*Summary:
Everyday we are bombarded with lots of many new things and much of them com from advertisement or news. The most serious thing is that we don’t believe everything we read, especially on the Internet. Maybe it’s a scam. The common scam circulated as an email with involving a person who wants to give away money. For example, when the criminal has your bank information, they typed a letter to bank manager with your signature at the bottom. The letter is processed fast because it has your real signature and other information. By the time you find it, your money has gone. Then bank account and the email address were cancelled. Each of scam is difficult for government and the Internet services to take a regulation. Most problems are from World Wide Web. So, you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the WWW. The WWW is like a combination of the library, TV and radio and it is great for choosing many points of aspects on different subjects or topics. I think that it’s an indispensable factor for beneficial merits.
*Key words:
1. Bombard=torpedo=shell
2. Fraud=dishonesty=trickery=scam
3. illicitly=illegal=not allowed
4. Implausible (adj.) =incredible, implausibly (adv.), implausibility (n.)
5. endorse=approve=sanction
6. Regulate=plan=control=adjust=manage
7. Merchandise=goods
8. transact=deal
9. inquire about=question
10. Eligibility=quality=able to choose
11. genuine=real
12. unforeseen=unexpected
*Scam
1. The black money scam, sometimes also known as the 'wash wash scam', is a scam where con artists attempt to fraudulently obtain money from a victim by persuading him or her that piles of banknote-sized paper in a trunk or a safe is really money which has been dyed black (e.g. to avoid detection by customs). The victim is persuaded to pay for chemicals to wash the "money" with a promise that he will share in the proceeds.
2. A cardboard children scam is a scam in which young children, usually in groups of 6 to 10, carrying cardboard signs approach a tourist and make a loud scene by begging or screaming. The message on these cardboard signs are usually pleas, such as "Food please," and are intended to distract the tourist as the children remove any items from their wallet or pockets.
3. Employment scams, also know as job scams, are a form of advance fee fraud scamming where certain unscrupulous persons posing as recruiters and/or employers offer attractive employment opportunities which require the job seeker to pay them money in advance, usually under the guise of work visas, travel expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses.
4. Reloading scam, Reloading is a form of fraud, whereby a victim of one scam is repeatedly approached with more aggressive con artists, often until "sucked dry". This form of fraud is especially hurtful for senior people, because they are more susceptible to pressure after the first losses, partly because of hopes to recover, partly being psychologically unable to say "no" to a con man in time.
2007年3月27日 星期二
2007年3月13日 星期二
The first journal
1.Clichén. (名詞 noun) 陳腐的說法; 陳詞濫調: it comes from Franch and describes a clay mold.
In fact, you don't use it in writing, but it are usually used in conversation. It associates with bad detective fiction.
2. Body language:In our daily lives we encounter many forms of body language gestures, these are a few examples:
Stress: shaking of legs.
Lying: Face turned away, no eye contact, or looking to the left (fabricating information). Also wiping hands on pants to get rid of sweat or fidgeting with hands.
Aggression: Clenched fists, squaring of shoulders, stiffening of posture,tensing of muscles.
Anxiety: Massaging temples, different than normal breathing rates, hunched shoulders, nervous head movements.
3.Body language is a product of both genetic and environmental influences. Blind children will smile and laugh even though they have never seen a smile. The ethologist Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt claimed that a number of basic elements of body language were universal across cultures and must therefore be fixed action patterns under instinctive control. Some forms of human body language show continuities with communicative gestures of other apes, though often with changes in meaning. More refined gestures, which vary between cultures (for example the gestures to indicate "yes" and "no"), must be learned or modified through learning, usually by unconscious observation of the environment.
4.wave one's hands 揮手 , clap one's hands 拍手 , shrug one's shoulder 聳肩 , raise one's eyebrows挑眉,cross one's fingers 食指與中指交叉--為某人祝福 , shake one's butt 搖屁股,stomp one's feet 跺腳, stand with one's arms akimbo 雙手叉腰站立, fold one's arms雙臂交叉
5.
*V字手勢源自於英國，因為V字在英文中代表了Victory,表達勝利的歡欣，用此守勢時須以手指背向自己，但在希臘則必須把手指背向對方，否則就表示污辱、輕蔑對方之意。
*搭便車〈豎大拇指，餘指握拳朝上，大拇指則朝向身體之右方〉這幾乎也快要變成世界共通語言：搭便車。但在希臘，此種手勢正如其他國家的豎中指手勢一樣。
*食指刮下巴這是法國特有手勢，尤其是女性對不喜歡的追求者表示拒絕的表達方式。因為在法語中剃刀與厭煩同義，所以巧妙地以刀手勢表達自己不喜歡的意思。
*OK手勢在大部分國家當中這也成為共同的世界語。以英文字母O和K連結而成。表示沒問題，一切就緒之意。但是在法國南部:OK手勢則表示零，表示某件事情根本不值得一提，表示不贊成之意。在中東以及非洲地區，OK手勢則象徵洞，有明顯同性戀的涵義。
*點頭搖頭絕大多數的國家都是以點頭方式表示贊同。但在印度、尼泊爾等國則以搖頭表示肯定，也就是一面搖頭，一面面露微笑表示贊成、肯定。
6.personality traits:
*bossy: this person couldn't have lots of friends and tend to lead. A bossy person might try to make many decisions in any time.
*competitive and cooperative: young boys wouldn't avoid competing while they are with others. But, young girls are more attention to cooperative. Both of them are opposite.
*enthusiastic: they attract lots of friends and interest in others who want to share ideas, times, and friendship.
*helpful: they have a cooperative trait and assist others with h.w. or trouble things. So they take advantage of merits to help friends as soon as possible.
*innovative: they look for new solutions to existing problems in challenging situations but they might frustrate if they reinvent others.
*romantic/thoughtful: they usually concernrd on ideas and are fun to be with. They think how can be more important than use less money at best.
*skeptical: they don't take things at face value and tend to be very rigid. Thet have many serious thinkers and love asking lots of questions to others.
1.Clichén. (名詞 noun) 陳腐的說法; 陳詞濫調: it comes from Franch and describes a clay mold.
In fact, you don't use it in writing, but it are usually used in conversation. It associates with bad detective fiction.
2. Body language:In our daily lives we encounter many forms of body language gestures, these are a few examples:
Stress: shaking of legs.
Lying: Face turned away, no eye contact, or looking to the left (fabricating information). Also wiping hands on pants to get rid of sweat or fidgeting with hands.
Aggression: Clenched fists, squaring of shoulders, stiffening of posture,tensing of muscles.
Anxiety: Massaging temples, different than normal breathing rates, hunched shoulders, nervous head movements.
3.Body language is a product of both genetic and environmental influences. Blind children will smile and laugh even though they have never seen a smile. The ethologist Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt claimed that a number of basic elements of body language were universal across cultures and must therefore be fixed action patterns under instinctive control. Some forms of human body language show continuities with communicative gestures of other apes, though often with changes in meaning. More refined gestures, which vary between cultures (for example the gestures to indicate "yes" and "no"), must be learned or modified through learning, usually by unconscious observation of the environment.
4.wave one's hands 揮手 , clap one's hands 拍手 , shrug one's shoulder 聳肩 , raise one's eyebrows挑眉,cross one's fingers 食指與中指交叉--為某人祝福 , shake one's butt 搖屁股,stomp one's feet 跺腳, stand with one's arms akimbo 雙手叉腰站立, fold one's arms雙臂交叉
5.
*V字手勢源自於英國，因為V字在英文中代表了Victory,表達勝利的歡欣，用此守勢時須以手指背向自己，但在希臘則必須把手指背向對方，否則就表示污辱、輕蔑對方之意。
*搭便車〈豎大拇指，餘指握拳朝上，大拇指則朝向身體之右方〉這幾乎也快要變成世界共通語言：搭便車。但在希臘，此種手勢正如其他國家的豎中指手勢一樣。
*食指刮下巴這是法國特有手勢，尤其是女性對不喜歡的追求者表示拒絕的表達方式。因為在法語中剃刀與厭煩同義，所以巧妙地以刀手勢表達自己不喜歡的意思。
*OK手勢在大部分國家當中這也成為共同的世界語。以英文字母O和K連結而成。表示沒問題，一切就緒之意。但是在法國南部:OK手勢則表示零，表示某件事情根本不值得一提，表示不贊成之意。在中東以及非洲地區，OK手勢則象徵洞，有明顯同性戀的涵義。
*點頭搖頭絕大多數的國家都是以點頭方式表示贊同。但在印度、尼泊爾等國則以搖頭表示肯定，也就是一面搖頭，一面面露微笑表示贊成、肯定。
6.personality traits:
*bossy: this person couldn't have lots of friends and tend to lead. A bossy person might try to make many decisions in any time.
*competitive and cooperative: young boys wouldn't avoid competing while they are with others. But, young girls are more attention to cooperative. Both of them are opposite.
*enthusiastic: they attract lots of friends and interest in others who want to share ideas, times, and friendship.
*helpful: they have a cooperative trait and assist others with h.w. or trouble things. So they take advantage of merits to help friends as soon as possible.
*innovative: they look for new solutions to existing problems in challenging situations but they might frustrate if they reinvent others.
*romantic/thoughtful: they usually concernrd on ideas and are fun to be with. They think how can be more important than use less money at best.
*skeptical: they don't take things at face value and tend to be very rigid. Thet have many serious thinkers and love asking lots of questions to others.
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