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yping88

Today, I feel compulsive to let out the two public outrages our police officers have stirred up.

One is about the very mistreatment a Chinese descendent--Mr Tang had received while being in custody for domestic violence after he was profoundly drunk! The second one would be about the crime scene photo of raped-and-murdered Jill, who was half-naked lying in a shallow grave, being shown to a roughly 400 men in a prostate cancer fundraising event.

yping88

Mr Tang was a guy, who was addicted to alcohol. As a result of that, he developed domestic violent behaviors against his wife. When his marriage hit the rock, his wife was granted a restraining order against him.

Then, one day, he got badly drunk again and went to his then separated wife. When things turned into a heated row, the distraught family called police. Then, he was taken into custody.

While he was being questioned, he showed some physical distress and told the police women through the interpreter that he felt unwell and wanted a medical assistance.

But, for some reason, his request got ignored and brushed away, even though he vomited some blood and was incontinent. While he was released from the police station, he was too weak to walk out of there, and he crawled out instead.

Rather that regarding that as an urgent sign to justify Mr Tang's straigh-away medical help, the police officer helped him to his feet and escorted him out of the station. Then, Mr Tang collapsed, it was until then that the officers realized he really needed the medical assistance.

Unfortunately, Mr Tang passed away in the hospital the day after due to the critical internal hemorrhage from the long-term alcohol-induced liver failure!

yping88

Frankly, I am not sure about the idea of talking about this incident from the racism point of view, no matter how much some people intended to, because there was no sign or remarks suggesting that discrimination against some race was involved.

I would rather look at this incident from an approach that directs at "Negligence of duty of care" "Paying all lives with respect"!

As a police officer, he/she should be held accountable for anyone who is taken into his/her custody, that is why we call it "Custody". Whenever this word is involved, "A duty of care" is automatically put in operation, those who operates the custody should take on the guardianship in protecting the receptor's safety and human rights.

whoever enters a profession should be professionally competent to perform his/her healthily in his/her job. That means, the professionals should be non-judgemental, fair and non-discriminant. No matter who he/she is dealing with, they should be treated as equal, as a human being at all times, even though they are alcoholics, drug dealers/users or even murderers.

So, when Mr Tang stated he needed medical assistance, he should have had that service in place on request rather than ignored just because he was regarded being drunk and talking nonsenses. When he was crawling out of his cell, the officers should have been striken by the question "Why a man chose to loss all his dignity as a human being and crawled like an animal?". If this question crossed the officers' mind even briefly, they would have noticed something really went terribly wrong with Mr Tang.

Therefore, whenever the prejudice against certain group (in this case I am talking about the alcoholic group) takes its role, the professionals would loss the sense of professionalism, loss the competency to make sound judgements, loss the sense of duty of care and fail themselves as the qualified professionals as they should be!

What a huge disgrace had been shown in the police force in this case!

yping88

Now, I would like to briefly run by you on The Jill's Photo incident!

The police officer who displayed the picture in a utterly non-relevant event is 30-year police veteran. That made me wonder how sick a person he could possibly be to show this crime scene photo in an event trillion miles away from the photo itself.

Especially when this photo shows nothing but disrespect for the deceased, nothing but horrifically graphic description of an innocent woman's tragedy, I would like to request an simple explanation from the so-called police veteran: What message are you trying to get across to the prostate-cancer foundation by showing this photo?

When Jill's murder case was first revealed, I was tremendously sad about such a beautiful life being cut short by the heartless perpetrator in a random attack. But when I heard about this photo release incident, I was tremendously outraged like so many others and constantly haunted by the questions: What kind freak this police veteran has been could keep him remaining in the police force for 30 years?

After Jill's tragedy, about 30,000 people marched through Melbourne's main street to show their strong stand on Anti-violence against women, which demonstrated to the general public that it is not acceptable, not tolerable to exercise the violence of any kind on women.

But, I would say now that in this case, if we put together the shown crime scene photo of a female victim and prostate cancer foundation, it suggests one of the wildest violence of unspeakable kind against women, given, as well, who the person is to release this photo.

We will say how the general public and the police force will react to this disgraceful incident!

My heart is with Jill's family and friends! May they be supported by the God to pull themselves through this ungrounded and unnecessary turbulence!

a_lian

有没有什么简单的办法把YPING88的贴子整理出来放在一起,我想拷进KINDLE,以便我每天好好复习?
目前我只会一条一条COPY在WORD里去.

yping88

a_lian 发表于 28-11-2013 17:17

                               
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有没有什么简单的办法把YPING88的贴子整理出来放在一起,我想拷进KINDLE,以便我每天好好复习?
目前我只会一 ...

Haaahaaa

I feel so flattered to hear that!

But, please be aware that I am in the learning process myself, something I post here is just for fun. It will with no doubt be shown some mistakes.

So, if you find anything that makes no sense to you, please let me know! This will help pinpoint the sentences easily for me to have more looks at, and I will make amendments if needed.

Thanks for your attention on this request!

MICHELLE07

a_lian 发表于 28-11-2013 17:17

                               
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有没有什么简单的办法把YPING88的贴子整理出来放在一起,我想拷进KINDLE,以便我每天好好复习?
目前我只会一 ...

问问@ubuntuhk ，看有什么办法导入Kindle

@ubuntuhk

yping88

You are a brick. 你真行/好

She is a piece of work  她很难相处

ubuntuhk

a_lian 发表于 28-11-2013 17:17

                               
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有没有什么简单的办法把YPING88的贴子整理出来放在一起,我想拷进KINDLE,以便我每天好好复习?
目前我只会一 ...

嗯，这是个好问题，不过很遗憾论坛目前没有提供和kindle整合的接口。

如果要放到kindle，只能把相关内容放到txt文件里面，然后通过：
1. usb拷贝到kindle
2. 将txt文件作为附件，email给你的kindle绑定的email账号

这两个办法都有点繁琐，要手工操作。

yping88

My Harvey has tricked me and deceitfully judged me recently in a very amusing way!

To hear these story, you will have to bear with me blah-blahing his naughty behavoirs first!

Bad one: he loves jumping up to hold onto the clothes hung up on the line, and maybe considering it one of his achievements in his "Jump-and-catch" career whenever he catches one! maybe that's why he holds a very tough ground on this behavoir and never shows a tiny bit willingness to modify it.

Bad two: Explores his surroundings by mouth and chews everything accessible to him, then decides which items are in his interest and chews them until they completely break into small pieces and disappear in his mouth. After a long-term education, he expresses his intention to modify this behavior by letting go off the things he is chewing and picking up something else!

yping88

The other day, I did a truck load of laundry and hung them up in every cloth line that I could fit in. Then, I started browsing FreeOz while dog-sitting him.

Before long, Harvey made multiple attempts running towards the cloth rack but failed in succeeding doing any destructive cause, because i could obviously see where he was heading and put his naughty doing to an end. Then, he dropped himself on the grass and appeared very contended with his little snooze.

I thought he gave up on his interest in those clothes and wanted to take a break from all previous endeavors, so, I become less vigilant and sunk myself into @EmilyS ' talk-show and got myself into an appeal to a mercy after @大米粥 sentenced me to an unjustified attack.

Luckily, EmilyS did the justice to my case and overruled 大米粥's premature decision. After I was done with my thank-you letter to EmilyS, I realized that Harvey wasn't lying on the grass anymore.

The first place I checked was the cloth-rack area, he was not there. I looked around the back yard, there was absolutely no sign of him. I started calling him loudly, there was no response from him either.

I became a bit panicked wondering where he could be ( all the doors to house and outside were shut). When my voice became a bit frantic frantic and intense, Harvey made himself visible from the bushes along the fence, just about one step away from the clothes area.

Walking towards me with a guilty look, Harvey just played with me again knowing that he could get away with it if he showed some regret for his naughty behaviors!

And he always wins! lol

yping88

After so many times of being told off when he chews things, Harvey shows a trick that tells us off for being silly and a drama queen. That is whenever he is trying to reach over for something with his mouth, we just jump in yelling at him in a hope that we can startle him out of his potential destruction.

In so many occasions, he just turns his chewing activities into the big yawnings. In the meanwhile, he would give us a look, seemingly suggesting that "Hey, relax. I just want to yawn. What are you yelling for? Is there still a freedom of yawning in this house？Geez!"

小样儿， 咋呼啥！我只不过是想打个哈欠，难道在这个家里，连打个哈欠的自由都没有了吗？什么世道！

But as long as I was convinced enough to believe him and blame myself for making a fuss out of nothing, he just seizes all possible opportunities to grab things by his mouth and makes it up to himself for the chewing he has been yelled out of!

yping88

Law of average  平均法则--According to the law of average, your luck is about to turn around

Been there, done that  我也有同样的经历---用于告诉正在诉说某件事的人，“唉，别提了，我也有过相同的经历。 我理解你的感受”

Make a mistake of massive proportions  犯下大错

yping88

I asked one of my colleague about how Australians call their winter clothes differently from what we learnt.

Me: Peter, I remembered when I was in the States, they always called their winter clothes sweater, how come I have never heard anyone here to call "SWEATER"?

Peter: Yeah, we are "Jumpers", that's why!

MICHELLE07

yping88 发表于 3-12-2013 00:03

                               
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Law of average  平均法则--According to the law of average, your luck is about to turn around

Been ...

任何时候累了，无聊了，来这里，yping总是有好多惊喜等着我们，谢谢，谢谢你的坚持和奉献。

yping88

MICHELLE07 发表于 3-12-2013 14:44

                               
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任何时候累了，无聊了，来这里，yping总是有好多惊喜等着我们，谢谢，谢谢你的坚持和奉献。

The pleasure has been mine, MICHELLE07!

All the while, I have a strong feeling that I have been helping myself out! And I really enjoy it!

yping88

He is living on a borrowed the time  他侥幸活下来, 每多活一天, 都是赚来的一天

We are the two sides of the same coin   我们俩没多少差别/我们俩一个半斤一个八两

She got all wrapped up and involved  她全身心地投入===She got all upclose and personal

You haven't even scratched the surface on what you learn yet  你对你所学的东西还未了解一点皮毛呢

yping88

This surgery is a hornet's nest  这个手术就像个蚂蜂窝，万分动不得

You should make a curtain call   该结束了，该谢幕了

She is out of the running  她被请出比赛/退出比赛

Fighting tooth and nail for a chance to do something 竭尽全力去争取机会做某事

yping88

You keep taking a second-guessing on my decision  你一直对我的决定不太有信心

She is a basket case  她是个极度紧张的人/神经兮兮的

Whoever rolls a stone will have it rolled back on him  搬起石头，砸自己的脚

It‘s a long shot, please be patient  这事儿不好办，要有耐心

We tried to make it up for our relationship, but never got past it  从未真正地和好如初

Brownnose the boss  拍老板马屁

yping88

It's not cut and dried yet (这还不一定呢/这还不是最后的结果）, we should continue to fight until we run out of all possible options.

I am out of my depth when it comes to dealing with such a crisis 处理这样的危机超出了我的能力范围

yping88

Keep your temper in check 别再发火了/冷静下来吧

You are off to a good start. 你正向好的起点进发

Don't you worry about me, I always fall on my feet. 我总是很幸运

aaron_liuf

好贴! 学习....

yping88

What is happening recently has changed my perspective 最近发生的事情改变了我对事物的认识和看法

They just quitted on me left and right  他们接二连三地离开我，抛弃我

I couldn't deal with this right now, i got way too much on my plate  我手头上有这么 事儿要处理

franksh

好帖要顶，学英文贵在坚持，积少成多

yping88

This is a "Turkey shoot" situation  这是个进攻方占据绝对优势的情形==意即：哈哈，你死定了

He just makes the judgements from his lofty heights 他只不过是从他那虚幻的精神高度来对事物做出判断

He is falling off the grid  他躲起来不让别人找到他

They are bunch of worrywarts 他们就是一帮忧心忡忡的人/自寻烦恼的人

yping88

She has drawn a professional line with him, but he has paid little respect to it  她要求他与她之间维持职业性的关系, 但他并不太尊重这层关系而想越线

They could do a lot better loving each other from a distance  当他们分居两地时，可能会显得更爱彼此 （近的臭，远的香；距离产生美---嘿嘿）

The calm before the storm  暴风雨前的寂静

yping88

Right off the bat  立即/马上

A bus has jack--knifed across the traffic 巴士被撞成V形，横在马路上

I am in over my head  我做不来/我没有这个能力

大米粥

yping88 发表于 3-12-2013 21:37

                               
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The pleasure has been mine, MICHELLE07!

All the while, I have a strong feeling that I have been ...

your attitude and persistence is something else that we should learn

cheercao

学习了!

yping88

I guess we should meet each other half way  我觉得咱俩应该各让一步

You should pull yourself together and get back on the horse  重新振作起来

He seemed to be out of joint   他看起来不是太正常

Reckless endangerment  危害他人人身安全