Vocabulary

to provide for / is to provide money for

e.g. Fathers and mothers are the providers of the family.

e.g. In older times it was the father who was the sole provider of the family.

e.g. Who is the provider of your house?

to defy / defied / defiance / to go against commonly accepted rules

e.g. This homeless man defied society’s standards for how you should live your life. He stood in defiance of society’s norms (normal rules).

stereotype / 刻板 印象 / something that is often true but not always true

e.g. The common stereotype of a Chinese person in America is: good at math, bad at driving, bad pronunciation.

e.g. Some stereotypes are positive (Asians being good at musical instruments) and some are negative (like black people are thieves).

fame / famous / 名声

e.g. Some people become famous and can’t handle the fame.

to flee / fled / to run away from

asylum / 庇护

maneuvers / a movement to avoid something or to accomplish something

to extradite / extradition / this is when a man is wanted for a crime in country A but he fled to country B – and now country A requests that country B bring him back to country A

e.g. Not all countries have a extradition agreement between them.

to ignite / is to set something on fire

reignite / to set something on fire again

to reignite a debate / is to restart a debate that is very “hot” or contains people with very strong opinions

philosophy / 哲学

some chance = an opportunity 

from my perspective – American freedom of press is transparent and we citizens have the right to know the truth – but in China you know there are lots of secrets in the local government and they are kept safe for example when you are the wife of a husband and your husband might be a Chinese officials – and then he will suddenly disappears and not doesn’t let you know where he is – I like this about American culture about this.

Not really – I think being a normal person is also fine – For starters, I can use them money to look after/provide for my familyies this is the first one/reason – I need money – secondly, if I make/earn more money maybe/perhaps I always hope that I can get some chance an opportunity to go overseas to have some further studies and study further/to further my studies – this is the second reason and also the thirdly maybe when I have more money I can buy myself an apartment and also a dog to living live with me – but I’m really into the dogs. I’m wondering thinking about renting to rent an apartment to live by myself – I just want some privacy times without families family. I have a home where I live with my mom and my dad.

Pronunciation

was / NOT WARZ / NOT WERZ / W-UH-Z / FOCUSING ON THE “UH”

the / NOT THER / NOT THUR / TH-UH / ‘UH’

Grammar

a lot of Japanese emails coming to me email box / a lot of Japanese emails are sent to me inbox

he will not let me alone / he will not leave me alone (he’s bothering me) / he won’t leave me by myself (for safety)

I don’t want to talk when I‘m wake up in the morning

WikiLeaks’ Assange arrested in London, accused by U.S. of conspiring in 2010 computer hacking attempt

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadoran Embassy here Thursday and arrested on a U.S. hacking charge — maneuvers that initiated a potentially years-long legal battle over his extradition and reignited debates about press freedom.

With Assange’s arrest, U.S. and British authorities ended a seven-year saga in which the anti-secrecy crusader stayed just beyond their reach while his group dumped classified and politically volatile materials onto the Internet. U.S. prosecutors confirmed for the first time that they had secretly charged Assange last year with conspiring with an Army intelligence analyst to illegally obtain secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents, which Assange’s group published online. He is accused of helping Chelsea Manning, the former soldier then known as Bradley Manning, perhaps unsuccessfully, try to crack a government password.

It could be some time, though, before he answers to that charge in an American court. Analysts say Assange’s extradition could take years, and only after he is in the United States can he begin what is expected to be a vigorous defense, arguing that he is like any newspaper publisher and that the charge against him is unjust.