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wǒ shì gùyì de ，bié shēngqì ，bùguò huàshuōhuílai ，nǐ zhīdào gǔdiǎn fēnlèi lǐlùn miáoshù “niǎo ”de tèzhēng bāokuò hóngsè de xiōngyǔ 、gútou hěn qīng ，hái yào huì chànggē ò ，nǐ juéde nǐ de "tuóniǎo ”yǒu duō xiàng niǎo ne ？

I was being facetious, don't get angry. Speaking of that though, did you know that ancient taxonomic theory describes birds as having red breast feathers, lightweight bones and as having the ability to sing. How does your ostrich measure up to the bird standard?

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岂敢岂敢，只是最近读认知语言学相关的文献，觉得很有趣罢了，就像你说的，古典分类理论描述的典型的鸟是以知更鸟为原型。

qǐgǎn qǐgǎn ，zhǐshì zuìjìn dú rènzhī xiāngguān de wénxiàn ，juéde hěn yǒuqù bàle ，jiù xiàng nǐshuōde ，gǔdiǎn fēnlèi lǐlùn miáoshù de diǎnxíng de niǎo shì yǐ zhīgèngniǎo wèi yuánxíng 。

I wouldn't dare, it's just that recently I've been reading some cognitive linguistics literature and I just thought it was interesting is all. Like you said, the model bird in classical taxonomic theory takes the robin as its prototype.

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嗯...或许是因为写下这些特征的是西方人，如果这个物种描述法是你发明的，可能就是用麻雀当原型了。

ng4 ...huòxǔ shì yīnwèi xiěxià zhèxiē tèzhēng de shì xīfāngrén ，rúguǒ zhè ge wùzhǒng miáoshùfǎ shì nǐ fāmíng de ，kěnéng jiùshì yòng máquè dāng yuánxíng le 。

Hmm... perhaps it is because the people who wrote down these features were Westerners. If you'd invented this form of description, maybe the sparrow would have been used as the original form.

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成，1915年爱因斯坦发表了一系列论文，而这些论文呢，描述了现代科学至关重要的广义相对论理论，听过吗？广义相对论？它奠定了我们目前了解重力的基础。

chéng ，1915 nián Àiyīnsītǎn fābiǎo le yīxìliè lùnwén ，ér zhèxiē lùnwén ne ，miáoshù le xiàndài kēxué zhìguānzhòngyào de guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn lǐlùn ，tīng guò ma ？guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn ？tā diàndìng le wǒmen mùqián liǎojiě zhònglì de jīchǔ 。

No problem. In 1915 Einstein published a series of theses, and these theses described the most important core theory in contemporary science, the theory of general relativity. Have you heard of it? The theory of general relativity? It laid the foundation for our current understanding of gravity.

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我认为，莫言生活的那个时代很辛苦，但他总能以一种调侃、自嘲的方式来描述那些苦难，给人一种笑中有泪，泪中有笑的体会。

wǒ rènwéi ，Mòyán shēnghuó de nàge shídài hěn xīnkǔ ，dàn tā zǒng néng yǐ yīzhǒng tiáokǎn 、zìcháo de fāngshì lái miáoshù nàxiē kǔnàn ，gěi rén yīzhǒng xiào zhōng yǒu lèi ，lèi zhōng yǒu xiào de tǐhuì 。

I think, the era in which Mo Yan lived was very difficult, but he is always able to make use of a satiric, self mocking way of describing these difficulties, making people feel melancholy amid laughter and laugh through their tears.

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油腻:是对某些中年男子特征的概括描述，这些特征包括不注重身材保养、不修边幅、谈吐粗鲁等。是个贬义词。

yóunì shì duì mǒuxiē zhōngnián nánzǐ tèzhēng de gàikuò miáoshù ，zhèxiē tèzhēng bāokuò bù zhùzhòng shēncái bǎoyǎng 、bùxiūbiānfú 、tántǔ cūlǔ děng 。shì ge biǎnyì cí 。

油腻(greasy): It is a term that implies that a person's integrity is questionable. It is a derogatory term.

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然后，李探长转过身，问小尤和王强：“你们能不能根据这些描述和条件，进行一下推理？”

ránhòu ，Lǐ tànzhǎng zhuǎn guò shēn ，wèn XiǎoYóu hé Wáng Qiáng ：“nǐmen néng bu néng gēnjù zhèxiē miáoshù hé tiáojiàn ，jìnxíng yīxià tuīlǐ ？”

After that Detective Li turned and asked Xiao You and Wangqiang, "Using only this description and these conditions, can you deduce who's guilty?"

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没问题。你看，甲方是出租人，也就是房东，你是乙方，承租人。第一部分是甲方的权责描述，第二部分是乙方的权责描述。

méiwèntí 。nǐ kàn ，jiǎfāng shì chūzūrén ，yějiùshì fángdōng ，nǐ shì yǐfāng ，chéngzūrén 。dìyībùfēn shì jiǎfāng de quánzé miáoshù ，dì èrbùfen shì yǐfāng de quánzé miáoshù 。

No problem. Look: Party A is the lessor, or the landlord. You're Party B, the tenant. The first section is a description of the rights and responsibilities of Party A. The second section is a description of the rights and responsibilities of Party B.

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最好选几项跟应聘职位相关的，并且具体描述一下取得的成绩。比如提前几周完成工作任务，提出合理化建议被采纳之类的。只知道皮毛的不写也罢。

zuì hǎo xuǎn jǐ xiàng gēn yìngpìn zhíwèi xiāngguān de ，bìngqiě jùtǐ miáoshù yīxià qǔdé de chéngjì 。bǐrú tíqián jǐ zhōu wánchéng gōngzuò rènwu ，tíchū hélǐhuà jiànyì bèi cǎinà zhīlèi de 。zhǐ zhīdào pímáo de bù xiě yě bà 。

It‘s best to choose a few that are related to your target job and then describe some of your specific accomplishments. For example, completing a task a few weeks early, having your suggestions implemented, and that kind of thing. Don't bother with ones you only have a superficial knowledge of.

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