2009年1月10日星期六

of 作“具有……性质的”

prep. 具有…性质的
a woman of great charm
妩媚的女人

Sample from paper:
Consider two conductors each of resistance R and of the same uniform temperature T connected in the manner indicated in Fig. 1.

Appreciation:
该句中"each"到"connected"之间的一段还可以表达成:hasing a resistance R and at the same uniform temperature T,意思完全一样而且同样简洁。但是,换成两个相同的介词"of",表达效果就不一样了,句子结构更加清爽紧凑,读起来琅琅上口。由"and"连接两个"of"形成了类似排比的形式,一看就知道前后并列的两个条件一起修饰"conductors",用"each"表示前述总体中的每一个,不用"everyone"。漂亮英语论文,其句子再长每个意群的长度都是差不多的。该例句也是一个漂亮的典范,让人觉得增一分则多、减一分则少。

Have a Try:
The teacher leading me using English than learning is Studio Classroom magazine series each of a clear goal for a definite English level and of positive encouragement for all the student to get a better life because of English.

2009年1月9日星期五

My Time-eaters

Things we do at work but have nothing to do with it are time-eaters. Many people who's goal is not clear are often troubled by time-eaters. If we draw the time-eater out of our daily life, we can get more work done or get them done earlier.

Today, my biggest time-eater is -- blogging. I wrote 3 blogs a day, including this one. That's too many, even though they were wroted mostly in the spare time. However, the blogging made me think something else, and I couldn't help searching them on the internet, and then thought further away. Of course, they were no working related items. Fortunatly, I've got the work done. But now, I've got a real headache because of too much imaginarily logical thinking. Could I make conclusion like this: don't do things far beyond the ability or do more realistic experiments instead of imagination?

undertake

vt. 作及物动词
1) To take upon oneself; decide or agree to do: 着手作;从事自己承办;决定或同意去作:
undertake a task.开始进行一项任务
2) To pledge or commit (oneself) to: 承担,接受保证或表明(自己):
undertake oneself to care for an elderly relative.自己承担关照年长的亲戚
3) To set about; begin.着手;开始 Obsolete
vi. 作不及物动词
1) To make oneself responsible. Used with for.负责,担保。与for连用
2) To agree with doing sth. Used with to. 答应,同意。与to连用:
I undertook to teach the children English.我答应教孩子们英语。

Sample from paper:
The work to be reported in the present paper was undertaken after Johnson's results were available to the writer and consists of a theoretical deduction of the electromotive force in question from thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Appreciation:
该句选自Nyquist1928年关于热噪声公式理论推导的论文,与热噪声的发现者Johnson博士的实验研究发表在同期的Physical Review上。句中的undertake作“着手作”解,was undertaken after的用法体现了作者的谦虚。理论研究与实验研究同等重要,Johnson的结果中有一些无法解释的误差,由于Nyquist从理论推导出相同的结果,他的论点得到加强。有时候理论研究来得方便,只需一支笔、一张纸,而实验却包含长期艰苦的工作、大量的数据处理,从上面的行文中我们可以读出Nyquist对Johnson博士的实验工作发自内心的尊重。

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Our work was undertaken after Dr. H. Zhang's explorational platform was built and by which prelimimary data were obtained to get some knowledge about the noise of whole-cell patch based membrane capacitance measurement.