Issue 7
International
Language Center
Luo Changping
Luo Changping, reporter
You must be brave to
say that a famous person in China has done
something wrong.
Last December, Caijing, the business magazine where Luo
Changping, aged 32,
works, had an article
which said that Liu
Tienan's wife and son
International
Week
Phil Sced, editor
Focus, discipline,
hard work, goal setting and, of course,
the thrill of finally
achieving your goals.
These are all benefits of participating
in sport so I was
happy to see so
15 Dec, 2014
had stolen a lot of
money. Mr. Luo also
wrote three articles on
Weibo, which Chinese
people use instead of
Twitter, saying that
Liu Tienan and his
family had gotten
money illegally from
Chinese banks.
Then, for months,
both Mr Luo and the
Chinese media were
silent. That is, until
Sunday, 6 December,
when the Chinese police went to talk to Mr
Liu about his money.
Many newspapers be-
many teachers and
students together on
the field during the
ILC’s first ever International Week
last month. Through
the activities, I saw
skills and strengths
in students and
teachers that I
would otherwise never have seen.
gan to write about it.
Mr Liu has also been
fired from his important job.
Liu Tienan, famous politician
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NASA
Industrial Revolution
I cannot begin to tell you how
important the Industrial
Revolution was in a paragraph this small. During the
Industrial Revolution you
could move from a small
farm to a large city. You
could make a lot of money
and spend it on new consumer products. There were also
new problems. In a small
town you probably knew the
man who made your shoes.
You could barter with him or
delay payment for a new pair
of shoes. But city dwellers
bought shoes that were made
in factories, delivered by railroads, displayed in shop windows, and sold only for cash.
The factories produced more
products, but you no longer
knew the people who made
them. There was advertising
everywhere, but you didn’t
know the people who were
selling the products. Also the
gap between the “haves” and
the “have nots” increased
and was more visible in the
city.
The Railway by Edouard Manet,
1873
What else do you know about
the effects of the Industrial
Revolution? Why not write in
and tell the editor?
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Idiom of the month
Tar sb. with the same brush 把…打成一票
You can’t tar every man with the same brush just because things didn’t go well for you and
your boyfriend. 你不能因為跟男朋友處不好就把所有男人打成一票。
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Monasteries
So what is a monastery exactly? A monastery is a community of men or women (monks or
nuns) who have decided to
leave society to focus on their
religion. It can be difficult to
focus on prayer and religion
when time needs to be spent
on everyday activities such as
cooking and raising children.
Monasteries, then, were created to allow monks or nuns to
pray on behalf of the common
people, who were too busy to
pray. And so the monastery
would become the spiritual
center of the nearest town or
village.
A Buddhist monastery cut out of rock in Maharashtra,
India
Vocabulary
monastery (n.)（男子的）修道院；僧院[C]
In his youth, he had stayed in the monastery . 他年輕時在這個修道院待過。
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Student of the Month: Ginny
Ginny Hsu, English major,
Recitation Contest, Advanced
Level, 1st Prize Winner
In the recitation contest, we
had three poems to choose
from. When I read Homer’s
Odyssey, it was as though I
heard a voice saying, “Yes,
it’s you!” I could feel the power and beauty of this epic. I
decided to take up the challenge of reciting it.
mates and recited it many
times in one day. I could feel
the painful sadness and the
power of rebirth when I read
it.
On the evening of the contest, I saw many people practicing their poems. It made
me nervous, but I believed in
myself and my friends helped
me relax. When I stood on
the stage and started to recite, all the fear left me. I imI started to research the
agined I was Odysseus and
background and meaning of simulated his emotions to rethe story. I imagined that I
cite. It was a magical mowas Odysseus’s wife. What
ment like I had never experiwould I do? How would I feel? enced before.
And I tried to use this mood
to interpret “The Odyssey”. I
Through this contest, I
practiced it with my class-
learned that recitation is not
only reading. I had to bring
the text to life, or rather, I
had to let the text bring me
to life. If you read it, you may
experience it and recite it differently from how I did. The
contest also helped me to
grow in confidence by facing
an audience.
Quotation of the Month
Wise men talk because they have
something to say; fools, because
they have to say something.
聰明人說話，是因為有些話要說；蠢人
說話，則因為要說些話。
Plato, 427BC-347BC
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