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隨手記事 09/06

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Logophile         又好一陣子沒有寫東西了,其實都有做記錄,只是尚未能抽出時間整理發佈。看看能否16號投晚搞後再來整理了。         話說剛學到一個不錯的字眼,主要是在 dictionary.com  查閱一個單字 panopticon 時留意到一個  ad 寫著 "Are you a logophile?" 不知道是什麼意思於是就查了一下。 Logophile, logo-phile, 這是一個組合字, 主要是指 a lover of words, 或說是文字的愛慕者?!(亂翻). -phile 這字尾表示 “ a lover of ", 不過字首 logo- 是指“word", "speech"有關的綜合字, 這叫 logography. grapheme - a smallest unit of a writing system. 這是文字系統裡面最小單位. logograph, logogram - a letter, symbol, or sign used to represent an entire word.  這是指一個可用來表示整體意思的符號或文字, 像是「$」(dollar)或「&」(ampersand). ideogram /i-deo-gram/  - a picture or symbol used in writing system.  這似乎是指象形字 morpheme  - a word or a part of a word that has a meaning.  這是意向字         所以總得來說, 中文系統是由 ideogram 與 morpheme 兩種組成。而英文則是 morpheme 。不過 grapheme 感覺就是指 a character 的文言文啊哈哈哈。回到原先的單詞 panopticon [pan-op-ti-kon], 英文釋義是 a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, ...

語言學習

語言學習 程式語言 +生活語言, 一直認為我的人生每天都在繞著語言打轉,不管是工作上還是生活上,可似乎我不是天生的擅長這事亦或還沒找到訣竅,總有種事倍功半的感覺。我想主要還是學習了的單詞一直沒能有用上的地方,以及我太少說了,真是太糟糕。 Orz...  Anyway 來複習一下最近筆記的單字。 [補充] 真要在這裡大大推薦 quizlet  這家語言學習公司,他們也有出 IOS版本的APP。基本的功能如字卡(flashcard)、試驗(test)、複習(learn)跟發音(speller)。但最讓我讚賞的是他的發音這塊的學習真的助益很大,還可以調整速度。リスリング長久一來一直是我最頭疼的部分,雖有網友推薦拿到Google Translate去,但他們的發音真得很機械。quizlet 就類似 みんなの日本語的語調,非常讚。不過也要挑剔一下,他在個人sets的搜尋部分不知道是我不會用還是他沒提供,總是無法順利找到我曾經輸入過的單詞。另外生字本似乎還真的只做單詞卡。若能讓 user 加入例句然後也給發音就更漂亮了。這個很可惜的不是一種類似 wikipedia的 crowdsourcing 平台,不然我更希望輸入一個單詞後,例句跟翻譯都自動生成了。 lol 剛也翻到他有 源碼 放 github 上! great! 有空也來學習一下這類網站都是怎麼個生成方式。 g. 欺負  bully, pick on, treat somebody badly h: screw 意思挺多的:screw it 管他的, 去他的:screw your way 管你的:screw with me 耍我, 唬我。 i: guarddrail 護欄, archway 拱門, barricade 路障 j: scratch 抓, 騷;   - scratch your skin with your fingernail 抓癢;   - start from scratch 從0開始;   - up to scratch 合乎標準, 合格;   - scratch the surface 形容處於表面, 還在初步的階段. k....

一年七個月又二十五天

似乎是因為現任總理盈拉被法院判定違憲任用親信下台, 軍方進而要求解散內閣成員成立新政府被拒絕後所引發的軍事政變. 我不是很懂這中間的曲折, 也不知道從何看起. 剛google後理解為泰國主要兩大黨 (為泰黨跟民主黨), 為泰黨代表人物是現任總理盈拉跟流亡的前前總理塔克辛(盈拉哥哥), 民主黨則是前總理阿披實. 前者支持者多為平民階級、後者則是皇室、權貴跟中產階級. 再者, 泰國的選舉制度, 總理是由500人的國會下議院決定, 而議員中375是全民選舉產生, 剩下125則是依各黨獲票比例分配席次. 從中不難看出其實泰國人民較傾向為泰黨, 差距有5~10%之多. 可這次出手的是軍方, 查一下發現泰國軍方干政的次數在80年內就發生18次之多, 這真不是件好事. 不知道泰國人對這事又是怎麼的看法. Yesterday, Thai's army announced a coup, declared to take over power of the government. Troops escorted and detained the political party leaders, and released a statement saying Prayuth now has powers to act as Prime Minster until a new one take office. In many ways, this is normal for Thailand. it's the 12th time that the government's power was taken over by military since Thailand became a constitutional monarchy in 1932.

一年七個月又十七天

ゆうべ、メールを返信したように、遅くて眠った。午前四時眠ったために、七時半に目が覚めました。眠りたいでも眠られないんです。それで、調子が悪くてなりました。あと、朝ご飯を買って行った時、途中に裁縫店を見ると、コットのボタンが落ちために、修理することと用意しました。でも、係員に値段を聞いたし、諦めたんでした。なぜ二つボタンを縫うばかりは二千円がかかるかどうか分からない。 昼、赤羽先生が自分の研究試験について正してもらいました。やはりよく他の人に意見を交わしたら、いろいろな面白い意見と新しい発見をもらえるんです。残るは前に予定した計画をやって、速く完成する方がいいと思います。 夜と、食事の約束をすると友達に会いました。間違い所を言ってあげたために、長い時間に私に待って、ごめんなあ。でも、食事の食堂は面白い所です。中の人は親切たし、私たちにお勧めの料理を言われたし、面白い話題も喋ったしました。これなはあまり見えない事です。日本人は見知らぬ人に絶対に話さないのは他の人に迷惑の行為やらないと思うらかだ。今度、このような日本人に楽し見にしたんです。 Last night I didn’t go sleep until 4 am in order to reply an email, but still got up as usual at 730am. That led to my worse mental and physical condition all day long. And when I was on the way to supermarket, I saw the sewshop open, so I walked in and get my coat sewed. But I changed my mind soon after hearing the price. Why is everything becoming expensive when it is relevant to be man-made. At noon I discussed the experiment design on my study with professor Akahane, and realized that you couldn’t...

一年七個月又十五天

最近、私の友達はスマートフォンのゲームを遊ぶにしている人の数が増え始めた。例えば、キャンディークラッシュとか、タワーオブセイビアとかなどです。 なぜなら、時間が過ごすやすいし、他の人にゲームの経験を教えられたり、もっと新しい話題が聞いてもらえたりします。それで、ソーシャルネットワークでそれらのインフォメーションを話し合う人が多くなります。 しかし、自分ではゲームは時間がかかるばかり物と思っていると、いつも忙しので、ゲームをする事は絶対に考えません。 Recently I found that more and more smartphone users are addicted in online games, such as crush candy, Tower Of Saviors and so on.  Playing smartphone games can help kill time, share our game scores with friends, and discover new topics in our daily life. Therefore, the more people play smartphone games, the more people share the game relevant information on their social networks.  Nevertheless, I thought it was just a waste of time, and moreover, I am quite busy on my work, so I have no intention to do it.

一年七個月又十二天

最近遇到諸多瓶頸, 撿討後歸咎於看的書太少, 思考的時間太少, 花很多時間在背單字可卻從不去想如何過試著用上它, 花太多時間在編程、美化卻失了方向. 另外在研究上整理進度沒有落實, 表達思想的能力太差, 內容太過空泛, 目標不斷游移, 搞的自己身心俱疲. 時間不多了, 該整理腳步釐清思緒才是. 另外要勤寫日記. This morning the bicycle outside my house came to my mind, felt sorry to see its chain and gear become rusty and its tires went flat for a while, so I decided to send it out. I published an article on PTT and soon someone online replied and told me that he just arrived here one month ago and spending more than forty minutes to school by walking forces him to buy a bike. He inquired some questions such like the bike registration procedure, proof of perchance and convinced me his want. After we met, we ordered some drinks at Mister Donut in front of the train station and had a two-hour talk. During the talk I heard that he now studies in the cram school and is intended to work here after the class finishes. When he mentioned that the charge of his three-month class is shy of two hundred thousand yen and the housing fee is excluded...

[Suits] S2EP15

下面紀錄一下關於在影集 《Suits》S2EP15中 的一些台詞。 (1) Got to give it him 不得不佩服這傢伙 當Harvey看完 Folsom Food 的老闆 Hanley Folsom 因為歧視女性 (discrimination against women / gender-discrimination) 被訴訟而在新聞上澄清自己很支持女性員工時,脫口而出的一句話。 英文:We got to hand it over to SOMEBODY. ex. We got to hand it over to her -- she is really smart! *這個用法找不到, 從中文或情境推測應該同 hand it over to sbd, 的意思。 (2) I want to steal a page from your book. 我想聽聽你的意見 (3) I've tried to hire an investigate. The authority kicked back. 被退回.      kick back : to return something (4) We can't just hang clients out to dry. 我們不能把客戶晾在一旁.。    hang sbd out to dry: to not to support or help someone (5) We bit this off. We need to chew. 我們既然撐下來了,就得認真對待。    Bite off - 咬下    chew - 咀嚼    ex. Ann bit a piece off and chewed it up. (6) They've evaluated the situation, and they knew we're bleeding. 它們知道我們岌岌可危。 (7) I don't do well with waiting 不擅長等待 (8) We're consolidating resources. 合併資源 (9) I ne...