Source: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/216477-20-new-words-from-the-oxford-dictionary-illustrated
2018年8月27日 星期一
Oxford 字典選出20個新字(附可愛插圖)
20 new words from the Oxford Dictionary illustrated
Source: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/216477-20-new-words-from-the-oxford-dictionary-illustrated
Source: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/media/216477-20-new-words-from-the-oxford-dictionary-illustrated
2018年8月20日 星期一
2018年8月17日 星期五
英文作文轉折詞彙整 (2)
英文作文轉折詞彙整 (1) 請點連結
Transition words
1.Addition: also, again, as well as, besides, furthermore, in addition, likewise, moreover, in the same way, similarly
2. Reason: since, because, for, due to, in that
3. Recommendations: recommend, should, in order to, advise, suggest
4. Restatement: in other words, that’s to say
5. Condition: once, if, provided, unless, until
6. Contrast: in contrast, conversely, instead, on one hand, on the other hand, on the contrary, rather, yet, however, nevertheless
7. Conclusion: therefore, hence, thus, so, as a result, consequently, we can conclude that, clearly, obviously, accordingly
2018年8月16日 星期四
How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee 李開復
How AI can save our humanity by Kai-Fu Lee
00:12
I'm
going to talk about how AI and mankind can coexist, but first, we have to
rethink about our human values. So let me first make a confession about my
errors in my values.
00:12
我將會談談人工智慧和人類如何能夠共存，
但首先，我們需要重新思考人類價值觀。 所以首先讓我坦白我價值觀中曾有的錯誤。
00:25
It
was 11 o'clock, December 16, 1991. I was about to become a father for the first
time. My wife, Shen-Ling, lay in the hospital bed going through a very
difficult 12-hour labor. I sat by her bedside but looked anxiously at my watch,
and I knew something that she didn't. I knew that if in one hour, our child
didn't come, I was going to leave her there and go back to work and make a
presentation about AI to my boss, Apple's CEO. Fortunately, my daughter was
born at 11:30 --
00:25
那是1991年12月16日11點。 我即將首次成為父親。 我的妻子，先鈴，躺在病床上 經歷著一段艱辛並為時12小時的分娩。
我坐在床邊 但卻焦慮地望著我的手錶， 而我知道一些她不知道的事。 我知道如果在一小時內， 我們的孩子還未出生， 我將要將她留在那裡 趕去上班 並向我的老闆，蘋果的首席執行官
做一個有關人工智慧的報告。 幸運的是，我的女兒在11:30出生了--
7個免費練聽力的學習網站
3. The Audio Archive
5. VOA News
6. Australia network (網站介紹)
7. Ted 經典演講
Source: 經典美語 Classic English
2018年8月15日 星期三
戰場上的莫非定律 Murphy's Laws of War
1.You are not a superman.
你不是超人.
2.If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
如果一個蠢方法有效,那它就不是一個蠢方法.
3.Don't look conspicuous – it draws fire.
不要太顯眼,因為那會引來對方火力攻擊.
4.Never share a foxhole with any one braver than
you are.
別和比你勇敢的戰友躲在同一個散兵坑里.
5.Never forget that the lowest bidder made your
weapon.
別忘了你手上的武器是由最低價的承包商得標製造的.
2018年8月14日 星期二
GRE Quantitative Vocabulary
1.
natural number - 自然數
2.
positive
number - 正數
3.
negative
number - 負數
4.
odd number -
奇數
5.
even number
- 偶數
2018年7月26日 星期四
2018年7月13日 星期五
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (701-800)
1. stanch (v.) 制止；止住（尤指出血）
The country's asylum laws were amended to stanch
the flow/flood of economic migrants.
該國修訂避難法，阻止經濟移民的洪流。
Mike pressed hard on the wound and stanched the
flow of blood.
麥克使勁壓住傷口，止住了出血。
2. stentorian (a.) 大聲的；（嗓音）洪亮的
a stentorian preacher 聲若洪鐘的牧師
Suddenly a stentorian voice boomed across
the room. 突然，從房間那頭傳來洪亮的聲音。
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (601-700)
1. profound (a.) (1)強烈的；深沉的；極度的 (2) 造詣深的；思想深邃的
His mother's death when he was aged six had a
very profound effect on him.
他六歲時母親的過世對他的影響很大。
The invention of the contraceptive pill brought
about profound changes in the lives of women.
避孕藥的發明為女性的生活帶來了重大變化。
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the
profound sadness of loss.
那兩行詩貼切表達了失去親人的深切悲痛。
My grandfather has a profound mistrust of
anything new or foreign.
我祖父對任何新生或外來事物有一種根深柢固的不信任。
There was a note of profound irritation in
his voice. 他的語氣中帶有強烈惱怒。
profound truths/wisdom 深奧的真理／博大的智慧
The review that I read said that it was 'a
thoughtful and profound film'.
我看過的評論說它是一部「有創意、有深度的電影」。
"Dying is easy - it's living that's the
problem." "That was very profound of you, Steven."
「死很容易——活下去才是難題。」「史蒂文，你的話真深奧！」
2. prohibitive (a.) （費用）高得負擔不起的，（價格等）使人望之卻步的
Hotel prices in the major cities are high but not prohibitive.
大城市裡的旅館費用昂貴，但還能負擔得起。
Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive
(= so expensive that you cannot buy it).
該地區的房產日趨昂貴，真有點負擔不起。
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (501-600)
1. miscellany (n.) (1) 混合物，大雜燴 (2) 雜記
The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical
treasures. 這家博物館收藏了一批令人著迷的各式航海珍寶。
She's just finished editing "A Miscellany
of English Cookery".
她剛剛完成了《英國烹飪術》一書的編輯工作。
2. miscreant (n.) 惡棍，無賴；歹徒
We need tougher penalties to discourage miscreants.
我們需要更嚴厲的刑罰來懲戒無賴之徒。
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (401-500)
1. inadvertently (adv.) 非故意地，無意地
He inadvertently deleted the file. 他不小心把檔案刪除了。
All authors need to be wary of inadvertent copying of other
people's ideas.
所有作者都需注意不要在無意中抄襲了他人的觀點。
2. incarnate (a.) 化身的；人體化的
One survivor described his torturers as devils
incarnate.
一名生還者形容拷打他的那些人是魔鬼的化身。
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (301-400)
Barron's 800 essential words for the GRE (201-300)
1. deride (v.) 嘲笑，譏笑
He derided my singing as pathetic. 他嘲笑說我的歌聲不堪入耳。
This building, once derided by critics, is
now a major tourist attraction.
這座曾被評論家嘲笑的建築如今已成為一個主要的旅遊景點。
2. derivative (a.) 缺乏獨創性的；模仿的 (n.) 衍生物，派生物；派生詞
His painting/style is terribly derivative. 他的油畫／風格有很重的模仿痕跡。
'Detestable' is a derivative of 'detest'. 生字 detestable 是從 detest 派生而來的。
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