查询词典 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, and Jim Carrey were all born in January.

本杰明富兰克林，艾尔卡彭，和金凯瑞都出生於 1月。

They wanted a fresh start and called it a "Fourth Republic". But during their ill-starred government of 2005-07, the atmosphere was more reminiscent of Robespierre than Benjamin Franklin.

他们想重新开始，称其为&第四共和国&。2005到2007年间，政府表现不佳，政治氛围让人想起罗伯斯庇尔而不是富兰克林。

The Great Vowel Shift in the 15th and 16th centuries altered the pronunciation of many words but left their spelling unchanged; and as Masha Bell, an independent literacy researcher, notes, the 15th-century advent of printing presses initially staffed by non-English speakers helped to magnify the muddle. Second, misguided attempts to align English spelling with Latin roots (debt and debitum; island and insula) led to the introduction of superfluous "silent" letters. Third, despite interest in spelling among figures as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, Prince Philip and the Mormons, English has never, unlike Spanish, Italian and French, had a central regulatory authority capable of overseeing standardisation.

一是发生于15和16世纪的主要元音转移改变了许多单词的读音，但是它们的拼写没有随之变化，另外一位文字研究者马沙贝尔注意到15世纪时，主要的纸质媒体行业最初从业人员的母语多不是英语，这自然造成了更大的混乱；二是，将英文拼写中添加常常是编造出来的拉丁字根，此举带来了多余的不发音字母；三，无论是谁对英文拼写有兴趣—这其中有各式各样的人物，如本杰明富兰克林、菲利普王子还有摩门教徒，英语不像西班牙语、意大利语以及法语，它从未有过有能力推行标准语的官方机构

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。