --
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/06/lessons_learned_from_haeck
Lessons Learned from Haeckel and His Drawings: We Shouldn't Always Believe
What the "Leading Experts" Tell Us about Evolution
The late Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most prominent and enthusiastic
cheerleaders of biological evolution during the later decades of the
Twentieth Century.
......
Gould described Haeckel as the "primary enthusiast and popularizer" of
Darwin's theory of evolut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9485 | 34 也好奇，查了一下出处
Noel (also spelled Nowell or Noël) (nəʊˈɛl) is an
alternative word for Christmas. It first entered the English language in the
14th century. The word comes from Middle English noel, which derives from
the Old French word noël and its more common form naël. The
English spelling "Noël" is taken directly from modern French, which
also derives from the Old French. The ultimate Latin origin is the phrase n
ātālis (diēs), "(day) of birth".
http://en.w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 70 | 37 I am surprised that there are a lot of spell checker here. There are
almost as good as spell checker in Mircosoft Word. Sign! Life is not
easy. |
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t********r
发帖数: 4908 | 38 all the difficult words spelling are by me, jiaozi is definitely by me
she can only spell 4 letter words |
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发帖数: 1024 | 39 啊？你不是开玩笑的？
那我说的就是原因，是政府决定这个拼写，以和山西区别。我记得好像上学时学过。
From wiki：
The Chinese pronunciation of 陕西 (Shaanxi) and its easterly neighbouring
province 山西 (Shanxi) differs only in tone. Their normal spellings in the
Pinyin system are Shǎnxī and Shānxī respectively, with the tone marks ("
accents") alone distinguishing them.
However as Chinese tone marks are often omitted in foreign typography, this
would leave the two provinces indistinguishable. To prevent this ambiguity,
the Chinese government has devise... 阅读全帖 |
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c******g
发帖数: 4889 | 40 这才是正确的发音。
The -ium suffix conformed to the precedent set in other newly discovered
elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (
all of which Davy isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for
elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to
Europeans since the 16th century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and
tantalum, discovered in 1802. The -um suffix is consistent with the
universal spelling alumina for the oxide (as opposed to alum... 阅读全帖 |
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l**j
发帖数: 312 | 42 It now has in-line spell checking and a much improved interface.
Kile has more functionality, but so far still lacks in-line spell
checking. The version for kde4 is worth waiting, and so far it's still
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m****d
发帖数: 331 | 43 我是这样做的：
tools--language--set language-- UNcheck the "do not check spelling and
grammar".
可是，我随便写点错单词，依旧检查不出来，在回去一看， "do not check spelling
and grammar". 竟然已经又被check了。。。
怎么解决这个问题？ |
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M**a
发帖数: 4816 | 44 50 ways to write a (cover) letter
16 Apr 2007 | 12:39 BST | Posted by Joshua Finkelstein | Category: Other
authors
Kyle’s blog entry on writing scientific papers got me thinking about an
important – and underappreciated – part of submitting your work to a
journal. So I thought I’d write down a few of my thoughts about cover
letters. A caveat, of course, is that these are just my opinions – maybe
other NPG editors can chime in and let me know if they agree/disagree with
the items on this list…
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M**a
发帖数: 4816 | 45 50 ways to write a (cover) letter
16 Apr 2007 | 12:39 BST | Posted by Joshua Finkelstein | Category: Other
authors
Kyle’s blog entry on writing scientific papers got me thinking about an
important – and underappreciated – part of submitting your work to a
journal. So I thought I’d write down a few of my thoughts about cover
letters. A caveat, of course, is that these are just my opinions – maybe
other NPG editors can chime in and let me know if they agree/disagree with
the items on this list…
1.... 阅读全帖 |
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