英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable0713 - 抄袭上位也是本事

Topic 1-Who is Tolerating Plagiarism¹?

 

Guo Jingming is one of the most controversial published authors in China. He has dominated the writer's rich list in recent years and is considered the most popular writer of youth literature in contemporary China. But his success has arguably been eclipsed by plagiarism accusations² throughout the years.

 

His work Rush To The Dead Summer is going to be turned into a TV series. In the meantime, the novel that has been adapted to a TV drama called 锦绣未央 has been exposed of copying from 60 online or published novels.

 

Have the Chinese audience been too tolerate towards plagiarism?

 

Topic 2-Escaping from First-tier Cities within 4 Hours

 

Over the weekend, a promotion³ activity named "Escaping from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou within 4 hours" occupied almost everybody's Wechat moments or friend circle. The original post was viewed more than tens-of-million times, while 30 people got ticket to escape from these big Chinese cities.

 

Topic 3-Proud of Your Child's Accomplishments⁴: Let Them Know in the Right Way

 

KidsHealth.org and Time For Kids recently conducted a US survey that found an overwhelmingly majority of parents are proud of their kids but at the same time, many kids are not aware of this view. Results indicate that 82% of parents claimed that they were proud of their children, while only 69% of surveyed kids said that their parents were proud of them.               

1 plagiarism   

n.剽窃，抄袭

参考例句：

• Teachers in America fight to control cheating and plagiarism.美国老师们努力对付欺骗和剽窃的问题。
• Now he's in real trouble.He's accused of plagiarism.现在他是真遇到麻烦了。他被指控剽窃。

2 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

3 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

4 accomplishments   

n.造诣；完成( accomplishment的名词复数 )；技能；成绩；成就

参考例句：

• It was one of the President's greatest accomplishments. 那是总统最伟大的成就之一。
• Among her accomplishments were sewing,cooking,playing the piano and dancing. 她的才能包括缝纫、烹调、弹钢琴和跳舞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》