叔叔乔的牛车

MY dad had done wellin his end of schoolexams and got agood job in the civil servicein Dubfin.This allowed himto leave the small farm hegrew up on and move tothe city for a better life.Hisbrother Joe stayed on theland but he hated having towork in the same place allthe time.So his uncles andmy dad chipped in(筹集资金)and helped him to buy a cattletruck.It was a big truck,capable of holding up to a dozen bigcattle.You could also slide boards into the middle of thecontainer,making it a two tier carrier for sheep.Uncle loedrove his own animals to markets and fairs in the western andmidland towns and as fir as Dubhn,the capital on the eastcoast.He also carried animals for others in return for a fee.Inother words he became a haulier(货运车夫)as well as a firmerin his own right.In this way he soon became the wealthiestman in his parish(教区),as well as the happiest,because heloved the roads.He loved meeting difierent people all thetime     

Scrambled in Appearance but United in Spirit: A Study on Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood Adapted from Macbeth

William Shakespeare(1564—1616)has been universally acknowledged as an outstanding playwright and poet during the English Renaissance.His great tragedy,Macbeth,telling the conversion of a good man into a wholly evil,is so well accepted.Akira Kurosawa,as a famous Japanese director,attaches much importance to the fusion of eastern and western culture,which makes his adaptations from literature unique.His Throne of Blood is totally different from the original Macbeth,but it remains the quintessence of Shakespeare.Through analyzing the successful transformation of the plot,character and language,this paper reveals the significance of the film as an independent art which can make it possible to realize another kind of art.     

黑客帝国

IntroductionNeo (played by Keanu Reeves), is asoftware engineer working for a renownedsoftware company by day, and acomputer hacker constantly seeking forthe intriguing "truth" by night. Hediscovers that the world around him is acomputer simulation called the Matrix,which uses humans as fuel for his questof total domination. He learns this fromMorpheus, leader of an undergroundhacker team fighting against the Matrix.Morpheus has been searching his entirelife for a "chosen one" to destroy theMatrix, and he believes Neo is it. Neo hashis doubts, but through all his adventureswith Morpheus and his crew (Trinity, Tank,Mouse, Switch, etc.), he starts to believe,and is ready to destroy the Matrix.     

The Translator's Subjectivity Reflected in the English Translation of The Lane

The translator’s subjectivity plays an indispensible role in the translating activity. As a senior translator, Prof. Zhang Peiji brings his subjectivity into full play in his prose translation, and the English version of "The Lane" can be regarded as one of his representatives. An examination of the translator’s subjectivity reflected in this version helps to better understand Prof. Zhang’s art of prose translation.     

The Corrupted Feminine Roles in Macbeth

It is universally acknowledged that Macbeth is the most vivid tragedy as a psychoanalysis of the state of humanity’s development of a sense of sexual self.In the play,the inherent cruelty in masculinity is ironically represented best by the corrupted feminine characters,the three witches and Lady Macbeth.Undoubtedly,they finally push Macbeth over the brink into dramatic tragedy,tragedy of his country,his ambition and his own self as well.     

《哈利·波特与密室》

Harry Potter and his pals are back for their second year at Hog-warts School of Witchcraft(魔法) and Wizardry(巫术), but things get a little dicey (冒险的) when students are suddenly turned into stone and a message on the school walls proclaims the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. What can it all mean?     

A Brief Study of Wordsworth’s Romantic Poetry in Light of Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism is a new-born literary criticism that delves into the exposition of the relationship between human beings and other specimen in nature from the literary angle as well as observes and discloses in detail and with sincerity the effect of literature in the human activities and natural environment. The thesis combines the theory of ecocriticism with romanticism to study Wordsworth’s romantic poetry from an ecological perspective as Wordsworth,the great“worshipper of nature”can also be called an ecological critic since many of his poems are focused on ecological themes and he expresses his passion on an ecological basis. Going through the thesis is the most fundamental concept of ecocriticism: ecological holism. Supporting this backbone is analyzes of selected paradigmatic romantic poems by Wordsworth.     

Learner Errors:Insights and Implications

Insights into learner errors vary greatly: Contrastive analysts hold the view that errors are faulty version of the target language and signs of learning failure and thus must be corrected; Corder regards learner errors as evidence of the learner's active learning and as the most important source of information about the nature of his knowledge; Dulay and Burl's research shows that learner errors are developmental ;Tarone notices that occurrence of learner errors changes in different situations according to different tasks; Krashen maintains that learner errors can be totally ignored for the simple reason that they will disappear at a certain stage.We suggest that error correction take into consideration the following factors: (l)source, (2)type, (S)acquisition order, (4) task type and context; and that error correction shouldn't (1)hinder communication, (2)discourage the learner,(3)put the learner on the defensive,(4)cause anxiety.     

Kobe is Moved by Chinese Young People's Patriotism

After the retirement of Michael Jordan(乔丹),Kobe(科比)from Lakers(湖人队)is the only player who can be described as"great".He has signed a contract with sina.com to open his Chinese blog and establish his official website in Chinese in 2009,which will no doubt be a sensational event to both the Internet and the sports circles.     

Blind receiver for OFDM systems via sequential Monte Carlo in factor graphs

INTRODUCTION Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) is generally known as an effective techniquefor high data rates and has been adopted by standardssuch as Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting (DABand DVB) (ETSI, 1994; 1997). OFDM is robustagainst frequency selectivity of a multipath channeland the single-tap equalization can be used to detectthe transmitted symbols if frequency-selective fadingchannels are known. Although, the use of pilot tonesis the most robust way …