Assignment 4: "big" and "large"

Use TOTALrecall,I found "large" usually translate to "大量","大型",such as
"large volume" 大量進口
"large amount of material" 大量資料
"large crowds" 大批人潮
"large wild animals" 大型野生動物


"big" translates to "大", the example are
"big problem" 大問題
"big news" 大事
"big winners" 大贏家
"big family" 大家庭

The translation to Chinese is a little different from "big" and "large",
we could see "large" means an entity which we saw.
But "big" sometimes means something invisible,like problem and news.

The evidences aren't clear enough, let us see the collocation:

Use WebCOLL- Wikipedia Edition to find the collocation of "big" and "large", the result are following:

Big-


LARGE-


"Big" doesn't represent invisible things, it could be "hit","brother" and "fan",
the result isn't what I expect.

After search for the collocation and concordances,
I still feel confuse of these two words.
I think the collocation American use in intuition,
they use it without any mistake cause of their environment.
We learn English as a foreign language, when we don't know how to write the word,
we just use the bilingual dictionary, but dictionary won't give us the example collocation as much as the Collocation retrieval systems provide.
The best way to use the right one out of mistake is search the collocation, and memorize it.

Assignment 3: 10/16 Studio Classroom

avatar
noun. 虛擬化身
English definition:
in computing, an image which represents you in online games,
chat rooms, etc. and which you can move around the screen using the mouse or keys

In this article, it said avatar is simply an online representation of a person.



thought possible
The complete sentence is "Today, thousands of people can do things they never thought possible."

"Thought possible" is a abbreviation of "thought that's possible".
It means that think the things can't be able to be done or achieved, or be able to exist.

For example, People can now live in space longer than anyone ever thought possible thirty years ago.



representation of
representation means the way that someone or something is shown or described
when you want to describe something/someone as something/someone,
then you could use the phrase "representation of."

For example, He gave a talk on the representation of women in 19th-century art.


In this part of assignment, I use the online dictionaries
to advance my vocabulary which I never used before.
With English definitions, even it might spend more time to realize,
I could get more impressions to memorize it easily.

Assignment 2: Olympic Sport

Hurdles
noun. 跨欄
definition:
1.a frame or fence for jumping over in a race
2.a race in which people or horses jump over hurdles
the 400-metres hurdles
EXAMPLE:
1.He fell at the last hurdle.
2.She cleared all the hurdles easily and raced to the finishing line.


Shot‐put
noun. 鉛球
definition:
a sports competition in which a heavy metal ball is
thrown from the shoulder as far as possible
EXAMPLE:
He's practising for the shot put.


Gymnastics
noun. 體操
definition:
physical exercises and activities performed inside,
often using equipment such as bars and ropes
which are intended to increase the body's strength and
the ability to move and bend easily


Archery
noun. 射箭運動
definition:
the art or sport of shooting arrows


Fencing
noun. 擊劍
definition:
the sport of fighting with long thin swords
EXAMPLE:
I did a bit of fencing while I was at college.


Martial arts
noun. 武術
definition:
a sport that is a traditional Japanese or Chinese
form of fighting or defending yourself
EXAMPLE:
Kung fu and karate are martial arts.


Wrestling
noun. 摔角
definition:
a sport where two people fight and try to throw each other to the ground


Javelin
noun. 標槍
definition:
a long stick with a pointed end which is thrown in sports competitions
EXAMPLE:
She was first in the javelin.


Equestrian
noun. 馬術
definition:
a person who rides horses, especially as a job or very skilfully

Field hockey
noun. 曲棍球
definition:
a game played on a sports field between two teams of eleven players
who each have a curved stick with which they try to put a small hard ball
into the other team's goal


After using many dictionary from the list, I think Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is better than others.
In Bilingual Dictionaries, YahooKimo Online Dictionary can't find some of the words,
so I used GOOGLE translate to find the Chinese translation.