Word: mandarinism
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Jiang reached back into Mandarin for a Chinese idiom and promptly lost his translator in the process. The translator managed to say for a jovial Jiang, "I should be glad with the progress made by the next generation...
...will have access to two cameras inside Sanders, and an additional camera positioned in the hall to capture Jiang's official reception by Harvard's top brass. The Chinese media will have cameras stationed next to the Boston media pool cameras. Audio feed will be provided in English and Mandarin...
Since Jiang's speech will be given in Mandarin, audience members in Sanders Theatre will be provided earphones with simultaneous English translation. Organizers hope to have two lecture halls in the Science Center connected to Sanders via simulcast, with English in one room and Mandarin in the other...
...keyword search. Specific qualifications, skills, traits, or languages listed in the position description are sought. The range of keywords used will vary according to the needs of the job. The can be fairly general such as: leadership, management, supervision, creative, problem solving, research. They can also be specific,: Mandarin, C++, area of concentration, GPA, editorial, performance type. The machine read resume then goes to a reader for further analysis and confirmation...
...world with elaborate, often suffocating behavioral codes that its inhabitants try desperately to obey--this is the milieu of all five of the Taiwanese director's films, from his Mandarin-language "Father Knows Best trilogy" (Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) to Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. His characters' failure to achieve an artificial ideal makes the films both comedies of manners and bourgeois tragedies. Especially this one, thanks to a superb script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers...