【Comments】CCRS

Comparing with dictionary, concordancers and colloaction retrieval system offers us more different words that go with the word we searched in a natural environment(In other words, they are not made to fulfill the purpose as the examples in dictionaries). NTNU Concordancer and Collocation Retrieval System even lists the frequency of the collocations so that we are able to learn the mostly used collocations and the ones that are not used often (which suggests us to avoide use such collocations ).

The weakness of CCRS is that the context that comes along with the search result is restricted, therefore makes it difficult to identify the meaning or the appropriate usage of the collocations.

I did not encounter any problem when using CCRS. However I wonder if the tool updates its databank continuously or else we shall not able to learn the new collocations from it.

Big vs. Large

The two words, big and large is similar in which both of them can be used in describe the size. The main difference is that large is particularly used in describing the amount. Such assertion can be made as we find phrases "a large amount of something," "a large number of something," and "a large quantity of something” appear a lot when we search "large" in corpus.

Alizée《À contre-courant》

Fresh voice, good song.

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This week's class and article are very useful.Not only did I learn some cool softwares, such as FastStone, but I also learned that fact that as a English major student, I This week's class and article are very useful.Not only did I learn some cool softwares, such as FastStone, but I also learned that fact that as a English major student, I knew too little about my friend, dictionary.


Before I read the article "你不可不知的字典知識," I did not know that there are so many different types of dictionaries, and people can look words or phrases up in different dictionaries according to the information they want to know.I even did not know that most paper dictionaries nowadays are accompanied with a CD-ROM, either.Looks like I have to have an update on the things that I use everyday ...@@


p.s. I have tried Yahoo Minipen at home. It was cute and helpful, however, quite annoying, for its windows pops up when my mouse cursor just happen to stay on a word for more than 2 seconds. Therefore, I uninstalled the software.

Lara Fabian《Tout》

Powerful and Impressive!


One fo the Best French singer, Lara Fabian, singing her well-known "Tout."


(you might need to turn up the volume a little bit )

Lenka《Trouble is a Friend》

1 Click For 3 mins & 37 secs Good Mood :-)

Hello! It's Andrea!

It's hard to introduce myself completely within 100 words cause I got so many interests...


(1)I am addicted to BL manga & novels.

(2)I read a lot. My favirote writer is 三毛(She's a genius!)and 沈石溪(He writes fascinating animal stories).

(3)I like to draw...I have learnt painting for 1 or 2 years...years ago

(4)I like watching ANTM, Project Runway, Desperate Housewives, Two and a Half man, anime, and Japanese TV programs:
Favirote Japanese TV show is London Hearts(男女糾察隊)
Favirote anime is always changing... Recently I fell in love with R.O.D. (Read or Die) It's a great cartoon talking about people with super powers such as having the ability to manipulate paper to his will... lots of special effects have been used.

(5)I am also found of singing, traveling, collecting various things including perfumes, glassbottles, stamps... and sewing(I even have a sewing machine of my own) and any kind of hands-on activities

My least favirote thing is washing dishes... I get furious everytime I'm told to wash dishes...perhaps I was the dishwasher in my past life:-(


Anyway, if you find that you share the same interests with me, welcome to leave a message in my blog, we can talk about it together some time^^