The wonderful British Museum exhibition 'Places of the Mind' is still running. We highly recommend going, but even if you can't, do not worry.. Our official accompaniment book is a real treat.
Devoted to landscape drawings and watercolours by British artists in the Victorian and modern eras, the book and exhibition are a celebration of their work.
The population of one of the world's rarest species has been boosted with the birth of a northern hairy-nosed wombat joey, Australian wildlife officials say. http://u.afp.com/4X6p
The population of one of the world's rarest species has been boosted with the birth of a northern hairy-nosed wombat joey, Australian wildlife officials say. http://u.afp.com/4X6p
英文有一諧謔造句叫Chinglish諷刺「中式英語」，包括漢文英譯和英文漢譯，有令人微笑的如「好久不見」，直譯long time no see，美國男生喜歡用此「中式英文」幽默互相招呼，有的「中式英語」卻令人噴飯，如將中文「小心滑倒」，英譯please slip carefully，劇院「出口」標示，英譯為export。「川普」也屬「中式譯語」。 「維基百科」也用「川普」。但是「維基」是地方（台灣）媒體怎麼寫就照樣抄，沒有自己的立場，是另一種「隨俗派」。「維基」敢在中國以「川普」叫美國總統嗎？不被中國人嘲笑為「草包」才怪。 「川普」在台灣普遍使用，已無可能改變，是「隨俗派」的勝利。就此事來說，中國媒體顯得認真嚴謹，尊重正確英語發音，台灣則較懶散馬虎不嚴謹，不尊重正確英語發音。 「川普」只是表示台灣人不會正確發音一英文名詞而已，那位翻轉難測的巨富總統，其對台政策是否堅定支持台灣人民的基本權利，那才是大事。
Some sources say that "Siberia" originates from the Siberian Tatar word for "sleeping land" (Sib Ir).[2] Another account sees the name as the ancient tribal ethnonym of the Sipyrs (ru), a mysterious people later assimilated to Siberian Tatars. The modern usage of the name appeared in the Russian language after the conquest of the Siberian Khanate. A further variant claims that the region was named after the Xibe people.[3] The Polish historian Chycliczkowski has proposed that the name derives from the proto-Slavic word for "north" (север,sever),[4] but Anatole Baikaloff has dismissed this explanation[5] on the grounds that the neighbouring Chinese, Arabs and Mongolians (who have similar names for the region) would not have known Russian. His own suggestion is that the name represents a combination of two words, "su" (water) and "bir" (wild land).
vast region of Russia, extending from the Urals to the Pacific and from the Arctic coast to the northern borders of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. Noted for the severity of its winters, it was traditionally used as a place of exile; it is now a major source of minerals and hydroelectric power. ------
