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Entertainment
3 Jun 2009
In chime with our times: Kit Hungby Nigel Collett
Fridae meets Kit Hung, director of the award winning film, Soundless Wind Chime, which will hit Hong Kong screens in the summer, followed by cinemas in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Ideas drive Wing Kit Hung, old ideas, cuttingedge ideas, concepts refracted by images that give birth to newreflections. He’s fascinated by weaving different things together,traditional Chinese thought, maybe, with the electronic cultures thathold sway across the net, and by juxtaposing things that are ordinaryin their own setting, bringing them together to make themextraordinary. He is always a director with a message, a film makervery much in keeping with the times.



Kit Hung

So when I met him for tea at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong (he drankaerated water to my coffee), to discuss his career and his new film, Soundless Wind Chime(无声风铃), we soon got into philosophy, myth, activism and socialpolitics. But before jumping in too deep here, let me put Kit incontext for those who have yet to have the pleasure of seeing his work.Many of us will know him as one of Hong Kong’s three prominent makersof films with gay themes (the others being Simon Chung and Scud) andthe director of 2001’s award-winning I Am Not What You Want.

Kitwas born and educated in Hong Kong, taking his first degree in Designat the Polytechnic University before turning his back on a commerciallife and launching into film. At the Poly U, he was lucky enough to betaught Hong Kong culture by Yau Ching, a Hong Kong LGBT activist andwriter who helped his personal breakthrough both in terms of the way hecould fit his gay sexual orientation into Hong Kong society and of whathe wanted to do with his life. The University allowed him to make a35-minute film as his graduation project. This, actually his secondfilm (the first was In My Space of Loneliness, his ownfeelings about his then boyfriend collected into a five-minute short,made with his own video camera in 1999), was entitled [:nv:s:b/e peop/e]and was a film exploring human communications in cyber space. Its twocharacters, Moon and Sue, never speak, just type text to each other,yet connect so strongly to each other and to others in Hong Kong thatthe film concludes with the Moon God’s red ribbons linking the entirecity. Made in 2000, the film was shown at the Transmediale Festival inBerlin and was successful enough to encourage Kit to go on, which hedid the next year with I Am Not What You Want, a phenomenallysuccessful movie which held 2nd place for 11 weeks in HMV’s video salesand was shown at a large number of international festivals, winning theSpecial Jury Prize at the Festival ‘De Drake’ in Belgium.

I Am Not What You Wantbroke the mould in more than sales. Much of its popularity can be putdown to the simplicity and charm of the very innocent love affair itshows developing between two very ‘normal’ New Territories boys. It isan infectiously joyous film in which gay love is drawn just like anyother and which has, for once, a happy ending. Audiences, straight andgay, warmed to it.

“Hong Kong is desperate for this kind ofrealistic representation of normal gay life,” Kit told me. “My ambitionwas to make it so ordinary, and I got a lot of comments like ‘I’m notgay, but I like the film’ so I think I succeeded in getting across tomainstream society the idea that gay life isn’t different and that gaypeople shouldn’t feel isolated.” This worked even for his mother, whohad hardly talked to him for the six years since he’d come out; thefilm includes a scene based on what had happened at Kit’s home wherethe family sit in embarrassed silence throughout dinner. When she sawthe scene, his mother telephoned him in Chicago and told him sheunderstood and that she knew now that he’d really achieved something.


Screenshots from Soundless Wind Chime

Kit’s mother could not have ignored his sexual orientation. He came outat school at the age of 19, where he’d always known of his differencefrom most of his classmates, to whom he was a bit of a ‘sissy’. He wasthen exposed to the very camp atmosphere of Metro Broadcast radio,where he worked part time. A search on Yahoo for ‘Gay Hong Kong’ tookhim to a university where for the first time he met a lot of other tongzhi.Kit now embraced his sexuality and threw himself into gay activism. Atthe Polytechnic University, he was cofounder of the ‘Gay and LesbianOrientation Camp’ which gathered over a hundred university studentstogether in the country in 1997, as well as a committee member of theJoint University Queer Union, where he met Kenneth Cheung and Tommy Jaiand which was the foundation for what later became Rainbow Hong Kong,the LGBT drop in centre and activist group in Kowloon. Later, inChicago, Kit founded the first Queer Film Festival at the School of ArtInstitute, a one-off six-day celebration of gay and lesbian film.

Kit was in Chicago due to the success of I Am Not What You Want,which won him a scholarship to study for a MFA in Studio at the Schoolof Art Institute of Chicago. Here, Kit made the 38-minute short Buffering,a story examining long distance relationships and linking technologyand the ordinary world, featuring Hong Kong singer-song writer ChetLam. This won plaudits at film festivals worldwide, including in Turin,and secured him invitations to the Berlin film festival’s BerlinaleTalent Campus in 2003 and 2004, a melting pot of European film talentthat brought him many of the contacts that he has been able to workwith until today. He also began work on Soundless Wind Chime,though this took many years to bring to fruition. Initially, this was aproject involving both Kit and a lesbian friend. They separately wrotealternate scenes involving a lesbian and a gay couple, each allowingthe other to continue the tale. Sadly, his partner dropped out,depressed by the difficulty of interesting commercial backers in themovie and taking her lesbian stories with her, leaving Kit alone withhis gay characters and the struggle to complete the film.

In themeantime, Kit found himself in Switzerland, home of the German Swisswho became and remains his partner. It was a base from which hecontinued to develop his own style in half a dozen music videos forrecording artists from China, Hong Kong (Chet Lam and Kelly Cha) andSwitzerland (the popular Swiss singer- song writer, Signorino TJ) andan opening short for the Amsterdam Film Festival. What links all thesepieces is the desire, both of Kit and of artists like Chet Lam withwhom he works, to break moulds and to escape the clutches of thecommercial hardcore. “I use hi-tech methods to create something raw,touchy” he says. “Especially for Signorino TJ, I developed a style likethe Monty Python cartoons, which he had introduced to me.” He also madevisuals for a Liverpool-based film company for two children’s theatreproductions in Switzerland; this too, mixed multi-media elements intothe form of a TV game involving ten characters played by three peoplewearing masks, typically for Kit linking techniques both ancient andnew.

All the time, though, Kit was pulling together the script, finance and cast for Soundless Wind Chime.The project received new motivation in Switzerland, where Kit’spartner’s parents both died within a short space of time and Kit foundhimself wanting to talk to the dead as though they were still there.So, he wrote new parts of the film, parts which form its heart, toresolve the issues which faced him; issues of loss, of dealing withgrief, of the denial and the need for final acceptance of death.Rebirth features, in a semi-Buddhist sense and in the reincarnation ofa dead person in the form of another who looks the same, maybe is thesame, but has no memory of any former life and so can never be the sameperson. Western viewers may miss some of this on first viewing (forinstance the old couple and the young boy parting at the start of thefilm recalls, to those who know the Chinese story, the old woman whogives the about-to-be reborn soul its soup of forgetfulness before itcrosses the bridge to this world). Inevitably, almost all will missmany of the personal references in this film. Yet the scenes arisingfrom Kit’s own experiences in Switzerland, the old Chinese womandancing, the girl playing the violin, all fit seamlessly into thesurrealist atmosphere of the country he recreates.

“I alsowanted to show an inter-racial relationship like my own,” Kit adds,“something that was part of me. There are so few shows which show this.I can think only of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and Simon Chung’s Innocentthat do this well. It needs a lot of sensitivity to describe this.” Thetwo leading actors are both outsiders, one a mainland Chinese the otherSwiss. Lu Yulai plays a poor Chinese restaurant worker recently arrivedin Hong Kong and Bernhard Bulling has two roles, as Pascal, a vagabondSwiss thieving for a meagre living in Hong Kong, and Ueli, hisreincarnation (or doppel gänger, perhaps), a gentleshopkeeper in rural Switzerland. The first two characters are alsooutsiders, the third is cut off from his family through grief. All canscarcely communicate in words, hence the title, for the very realcommunication that eventually leads to love between the characters isby means other than sounds, chimes singing from the soul, far moreeffective than mere vocal chords. Pascal dies and maybe is, maybeisn’t, resurrected as Ueli, but how is not important to these themes.Again, Kit breaks stereotypes and, through subconscious linkages,surprises and persuades his audience.

Soundless Wind Chimeis already a success; winning the Best Feature Film, Nuovi Sguardiaward and a special mention under the Special Jury award at the 24thTorino GLBT Film Festival last month as well as a Teddy Award (theofficial LGBT award) nomination at the 59th Berlin International FilmFestival. It is now distributed by Hong Kong’s Golden Scene and willhit Hong Kong screens in the summer, followed by cinemas in NorthAmerica, the United Kingdom and Europe. There’ll be a DVD, it seems, bythe end of the year. By then, Kit will be deep into his next project, amusical film, and is moving for the time being to Hong Kong to work onit. Here he’ll also carry on doing other things as well, includingteaching at the City and Polytech Universities. His next film, he says,will not, for once, be a film with a gay theme, but then Kit doesn’tbelieve his earlier films have just been ‘gay films’ either, ratherfilms about relationships in which the characters happen to be gay.“Gay films have been an opportunity for me,” Kit confesses. “They arenot a limitation. To make something close to you it’s easier to workwith the greater energy and passion that your feelings and experiencebring to the screen. My films have given me the chance to show what Ican do,” he adds. Paradoxically, he believes that the next few years,difficult though they may be economically, may give independent filmmakers opportunities as the big commercial projects find fewer backers.“There’ll be a lot of creative hunger that’ll need filling up.” He forone intends to rise to this challenge.

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之前听TZ说跟读软件，练听数字和日期的软件对自己的帮助很大，想请问有用过这些软件的朋友给介绍一下在哪里可以找到哪一种比较好！谢谢

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我和我老婆都是在环球雅思学的（07年的事儿了），都拿到了自己想要的分数。觉得里面有些老师还是不错的，比如 曾丽娟（听力，口语），杨琳 （写作），徐佩（阅读），严春华（写作，据说超棒的老师，可惜我们两都错过了她的课）。

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“双赢”这样的说法来自game theory，学一点这方面的知识就翻译起来就很便利。

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2月份考试过了，可以和我分享学习方法吗

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不入籍，我要当中国人

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价格如何？可发短信。

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这个实在 感谢楼主

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这事，急不来的。

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itinerary是不是更全面的旅行计划?包括routine?
travel schedule呢?具体是指哪些东西?

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正常

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玩Ｗｉｉ的網球遊戲時，用得到，
ALL  常聽到，是平手。

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any difference to anti bacterial?

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It took Mr Rudd nearly 25 minutes to answer a question from Labor backbencher Darren Cheesman about the government's nation-building program for economic recovery.
Mr.Rudd （陆克文）用了25分钟来回答劳工党的影子部长 Darren Cheesman  关于经济复苏政府国家建设项目。
我翻译的对吗？

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你要的是的第几册的啊？

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我上个周六做了一套题目
惨不忍睹
刚刚经历了LS的心理历程
一起加油吧
我7月考试

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hard breathing

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第一个问题，是个印度人问我的，还问是不是吃青蛙啥的

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1.At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
无论如何，我确信神不会玩掷骰子。

这句话是表明 爱因斯坦对 量子力学中的几率波的概念始终不接受。

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取消该帖子！谢谢管理员

[ 本帖最后由 FREEMAN-AU 于 13-6-2009 19:11 编辑 ]

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thank you so much.i always confuse.

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5月14日马英九接受Time记者专访内容
发信站：天益社区（http://bbs.tecn.cn），版面：台海透视
本文链接：http://bbs.tecn.cn/viewthread.php?tid=342399


注：转载。中文仅为参考，原意以Time官方英文为准。此贴仅供参考学习。

马英九：执政周年回顾与反思
Thursday, May. 14, 2009
Sunshined/译

在就职的一年期间，马英九一直履行着自己缓和两岸关系的承诺。北京和台湾已经签订了很多具有历史意义的协议，包括开放直航，允许大陆游客到台湾旅游，逐步加强金融合作等。台湾最近也表示，首次允许大陆向台湾投资。5月12日，TIME杂志的Jim Erickson, Michael Schuman和Natalie Tso与马英九面对面，讨论有关中国，经济和台湾未来的话题。

记者：说说你就职一年来的感想吧。

马：对我们来说，这是艰难的一年。我们在原材料和油价彪高的时候接手，又遭遇了经济危机。为了拯救银行业我们采取了一定的措施，也将遗产税从50%降到了10%。外部对台湾也有影响。目前，我们向市民散发了购物优惠券，这是项非常成功的举措。我们也向公共建设注入了200亿美元的资金。

记者：在处理经济危机方面所花费的精力有没有阻滞你最初的计划？

马：我们当初的目标是，经济增长率达到6%，将失业率维持在3%以下，在四年内人均GDP达到18000$。经济危机让这些目标化为泡影。但是，我们一直在努力复苏经济。路还很长。我们坚信，台湾人民足够坚强勇敢，经济会逐渐好转的。

记者：你们从经济危机中学到了什么？

马：向美国和欧洲出口额的紧缩使我们的经济遭受了严重打击，因为出口额占据我们GDP增长的64%。所以，一个教训是，我们要使出口市场多样化，发掘新兴市场。其次，我们要使出口工业多样化，目前，我们太依赖IT产业。第三，我们为未来设计了几种龙头行业：绿色能源，旅游，生物技术，精制农业和文化创意产业。我们敏锐地意识到，在未来5到10年内，这些产业将是世界上的主要产业。我们不仅要改变经济政策，也要改变政治和安全策略，这也是我改变大陆政策的原因。

记者：你一直在讨论两岸经济合作架构协议（ECFA）。你想通过该协议达成什么？

马：ECFA与一般的自由贸易协议不同。我们想要与大陆商议最为紧迫的议题。比如，石油化学制品，汽车零件和纺织品。这些产品在我们向大陆出口的产品中占了很大比重。从明年开始，相同的产品（东南亚国家）将会免除关税，但是我们的产品将会面临着5%到15%的关税。这对我们的工业来说是致命的。去年，我们已经针对空运、财政监督机制、期货和保险公司方面签署了九项协议（接下来的几个月我们将会继续协商）；而且，在食品安全，邮政协作，司法协助和打击犯罪方面，双方也签订了具有里程碑意义的协议。

记者：台湾人民关心的一个关键问题是，与大陆的经济一体化也就意味着政治一体化。你怎样让他们理解，你能如你所保证的那样，“处理”主权问题，而非解决主权问题？

马：我们自1992年开始就处理主权问题。那时候，大陆表示我们必须遵循一个中国的原则。

我们可以接受一个中国的原则，但是我们的定义与大陆不同。我们接受一个中国的原则，并不只是要取悦他们。

根据我们的宪法，“中国”的政体成立于1946年，在共产党执政三年前。

我们不承认大陆是一个主权国家，就像他们不承认台湾是一个主权国家一样。在法律层面上，我们不承认彼此。但是，我们可以达成互不否认的方针政策。

记者：仍然有一部分人担心你出卖台湾。

马：我们的民意调查证明，大部分人是相信我们的。

记者：但是仍存在一些抗议。

马：是有一些，但并不是人人都有抗议。

记者：有没有举措赢得这些人的支持？

马：我们允许大陆游客来台湾旅游之后，很多人说他们不会来。刚开始，一个月只有几百人。但是，现在每天平均有3000人。很多景点挤满了大陆游客，有些人挥金如土。人们开始逐渐相信让他们来是有利于台湾发展的。另外一个问题是大陆资金。有些人害怕大陆资金将会破坏本土资本市场。但是，我们会调节不同的产业，实现逐步开放。台湾非常依赖于国际贸易和投资，不可能有完全孤立的政策。

记者：你们目前的举措降低了经济危机的影响吗？

马：如果我们没有与大陆开放直航，情况可能会更糟。对生意人来说，降低成本是很重要的。以前，对船运业来说，他们想要把货物运到大陆，必须在冲绳岛停留，并支付5000到10000美元的费用。这样的蠢事我们做了二十多年，那个小岛也获得了暴利，现在，不会了。

记者：军事问题呢？之前你说，如果大陆不撤离针对台湾的导弹你就不用与他们谈判，但是现在你好像松懈了。

马：不，我并没有松懈。我们仍然要求他们撤离导弹。如果双方可以达成和平协议，有关撤离导弹的协议将不同于直航协议。

记者：你希望与大陆展开军事方面的会谈吗？

马：不，我认为那不是眼下最紧急的。

记者：那就是说，今年不会有和平协议？

马：不会，我认为不会。你不知道为什么吗？去年我上任的时候我已经说的很清楚了，我们针对大陆的政策基于以下三个原则：不统一，不独立，不使用武力。不统一的意思是在任期间不与大陆讨论统一问题。第二个不独立。当然，台湾有自主权，因为我们竞选自己的总统，议会，经营我们自己的生意，但是，这里的独立我指的是法律上的独立。我不会那样做，也反对使用武力。

只要不寻求政治独立——那是大陆对我们使用武力的原因——我们将保持现在的政治状态——这是20年来的主要政治观点。这也是我为什么会当选的原因，不像前几任总统，一味寻求政治独立只会给台湾带来很多麻烦。

记者：你认为大陆会强迫你改变现在的政治状态吗？

马：当然，他们希望我们尽快改变。显然，他们认为，在台湾人民眼里，这不是什么大问题。但是，直到现在，我执政一年了，人们仍对大陆存有疑虑。他们担心大陆的生活方式难以被人接受，特别是涉及到民主和自由的时候。现在还不是讨论所谓的“统一”的时候。涉及到安全问题，两年以前，胡锦涛正式提出，双方可以签订和平协议。那时候，我正在竞选总统，并做出了积极回应。但是，我想澄清，那不是关于台湾未来的协议，而只是个安全议题。与统一有关的问题，我在任期间不会触及。

记者：在接下来的一年中，两岸关系将会如何？

马：我们现在已处在正轨上。很多美国专家认为现在是60年来两岸关系最好的时候。中国与华盛顿和台北关系友好，反之亦然。在接下来的一年中，我们当然希望在ECFA上达成一些目标，使两岸关系日趋正常。

其次，我们希望能够避免亚洲区域经济一体化对台湾的排斥。如果能与大陆达成ECFA，我认为，来自贸易伙伴的压力将会降低。很多与我们没有外交关系的国家现在表示，他们感到了些微的放松。既然北京能与台湾改善关系，那么他们也能。台湾不再是东亚的闪点，我们也不希望这样。民意调查显示，大部分人还是支持我们的政策的。但是，我们仍然需要与在野党交流。他们认定我们在出卖台湾，但是，我一直告诉每个人，“听着，我们没有出卖台湾，我只是将台湾的水果卖给了大陆而已。”


Time英文原文：
Taiwan's Ma Reflects on His First Year As President
Thursday, May. 14, 2009

In his first year in office, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has kept his promise to ease tensions with the island's longstanding rival, China. Beijing and Taipei have signed several historic agreements opening up direct transport links, allowing mainland Chinese tourists to visit Taiwan, and calling for financial cooperation. Taiwan also recently announced Chinese would be allowed to invest in Taiwan for the first time. On May 12, TIME's Jim Erickson, Michael Schuman and Natalie Tso sat down with Ma to talk with him about China, the economy, and Taiwan's future.

Ma: Well it was a tough year for us. When we first took office we were faced with high prices of raw materials and oil, followed by the financial tsunami and economic downturn. We took measures to rescue the banking industry. We also reduced the inheritance tax from 50% to 10%. That has had an affect on Taiwanese capital outside of Taiwan. In recent months, that capital has been coming back. We also distributed shopping vouchers to our citizens. That was a very successful program. We also will inject about $20 billion for public construction. (Read TIME's interview with Ma after his election in 2008.)

T: Has the amount of attention spent dealing with the crisis set back initiatives you wanted to take the first year?

M: We wanted to see a growth rate of 6%, keep the unemployment rate below 3%, and boost annual per capita GDP to $18,000 within four years. The economic crisis disrupted all of these goals. But we continue to work to revitalize the economy. We still have a long way to go. But that's OK, because we believe the Taiwanese have the perseverance and work ethic to make the economy come back.

T: What kind of lessons have you learned from the crisis?

M: We were hard hit by the shrinkage of the export market in the U.S. and Europe, because exports account for 64% of our GDP growth. So one lesson we learned is we should diversify our export markets — we need to look to emerging markets and oil-producing countries. Secondly, we should diversify our export industries — we depend so much on IT industries. Third, we have designated six industries as future flagship industries: green energy, tourism, biotechnology, refined agriculture, and the cultural and creative industries. We are keenly aware these industries in 5 to 10 years will be the major industries of the world. Not only do we have to revise our economic policy, but also our political and security policy, so that is why I started to reform our China policy.

T: You have been talking about an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China. What do you want to achieve with that?

M: The ECFA will be different from a normal free-trade agreement. It will take the form of a framework that will identify the types of items we will negotiate over time. We want to negotiate with the mainland about some of the products we consider most urgent. For instance, pertrochemicals, auto parts, textiles, these products constitute a large percentage of our exports to the mainland. Beginning next year, the same products from (Southeast Asian countries) will have no tariffs, but ours will face tariff rates from 5% to 15%. That will kill our industries. The mainland has already indicated interest in signing an agreement with us. In the last year we've signed nine agreements focusing on air transport; a financial supervisory mechanism covering stocks, futures and insurance companies, which will be negotiated in the next couple of months; also food safety, postal cooperation, a joint effort to combat crime and judicial assistance. These are all milestone agreements. (Read about new business deals between China and Taiwan.)

T: There's a substantial part of the Taiwanese population that is concerned economic integration with China will mean political integration. How can you help them understand that you can, as you have said in the past, "manage" the sovereignty issue, without actually settling it?

M: We started to manage the sovereignty issue as early as 1992. At the time, China said we have to observe the One-China principle. We said we can accept the One-China principle but our definition is different from yours. We accept that principle not because we want to please them, but this is what our constitution says, and our constitution was adopted in 1946, three years before the Chinese communists came into power...we don't recognize the mainland as a nation nor do they recognize (Taiwan) as a nation. So what I have called for is that we continue to have mutual non-recognition. We cannot recognize each other on the legal level. But we could have a policy of non-denial on the de facto level.

T: There's still a percentage of population of fearful that you're selling Taiwan out.

M: We conduct opinion polls to see whether they trust us and the majority does.

T: But there are still fierce protests.

M: Some, but not everyone.

T: Is there progress in winning some of them over?

M: Look at what happened when we allowed mainland tourists to come to Taiwan last year. Opponents said they wouldn't come. In the beginning, only a few hundred came a month, but now we have about 3,000 daily. Many of our attractions are crowded with mainland tourists, and some are big spenders. People generally believe that this is in our interest to have them here. The other thing is mainland capital. Of course there are people who fear mainland capital will ruin our capital market but we'll regulate the different industries, so we [will open up] bit by bit. Taiwan is a country that depends so much on international trade and investment, you can't really have an isolationist policy.
T: Do you think the steps you've taken have helped reduce the impact of the economic crisis?

M: If we had not done things like opening up direct transportation links to the mainland, we'd suffer more. Cost reduction is very important for businessmen. For the shipping industry, they [previously] had to move goods to China by stopping over in a tiny town in Okinawa and paying $5,000 to $10,000 to get a chop to say they've been though a third place. We've done this stupid thing for more than 20 years, and that little town has got a windfall, but now it's changed.

T: Where are you on the military issue? You have previously said you could not negotiate with China until they removed their missiles [targeting Taiwan], but you seem to have relaxed that.

M: No, I haven't relaxed that. We still want them to remove the missiles. But if the two sides are to negotiate a peace agreement, the requirement on the removal of missiles obviously should not apply to the negotiations for cross-strait flights.

T: Do you hope to have talks with China about the military?

M: No, I don't think that's very urgent.

T: So no peace agreement this year?

M: No, I don't think so, do you know why? We have already made it very clear last year when I took office, that I'll have a mainland policy, which is under the framework of our constitution and which is based on three principles: no unification, no independence, and no use of force. By no unification I mean no unification talks with the mainland during my term. The second is no independence. Of course Taiwan has autonomy because we elect our own president, parliament and run our own business, but the independence I talk about is de jure independence. I won't do that, and we oppose the use of force.

The reason is to assure the other side, as long as we're not taking a policy to pursue de jure independence – that's a reason for the mainland to use force against us – we will maintain the status quo, which reflects what the mainstream public opinion has been for more than 20 years. That is one of the reasons I was elected last year, unlike my predecessor who opted for a pro-independence policy which caused Taiwan a lot of trouble.

T: Do you think China will pressure you to change the political status quo?

M: Of course they hope we'll do it faster. Obviously they understand it is not a very urgent issue in the eyes of the Taiwanese people. You see, up to now, only one year into my presidency, people still have a lot of doubts about China. They fear their way of life is not something [China] can accept, particularly in terms of freedom and democracy, so obviously the time has not come for the two sides to negotiate something called unification. But on the issue of security, two years ago, [China President] Hu Jintao formally extended an offer to Taiwan, that we should sign a peace agreement. At the time, I was running for president, and I responded positively. But I think that we want to make it clear this is not an agreement on Taiwan's future buy rather it is a security issue. Taiwan's future is related to unification and I made it very clear that I won't touch that issue during my presidency.

T: How would you like China relations to progress in the next year?

M: We're now on the right track. Many American experts on China relations say relations between China and Taiwan are the best in 60 years. China can have a friendly relationship with Washington and Taipei and vice versa. A year from now, we certainly hope to achieve something on the ECFA issue and further normalize our relations with the mainland.

Secondly we hope we can avoid the marginalization of Taiwan as a result of regional economic integration in Asia. If we are able to have the ECFA with China, I think the pressure on our trading partners will be reduced. Many countries with whom we don't have diplomatic ties come to us now and say they feel a bit relieved, that if Beijing is ready to improve relations with you, why can't we? Taiwan is no longer a flashpoint in East Asia, and that's what we want. Opinion polls show the majority, sometimes a great majority, support our policies, but we still need to talk to our opposition. They always believe we are selling out Taiwan, but I keep telling everyone, "Listen, we're not selling out Taiwan, the only thing I sell out is Taiwan's fruit to the mainland."

[ 本帖最后由 richard711 于 2009-5-20 02:25 编辑 ]

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没事，走吧！

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Sory, hehehe.....

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请问 Conjoint Professor 和 Conjoint Lecturer 怎么翻译？

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Accent Reduction Tips

1. When watching TV or Listening to the radio in English, repeat the speech you hear. Observe and imitate the movements of native speakers, stay focus on imitating the tone and rhythm of their speech.

2. Listen to the 'music' of English. Don't use the music of your native language when you are speaking English. Each language has its own way of 'singing'.

3. Make a list of frequently used words that are difficult for you to pronounce. Ask a native speaker to pronounce them for you. Record these words, listen to them and practice saying them.

4. Pronounce the ending of each word. Pay special attention to 's' and 'ed' endings.

5. List high frequency vocabulary. Make a list of work terminology that you use frequently and make sure you know how to pronounce those words. Include the pronunciation of the names of your superiors and colleagues.

6. Record your own voice and listen for pronunciation mistakes. Many people hate to hear the sound of their voice and avoid having to listen to themselves speaking. However, this is an important exercise because it will help you become conscious of your  mistakes.

7. Until you learn the correct intonation and rhythm of English, slow down your speech. If you speak too quickly with the wrong intonation and rhythm, native speakers will have a hard time understanding you. Don't worry about your listener getting impatient about your slow speech-it's more important that everything you say be understood. If you slow down, the intonation matters less because people hear each word in isolation. Think about famous people and how slowly they talk. Martin Luther King, for instance, paused after beginning with 'I have a dream'

8.Use your dictionary. Become famailiar with the phonetic symbols of your dictionary and look up the correct punctuation of words that hard for you to say.

9. Buy a book on tape. Buy the same book in printed form. Listen to the tape and read at the same time, paying close attention to the pronunciation of words, the rhythm, and the pausing of the speaker. Then, record yourself reading some sections of the book. Compare the sound of your English with that of the speaker from the recording.

10. Read aloud in English for 15 to 20 minutes each day. This will help you strengthen the mouth muscles you use when speaking English. Research has shown that it takes about 3 months of daily practice to develop strong mouth muscles for speaking a new language.

11. Be patient. You can change the way you speak but it won't happen overnight. People often expect instant results and give up too soon. You can change the way you sound if you are willing to put some effort into it.

From SpeechNetwork.

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do your best!

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这个地方应该是你要的了
http://www.putclub.com/

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楼上的信息很全啊

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怎么是这样啊，没想到

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建议你试试在线的乐知道英语，我感觉挺不错的，在家就可以上课的，通过网络和老师互动交流的形式, 有很多针对性的小班课程，每晚都有很多的免费试听课程，

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这个学校如何呢？都是国际学生吗？
能学到东西吗？

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别以为火箭没戏了(2009-05-11 14:34:53)标签：巴蒂尔 火箭 nba 季后赛 湖人 姚明 体育   





当大家都以为火箭没戏的时候，我们用出色的表现震惊了篮坛。在得知火箭最佳球员、球队领袖姚明受伤赛季报销后不到24小时，大家都认为我们没有机会再在这个系列赛中取胜。湖人在第三场比赛中击败了我们，现在没有了姚明，火箭赢球的希望就更加渺茫了。那些并非真正支持火箭的人也开始关心起我们将作何反应。那些人根本不了解我们球队。我们队员个个都是斗士，我们不喜欢被人看扁，认为我们在逆境面前无法赢球。这是我职业生涯中最值得骄傲的一场胜利。毫无疑问，湖人的才华、实力、运动天赋都要胜过我们。对我们来说，这意味着我们需要更加努力、更加团结，以弥补我们天赋和实力的不足。



我不知道有多少球队会像我们今天这样回应(质疑)。看看今天的板凳席，不能出场的球员的年薪加在一块有4000万美元，他们是穆托姆博、麦蒂和姚明。没有哪支球队在失去这么多主力的情况下依然能够打得那么好，并且击败联盟中最好的球队。不可能。



我很高兴在比赛的最后时刻能够投中几个关键的三分，帮助球队锁定胜局。姚明缺阵，我们最好的对策就是多投三分，如果需要投40个三分，那我们就会投40个（除非你折断我的胳膊）。我不知道如果我们是否可以赢得这个系列赛，因为湖人太优秀，但我直到我们将战斗到最后一刻，我们至少还有机会。像我们这样的球队，需要的只是一个机会，再小都无所谓。



火箭加油，



肖恩



原文如下——



Just when you thought that you could write off the Houston Rockets, we give a performance that shakes up the basketball world. Less than 24 hours after hearing our best player and leader, Yao Ming, will miss the rest of the playoffs with a foot fracture, most people did not think that we had a chance to even win another game in this series. The Lakers beat us handily in game 3 and without Yao, the chances of success were slim. People who did not really follow our team had already made up their minds on how this team would react. Those people don't know our team. We are a team of fighters, who don't like to be told that they can't win because of adversity. I am as proud of this win today as I have ever been of a win in my professional career. There is no question that the Lakers are more talented than us, they are bigger and more athletic. For us, those facts do not mean much other than the fact that we know we have to compete harder and be more of a team to make up for our lack of talent and athletic shortcomings.



I don't know how many teams would have responded like we did today. When we looked over on the bench today, there was over 40 million dollars of salary in street clothes between Dikembe, Tracy, and Yao. You could not find another team in the entire league that could lose that much and still be competitive and take down one of the best teams in the NBA. No way.



I was happy to be able to finally hit some three pointers to help my team win. The best way to make up for the absence of Yao is to shoot more three pointers, if it takes 40 three pointers, then we will shoot 40 three pointers (you don't need to twist my arm!). I don't know if we can win this series, the Lakers are very good, but I do know that we'll compete to the final buzzer and that will give us a chance at least. With a team like we have, all we want is a chance, no matter how small it may be.



Go Rockets,

Shane

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Kao，一个也不会！

不过，我还是觉得英语不是学出来的，而是在英语国家“生活”出来的。当然在英语国家整天闷在自己中文圈，那不叫“生活”。

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学习外语最重要的就是语言环境，要经常跟别人交流，交流多了，你掌握的单词就多了，再学习其他的语法知识效果就好多了，你可以尝试着先提高自己口语，我之前找了许多家都是由于各种原因没学好，后来自己上网找了几个比较了一下，就是在家跟老外交流，学习英语，挺不错的，叫乐知英语，各个级别的课程都有，是在线授课的形式，在家和老师就可以互动的交流，很方便，不用跑来跑去，老师质量非常的好，而且都是在国外的中外教，而且每晚都有免费的试听课程可以体验，很透明，有时间可以先上去免费试听一下啊，希望能对你有帮助哦

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如果还有不懂想学习的，可以去乐知英语看下啊，他们是通过互联网进行在线教学，因此不地域影响，有的老师就在美国本土上课，所以是最原汁原味的英语，语言的鲜活性和生动性有保障。