A student playing with his teacher’s intelligence asked thus: STUDENT: Sir, can I ask a question? TEACHER: Yes! STUDENT: How can one put an elephant inside the fridge? TEACHER: I don’t know. STUDENT: It’s easy, you just open the fridge and put it in there. I have another question!TEACHER: Ok, ask. STUDENT: How can one put a donkey inside the fridge? TEACHER: It’s easy, you just open the fridge and put it in there. STUDENT: No sir, you just open the fridge take out the elephant and put it in there TEACHER: Ooh… ok! STUDENT: If all the animals went to the lion’s birthday party with one animal missing, which animal would it be? TEACHER: The lion of course because it would eat all the animals. STUDENT: No sir, it’s the donkey because it’s still inside the fridge. TEACHER: Are you kidding me? STUDENT: No sir, one more last question. TEACHER: Ok! STUDENT: If there’s a river of crocodiles and you want to cross, how would you? TEACHER: There’s no way, I would need a ladder to cross. STUDENT: No sir, you just swim and cross it because all the animals went to the lion’s birthday party.
When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it, too, seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now, as I lie on my death bed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and who knows, I may have even changed the world.
At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is having friends. At age 16 success is having a drivers license. At age 20 success is having sex. At age 35 success is having money. At age 50 success is having money. At age 60 success is having sex. At age 70 success is having a drivers license. At age 75 success is having friends. At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants.
死馬當活馬醫的英文怎麼說？A drowning man will clutch at a straw
今天拿了肖想很久的手拿包出門
而且顏色還是我愛慘的海軍藍😍😍😍😍
但是男人拿手拿包最怕變成女人拿晚宴包的姿態（抖）😩😩😩
會太妖嬌😝😝😝
但不得不說下雨天☔拿手拿包真的很不方便
我覺得我手都不夠用😳
我們先來看看跟今天包包有關的基本英文
1⃣️手拿包：clutch 2⃣️晚宴包：evening bag 3⃣️海軍藍：navy blue 4⃣️淺藍：baby blue 5⃣️寶石藍：royal blue
其中「clutch」除了有手拿包的意思外，還有「抓」的意思
有一句小蛋糕主人很常在生活當中說的話來跟大家3⃣️8⃣️分享一下
"A drowning man will clutch at a straw."
例如我們可以說： He believes drinking soy sauce everyday can cure his baldness. You know, a drowning man will clutch at a straw. （他竟然相信每天喝醬油可以幫助他再生頭髮不再當禿頭👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻！你知道嘛，他現在只能死馬當活馬醫了！」
"A drowning man will clutch at a straw"字面意思是「溺水的人看到稻草也會胡亂抓一通」，就引申為中文說的「死馬當活馬醫」「無魚🐟蝦也好」的語感。
那我們再來看看有關pearl其中一個很生活化的說法"cast pearls before swine"（cast是拋丟的意思，swine則是豬🐷）
例如我們可以說: Teaching your 17-year-old daughter to use a lifejacket is just like casting pearls before swine since tomorrow is her due date!（教你1⃣️7⃣️歲的小女兒👧🏻要使用小套套根本就沒用嘛！明天就是她的預產期了啊👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻）
所以cast pearls before swine就很像中文說的「對牛彈琴」「肉包子打狗」的意思，說白一些就是對著聽不進去的人說一些金玉良言，毫無成效😩😩😩
死馬當活馬醫的英文怎麼說？A drowning man will clutch at a straw
今天拿了肖想很久的手拿包出門
而且顏色還是我愛慘的海軍藍😍😍😍😍
但是男人拿手拿包最怕變成女人拿晚宴包的姿態（抖）😩😩😩
會太妖嬌😝😝😝
但不得不說下雨天☔拿手拿包真的很不方便
我覺得我手都不夠用😳
我們先來看看跟今天包包有關的基本英文
1⃣️手拿包：clutch 2⃣️晚宴包：evening bag 3⃣️海軍藍：navy blue 4⃣️淺藍：baby blue 5⃣️寶石藍：royal blue
其中「clutch」除了有手拿包的意思外，還有「抓」的意思
有一句小蛋糕主人很常在生活當中說的話來跟大家3⃣️8⃣️分享一下
"A drowning man will clutch at a straw."
例如我們可以說： He believes drinking soy sauce everyday can cure his baldness. You know, a drowning man will clutch at a straw. （他竟然相信每天喝醬油可以幫助他再生頭髮不再當禿頭👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻！你知道嘛，他現在只能死馬當活馬醫了！」
"A drowning man will clutch at a straw"字面意思是「溺水的人看到稻草也會胡亂抓一通」，就引申為中文說的「死馬當活馬醫」「無魚🐟蝦也好」的語感。
＂A woman I know from Taiwan did great in English at school, she got A grades all the way through, went through college, A grades, went to the US and found she couldn't understand what people were saying. And people started asking her: "Are you deaf?" And she was. English deaf. ＂(Chris Lonsdale)
(Chris Lonsdale) The people in the back, can you hear me clearly? OK, good. Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think? Maybe even part of who you are as a person? Well I've had a question in my mind for many, many years and that is: How can you speed up learning? Now, this is an interesting question because if you speed up learning, you can spend less time at school. And if you learn really fast, you probably wouldn't have to go to school at all. Now, when I was young, school was sort of OK but... I found quite often that school got in the way of learning so I had this question in mind: How do you learn faster? And this began when I was very, very young, when I was 11 years old, I wrote a letter to researchers in the Soviet Union, asking about hypnopaedia, this is sleep-learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, and you're supposed to be learning from this. A good idea, unfortunately it doesn't work. But, hypnopaedia did open the doors to research in other areas and we've had incredible discoveries about learning that began with that first question. I went on from there to become passionate about psychology and I have been involved in psychology in many different ways for the rest of my life up until this point. In 1981 I took myself to China and I decided that I was going to be native level in Chinese inside two years. Now, you need to understand that in 1981, everybody thought Chinese was really, really difficult and that a westerner could study for 10 years or more and never really get very good at it. And I also went in with a different idea which was: taking all of the conclusions from psychological research up to that point and applying them to the learning process. What was really cool was that in six months I was fluent in Mandarin Chinese and took a little bit longer to get up to native. But I looked around and I saw all of these people from different countries struggling terribly with Chinese, I saw Chinese people struggling terribly to learn English and other languages, and so my question got refined down to: How can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively? Now this is a really, really important question in today's world. We have massive challenges with environment, we have massive challenges with social dislocation, with wars, all sorts of things going on and if we can't communicate, we're really going to have difficulty solving these problems. So we need to be able to speak each other's languages, this is really, really important. The question then is: How do you do that? Well, it's actually really easy. You look around for people who can already do it, you look for situations where it's already working and then you identify the principles and apply them. It's called modelling and I've been looking at language learning and modelling language learning for about 15 to 20 years now. And my conclusion, my observation from this is that any adult can learn a second language to fluency inside six months. Now when I say this, most people think I'm crazy, this is not possible. So let me remind everybody of the history of human progress, it's all about expanding our limits. In 1950 everybody believed that running one mile in four minutes was impossible and then Roger Bannister did it in 1956 and from there it's got shorter and shorter. 100 years ago everybody believed that heavy stuff doesn't fly. Except it does and we all know this. How does heavy stuff fly? We reorganise the material using principles that we have learned from observing nature, birds in this case. And today we've gone even further... We've gone even further, so you can fly a car. You can buy one of these for a couple 100.000 US dollars. We now have cars in the world that fly. And there's a different way to fly which we've learned from squirrels. So all you need to do is copy what a flying squirrel does, build a suit called a wing suit and off you go, you can fly like a squirrel. Now most people, a lot of people, I wouldn't say everybody but a lot of people think they can't draw. However there are some key principles, five principles that you can apply to learning to draw and you can actually learn to draw in five days. So, if you draw like this, you learn these principles for five days and apply them and after five days you can draw something like this. Now I know this is true because that was my first drawing and after five days of applying these principles that was what I was able to do. And I looked at this and I went: "Wow, so that's how I look like when I'm concentrating so intensely that my brain is exploding." So, anybody can learn to draw in five days and in the same way, with the same logic, anybody can learn a second language in six months. How? There are five principles and seven actions. There may be a few more but these are absolutely core. And before I get into those I just want to talk about two myths, I want to dispel two myths. The first is that you need talent. Let me tell you about Zoe. Zoe came from Australia, went to Holland, was trying to learn Dutch, struggling extremely, extremely... a great deal and finally people were saying: "You're completely useless," "you're not talented," "give up," "you're a waste of time" and she was very, very depressed. And then she came across these five principles, she moved to Brazil and she applied them and in six months she was fluent in Portuguese, so talent doesn't matter. People also think that immersion in a new country is the way to learn a language. But look around Hong Kong, look at all the westerners who've been here for 10 years, who don't speak a word of Chinese. Look at all the Chinese living in America, Britain, Australia, Canada have been there 10, 20 years and they don't speak any English. Immersion per se does not work. Why? Because a drowning man cannot learn to swim. When you don't speak a language you're like a baby and if you drop yourself into a context which is all adults talking about stuff over your head, you won't learn. So, what are the five principles that you need to pay attention to? First: the four words, attention, meaning, relevance and memory, and these interconnect in very, very important ways. Especially when you're talking about learning. Come with me on a journey through a forest. You go on a walk through a forest and you see something like this... Little marks on a tree, maybe you pay attention, maybe you don't. You go another 50 metres and you see this... [image of bear footprint] You should be paying attention. Another 50 metres, if you haven't been paying attention, you see this... [image of roaring bear] And at this point, you're paying attention. And you've just learned that this [marks on tree] is important, it's relevant because it means this [roaring bear], and anything that is related, any information related to your survival is stuff that you're going to pay attention to and therefore you're going to remember it. If it's related to your personal goals then you're going to pay attention to it, if it's relevant, you're going to remember it. So, the first rule, first principle for learning a language is focus on language content that is relevant to you. Which brings us to tools. We master tools by using tools and we learn tools the fastest when they are relevant to us. So let me share a story. A keyboard is a tool. Typing Chinese a certain way, there are methods for this. That's a tool. I had a colleague many years ago who went to night school; Tuesday night, Thursday night, two hours each time, practising at home, she spent nine months, and she did not learn to type Chinese. And one night we had a crisis. We had 48 hours to deliver a training manual in Chinese. And she got the job, and I can guarantee you in 48 hours, she learned to type Chinese because it was relevant, it was meaningful, it was important, she was using a tool to create value. So the second principle for learning a language is to use your language as a tool to communicate right from day one. As a kid does. When I first arrived in China, I didn't speak a word of Chinese, and on my second week I got to take a train ride overnight. I spent eight hours sitting in the dining car talking to one of the guards on the train, he took an interest in me for some reason, and we just chatted all night in Chinese and he was drawing pictures and making movements with his hands and facial expressions and piece by piece by piece I understood more and more. But what was really cool, was two weeks later, when people were talking Chinese around me, I was understanding some of this and I hadn't even made any effort to learn that. What had happened, I'd absorbed it that night on the train, which brings us to the third principle. When you first understand the message, then you will acquire the language unconsciously. And this is really, really well documented now, it's something called comprehensible input. There's 20 or 30 years of research on this, Stephen Krashen, a leader in the field, has published all sorts of these different studies and this is just from one of them. The purple bars show the scores on different tests for language. The purple people were people who had learned by grammar and formal study, the green ones are the ones who learned by comprehensible input. So, comprehension works. Comprehension is key and language learning is not about accumulating lots of knowledge. In many, many ways it's about physiological training. A woman I know from Taiwan did great in English at school, she got A grades all the way through, went through college, A grades, went to the US and found she couldn't understand what people were saying. And people started asking her: "Are you deaf?" And she was. English deaf. Because we have filters in our brain that filter in the sounds that we are familiar with and they filter out the sounds of languages that we're not. And if you can't hear it, you won't understand it, if you can't understand it, you're not going to learn it. So you actually have to be able to hear these sounds. And there are ways to do that but it's physiological training. Speaking takes muscle. You've got 43 muscles in your face, you have to coordinate those in a way that you make sounds that other people will understand. If you've ever done a new sport for a couple of days, and you know how your body feels? Hurts? If your face is hurting, you're doing it right. And the final principle is state. Psycho-physiological state. If you're sad, angry, worried, upset, you're not going to learn. Period. If you're happy, relaxed, in an Alpha brain state, curious, you're going to learn really quickly, and very specifically you need to be tolerant of ambiguity. If you're one of those people who needs to understand 100 per cent every word you're hearing, you will go nuts, because you'll be incredibly upset all the time, because you're not perfect. If you're comfortable with getting some, not getting some, just paying attention to what you do understand, you're going to be fine, you'll be relaxed and you'll be learning quickly. So based on those five principles, what are the seven actions that you take? Number one: Listen a lot. I call it brain soaking. You put yourself in a context where you're hearing tons and tons and tons of a language and it doesn't matter if you understand it or not. You're listening to the rhythms, you're listening to patterns that repeat, you're listening to things that stand out. (Speaking Chinese) 泡腦子 (pào nǎozi) (Speaking English) So, just soak your brain in this. The second action is that you get the meaning first, even before you get the words. You go: "Well how do I do that? I don't know the words!" Well, you understand what these different postures mean. Human communication is body language in many, many ways, so much body language. From body language you can understand a lot of communication, therefore, you're understanding, you're acquiring through comprehensible input. And you can also use patterns that you already know. If you're a Chinese speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese and you go to Vietnam, you will understand 60 per cent of what they say to you in daily conversation, because Vietnamese is about 30 per cent Mandarin, 30 per cent Cantonese. The third action: Start mixing. You probably have never thought of this but if you've got 10 verbs, 10 nouns and 10 adjectives, you can say 1000 different things. Language is a creative process. What do babies do? OK, "me", "bath", "now". OK, that's how they communicate. So start mixing, get creative, have fun with it, it doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work. And when you're doing this, you focus on the core. What does that mean? Well any language is high frequency content. In English 1000 words covers 85 per cent of anything you're ever going to say in daily communication. 3000 words gives you 98 per cent of anything you're going to say in daily conversation. You got 3000 words, you're speaking the language. The rest is icing on the cake. And when you're just beginning with a new language, start with your tool box. Week number one, in your new language you say things like: "How do you say that?" "I don't understand," "repeat that please," "what does that mean?" all in your target language. You're using it as a tool, making it useful to you, it's relevant to learn other things about the language. By week two you should be saying things like: "me," "this," "you," "that," "give," you know, "hot," simple pronouns, simple nouns, simple verbs, simple adjectives, communicating like a baby. And by the third or fourth week, you're getting into what I call glue words. "Although," "but," "therefore," these are logical transformers that tie bits of a language together, allowing you to make more complex meaning. At that point you're talking [stressed]. And when you're doing that, you should get yourself a language parent. If you look at how children and parents interact, you'll understand what this means. When a child is speaking, it'll be using simple words, simple combinations, sometimes quite strange, sometimes very strange pronunciation, other people from outside the family don't understand it. But the parents do. And so the kid has a safe environment, gets confidence. The parents talk to the children with body language and with simple language they know the child understands. So you have a comprehensible input environment that's safe, we know it works otherwise none of you would speak your mother tongue. So you get yourself a language parent, who's somebody interested in you as a person who will communicate with you essentially as an equal, but pay attention to help you understand the message. There are four rules of a language parent. Spouses by the way are not very good at this, OK? But the four rules are, first of all, they will work hard to understand what you mean even when you're way off beat. Secondly, they will never correct your mistakes. Thirdly, they will feed back their understanding of what you are saying so that you can respond appropriately and get that feedback and then they will use words that you know. The sixth thing you have to do, is copy the face. You got to get the muscles working right, so you can sound in a way that people will understand you. There's a couple of things you do. One is that you hear how it feels, and feel how it sounds which means you have a feedback loop operating in your face, but ideally if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're going to be able to pick it up. And if you can't get a native speaker to look at, you can use stuff like this... (Female voice) Sing, song, king, stung, hung. (Chris Lonsdale) And the final idea here, the final action you need to take is something that I call "direct connect". What does this mean? Well most people learning a second language sort of take the mother tongue words and the target words and go over them again and again in their mind to try and remember them. Really inefficient. What you need to do is realise that everything you know is an image inside your mind, it's feelings, if you talk about fire, you can smell the smoke, you can hear the crackling, you can see the flames, so what you do, is you go into that imagery and all of that memory and you come out with another pathway. So I call it "one sample, different path". You come out of that pathway and you build it over time, you become more and more skilled at just connecting the new sounds to those images that you already have, into that internal representation. And over time you even become naturally good at that process, that becomes unconscious. So, there are five principles that you need to work with, seven actions, if you do any of them, you're going to improve. And remember these are things under your control as the learner. Do them all and you're going to be fluent in a second language in six months. Thank you.
新年 Jan. 1 New Year's Day 農曆除夕 Jan Chinese (Lunar) New Year's Eve 農曆春節 Jan Chinese (Lunar) New Year 元宵節 Feb Lantern Festival 青年節 Mar. 29 Youth Day 清明節 Apr. 5 Tomb Sweeping Day 婦女節 8-May Women's Day 母親節 May Mother's Day 端午節 19-May Dragon Boat Festival 豐年祭 Jul. Harvest Festival 農曆七夕 Jul. 7 the Seventh Evening of July 中元節 Jul. 15 Ghosts' Festival 父親節 Aug. 8 Father's Day 中秋節 Aug. 15 Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival 重陽節 Sep. 9 Double Ninth Festival 教師節 Sep. 28 Teacher's Day, Confucius' Birthday 雙十節 Oct. 10 Double Tenth Day 台灣光復節 Oct. 25 Taiwan Retroration Day 蔣公誕辰 Oct. 31 Birthday of President Chiang Kai-shek 國父誕辰 Nov. 12 Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Birthday 冬至 Dec. 22 the winter solstice, midwinter 行憲紀念日 Dec. 25 Constitution Day
美國重要節日 除夕 Dec. 31 New Year's Eve 新年 Jan. 1 New Year's Day 總統節 Feb. President's Day 林肯誕辰 Feb. 12 Lincoln's Day 情人節 Feb. 14 Valentine's Day 華盛頓誕辰 Feb. 22 Washington's Day 愚人節 Apr. 1 April Fool's Day 復活節 Apr. Easter 母親節 May Mother's Day 陣亡將士紀念日 May. 30 Memorial Day 父親節 Jun. Father's Day 國旗節 Jun. 14 Flag's Day 獨立紀念日 Jul. 4 I ndependence Day 勞工節 Sep. Labor Day 哥倫布節 Oct. Columbus Day 萬聖節前夕 Oct. 31 Halloween 萬聖節 Nov. 1 All Saint Day 退伍軍人紀念日 Nov. 14 Veterans Day 感恩節 Nov. Thanksgiving Day 聖誕夜 Dec. 24 Christmas Eve, Xmas Eve 聖誕節 Dec. 25 Christmas (Day), Xmas
Anger seeks revenge Love seeks healing Anger spouts lies Love speaks truth Anger causes others pain Love brings others joy Anger imprisons the soul Love saves the soul Anger builds up walls around you Love can break down strongholds Anger walks with Fear Love keeps company with Peace Anger cannot solve problems Love brings about reconciliation between the two sicks Anger darkens the heart Love brightens the world Anger cannot solve any probmlem Love is the solution to all problems ---------------------------------------- "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endress all things." -1 Corintbians 13:7
Batchmate- someone who is in the same class as you
其它英文單字:
中華民國海軍陸戰隊（英文譯名：Republic of China Marine Corps，縮寫為ROCMC） 服兵役-Military service 志願役-Voluntary military service 義務役-Mandatory military service 退伍-Retirement 徵兵- Conscription
其它各軍種、軍階英文名稱參考－
陸軍 陸軍 Army 元帥 General of the Army 上將 General 中將 Lieutenant General 少將 Major General 准將 Brigadier General 上校 Colonel 中校 Lieutenant Colonel 少校 Major 上尉 Captain 中尉 Lieutenant 少尉 Second Lieutenant 准尉 Warrant officer 士官長 Master sergeant 上士 Sergeant 中士 Staff sergeant 下士 Corporal 一等兵 Private 1st class 二等兵 Private 軍士 Petty officer
海軍 海軍 Navy 元帥 Admiral of the Fleet 上將 Admiral 中將 Vice- Admiral 少將 Rear- Admiral 准將 Commodore 上校 Captain 中校 Commander 少校 Lieutenant Commander 上尉 Lieutenant 中尉 Junior Grade 少尉 Ensign 准尉 Warrant officer 士官長 Chief petty officer 上士 Petty officer 1st class 中士 Petty officer 2nd Class 下士 Petty officer 3rd Class 一等兵 Seaman 1st Class 二等兵 Seaman 2nd Class
空軍 空軍 Air Force 元帥 Field Marshal 上將 General 中將 Lieutenant General 少將 Major General 准將 Brigadier General 上校 Colonel 中校 Lieutenant Colonel 少校 Major 上尉 Captain 中尉 Lieutenant 少尉 Second Lieutenant 准尉 Warrant officer 士官長 Master sergeant 上士 Sergeant 中士 Staff sergeant 下士 Corporal 一等兵 Private 1st class 二等兵 Private 軍士 Petty officer
事前充分的規劃與準備-Plan Ahead and Prepare 在可承受地點行走宿營-Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces 適當處理垃圾維護環境-Dispose of Waste Properly 保持環境原有的風貌-Leave What You Find 減低用火對環境的衝擊-Minimize Use and Impact from Fires 保育野生動植物-Respect Wildlife 尊重其他的旅行者-Be Considerate of Other Visitors
Plan Ahead and Prepare: Poorly prepared people, when presented with unexpected situations, often resort to high-impact solutions that degrade the outdoors or put themselves at risk. Proper planning leads to less impact. Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces: Damage to land occurs when surface vegetation or communities of organisms are trampled beyond repair. The resulting barren area leads to unusable trails, campsites and soil erosion. Dispose of Waste Properly: Though most trash and litter in the backcountry is not significant in terms of the long term ecological health of an area, it does rank high as a problem in the minds of many backcountry visitors. Trash and litter are primarily social impacts which can greatly detract from the naturalness of an area.[5] Further, backcountry users create body waste and waste water which requires proper disposal according to Leave No Trace. Leave What You Find: Leave No Trace directs people to minimize site alterations, such as digging tent trenches, hammering nails into trees, permanently clearing an area of rocks or twigs, and removing items. Minimize Campfire Impacts: Because the naturalness of many areas has been degraded by overuse of fires, Leave No Trace teaches to seek alternatives to fires or use low-impact fires. Respect Wildlife: Minimizing impact on wildlife and ecosystems. Be Considerate of Other Visitors: Following hiking etiquette and maintaining quiet allows visitors to go through the wilderness with minimal impact on other users.
