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Will You Offer Money to the Begging Man on the Streets?
I saw a discussion on the Internet yesterday, on whether to offer money to a the begging person you've met. Someone said that he once bought bread for a poor man he saw drinking the water from the trash. Some others said that they would give gave any kind of help other than money.
I once gave 10 yuan to a man at the Shanghai Railway Station, for he told me his money had been he was stolen and needed money to get back home (hometown) desperatelly. I wished that he could get enough money. Strangely, several months later, similar things were discussed on the Internet again and again, and one person said that he even met with a same person begging him for money back home at the same place twice a week. Gradually, it has become is known that some of the begging in China is has already become a kind of "occupations", by from which you can even afford beautiful and large houses could be afforded. Last year, before I moved to Pudong New District, I would see every day I passed by Subway Lianhua Road Station, some disabled could be seen, person begging and singing the songs dating back to the 90's everyday as I passed by Subway Lianhua Station. When I went (surfed is okay too, but it's not really used often) surfed on the Internet, I learned from a forum that they were in fact part of a group, in which the group leader had kidnapped and disabled them when they were children, in order to use them to take advantage of people's compassions.and those poor men were not disabled originally, they, many of whom were kidnapped as children were beaten and hurt by the group leader to that extent, so as to cheat for people's compassions, and besides, (This sentence is way too long. You should break it up somewhere. Long sentences in Chinese don't translate well into English, because English is not as flexible.) The group leader was always hiding nearby, supervising them to prevent them (from escaping, calling the police, and etc.). It seemed that no police wanted would like to take care of this problem. that, at The most they ever did was driving to drive them away on some celebrating days where there was a celebration, like during the Expo duration.
I think nobody would like to offer money to the above disabled men, since it won't do any good to them, ; it would only to make their group leader more rich and to encourage more such illegal activities. I don't know if their group is some kind of gang, but I do know that someone said he has called the police to report this that case(, while they are still there.)
I want to pray for those poor men, and at the same time, hope the group will get what they deserve. I hope that the government can search deeply for what has caused this that kind of phonomenon in China, (checking themselves thoroughly, too.)
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Thanks for your time, and any kind of comments are appreciated.Good job on writing all this. The level of English is very high! The blue parts I didn't quite understand what you were trying to say. Perhaps you can clarify?
I can't believe there's such horrible things in China. The police needs to be more responsible for things like this. As a policemen, you should not be able to simply ignore problems you don't want to deal with.
0 votedFebruary 11, 20121First notebook entry: Introducing myself
Hi,I'm Allison.
I am already 24 years old this year,but my english has always been poor.
I‘m outgoing but cold-blooded, and strange person character.
I was born in Shandong Province, China,and am now studying in Shanghai.
Singing is my favorite greatest hobby., Music is a very important part of my life.
In addition,I also like pets., I am opposed to wearing fur clothes,because this is not fair to animals.cold-blooded and strange 是冷血(比如,你要是杀了人,心里面不会有矛盾或者感觉)和奇怪的意思. 这是你想说的句子吗?
0 votedFebruary 11, 20121- wow what a hard question, i never even thought about these differences, and I still can't properly think of a good answer! luckily I found this site with a decent explanation http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-determiners-each-every.htm I feel like both are interchangeable, just make sure to focus on when you can't use both of them.0 votedFebruary 7, 20120
I disagree with the idea of increasing the number of immigrants. I have two reasons for this.
First, there must be other options in order to sustain the manufacturing power of Japan. I don't think much of the idea that we should increase the number of immigrants just because the society is goes on aging. For example, in order to raise the birth-rate, we can make more comfortable environments for women who bring up their children through public policy by making a political policy.
Second, increasing the number of immigrants may lead to a decline in the nationalism of Japanse people, which will make the manufacturing power weaker smaller.
Finally, as the society continues to age goes on aging, more and more elderly people get active and healthy. Even so, most of them retire and get pensions.I think they would be happier if they worked with and trained young people instead. Then, in addition, they wouldn't don't need to get pensions. Now, and we won't you don't have to increase the number of immigrants. Of course, I'd love to take ppart in improving making up the manufucturing power of Japan until I am get unable to work.
For these reasons, I don't think we should increase the number of immigrants.
Very impressive English. Even though I'm a native speaker, I had a hard time trying to correct this since some of them I wasn't even sure if it was right or wrong.I'm not quite sure what the relationship between an aging society and manufacturing power is. Is manufacturing power the right word you wanted to say?
0 votedFebruary 7, 20122Keep Husband From Leaving You By Pleasing His Stomach
There is a Chinese proverb that says "If you want to keep your husband from leaving you, you have to learn how to please his stomach." My mum tried to teach me cooking for years. She told me tasty food is a woman's secret weapon. But this reason is definitely not persuasive enough me to learn cooking. It's not because I don't like it, but I am just not good at it. On the contrary, my twin sister is a genius at cooking, so she is always laughing at me for my poor kitchen skills. As a result, I am the one in my family who has to wash all the dishes after the meal, because I can't help with anything else in the kitchen. However, here in the UK, I missed Chinese food so much, so I began cooking some food for myself. I can't imagine making any food that takes over 1 hour, like many of my friends and my mum do. To me that's a waste of time, but I have progressed a lot on it.
Nice, I started cooking this year for myself too because I missed my mom's Chinese food so much. Have you shared your food with others? It feels really good when someone tells you your food tastes great. Sometimes, it makes the long cooking times worth it in my opinion :)
Some things to remember:
- You can't start sentences with "So" when you're writing. You can when you're speaking.
- You can't use commas as easily as you can in Chinese to connect sentences. If you ever have a comma between two sentences that can be by themselves, then it's wrong. You have to add a conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) after the comma, or change the comma to a period.
- If you use verb-ing as a verb, you have to add "is" "are" "am" "were" "was" before it. Some examples: she is laughing, I am running, you are talking. I think this is called progressive tense?
- who can be singular or plural, depending on what it's referring to. Example: I am the one who has to wash dishes. We are the ones who have to wash dishes.
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