Vincent的英语笔记-饿死事小，失节事大
By Vincent from www.englishvincent.com
那群兄弟在酒吧里血拼，喝了上百瓶啤酒，我突然感觉不胜酒力，早早回家，闲来无事，整理了下前段时间的学习笔记，发这里和大家分享。好记性不如烂笔头，多记记多写写还是很有效的，勤能补拙。
age range年龄段，你还可以说age bracket.
wow you’ve got 243 hits 搜索结果,当然你也可以说search engine results
narrow down the search criteria 缩小搜索范围， search terms是搜索关键词
live within a 50-mile radius. 住在五十英里以内的 （tip：还记得吗，rad=awesome，因为radical是激进的意思，而很多时候人们会认为激进的极端的东西是超好的，比如我们听金属音乐就期待听到最残暴最快速最没人性的东西，而对于那种近乎靡靡之音的东西嗤之以鼻，中庸的东西是不会让人发出awesome这样的赞叹的。 radius源自拉丁文radius=车轮的辐条，光速=半径，同时有人认为radius和radix=root也有关系，所以radical有从“根”本上改变的变革=激进的变革=radical。radius既然是半径的意思，想象你住在A点，以A点为圆心（根部），50 miles为半径画一个圆，住在圆的人自然就是“住在五十英里范围的人”了。 而rad=雷德，是辐射大小的单位，是radiation（辐射）的一个缩写，在1970年忍者神龟大行其道的时候流行起来。
on-the-job injuries 工伤 ，有人讲工伤翻译程workplace injury，我认为不是很妥当，因为你要是下班坐公交车回家，在你下车之前公交车被一个酒后驾驶（drunk-driving)的人撞了，你段了三根肋骨，你还是会获得工伤赔偿，因为你之所以会坐那趟公交车回家而且“设法”被撞短三根肋骨，都是因为要去那家鬼公司上班引起的，你到家之前出了什么岔子，公司都得负责。 而workplace injury是不无法cover这种情形的。 这种工伤可以称为 "work-related injury" 而on-the-job指的是你“工作/在职期间”（和你离职在家这种情形相对），应该是可以涵盖这样的情况的。 在职培训就是on-the-job training;脱产培训是off-thejob training。 以前还学了一个compound adj, stay-but-quit (employee)，而这种新在曹营心在汉（或者在乎山水之间）的员工，叫做stay-quit. Read more
So Etymologically Attracted to English Vocabulary Part 2 ( Inadvertently）
By Vincent from www.englishvincent.com
刚才在拜读Roger Dawson的关于谈判技巧的大作”Ask for More Than You Expect to Get”，
看到这样一句话，What concerns
me is that when you’re involved in a negotiation, you are inadvertently creating
deadlocks, because you don’t have the courage to ask for more than you expect to get. 感觉inadvertently这个词非常面熟，但是一时又想不起具体的意思。这个词我应该碰过不下五次了，一直感觉不亲切也不好记。Inadvertently，in表示否定，相反的意思，不再话下，tently构成副词，亦不必深究，关键是要搞清楚adver的意思。看看了，觉得像advise和advertise，如何和前者组合起来，就是未被告知地，不知情地；如果和后者组织起来，advertise的语源我还记得，是to give attention,那么组合起来就是
没注意地，两个组合的意思看起来差不多啊。。。
于是我查看了inadvertently的语源，觉得最后出来的结果因为和我猜测的差不多。
上面是这样解释的：
inadvertently
1678, lit. "inattentively," hence "unintentionally;" ult. from inadvertence (1568), from Scholastic L. inadvertentia, from in- "not" + advertentia, from L. advertere "to direct one’s attention to," lit. "to turn toward" (see advertise).
原来是advertise，是in- "not" + advertentia-"to direct one’s attention to," Read more
英语是一门叫Chemistry的课–避孕
By Vincent
This is an article written by me in February,2008.
Contravene
I assume most of your guys have no clue what this word means, cause you don’t use it at your daily work, or you find it’s too much a “big word” for you to add to your current vocabulary building. To memorize it more efficiently, you are highly recommended to take a look at its “word origin”, ( only in case you cannot tell its origin without taking a close look).
Date: 1500-1600 Language: French Origin: contrevenir, from Late Latin contravenire, from Latin contra- ( CONTRA-) + venire ‘to come’
This explanation speaks to me a lot.
contra =contre=against
and
venire obviously means to come.
Anyone who has gained a bit understanding of Francais shall know VENIRE’s definition. I suppose now you’ve got a rough idea what it means. Seemingly it means “ to do something agasint something”
If you happen to have a Collins Robert French Dictionary, look “Contrevenir” up, it says contrevenir a = to contravene, which means the English word “contravene” was derived from French with a considerably small change.
Then what the hell is the meaning of “contravene”? “ to do something that is not allowed according to a law or rule”, says the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. In Chinese, it means违犯（法律等）; 违反: （指事物）与（某事物）相抵触; 不合於 Read more