I was so looking forward to this meeting in Yantai, a coastal city north of Qingdao. The flight was delayed by at least 2 hrs at the Baiyun airport in Guangzhou, which was norm according to the passenger next to me who travels to Yantai frequently. The temperature was too warm, a ...
Due to flight delay, the lectures will be given in the evening on the 18th (Friday), starting at 7 pm. I will teach scientific writing at the YIC ( 中国科学院烟台海岸带研究所 ). It's on June 16th (Wed), starting at 19:00 (or 7 pm). 英文写作 ...
Life is never fair. Most SCI journals use English (I am just guessing here). So, if your English is not good enough to express your ideas and reasoning, you will need help--lots of help. Fortunately, such help exits, though it may cost you. I have been asked from time to time if I ...
First of all, I do not translate. So, take what I write below with a grain of salt . Background: A friend of mine is trying to translate a manuscript in Chinese. The goal is to publish the manuscript in an English language journal. 1) Get a paper pub ...
Everybody knows what a bank is, right? Wrong! At least I didn't know what a time bank was until a few minutes ago... A few weeks ago, I contributed to a food bank . And this morning, I walked past a blood bank booth. ...
I will teach scientific writing at LASG (中国科学院大气物理研究所, 大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室; 英文缩写LASG). It's on June 25th (Friday), starting at 9:30 am. For detail, please visit: http://www.lasg.ac.cn/Sylm/2010/5/gt1vqr52wg.htm   ...
I am a freelance English editor, though I am a meteorologist and an oceanographer by training. In English, I is always written in upper case; this is not because I am special. (Actually, i written in lower case may disapp ...
I know all of you learned this English structure years ago. When writing a (long) sentence in a research paper, however, one may not recall this unique structure. Instead, one may write not only...and also... The CO 2 is released NOT ONLY from our cars AND ALSO from our air condit ...
You can find the meaning of cheap easily in a dictionary. What you may not find there is how to use such a simple word correctly in everyday life. I hope to introduce the connotation of some English words. Let's start with the word cheap. I ...