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Five key skills for Success

-- Organization, Time Management, Prioritization, Concentration, Motivation


報告指出 ~

"In ~ surveys, they point out, ~."

In public opinion surveys, they point out, a majority of Britons say they support having cameras on the roads.


定義事物 :

"說明, ~ is appropriate."

When many objects must be manipulated and these cannot afford to have extraneous data, flyweight is appropriate.

在 ~ 的假設下:

"It assumes that basic familiarity with ~"

It assumes basic familiarity with the Windows operating system and I/O model.



xxxx

"In the other word; On the other hand"


這些不同點包含了:

"These differences include:"

Your users will experience some differences when they use your application on a Tablet PC. These differences include:
*Screen behavior.
解釋
*Pen behavior that is difficult to duplicate with a mouse.
進一步的解釋

可以. 但是注意下面幾點:

"Yes. Be aware of the following issues:"

Can I Develop Tablet PC Software Without a Tablet PC?
Yes.  Be aware of  the following issues:
1.
2.

記得老師曾經說過 ...

"as my math teacher use to say ..."

As my math teacher use to say, check your work! Once your file is complete and uploaded einter it into the feed validator at http://feedvalidator.org.

如同我們前面討論的

"as we have discussed it"

The process model as we have discussed it thus far is based on two independent concepts: resource grouping and execution.
保持簡單

"Keep it Simple"

"Keep it Simple" is the advice offered by Jing.


"I'm not just preserving the old styles; I am maing them alive," Mr. Peeramon."Contemporary work can't happen if it's all new and new and new. If you don't have the foundation of the past, you cannot move forward."


存在著一種平滑移動以及柔軟的一種美

"Beauty in Fluidity and Softness"

There's beauty in fluidity and softness.


精緻但不喧嘩

"elaborate, but not loud"

It is very elaborate, but not loud.


細緻, 謙容以及平衡

"refinement, modesty and balance"


The troupe's mission is to recaputre a quality of refinement, modesty and balance that has all but disappeared from classical dance as it absorbs the standards of the day: big, bold, bright, quick.


極簡抽象派藝術家

"minimalist"


完美的合身

"To make it fit perfectly"


To make it fit perfectly, and tight and flexible, the only way is sewing.

實用風格

"utility and style"

blend of utility and style

 


耐用

"durable"

Wood is a durable material.


引發了 ~ 熱潮

"sparked interest in"

The film "the Queen," above, sparked interest in English country style.


點亮


The light brought with it an image of the outside world: an inverted picture of the Holly-wood sign, perched behind us, appeared magically on the paper in front of us.


美麗的夏日午後

"perfectly sunny day"

It was the middle of another perfectly sunny day in Los Angeles, but the trailer was pitch-black, with the doors closed and gaps sealed with duct tape to prevent the light form leaking through.


The Full Monty -- the whole amount of something that people want and expect

ex:

The ice cream was covered in sauce, nuts, chocolate - the full monty.


Overseeing => 監督的人是 Jack O'Brien

Overseeing it all is the director Jack O'Brien.

A team leader was appointed to oversee the project.



正當 ~~ 尋找其他的方式阻止 Internet , 而 ~~ 卻 選擇其他方式

While other restrictive regimes have sought to find ways to limit the Internet — through filters and blocks and threats — North Korea has chosen to stay wholly in the dark.


清楚而直接地拒絕

"an outright refusal"

an outright refusal Cell-phones were banned outright in 2004.


基石

"the bedrock"

Marriage and children are the bedrock of family life.

Facts are the bedrock of any trail.


精緻,優秀

"sophisticated"

We can design a sophisticated software.

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我一直搞不懂為何 ...

"It still puzzles me why there is so much controversy," said Ron Kettles, the Pascua-Lama project manager.

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並非是唯一的阻礙

The world's biggest gold company wants to mine it, but is finding that a harsh terrain is not the only obstacle in its path.

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點綴著星星

The sky was clear and studded with stars.

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苦笑

'I'll survive,' he said with a grim smile.

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生命長度

The average life expectancy in Congo is about 51, compared with about 78 in the United States, according to the C.I.A World Fact book.

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No Less, No More 不多不少

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that's easier said than done 說比作簡單

ex:

A responsive UI is a happy UI. It's snappy, responds to input promptly, and doesn't leave users hanging. But that's easier said than done.

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這不竟讓我思考 ~~~

It really got me thinking about, gosh, have we gotten so out of touch? Obesity is a very legitimate concern, but it is not the only health risk.

不可否認 ~~~

It is likly that they were poor, malnourished and sick from the coal dust, he added. No wounder they were thin.


他與世界上的優秀魔術師一起加強本身的能力

He was honing his skills with some of the world's top magicians.


成功的人士同時擁有兩項能力: 1. 自信 2. 態度

A lot of being a success in life, in many ways, is being able to have that self-confidence and that attitude.


這只是一個簡單的東西.

ex: The following library is pretty standard, just quick-and-dirty stuff.


我們做了一些測試, 取找出到底實際的情況是如何!

It takes some trial and error to figure out what's really going on.


她曾經擁有過的那間美麗沙龍名叫 Hello.

The beauty salon she once owned called Hello.


那些動作行為的核心(尤其是在 ~ 方面), 是 ~

At the heart of those activities, especially the ability to loan money at exorbitant interest rates - 50 to 250 percent a year - and extort payoffs from businesses, is the mobster's most important weapon: fear.


不用再寫了, 大家看了就知道了.

Don't take our word for it, seeing is believing!


 

'控制'這個字太強烈了

ex: What's do they control? The waterfront, unions,garbage collection, gambling?

The Mafia's influence -- control may be too strong a word -- has diminished in all of those areas, but less so in gambling, loansharking and extortion.


在開始討論之前, 我們先看兩張圖! [hint: Before we proceed any further, we would like you to ~]

ex: Before we proceed any further, we would like you to read the technical reprots excerpted in Figures 3-1 and 3-2. [excerpted 是一個不錯的字]

practice: Before we proceed any further, we would like you to survey all similair products in the market.


除非 ~ 否則你將不能 ~. [hint: Unless ~, you won;t be able to ~]

ex: Unless it's clear in your mind what the answers are, you won't be able to construct a clear and effective piece of communication.

practice: Unless the bad weather is changed, you won't be able to complete the journey to New Zealand in under 11 hours.


強烈的違反法律. [hint: strengthened opposition]

ex: Bush's admission this week that he authorized wiretapping of people in the U.S. without court approval strengthened opposition to the legislation.

practice: Tom's behavior during 3 days that he beat a 64-year-old man in the park strengthended opposition to the legislation.


沒關係, 滿意就好. [hint: don't matter]

ex: Well, that doesn't matter as long as you enjoyed yourselves.

practice: Well, that doesn't matter unless you don't like it.


付錢的委婉說法, [hint: offer]

ex: I'm going to look for another job unless the company offer me more money.

pratice: I will work harder than before unless the company offer me more money.


形容又長又累人的事件 a marathon event

ex: The votes followed a marathon day of negotiations that kept lowmakers in session four days before christmas.

practice: The decision followed a marathon meeting of neotiations that kept managers in session 12 hours before getting off the office.


今晚會打電話過來 [hint: phone]

ex: Ann might phone tonight. I don't want to go out in case she phone. (= because it is possible she will phone) [注意時態: 前面是未來式, 後面是現在式]

ex: I will give you my phone number in case you need to contract me.


遵守規則 follow the rules (hint: during 形容 game, 不是用 in . 因為一場比賽是依段持續進行的過程. 另外可以用 such as 加強說明前面的名詞)

ex: referee/umpire -- someone who makes sure that the rules are followed during a game such as football, basketball, or boxing.

pratices: People follow the rules during a examination (that) is a good behavior such as no speaking, no making noise, and no cheating.


形容 對語言能力的加強 (hint: managed self understood 是有趣的用法)

Although I didn't speak the language, I managed to make myself understood.


The guys fully expected what happened to happen.


剛剛離開 10 名的是 ~ (hint: 可以使用 missing out 來形容離開)

ex:

Just missing out on the Top 10 was the start of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's trial on charges of mass murder and torture.


你要甚麼樣的箱子 (可以用 sort 大致的形容你所指的意思)

ex:

What sort of box do you want? A big one?
Yes, the bigger the better. (= as big as possible)


隨著時間過去

As the day went on, ~

ex:

As the day went on, the weather got worse and worse.


我已經等了不耐煩了

I'm fed up with waiting. I'm not waiting any longer. ( fed up -- annoyed or bored, and waiting something to change)


跟我預期的完全不同

She was quite different from what I expected. (= completely different)

 

不完全懂你的意思

I don't quite understand what you mean. (= not completely understand)

`Are you ready yet?` `Not quite` (= not completely)


好賺的工作

a well-paid job

ex:

It's quite a well-paid job but it's rather a hard work.


常見面

We see each other (注意: 空格) quite often.

ex:

Lucy lives quite near me, so we see each other quite often.


別擔心, ~, 就把他們寫下來

Don't worry about whether ~; just get them down.

ex:

One way of generating ideas is just to generate them—that is, to talk out or write down whatever comes into your head about the topic you want to write about. Don't worry about whether the ideas are good or adequate or complete; just get them down. The purpose of brainstorming is to provide yourself with some notes that you can use to further stimulate your thinking and organizing.


The job is tiring.


形容很長的一段時間

[子句] for a very long time.

一次又一次

[子句] again and again

ex:

Jane has been doing the same job for a very long time. Every day she does exactly(加強形容 the same) the same job again and again.

 

再也不喜歡 [事物]

She doesn't enjoy it any more.


跟以前一樣

As before, [子句]

ex:

As before, H(u,v) is the transform of the degradation function and G(u,v) is the transform of the degraded image.

練習

As before, Direct Sound is a audio process API that was packed in the DirectX SDK annoused by Microsoft.


課程長度

Course length: 1 hour

 


~ 是根據 ~.

[子句] according to [名詞]

ex:

We group them according to their amplitude in cosets, where each coset consist of different shape edges of the same amplitude as it is presented in figure 8.


我們將會專注在 ~

We will concentrate on the ~

ex:

We will concentrate on the main edges around the face because they constitute the most important edges of facial images from information theory point of view.


~ 較高 表示比較好

ex:

A higher value of PSNR is good.

A lower value for MSE means lesser error.


注意: 在這裡描述的東西只是 ~

ex:

Note: The color ids described herein are simply enumerated values that influence data processing by the JPEG codec. JPEG compression is, by definition, color blind. These values are used as hints when compressing JPEG data.


與 sth 不同的是 ~

Unlike 前面說的東西, 子句

ex:

Unlike the indefinite article, the definite article may occur with any type of noun -- singular or plural, countable or uncountable.

練習:

Unlike the skin color information, the motion may contribute more significant feature for human face detection.


注意

Notice that 子句

Notice ==>(U) warning

ex:

Notice that the first sentence in this example is a definition conforming to the standard pattern:

Term = Class + Distinguishing Features

練習:

Notice that the skin color in this case is spread on the three of cue in HSV color model.


這類東西.

Such a 東西

ex:

描述這類東西的建造程序

We can create a passive form of such a sentence by (1) interchanging the two noun phrases, (2) inserting an appropriate form of the verb to be,

(步驟一) 名詞子句, (步驟二) 名詞子句, and (步驟三) 名詞子句.

練習:

We can made such a bread by flour and water.


很直覺的. 然而 ~

Sometimes this procedure is straightforward. However, at other times 子句.

ex:

Sometimes this procedure is straightforward. However, at other times writers may find themselves boxed in, having written a sentence that satisfies the light-heavy criterion, say, but not the other two.

練習:

Sometimes this idea is straightforward. However, at other times the un-removable noise, which is due to a poor segmentation procedure, will appear.


反之亦然

or vice versa

=> If you are nonnative speaker of English, do not make the(不用 a 而用 the 是強調後面這個方式) common mistake of substituting it for this or vice versa.

* 你可以用 freely 來形容 substituting

* 用 ~ 取代 ~ => substituting ~ for ~

ex:

You can substitute the glasses for the contact lenses.


這也就是為什麼 [子句]

This is the reason why [子句]

=> Computers can solve problems at the rate of 100,000,000 steps per second. This is one reason why they have so popular.


展示如下:

 This is illustrated by ~ below.

=> This is illustrated by the italicized noun compounds below.

A management decision must consider worker productivity.

如下所示:

[前面講的東西], as illustrated below.

=> Sometimes a noun phrase will first appear as a long unit and later be progressively compressed, as illustrated below.

範例子句


某物品是由 ~ 組合而來

第一種表示方式:

  For example, a name consists of first, middle, and last name, and they can be specified as:

 
person-name Person-Name ::=
{
 first  John
 middle  T
 last  Smith
}
第二種表示方式:

The module comprise three assignments, whose names are first, middle, and last with values "John", "T", and "Smith".

8/16/2003


每一個~ 一行, ~ with one line per ~

ex:

We provide ground truth in face location in the following format (用下面的格式) with one line per face:

filename left-eye right-eye nose left-corner-mouth center-mouth right-corner-mouth


值得一提的是 ~, It is worth to mention that ~


~ 可以被視為 ~ , which can be viewed as a 名詞片語 that 繼續說明.

前面描述一個觀念, which can be viewed as a 另一個類似觀念 that

ex:

BIRCH scans the database to build an initial in-memory CF tree, which can be viewed as a multilevel compression of the data that tries to preserve the inherent clustering structure of the data.


 

1/28/2002

1.

The twenty-first century is what is known as the era of the global village.

21 世紀=> The twenty-first century

~ 是我們所知 as ~ => ~ is what is known as ~

2. (前一句講完,接著繼續補充)

比起以前 => than ever before

Ex:

That is, we have more opportunities than ever before to communicate with foreigners.


也就是說

That is, 子句

句型 1: ; that is,

ex:

We're through; that is, we're going out of business.

In general, the definite article the is used to show that what the noun (or noun phrase) refers to is unique; that is, it has a unique referent.

3. 使用被動語法下定義 -- that is, 對應到實際狀況的子句說明

The correct interpretation will be determined by the context -- that is, by whether you are talking about filtering the air in the production area or talking about the production of an air filtration system.

* whether 的用法:

by whether [子句 1] or [子句 2]. (使用 or)


也就是一般人常說的 ~

ex:

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method standardised by ISO.

JPEG JFIF, which is what people generally mean when they refer to "JPEG", is a file format created by the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) for the transport of single JPEG-compressed images.


舉例方面

In my opinion, having an English proficiency certificate such as the GEPT is beneficial in many ways.

[more]

舉個例子,考慮下面的情況:

  For instance, consider the following sentence. [注意: 是 consider 動詞, 不是 considering]

A management decision must consider worker productivity and the production air filtration system.

冒號說明例子

Objects that do not have a clear shape or form: water, rice, gravity, magnetism, information, engineering, (注意: 例子用 Italic 字體) etc.


補充句範例

Why, you may ask, was February chosen as the month to recognize the rich diversity of achievement among African Americans in America?

[接著解釋原因]

Two reasons: Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

[一個一個說明]

You see(是這樣的), Fredrick Douglass was born in February. Abraham Lincoln also celebrated his birthday in February.

unlike

It makes tentative, rather than firm, classifications at each stage, and repeatedly reconsiders them, unlike the other types of methods, which usually make decisions at each point only once (except in cases where sequential methods allow backtracking).

This model is clear, rather than ambiguous, simple, and easy, unlike the other types of model, which usually has complex mathematical structure (except in cases where the model use color-skin-tone).


佔優勢 

If I score higher than my colleagues on the GEPT, I will have advantage over than them in being promoted.

A 得分比 B 高

A score higher than B.


為了 ~ 緣故

For the sake of his family, Marcus worked at a job he hated.

ex: For the sake of completeness, I'll also mention the GetHandleInformation function:

BOOL GetHandleInformation(...);

In order to lose weight, you have to exercise and eat the right foods.


基於上述的理由~, ~

With these incentives I have mentioned above, I have made up my mind to take the GEPT this year.


你不應該 ~ ,而應該 ~

You should not tire your eyes but let them rest every fifty minutes or so.


除非 條件成立, 否則 ~

ex1: Not until I bought the X-Box would I go home with you.

ex2: Not until a commercial come on would I take my eyes off the TV; as a result, I am nearsighted.

ex: Unless you're a construction engineer, you might not know for sure. (除非你是工程人員,否則~ )


打折 Take 10% off

ex1: The clerk took 10% off my bill.


因為, ~ 導致 ~ , 使得 (利用 so that 連接兩個句子)

~ so that ~

This lotion enhance your tan so that you don't have to go out in the sun to look dark.

In most cases, sentences can be constructed so that at least the first two criteria, if not all three, can be satisfied.

 

~ ; as a result, ~

Not until the commercial come on would I leave my eye off the TV; as a result, I am nearsighted.

2/6/2002


現在

Now that

Now that school have been in session for a while.


平均分配

Don't keep those chocolates to yourself - share and share alike. (= let everyone have an equal amount of them)


被稱為

~ be referred to as ~

Taiwan was referred to as Formosa by Portuguese sailor.


批准

Sanction, approval or permission.

The US government sanctions trade with allied nations.


奉獻 ~ devote ~ to ~

= to give (your time or your effort or your love) wholly to ( a person or something you believe)

John left the government to devote more time to his family.

Tuesdays at that club was devoted to people 18-21 years of age.

2/18/2002


以 ~ 聞名

be ~ famous for 東西(名詞)

ex:

The company is famous for its new product that instantly relieves headaches.


用在定義一些事物上

The playback rate--how fast the Clock is running in relation to its Time Base.


配置兩個成員的陣列

<program > IntBuffer ib=IntBuffer.allocate(2);

The program allocated two-long int buffer.



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