關於 weak form strong form ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭92:12-15‬ ‭WEB‬‬

Like the palm tree and cedar, you will grow stately and strong, not brittle and weak. The winds and downpours of life will not injure you.

In “old age”, the number you write on a form increases, but your body is physically young and fruitful—still able to bring forth children.

40 years after God declared that the unbelieving ones among the children of Israel would not enter the promised land, Caleb turned 85 years old. Yet, he was still as physically strong as he was at 45 years old. His age increased, but his body did not deteriorate one bit—he could still fight giants and win. Time froze for him because God’s power kept him young (Joshua‬ ‭14:10-11‬).

Yes, if you have faith in God like Caleb did, you will be full of sap and green—still visibly vibrant, strong and beautiful, like a person in his/her youth!

God will keep supplying His life-giving power into your mortal body. When people look at you, a walking miracle, it will be a testimony of how God takes care of those who have faith in Jesus as Lord!

My birthday comes in 2 days and I’m still feeling like a teenager, not 27 years old. I recently wrote an ebook, “Younger and Younger: 31 Days of God’s Youth Renewal Promises” to take readers on a one-month journey to become younger, stronger and more beautiful by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is full of fresh revelations about youth renewal, and every chapter ends with a special prayer to help you apply what you learn.

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Battle between Freedom and Equality | Lee Yee

A netizen left a comment under my article from a couple of days ago, and said that if Trump is re-elected, he would turn “dictatorial”, and pursue “Trump thinking as mainstream”. He said that he “divides the United States and gave birth to racism, white nationalism, and xenophobia”, which is disastrous to human civilization, etc.

Under the constitutional system of the United States, one will have to step down after one re-election, and there is no way to bring about a dictatorship. Moreover, just look at all the stormy attacks mainstream media throws towards him, how is one to become a dictator? In a multicultural America, how could any almighty notion exist? As for racism and xenophobia, the cited example is him crowning the novel coronavirus “Chinese virus”, and the media claimed that this has caused a sharp increase in anti-Chinese speech online. But the virus did originate in China, did it not?

Other than the infiltration of Chinese interests that drove the U.S. media’s anti-Trump campaign, it has also been the “leftard” ideologies that have dominated academia and the press. How does one define “leftard”? Something that So Keng-chit said a few days ago was very appropriate, "the definition of “leftard” is that they replace strong and weak with “wrong and “right”; strong must be “wrong”, and weak must be “right”. Leftards uplift the weak by putting down the bullies to attain moral high grounds. The leftards must oppose the United States, for the see the United States as strong. The leftards sympathize with Saddam Hussein, because compared with the United States, Saddam Hussein is weak. They cannot see that Saddam Hussein is strong compared with the Iraqis. Hence the ‘tard’ in leftard.”

It is not that they cannot see, they are just intentionally not seeing. The mainstream media reports about Iraq after Saddam Hussein had fallen were that there was no longer a stronghold of a government, which led to the loss of societal management. Bombs were exploding daily, and blood flooded the land of the country. People lost homes and livelihoods. However, data showed that in the later phase of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq’s population was 26 million, and the per capita GDP was only US$625, not to mention that the inflation rate was high in the three digits. After the United States attacked Iraq and introduced the democratic system, the Iraqi population has risen to 35 million, the per capita GDP has increased to US$4,600, and the inflation rate has dropped to 6%. Despite the global economic slowdown, the Iraqi economy has grown by an average of 9.9% per year for more than a decade.

In addition, the mainstream media rarely reported the substantial progress in Afghanistan’s economy and people’s livelihood after the United States eradicated the Taliban regime before establishing a democratic system in Afghanistan. It is rarely reported that after South Africa got rid of the white regime, social security was horrifying. It is because such truthful reporting is not politically correct.

Shouldn’t the motto of news publishing be “all news worth reporting”? When political correctness overrides this creed, there is no longer press freedom.

The so-called political correctness stems from anti-discrimination. Anti-discrimination means upholding the concept that “all men are born equal”, and to protect vulnerable groups. Anti-discrimination used to be a kind of progress, since the starting point is not the interests of the majority of society, but the moral and spiritual demands. But when this kind of protection gradually develops into a disregard towards differences and the diversity of human life, it becomes leftards who wave around the banner of political correctness. If the welfare of new immigrants is treated the same as that of local residents, how is that different from obliterating the long-term tax payment of local residents? Using Black Lives Matter to rationalize violence and chaos, you get Black Lives Better, and ignore the fundamental problems of the root causes of issues such as the Black community’s slighting of education; with the police worrying that law enforcement will cause them trouble, the crime in the Black areas will increase. Anti-discrimination has developed into a state where even praising women for being beautiful is discrimination. Obama once praised the Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris as the most beautiful State Attorney General in the United States, and was then accused of discrimination by feminists. He was forced to apologize. To protect LGBT, many American college toilets no longer distinguish between men and women, making women fearful.

“All men are born equal” is a false proposition. Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and others are born in the slums of Africa. How are they born equal? American conservative Russel Kirk said that we must pay attention to diversity and differences. Only before God and a fair court can there be true quality; all other attempts to achieve equality will inevitably lead to societal stagnation. If the balance of natural differences and conventions is tipped in order to pursue equality for all, then it will not be long before tyrants or despicable oligarchs start to create new inequalities.

Socialism waves around the banner of equality, and has been breeding tyranny for a whole century. Modern leftards is another form of pursuit of equality, one that is destroying the freedom of human society. Freedom is more important than equality. If there is no freedom, there will be no equality among people who are not free.

This U.S. general election may as well be regarded as a battle between freedom and equality.

Return to the Days of your Youth

““If there is a messenger for him, A mediator, one among a thousand, To show man His uprightness, Then He is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom’; His flesh shall be young like a child’s, He shall return to the days of his youth. He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him, He shall see His face with joy, For He restores to man His righteousness.” (Job‬ ‭33:23-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

If you are self-condemned and don’t believe that you’re perfectly forgiven and righteous in Christ, you will age fast and be susceptible to sickness.

When you’re under condemnation, your body afflicts itself with psychosomatic illnesses—with the brain commanding the body to be weak, sick, old and dying as a form of self-inflicted punishment.

Forgiveness of sins, the revelation of righteousness by faith, are intricately linked to miraculous renewal of youth.

Aging is a symptom of death, and death came into this world as a consequence of sin.

When you believe that your sins have been forgiven and that you are righteous, your spirit exercises dominion over your flesh through faith and causes it to become young again—that baby-smooth and clear skin of a child!

When you believe you are righteous and favored, your mind says to the body, “Because God loves and favors me, I am healthy, strong and young. Every blessing is mine in Christ!”
Every cell proceeds to build itself to be healthy and strong.

Don’t take “righteousness by faith” lightly. It is an extremely powerful truth that empowers you to reign in life and become physically young again!

More youth renewal teachings and powerful revelations can be found in “Beautiful, Healthy and Strong Like Jesus” : https://www.miltongoh.net/store/p17/beautiful-healthy-and-strong-like-jesus.html

期待的政治英文影片第二集出爐了!!! 今天探討的是三位政治大咖的英文口語。再次聲明，此影片的目的不在於比較英文能力，而是提供學習者英文口語的實際操作和可以注意的小細節。對我而言，英文是一種工具，我並不覺得台灣的政治人物一定需要擁有驚人的外語能力。以下是影片中提到的一些資訊，請看完再發表評論:

關於韓市長的「晶晶體」: http://bit.ly/2kENRVv

★★★★★★★★★★★★

英文口語評估指標

• 是否到達溝通目的
• 考量語境/當下場景
• 詞彙資源
• 文法範圍和正確度
• 連貫性和流暢度還有發音

★★★★★★★★★★★★

韓國瑜（1957年6月17日－)，中華民國政治人物，中國國民黨，現任高雄市市長，中華民國陸軍軍官學校專修學生班40期、東吳大學英國語文學系文學學士、國立政治大學東亞研究所法學碩士。

EDIT: New Sample (08.21.2019): https://youtu.be/1xrcXcZvAko?t=148 (請先看完我們的分析)

最先去搜尋的是ICRT全英文的專訪，但是大部分影片和錄音檔都被刪除，只留下一些片段: https://youtu.be/zDYhd7XiSUQ?t=12 (Vid 1)

•prosperious -- prosperous Kaohsiung
•We will hire the English teacher so that we can save money -- cause, effect relationship?
•intelligible English pronunciation but spoke in short phrases

https://youtu.be/3helP_n9jY8?t=481 (Vid 2)

•唸稿子的時候有適當的停頓, 英文語調也有上下的起伏
•met--made, we have made the impossible possible
•in everyone eyes--in everyone’s eyes
•longing for better tomorrow --longing for a better tomorrow
•整體上來說沒有什麼問題...
•很難去評估真正的英文口語能力，畢竟是念稿子
•從詞彙量而言，至少足夠回應一般生活類問題
•因為句子還蠻短的，所以沒有什麼語法錯誤
•口音是一定有的，但是算標準，可以聽得懂
•短句的流暢度沒有大問題，但是連貫性可以增加

★★★★★★★★★★★★

郭台銘（英文名：Terry Gou，1950年10月18日－），中華民國企業家，新北板橋人，籍貫山西省晉城縣，臺灣省立板橋中學初中部、中國海事專科學校（今臺北海洋科技大學）航運管理科畢業，是鴻海科技集團（富士康）和鴻海精密的董事長兼總經理。以個人資產705億美元名列富比士億萬富翁列表中的第7大富豪，同時也是臺灣首富。2019年4月17日，郭台銘宣布投入中國國民黨的2020年中華民國總統選舉黨內初選。

郭台銘 - 企業領袖高峰會演講 APEC CEO Summit 2013: https://youtu.be/c733wqJup_I?t=175

•聽完他的對答覺得講得很好
•應該已經在商業界上運用英文三十幾年了
•1985就建立在美國一家分公司
•因為是商業場合，講的話算官方但直接
•以流暢度來說，會給高的評分
•英文詞彙上應用專業術語 (e.g., key components, technology integration)
•不熟悉字型的變化 morphology/word form--manufacture, manufacturing, manufacturer --we emerged as an electronics manufacturer; we innovation designer --no be verb; we are use all component and integration --we utilize component integration testing?, etc.)
•發音也蠻多問題的
•猜測他應該是有在練英文口語
•應該沒有太多寫作上的需求
•猜測他學習英文的方式是蠻自然的
•沒有花額外的時間在學習文法，刻意的去修正自己的錯誤
•學習英文的只是為了工作需求
•說話有連貫性也有技巧，但是無法精準表達意思
•在特定場景的口說上應該是沒有問題，因為重複性高而且大概可以猜出他會講什麼
•說實話，表現超出預料

★★★★★★★★★★★★

柯文哲（1959年8月6日－），中華民國著名外科醫師、無黨籍政治人物。現任臺北市市長。國立臺灣大學醫學院臨床醫學研究所博士畢業，曾任臺大醫院急診部醫師、臺大醫院創傷醫學部主任、臺大醫學院教授，2014年宣布參選臺北市市長選舉，並以「在野大聯盟」為號召，同年當選臺北市第15任直轄市市長，成為臺北市改制直轄市後首位無黨籍市長。2018年，參選臺北市市長並成功連任。

https://youtu.be/ffIxQ27jUdQ?t=159

•首先媒體對柯市長太嚴格了
•常講英文的時候是為了開玩笑「柯式幽默」
•在這個影片當中他確實有看稿子
•and da today
•today (stress on the second syllable )
•medical (stress on first syllable)
•metary -- military
• problems cause by L1 interference
•從語音結構上來看，中文是一種「音節計時語言（syllable-timed language）及「聲調語言」（tone language），每個字由一個音節構成，唸起來各音節輕重相當且時間大致等長，而且每個字有自己的聲調；但英語是一種「重音計時語言」（stress-timed language）及「語調語言」(intonation language)，每個字的音節數不一，由各音節是否有重音來決定其輕重、長短與音階高低，而重音落於何處也會決定其語意之不同。

-campus.cavesbooks.com.tw

•One of the most noticeable features of English is that some of its syllables are strong while many others are weak” (Roach, 2000, p81). English stress pattern is manifested through syllable length, loudness and pitch. In other words, stressed syllables are longer, louder and higher pitched than unstressed ones. Sometimes one word that is stressed differently may have different grammatical functions and meanings, for example, the homographs “record” (verb) and “record” (noun). “Record” has the stress on second syllable when it is a verb, and it has stress on the first when it is a noun. The shift of the stress even makes a noticeable difference to the sound of the vowels, for instance, “e” in noun “REcord” is pronounced as /e/, but /ɪ/ in verb “reCORD”.

-http://ec-concord.ied.edu.hk

•coal values -- core values
•freedom, tolerance, rule of law
•用詞大致上是正確的雖然還是有字形上(word form)的問題
•expensive -- expense
•每個句子都很短，但還是有溝通的功能
•蠻多文法的問題
•個人認為是有知識和魅力的一位候選人
•聽他用英文演講一段時間真的有困擾，因為沒重音，很難辨識重點
•講話沒有太多語調和節奏，在英文發音裡面是一個非常重要的環節
•會導致聽者需要完全專注他每一個字才能辨識他在說什麼
•不覺得每一個政治人物都需要英文，有專業和可靠的翻譯輔助，就覺得不會是一種困擾
•英文是一種工具，多一種工具就多一種選擇，但這種工具用不好時也有可能會造成一些誤解

★★★★★★★★★★★★

在此提供我的「心智圖詞彙攻略」課程: https://bit.ly/2teELDq

英文學習專頁: https://www.facebook.com/ericsenglishlounge/

還有Howard老師《會走路的翻譯機，神級英文學習攻略本》的傳送門 http://bit.ly/2DfGrhH

★★★★★★★★★★★★

同時也再次感謝炙瞳夢 RED FILM幾位大導演和貓哥的友情協助，幫我們拍攝和剪接出如此精彩的影片!

★★★★★★★★★★★★

Is that Winnie the Pooh's honey jar? Nope! It's a big piece of bread baked with a hollow center and filled with pudding. On top of the pudding bread, we added caramel-flavored pound cake batter. Add an ample amount of fresh cream... and we're done! A giant pudding bread that looks like a cupcake! We had to try this one five times... but we finally got it right!
*Recipe*
1. Add yellow food coloring to approximately 210g of milk that has been heated to around 30°C.
2. Mix together 270g strong flour (bread flour), 30g weak flour (cake flour), 20g sugar, 4g salt (1 teaspoon), 3g dry yeast, and the milk from Step 1. Knead until mixture forms into a single clump. You can knead it with your hands.
3. Add 30g unsalted butter that has been allowed to warm to room temperature and knead the mixture well until it becomes smooth.
4. Form the mixture into a ball, place it into a bowl lightly coated with vegetable oil, and cover it with plastic wrap.
5. Place in a warm area (40°C) and allow yeast to work on fermentation for 40 minutes (Primary Fermentation).
6. When the dough has risen to about two times its original size, pour it out onto a flat surface and allow gas to escape.
7. Separate dough into two portions. One 200g and the other 350g.
8. Stretch the smooth dough so that the openings are on the inside and firmly pinch it shut.
9. Cover dough with a wet cloth and allow to rest for 12 minutes. (Bench Time)
10. Stretch out the dough and put 18g of marshmallows in one of the dough balls and 31g of marshmallows in the other. Firmly pinch shut.
11. Add the dough from Step 10 into a mold lightly greased with vegetable oil. Place the dough so that the cupcake lid piece has its seam on top and the base piece has its seam on the bottom.
12. Place in a warm area (40°C) and allow to ferment again for approximately 30 minutes (Secondary Fermentation).
13. Place an oven sheet and some form of flat weight on top to ensure the dough cooks level.
14. Pre-heat the oven to 190°C, turn it down to 160°C and cook for 10 minutes. Turn it down again to 150°C and cook for another 10 minutes. Bake slowly so as to not darkly color the dough due to heat.
15. When done baking, place the dough on top of a wire mesh to allow it to cool.

Now let's make the pound cake batter to go on top. You will only need 1/4 of the dough this recipe makes. You can use the rest to make something like Sweet Boule (Yamazaki Pan) by placing it on top of regular bread and baking for 7 minutes in an oven preheated to 200°C.

16. Add 76g of caramel sauce to 40g of butter that has been allowed to warm to room temperature and mix together. Caramel sauce can be homemade. For homemade caramel sauce, use 70g.
17. Add 30g of beaten egg and mix together.
18. Sift in 60g of strong flour (bread flour) and mix together.
19. Insert mixture into a piping bag.
20. Pipe the mixture from Step 19 onto the top of the cupcake.
21. Bake for 4 minutes in an oven preheated to 200°C.
22. Remove from oven and once again add mixture from Step 19 as you did before.
23. Bake for 2 more minutes and watch to see how the pound cake batter is drooping. Remove from oven and add more batter.
24. Bake for 6 more minutes to finish. Allow the finished product to cool.

25. Fill the lower portion of the cupcake mold bread with pudding. We were able to add 210g of pudding.
26. Add fresh cream to the piece from Step 24. We were able to add 215g of fresh cream.
27. Place the lid from Step 26 onto the base from Step 25.
28. Finished! We bought this mold a long time ago and now I've finally made a video using it. It was quite the long road. We failed so many times and none of those failures made a good video. It's pretty much all made from willpower.

くまのプーさんが「はーちみーつどーろぼー」と言ってきてもあわてずに「プリンパンです」と言いましょう。
中が空洞になるように焼いた大きなパンにいっぱいプリンを詰めたプリンパン作りました。大きなプリンパンの上にはカラメルソース味のパウンド生地。生クリームもいっぱいに入れて。やっとできた！でっかいカップケーキみたいなプリンパン。なんだかんだで、やり直すこと計５回・・・何とか形になりました！文字数制限のため日本語版はこちらで→ http://ameblo.jp/mosogourmet/entry-12253161062.html

久遺了的《擺脫港音》系列。

又是「for」字讀音? 不是講過了嗎? 不錯，但有網友說仍然搞不清楚，我唯有多給幾句例句，順便拍片和大家分享。先考考大家：以下句子中的「for」字，大家會怎樣讀?

1. Let's go for a walk.

2. I've got a present for you.

3. It doesn't work against you; it works for you.

假如大家以為三個「for」讀音一樣，就睇片吧。


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