上星期李柱銘在華爾街日報發表的署名文章，呼籲美國總統布殊藉08奧運，向中國政府提出兌現其改善民主民生的承諾。 李柱銘在國外發表反共言論，根本不是新鮮事。當初看到這則新聞，我只是一笑置至。沒想到事件竟然愈演愈烈，一眾左派愛國人士如嗜血的鯊魚，群起而攻，"漢奸"、"吳三柱", "賣國賊"一頂一頂的帽子扣上，左派親共親政府等各路傳媒配合報道大加鞭撻，一時間可謂一石激起千層浪。 幾日過去，看到各謊旦膠論，我仍然無動於中。(或許是我向來對民主黨沒大好感) 直到我在電視新聞片段中，譚耀宗說自己英語程度能正確理解李柱銘的文章，另外一個不知什麼名稱的左派地方組織發言人說道只要中七程度的英文水準，都能讀出李的文章確是要求外國政府介入拖壓，支持杯葛08奧運。但另一邊，李柱銘及民主黨人又信誓旦旦的說這是歪曲原義，有組織迫害。這就引起我的興趣來。很想知道究竟為何兩邊的人解讀同一篇文章的意思時，竟可如此南轅北轍。網上找來原文細讀，找到出事的兩處地方：
……He should use the next 10 months to press for a significant improvement of basic human rights in my country, including press, assembly and religious freedoms……….
李大狀勸美國總統用未來10個月(距離奧運時間)press 一下中國改善人權。press for 可解作'促請' / '敦促', 但斷沒有'施壓'之義。查了幾個網上字曲 (yahoo, webster)都沒有這個意思。或許，如林忌所言，權威字典解錯英文了！ 另一處：
……In the U.S. and elsewhere, there are campaigns to boycott the Beijing Games over the Chinese government's [...]
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讀政治新聞學英文(李柱銘’賣國’文章)
Posted by johnlone on October 30th, 2007Six sigma = 3.4 dppm
Posted by johnlone on October 19th, 2007Quote from my classmate Gary’s post
“Well, this magic number came from the assumption of normal distibution, that most occurances will be in the middle of the range and then spreads off in a bell-shape on the chart, and Sigma is the SD of such.
So by definition 99.99999980268% of total value would lie within Mean +/- [...]
20070926 大坑火龍
Posted by johnlone on October 3rd, 2007Rest of the photo