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- 这是个很难解释的课题。想了很久，归纳出以下两点： 只能用“关于”的例子： 1. 这篇文章的内容是关于学英语的。 2. 今天的讨论题是关于汉语音调。 解释：文章、论述、话题、意见涉及的对象，应该用“关于”而不是“对于”。这个用法类似英文的about。 只能用“对于”的例子： 2. 这篇文章对于如何学习英语做了深入的讨论。 3. 这场大火对于当地经济影响巨大。 解释：说明行为、事件的对象或影响，只能用“对于”。这种情形往往可以只用一个“对”字（更口语化，并且似乎感觉更具体）。这个用法比较类似于英文的to或for。 有关对象的范围大小，特定性，对应的是人、物或事，似乎并非区别二者用法的关键。例如：“关于这个事，我没有其他办法了。”将这个例子中的关于换成对于没有任何不妥。 又如，“这件事对于小明来说非常重要。”这个例子中的“对于”的确是不可以替换成“关于”的，不能替换的理由是上面解释的第二点，而并非因为在句子的中间或开头。 其它的明确的区分，我暂时没想到。相信大部分说中文的人也很难想到，所以不必介意:-)。0 votedAugust 21, 20170
- [plural] are a [sth] ? There's a hot tweet: "Blockchains are a new invention that allows meritorious participants in an open network to govern without a ruler and without money." (by a celebrity) I'm confused by that [plural] are a [sth] ... Is that sentence grammatically correct and acceptable? Thanks!And this paragraph looks more typical: "Money is a network. Religion is a network. A corporation is a network. Roads are a network. Electricity is a network..."August 21, 201751
- ‘There is no A without B’, which one is the antecedent？ I’m reading a statement that: “in nature, there is no representation without evolution, and perhaps there is no evolution beyond a certain point without the capacity to represent the world.” My understanding is roughly like this If there is no evolution, then there is no representation.… But the translations (English to Chinese) suggested by translate engines both from Bing and Google are just the opposite of my understanding, they are roughly like If there is no representation, then there is no evolution. It makes me confused. In the sentence like ‘There is no A without B’, which one is the antecedent, and which is the outcome?March 25, 201620
Story of a Bean Spitting Machine
There was a village where a clever family built a great machine that can spit a different bean when feed with a different stuff. By this machine, the village became more prosperous with each passing day.
One day, a child fed it with a bean spat out by the machine itself; it had been working incessantly but spat noting out. Finally, the machine had to be taken apart to get the bean out. Since then, the elders set up a rule: Never feed with the beans spat by the machine itself.
For the people who utilize the machine, the matter was cleared; but the family who made the machine was very upset. They couldn’t accept that the machine with a flaw though it in fact doesn’t effect the use, and wanted a perfect solution that, don’t get into trouble when feed back a bean spat by itself meanwhile keep the original function that feed with different stuff to spit different bean.
Many smartest folks then had been trying to find a solution painstakingly, till vomited blood, but nary a satisfactory outcome; yet – the machine was called as <em>formal logic</em>. The family built the machine, known as <em>logician</em>.
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This revision adopted a lot of good advices or expressions from Jeff’s correction above.
The essay in Chinese at here: http://www.douban.com/note/484511991/; it’s taken a metaphor of the classical logic issue, namely the <em>antinomy of the liar</em> and the consistency problem of a logic system. It was written for some discussion on the forum in which there were some arguments on the issue. What I attempted to imply was that the machine (logic) has been always useful to us though it has some “flaw.” And the logicians, of course, need to seek the perfect solution.
0 votedFebruary 13, 20150Jeff, 原來你不僅是語言達人，還是寫作高手啊！儘管許多朋友已經給出了非常好的建議，我還是藉此提供一個我的方案，作為報答。:)
除夕心思 - 2014 年的最後一篇小作
(1)快就要下班了.
(2)南加州的此刻是除夕的早上十一點半.
(3)這一年就這样不經不覺要溜走了.
(4)三百六十四日去了那兒? 當一個人快樂時, 時間飛跑無拘, 心不快樂時, 似乎纒死不放離.
(5)希望大家的 2014 年的光陰如我的, 也是飛跑得迅速飛快!(6)2015年, 安康無憂, 在這兒学習順利, 快快登上你言語言学習的極峯.
明年再見!
----說明：很有文采的短文。我的修改盡量體現你的style。
(1) “就”在這裡比“快”語氣更飽滿，有張力。(1)與(2)對調，更加自然順暢。
(2) 這兩處“的”的運用，值得體味：前面增加一個“的”，加強語氣。後面一個，明顯多餘。
(3) 那個“要”加上，意思是很精確，但我認為不在這種散文中是多餘的，破壞了語感。
(4) 這句中的“時間飛跑無拘”和“似乎纒死不放離”都可以說，但是至少在我讀來，覺得不是那麼的雋永。
不知道你前面是否想到了“時光如白駒過隙”的典故，那麼可以說“時光飛跑如駒”，就很有文采了。如是，則後一句若也能用一個典故或成語並且與之對仗，那就達到某種文學家的水準了（可惜我一時也沒想到好的表達，大抵因為我也不是文學家吧，呵呵）。
(5) 前半句那個改法，你一定要讀起來才知道好處。漢語是很講究節奏與韻味的。後面，“迅速”太平庸了，況且前面已經用了“跑”的比喻，這裡當然要重複。
(6) 我們只能學習語言，而不是“言語”，後一概念指實際使用中的那些話語，常作為語言學的特定術語使用。
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