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Nov 19, 2013
Nice meeting you, Clemenza! It was very interesting to hear your thoughts on different topics, including air pollution and comedy in China. Keep up with your English studies. I hope to talk again soon!
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    please help explain gist of this sentence The same is true of theatrical exhibitions, which sometimes last for days, though they fade into insignificance in comparison with those of Siam, where we are assured by those who claim to have survived one of them that they are known to hold for two months together! This is argument to support the thesis that someone is characterized by disregard of time, but I can't grasp it
    February 11, 2014
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    How automobile change our lives? It is a little controversial to say, maybe, automobile is the greatest invention in last century, whereas nobody can refute how automobile industry far-reaching influence human society in multifaceted ways since its advent. Automobile brings enormous convenience to people's daily life. Regardless of working, shopping, travelling, etc., people always drive cars. Not only cars can deliver passengers to a long distance quickly but also can take cumbersome cargo. To some extent, automobile facilitates cities to develop bigger and divide into several areas by functions, such that citizens can live in a corner while work in another. Based on such convenience and efficiency, cities can absorb more population and are enlarged greatly. Thus, there could not have been so many super cities all over the world, if had automobile not been invented. In other words, automobile also enhance communications and convergence between different places far away each other. Automobile industrial contribute much more on employment aspect. Compare to other lightweight industries, like cloths and foot wear, automobile usually requires more investment, bigger workshops, and more assorted of technical experts and workers. It means more amounts and kinds of employee recruitment are needed, thus automobile industry is considered exerting more significant impact to native economics. In Fortunate top companies, there are amounts of automobile companies, such like GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc. They are all big employers and multinational, local employment rate is more or less affected by them. Even so, it cannot be neglected that automobile are detrimental to environment. Most non-renewable energy resources are consumed by automobile, and meanwhile contamination gas and other poison objects are let out. In order to govern air pollution, Beijing government ever restricted number of vehicles from hitting the road during Beijing Olympic Game according to its license plate number, which was proved effective that air quality became better. This can be seen as an evidence that automobile partly contributes to prior pollution fog indeed. It concluded that automobile played significant role in human history, positively and passively. Furthermore, it is probably that such impressive impact is still ongoing in the future.
    December 18, 2013
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    web definition from Google below as manpower search engine 人肉搜索,是一种以互联网为媒介,部分基于用人工方式对搜索引擎所提供信息逐个辨别真伪,部分又基于通过匿名知情人提供数据的方式搜集信息,以查找人物或者事件真相的群众运动。人肉搜索有时也造就了网络爆红现象。 You can image it a search aim at somebody, a specific person, with help of amounts of netizen, the man behind end computer. Such search commonly reveals targets' private information, such as address,telephone number, working or studying places,etc. Like a double-edge sword, it is seemingly immortality but benefits people sometimes, like exposing bad.
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    December 17, 2013
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    Why don't Chinese children have their own opinions? Writing section is arguably the most difficult part of TOEFL test, especially for Chinese students. Not only typing above 300 words in a limited time is challenging, but expressing substantial opinion of test takers pull out their own hair for Chinese students, who are never educated to form their own opinions.There are multifaceted factors contributing. Way of parenting education in China takes mainly role for the result. Children's initial values, such as kindnesses, honesty, and loyalty, are from their parents. Not what parents teaching is inappropriate, but the way they teaching is. They get used to forcing their children to obey their opinions rather than asking children how they think. Children who doubt their parents are considered black sheep and punished accordingly. Thus as time passes, children become increasingly obedient and don't propose their opinions any more. Moreover, it kills most precious curiosity of children at their best age. As growth of children, schooling education start to exert more influences on their thoughts. Forming own opinion is not encouraged by school, same as in family. Good teaching form, like class discussion, which is popular and considered highly stimulating opinions forming in western world, is rarely seen in Chinese classroom. On the contrary, subjects as physics and math, are extremely emphasized for easily quantized as score to rank. Above subjects require tremendous exercises to achieve high score as need of entering higher school, which is stressful, time-consuming, and suffering opinion forming. Reading regularly is not all the rage in China. Nevertheless, opinions come from the process of absorbing others' opinions plus one's own thinking. In other words, forming opinions requires input in advance, like reading and discussion. Children in China are not encouraged to read regularly. Moreover, reading books not related to school testing is strongly obstructed by parents and teachers, for sake of being useless in term of improving score. Besides, schooling stress has taken up almost all time and energy of children, for whom squeezing out leisure time itself is luxury enough already. Sum up, in contemporary, education sense caused this chronic phenomenon. Fortunately, quite a few people have been aware of root causes of this issue and actively made revolution of education in developed areas in China, in spite of we have to wait a long time before seeing the effect.
    December 15, 2013
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    From your description, maybe you can say “被学校要求休学了”, "休学"generally is temporary, permanent “休学” can be considered “开除”. This is a behavior that can be proposed by both student side and school side, of course it is usually compulsory once proposed by school.
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    December 15, 2013
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    全息宇宙理论

    你听说过全息宇宙理论吗?这个理论声称世界和乃至宇宙就是一张全息照相照片,这张全息照相照片是从黑洞<em>投射</em>(mapping?映射)的。你们相信这个理论吗?这个理论很激进的理论很难懂。我并不是一个物理学家,而且我不太明白物理学也没怎么研究过物理学,但是我认为这个理论不正确。我对这个理论,我有一个问题疑问,如果世界就是一张全息照相照片,人怎么能生孩子呢?(I'm a little confused why using this argument here,maybe “人类社会又如何能够进化” is more appropriate)一个黑洞不可以如何能够预测未来?。难道相信这个理论的人是说支持这个理论的人难道相信,我们所有的生活都已经发生了吗(cannot follow this sentence meaning either, how is it stated in the thesis you read?)?在这里有一个物理学家吗?你能回答我的问题吗?

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    December 15, 2013
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    I'm looking for topics to practice as well, but I try to figure out stimulating issues myself, which Google can help. Whereas if you really intend to obtain some from others, I can send you a free tiny software, which randomly generates a topic one time for you from a 100 topics list, then start to record your writing time and words number. This application is duly beneficial for Toelf writing, message me your email address if you need it. :-)

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    December 14, 2013
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    December 14, 2013
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    proposal to italki dashboard layout How many users knew the meaning of following others on italki, I mean does it make any difference compare with before you following him/her? As what I just found by chance, the plain "SOCIAL UPDATE", near the bottom of dashboard, is clickable! I really want to piss on italki's dashboard design! 1, The Student Tasks keep displaying on the top, this tutorial should be for a fresh user right?How about adding a check to decide an experienced user and cancel it, or just providing a button to make it can be closed by user. This position of dashboard is most important and should be utilized effectively. 2, Recently Online block is totally useless, just remove it permanently. Unless you can implement an chatting extension on page, like facebook do. 3,Recent Updates, there is no any hint that both social update and language update are clickable, they subtly disguise themselves in white background, as plain description text. italki display language update default, I understand it's tradeoff to encourage user correcting others' post, which benefits users(me included), but it decreases social feature indeed. Could italki redesign the layout to show both simultaneously? Or just give users an obvious entry to social update. No idea if all of this bother only me.
    December 11, 2013
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    December 11, 2013
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