d*d
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谢谢
A*d
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【 以下文字转载自 Medicine 讨论区 】
发信人: AmericanDad (美国人的爸爸), 信区: Medicine
标 题: 岳父查出前列腺癌，怎么办？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 7 01:20:00 2010, 美东)
岳父今年78岁了，身体一向不错，但最近查出前列腺癌。
他现在有绿卡，用白卡看病。没有其它的保险。现在我们应该怎么办？可以为他买保险
吗?白卡能不能支
付治疗癌症的费用？
没有保险，会不会被医生收取天文数字的治疗费？
另外，我去年一念之差，报税时把他报为我们的dependent，会不会使他的白卡失效？
我是否应该
amend the tax return?
先感谢你们的帮助。
发信人: AmericanDad (美国人的爸爸), 信区: Medicine
标 题: 岳父查出前列腺癌，怎么办？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 7 01:20:00 2010, 美东)
岳父今年78岁了，身体一向不错，但最近查出前列腺癌。
他现在有绿卡，用白卡看病。没有其它的保险。现在我们应该怎么办？可以为他买保险
吗?白卡能不能支
付治疗癌症的费用？
没有保险，会不会被医生收取天文数字的治疗费？
另外，我去年一念之差，报税时把他报为我们的dependent，会不会使他的白卡失效？
我是否应该
amend the tax return?
先感谢你们的帮助。
j*z
4 楼
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jszhb (金嗓子喉宝) 于 (Fri Jan 16 21:30:15 2009) 提到:
就是许多成年人可以非常不屑的说fairy tale不是真的，没有santa。但是
等到了最后还都去一本正经相信一个大神儿。
其实fairy tale和圣经没有本质区别。应该是一样地可信。有人说fairy tale
互相矛盾。比如有的版本说大灰狼吃了小红帽。有的说是小红帽欺负了大灰狼。
其实这些矛盾都是表面现象。本质上它们是一致的。只不过是不同时期的人对
fairy的旨意理解不同。早期的人害怕狼，所以把大灰狼描写的很可怕。但是
后来社会发展，讲究人与自然的和谐。大灰狼得以平反。
事实上，这些表面上的矛盾恰恰说明了fairy tale千真万确是fairy的旨意。不
同的人，在不同的时代都写出了小红帽和大灰狼的故事。这些故事都发生在同
一个森林里。这些怎么可能只是巧合呢？唯一的可能就是两个作者都是受到了
fairy的启示。
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b
jszhb (金嗓子喉宝) 于 (Fri Jan 16 21:30:15 2009) 提到:
就是许多成年人可以非常不屑的说fairy tale不是真的，没有santa。但是
等到了最后还都去一本正经相信一个大神儿。
其实fairy tale和圣经没有本质区别。应该是一样地可信。有人说fairy tale
互相矛盾。比如有的版本说大灰狼吃了小红帽。有的说是小红帽欺负了大灰狼。
其实这些矛盾都是表面现象。本质上它们是一致的。只不过是不同时期的人对
fairy的旨意理解不同。早期的人害怕狼，所以把大灰狼描写的很可怕。但是
后来社会发展，讲究人与自然的和谐。大灰狼得以平反。
事实上，这些表面上的矛盾恰恰说明了fairy tale千真万确是fairy的旨意。不
同的人，在不同的时代都写出了小红帽和大灰狼的故事。这些故事都发生在同
一个森林里。这些怎么可能只是巧合呢？唯一的可能就是两个作者都是受到了
fairy的启示。
☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
b
c*i
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(1) Alfred W Crosby, The Herald of a New Creation; In the century following
Columbus's voyage, most migrants to the New World were African, not European
. Wall Street Journal, Aug 9, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
053111904888304576472692264364406.html
(book review on Charles C Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
created. Knopf, 2011)
Note:
(a) "Genoa's most famous son" refers to Christopher Columbus (1451-1506;
born in Genoa, at modern Italy)
(b) dialectic (n; ultimately from Greek dialegesthai to converse, from dia-
+ legein to speak):
"2a: discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual
investigation; specifically : the Socratic techniques of exposing false
beliefs and eliciting truth
* * *
4b(1) usually plural but singular or plural in construction: development
through the stages of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in accordance with
the laws of dialectical materialism
* * *
5 usually plural but singular or plural in construction a: any systematic
reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory
ideas and usually seeks to resolve their conflict"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
Note
(i) that the English nouns dialect and dialogue ultimately come from Greek
dialegesthai, too, and
(ii) that the English noun legend is derived from Greek "legein."
* antithesis (n): "the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel
arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in 'action, not words' or '
they promised freedom and provided slavery')"
(c) dullard (n): "a stupid or unimaginative person"
Its corresponding adjective is "dull."
(d) The review mentions "Roanoke Island in Virginia."
It is a blunder: Roanoke Island is in today's North carolina, though it was
in Virginia colony when Englishmen came. See
(i) Colony of Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia
(ii) Roanoke Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Island
(It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who
inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration)
Roanoke is a Native American tribe, and Carolina Algonquian is a kind of
Algonquian, a language.
(e) Pangaea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
(Ancient Greek pan "entire", and Gaia "Earth")
(f) Cartagena, Colombia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagena,_Colombia
(a large Caribbean beach resort city; The Spanish colonial city was founded
on June 1, 1533 and named after Cartagena, Spain; served a key role as a
center of political and economic activity due to the presence of Spanish
royalty and wealthy viceroys)
* Cartagena is Spanish for Carthage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage
(Phoenician meaning New City, implying it was a 'new Tyre'; currently a
suburb of Tunis, Tunisia; center of Carthaginian Empire)
(g) history of sugar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar
(Originally, people chewed sugarcane raw to extract its sweetness. Indians
discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty, around 350 AD.
[4] Sugarcane was originally from tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.[5]
Different species likely originated in different locations with S. barberi
originating in India and S. edule and S. officinarum coming from New Guinea)
(h) Yellow Fever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever
(The origin of the disease is most likely to be Africa, from where it was
introduced to South America through the slave trade in the 16th century)
(i) cattle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle#Domestication_and_husbandry
(sections 1 Species of cattle; 1.1 Word origin; Domestication and husbandry:
domesticated since at least the early Neolithic)
(j) The review says, "Mr Mann describes how, as early as 1515, Spanish
exlorers were astonished to discover that their own fugitive African slaves
had beaten them across the Central American isthmuth, where they had had
been warring with natives for years."
* beat (vt): "to come or arrive before"
* "The "they" in they had been warring with natives" is fugitive slaves.
(k) For white potato, see potato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
(from Andes; is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat,
and maize [in decreasing order]; Potatoes are occasionally referred to as "
Irish potatoes" or "white potatoes" in the United States, to distinguish
them from sweet potatoes; section 5 Role in world food supply: Table with
heading "Top Potato Producers")
(l) The review states "Columbus's exploration led Europeans to Peruvin
silver."
silver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver
(Peru, Bolivia and Mexico have been mining silver since 1546, and are still
major world producers. Top silver-producing mines are Cannington (Australia)
, Fresnillo (Mexico), San Cristobal (Bolivia), Antamina (Peru), Rudna (
Poland), and Penasquito (Mexico))
(2) From the author himself:
The Real Story of Globalization. Trade is an economic activity, but its
greatest impact may be biological. Charles C Mann on stow away earthworms,
far-flung potatoes and the world made by Columbus. Wall Street Journal, Aug
6, 2011.
online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311
1903454504576486421307171028.html
(a) Excerpt in the window of print: The potato became the fuel for the
rising Europe, while the sweet potato helped to weaken China.
(b) Quote:
"Why did Europe rise to predominance? Why did China, once the richest, most
advanced society on earth, fall to its knees?
"Introduced (along with corn) from South America via the Pacific silver
trade in the 1590s, it suddenly provided a way for Chinese farmers to
cultivate upland areas that had been unusable for rice paddies. The
nutritious new crop encouraged the fertility boom of the Qing dynasty, but
the experiment soon went badly wrong.
Because Chinese farmers had never cultivated their dry uplands, they made
beginners’ mistakes. An increase in erosion led to extraordinary levels of
flooding, which in turn fed popular unrest and destabilized the government.
The new crops that had helped to strengthen Europe were a key factor in
weakening China.
(c) Note:
(i) rootball (n): "the compact mass of roots and soil formed by a plant
especially in a container"
(ii) The Scottish surname Paterson, like Patterson, is composed of a pet
form of Pate (which is a short form of Patrick) + -son.
(iii) sweet potato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato
(Sweet potatoes are native to Central America; section 2 Cultivation)
(iv) plaintain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintain
(The fruit they [plaintain plants] produce is generally used for cooking, in
contrast to the soft, sweet banana. There is no formal botanical
distinction between bananas and plantains, and the use of either term is
based purely on how the fruits are consumed)
* banana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
(native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, and are likely to have been
first domesticated in Papua New Guinea)
(v) For potato blight, see Phytophthora infestans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_infestans
(section 5 Historical impact: The origin of Phytophthora infestans can be
traced to a valley in the highlands of central Mexico)
(vi) Hevea brasiliensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hevea_brasiliensis
(the Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree; its sap-like
extract (known as latex; The Pará rubber tree initially grew only in the
Amazon Rainforest; The name of the tree derives from Pará, the second
largest Brazilian state, whose capital is Belém)
* latex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex
* in Latin, latex means "fluid."
(vii) I am so sure about this theory of China's decline.
Columbus's voyage, most migrants to the New World were African, not European
. Wall Street Journal, Aug 9, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
053111904888304576472692264364406.html
(book review on Charles C Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
created. Knopf, 2011)
Note:
(a) "Genoa's most famous son" refers to Christopher Columbus (1451-1506;
born in Genoa, at modern Italy)
(b) dialectic (n; ultimately from Greek dialegesthai to converse, from dia-
+ legein to speak):
"2a: discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual
investigation; specifically : the Socratic techniques of exposing false
beliefs and eliciting truth
* * *
4b(1) usually plural but singular or plural in construction: development
through the stages of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in accordance with
the laws of dialectical materialism
* * *
5 usually plural but singular or plural in construction a: any systematic
reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory
ideas and usually seeks to resolve their conflict"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
Note
(i) that the English nouns dialect and dialogue ultimately come from Greek
dialegesthai, too, and
(ii) that the English noun legend is derived from Greek "legein."
* antithesis (n): "the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel
arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in 'action, not words' or '
they promised freedom and provided slavery')"
(c) dullard (n): "a stupid or unimaginative person"
Its corresponding adjective is "dull."
(d) The review mentions "Roanoke Island in Virginia."
It is a blunder: Roanoke Island is in today's North carolina, though it was
in Virginia colony when Englishmen came. See
(i) Colony of Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia
(ii) Roanoke Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Island
(It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who
inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration)
Roanoke is a Native American tribe, and Carolina Algonquian is a kind of
Algonquian, a language.
(e) Pangaea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea
(Ancient Greek pan "entire", and Gaia "Earth")
(f) Cartagena, Colombia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagena,_Colombia
(a large Caribbean beach resort city; The Spanish colonial city was founded
on June 1, 1533 and named after Cartagena, Spain; served a key role as a
center of political and economic activity due to the presence of Spanish
royalty and wealthy viceroys)
* Cartagena is Spanish for Carthage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage
(Phoenician meaning New City, implying it was a 'new Tyre'; currently a
suburb of Tunis, Tunisia; center of Carthaginian Empire)
(g) history of sugar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar
(Originally, people chewed sugarcane raw to extract its sweetness. Indians
discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty, around 350 AD.
[4] Sugarcane was originally from tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.[5]
Different species likely originated in different locations with S. barberi
originating in India and S. edule and S. officinarum coming from New Guinea)
(h) Yellow Fever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever
(The origin of the disease is most likely to be Africa, from where it was
introduced to South America through the slave trade in the 16th century)
(i) cattle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle#Domestication_and_husbandry
(sections 1 Species of cattle; 1.1 Word origin; Domestication and husbandry:
domesticated since at least the early Neolithic)
(j) The review says, "Mr Mann describes how, as early as 1515, Spanish
exlorers were astonished to discover that their own fugitive African slaves
had beaten them across the Central American isthmuth, where they had had
been warring with natives for years."
* beat (vt): "to come or arrive before"
* "The "they" in they had been warring with natives" is fugitive slaves.
(k) For white potato, see potato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
(from Andes; is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat,
and maize [in decreasing order]; Potatoes are occasionally referred to as "
Irish potatoes" or "white potatoes" in the United States, to distinguish
them from sweet potatoes; section 5 Role in world food supply: Table with
heading "Top Potato Producers")
(l) The review states "Columbus's exploration led Europeans to Peruvin
silver."
silver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver
(Peru, Bolivia and Mexico have been mining silver since 1546, and are still
major world producers. Top silver-producing mines are Cannington (Australia)
, Fresnillo (Mexico), San Cristobal (Bolivia), Antamina (Peru), Rudna (
Poland), and Penasquito (Mexico))
(2) From the author himself:
The Real Story of Globalization. Trade is an economic activity, but its
greatest impact may be biological. Charles C Mann on stow away earthworms,
far-flung potatoes and the world made by Columbus. Wall Street Journal, Aug
6, 2011.
online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311
1903454504576486421307171028.html
(a) Excerpt in the window of print: The potato became the fuel for the
rising Europe, while the sweet potato helped to weaken China.
(b) Quote:
"Why did Europe rise to predominance? Why did China, once the richest, most
advanced society on earth, fall to its knees?
"Introduced (along with corn) from South America via the Pacific silver
trade in the 1590s, it suddenly provided a way for Chinese farmers to
cultivate upland areas that had been unusable for rice paddies. The
nutritious new crop encouraged the fertility boom of the Qing dynasty, but
the experiment soon went badly wrong.
Because Chinese farmers had never cultivated their dry uplands, they made
beginners’ mistakes. An increase in erosion led to extraordinary levels of
flooding, which in turn fed popular unrest and destabilized the government.
The new crops that had helped to strengthen Europe were a key factor in
weakening China.
(c) Note:
(i) rootball (n): "the compact mass of roots and soil formed by a plant
especially in a container"
(ii) The Scottish surname Paterson, like Patterson, is composed of a pet
form of Pate (which is a short form of Patrick) + -son.
(iii) sweet potato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato
(Sweet potatoes are native to Central America; section 2 Cultivation)
(iv) plaintain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintain
(The fruit they [plaintain plants] produce is generally used for cooking, in
contrast to the soft, sweet banana. There is no formal botanical
distinction between bananas and plantains, and the use of either term is
based purely on how the fruits are consumed)
* banana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
(native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, and are likely to have been
first domesticated in Papua New Guinea)
(v) For potato blight, see Phytophthora infestans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_infestans
(section 5 Historical impact: The origin of Phytophthora infestans can be
traced to a valley in the highlands of central Mexico)
(vi) Hevea brasiliensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hevea_brasiliensis
(the Pará rubber tree, often simply called rubber tree; its sap-like
extract (known as latex; The Pará rubber tree initially grew only in the
Amazon Rainforest; The name of the tree derives from Pará, the second
largest Brazilian state, whose capital is Belém)
* latex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex
* in Latin, latex means "fluid."
(vii) I am so sure about this theory of China's decline.
a*u
6 楼
我昨天下午约的B2，第一次签，最早能约到5.19 最迟不知道。
还有我想问一下，我要带个比较大的包包，可以寄存吗？
还有我想问一下，我要带个比较大的包包，可以寄存吗？
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