Language: Who’s the hottiest of them all?
“It’s quite a normal usage in British journalism,” she notes. “Pops up on the BBC often. We’re comfortable with it in a headline, where we use the vernacular more than in copy, especially when it fits the space.” Freeland adds: “We’re a global paper. It’s important for us to […]
这个标志实在是让人觉得尴尬，不过它倒是教会了我一个不怎么常用的词：afforest。
Let’s Totally Afforest the Bodyguard!
Perhaps more people would understand reforestation rather than the less common afforestation, or even more simply, “tree planting”. But as it is, the sign certainly got noticed!
完全同意这一段。即便不懂英语，用翻译工具直接套，也应该选通俗易懂的单词啊。KISS （Keep It Simple, Stupid）永远是真理。
另外，中文里有很多过于口号化的东西的确很难翻译。所以有时大致翻出意思就行，某些太“国情”的东西可以跳过。（个人愚见，仅供参考。）
Bonus video: Travis - Closer
喜欢数学、图表、逻辑推理、流行音乐和说唱式俚语的朋友千万不要错过这篇文章：Hot Hot Heat — A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America
我不认识文章的作者Rob Harvilla，不过实在忍不住说一句：你太有才了！
Bonus video: Mims - This is why I’m Hot
What are you laughing at?
经常看到有人争论Friends的“经典性”，我觉得这两段话是最好的回应：
The sitcom Friends, for instance, a show often dismissed by the cynical as “cheesy” or “schmaltzy” - and certainly capable of being both - was wholeheartedly adopted by the British public. So much so that two years after its final episode, a day barely passes without its inclusion in the schedules. […]
‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations
就这篇文章展开的讨论很有意思：
Kottke
Lifehacker
我比较常用的是Yours、Sincerely和Love，很少用两个词的组合（Yours Sincerely、Yours Truly、Sincerely Yours等等），从来不用Cordially和xoxo。很多人提到的Best regards和Thanks我也不用，因为我通常都是把它们放在最后一句话里，比如Best regards to so and so或者Thanks a lot for blah blah blah，到了真正署名的时候还是用Yours+名字。
BTW, go see this film. Also check out this interview with Lucy Liu.
Bonus video: Hanson - Great Divide
一道挺有意思的题目：
You are given two ropes and a lighter. This is the only equipment you can use. You are told that each of the two ropes has the following property: if you light one end of the rope, it will take exactly one hour to burn all the way to the other end. But it doesn’t […]