Black Friday

昨天是美國的Black Friday，這不是台灣所說的黑色星期五

(13號也是星期五)，台灣所說的黑色星期五在這裡稱13th 

Friday，那到底什麼是Black Friday?





Black Friday是感恩節的隔天，也就是11月的第四個星期四

的隔天，這天也被視為購物季的開始，在這天所有商店的資

產負債表都是顯是代表盈利的黑色，因此黑色星期五的名稱

由此而來。





在這一天也是消費者的天堂，幾乎所有的商品打五折以上，

我去看了LEVIS牛仔褲，原價54美金下殺31美金，200美金的

行李箱只賣100美金，但是搶便宜不是那麼容易的，通常商店

會在早上四五點就開門，而且低價商品限量，因此很多人凌

晨就去排隊了，一開門的情況就像台灣的搶頭香，因此很多

人就這樣受傷或死亡，我不喜歡人擠人的商店，因此我沒這

麼瘋狂得去排隊，重點是我沒錢shopping。





這裡有Black Friday的新聞，是中文的，給大家長長知識。

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081129/19/1aas2.html

Writing essay.

模擬練習一下托福考題，老師給的評價還不錯，A-

到是有一點要改進，要多使用synonyms(同義字)

for exmaple: motion, pictures, films代替movies

                     result, consequences代替effects

不諱言，這是我的weakness，懂的字很多，但不會用。



Topic: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Movies and televisions make more negative effects than positive effects on young people's behavior. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

  

Today, Movies and televisions are the most common media that we can get, and the information, which has both negative effects and positive effects, from these media influences us, especially the young people’s behavior. Moreover, I think that movies and television always have more negative effects than positive effects on young people's behavior. The reasons why I think that are: the many negative frames shown on both televisions and movies, the immaturity of young people in general, and the wrong imitation of television and movies of teenagers.

 

 

First of all, a lot of negative pictures have been broadcast, such as violent behavior, cheat, and illegal events. Teenagers who view these negative programs and movies frequently would probably think these negative events are right or commonplace. For example, when I was a teacher two year ago, a child I taught stole classmate’s money and lied to me and his parents. After knowing he stole the money, I asked him why he would do misbehaviors. Then, he said that the television news frequently reported the cheat of politicians and stealing of thieves, making him think these behaviors were right. Therefore, I believe that illegal events in the media have a bad influence on young people.

The immature mind of teenagers is also a crucial reason why I agree with the topic because they cannot accurately know what is right and what is wrong. For instance, I once heard of a dialogue of teenagers on the bus. They said that in the movies the ruffians who owned a gun with which he shot people is their idol because the actions is so attractive that they wanted to do that to the people they did not like. This dialogue pushed me to think movies and television teach teenagers too much about violence.

Finally, because of the wrong imitation of teenagers, I consider that movies and televisions make more negative effects than positive effects on young people's behavior. Teenagers imitate the behavior that appears in the media for no reason, but it may cause the serious damage. In our country, the news was reported that a high school student jumped from fifth floor and died just because he imitated an action showed in movies. To sum up, the news indicated that the wrong imitation of movies by young people is the major factor of the negative effects of televisions and movies.



        In conclusion, based on inappropriate media content, immature minds, and inaccurate imitation, I absolutely agree that movies and televisions make more negative effects than positive effects on young people's behaviors.

 

 

美國的消費~天堂與地獄

美國的消費不是開玩笑的，但也很像在跟我開玩笑。





昨天心血來潮去Boston的Downtown逛逛，看到很多東

西的價錢真得是傻眼，而且心中還會暗暗罵shit!!不

過同樣罵shit!!心境感覺卻是不一樣的。





第一次心中罵髒話是看到電腦傳輸線，在台灣大USB

轉小USB 得線了不起50元就很貴了，這邊呢。沒有10

元美金是買不到的，天阿~





同樣的商店，看到耳機上的軟塞，就是有分大中小的

size的內耳軟塞，我之前在台灣買只要35~50元，這邊

也是10美金起跳，天阿，真是高物價的美國。SHIT!!





食物在美國也是貴得不得了，一個餐外帶，5~7元算便

宜了，不過有些的份量很大，可以吃兩餐，所以算下來

只要不吃得很好很好，還有多多自己煮，基本上，一個

月300美金是綽綽有餘的，但是在美國誰不會去PARTY，

誰不會去吃餐館，所以300元已經是基本門檻啦。





不過也有讓我看到東西，心中暗暗罵SHIT!!不過卻是驚

喜的。我在Downtown看到一間商店，覺得很像百貨公司

的樣子，所以就走了進去，沒想到是衣服的大賣場，剛

開始覺得沒什麼，不過仔細的看了一下，都是台灣的運

動用品高級貨，向是Nike,Puma，也有知名品牌DNKY,

Tommy。像運動短褲16美元有找，長褲20美元有找，不錯

的運動外套也是20美元有找，真的超級吸引人。名牌的

外套衣服也是20美金左右，哇~要不是要省錢，我早就

花大錢買回台灣賣了。





有空來Boston玩吧，我帶你們去買貨回台灣賣吧！七點半，上課去。

Love Sentences

I had a dictation test in my conversation class, 

and the topic was about love.





1.Cause in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.



2.So much of what we know of love we learn at home.



3.You don't marry someone you can live with.

  You marry someone who you cannot live without.



4.A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech 

  when words become superfluous.



5.Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.



6.True love is like ghost which everybody talks about an few have seen.



7.Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.



8.There is no remedy for love but to love more.



我來翻譯一下好了，不過不能完全照字翻，會遜掉，這是要用意會的。



1.你得到的愛等於你付出的愛。

2.家－是最能體會愛是什麼。

3.不要與能生活的人結婚，要與沒有他就不能生活的人結婚。

4.當文字變得多餘之時，吻是一個美好的魔法，可以讓人沉默。

5.當愛建立在美麗上，很快地，美麗也會逝去。

6.真愛就像魅影，每個人談論，卻寥寥可數的人見過。

7.愛過與失去遠勝於從未真切的愛過。

8.除了更多了愛，沒有任何方法可以治療愛。

The lower temperature

整整一週沒上網更新內容，因為這週是期末考(final exam)，

加上週六的托福考試，讓我沒時間上網看東看西，更別說是更

新網誌。





這週剛好是我來波士頓的最低溫度，溫度大多維持在33度F~18

度F，忘記華氏如何轉換攝氏，沒關係，我教大家兩個感覺溫

度的方法。第一，在18度F的溫度下待3分鐘，然後馬上打開冰

箱的冷凍庫，這時會感覺冰箱冷凍庫吹出來的空氣是溫的。第

二，在18度F的溫度下待3分鐘，在摸摸自己的臉，會發現自己

的臉已經沒有感覺了。這樣應該知道18度F大概是幾度C了吧。





要講正經事了，那就是華氏(F)跟攝氏(C)的轉換，轉換公式如

下：F=32+C*(9/5)，也就是攝氏乘以五分之九，在加上32就是

華氏。或者，華氏減32，再乘九分之五。不過為了計算方便，

這邊通常都是華氏減32，再除以二。





正解，18度F=-7.78度C，冷爆了，但是冷的感覺超級棒的，頭

腦得思考會變得很清楚。