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本文永久链接 – https://tonybai.com/2025/05/09/github-english-communication-patterns-and-practice 大家好，我是 Tony Bai。 身处全球化的软件开发浪潮中，GitHub早已成为我们协作、学习、贡献的“宇宙中心”。但对于我们许多非英语母语的开发者来说，它既是机遇之地，有时也是“望而却步”的挑战场。 ...

10月中旬，有人在Quora网站上发起一个调查：“程序员职业生涯中最难的事是什么？”，调查结果让人实感意外。世界范围内的程序员同胞们普遍认为： “命名是让大家感觉最困难的事情”。对于主流的欧美程序员尚且如此，对于英文非母语的中国程序员来说，苦逼程度可想而知了:(。 虽说中国程序员大多也都学了10年以上的英语了，但能“地道”的表达和书写甚至是选词的程序员们比例却不高。而在编写程序的过程中，给变量、常量以及函数命名即意味着我们要选择恰当地道的词汇或缩写。 ...

Our British English teacher Alex recommended a book called ‘Manna’ to us for its simple grammar and vocabulary. After reading it, we all agreed on that it was an extremely attractive fiction. The author of ‘Manna’ is Marshall Brain, who is a writer, a well-known national speaker and a consultant in U.S. In his fiction, he tells us his point of view on robots’ coming out in near future. It seems to be a science fiction, maybe a political fiction, who knows, because almost any book could be associated with politics. ...

八月 12, 2006 Yesterday evening I went to a bookstore chain. What made me feel disappointed was that I couldn’t find the original edition of Harry Potter series books. I have been reading an electronic edition book of Harry Potter on the computer these days and it often made me feel tired. I prefer paper edition books to electronic books when reading some kinds of novels or technical works. Now a paper edition of books is more and more expensive. I heard that the tag price of the original edition of the Harry Potter series is up to 100 RMB and I think only a few people can afford it. ...

CHAPTER TWO – THE VANISHING GLASS 1．The photographs showed a large blond boy riding his first bicycle, on a carousel at the fair, playing a computer game with his father, being hugged and kissed by his mother. The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house, too. Carousel -喧闹的酒会 Fair – 展览会 The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house. 没有任何迹象显示有另一个男孩儿也住在这个屋子里。 ...

CHAPTER ONE – THE BOY WHO LIVED 1．Sorcerer – One who practices sorcery; a wizard. 这是Harry Potter的身份，一个巫师，一个男巫师；对应的女巫师为Sorceress. 2．The boy who lived. 这里的’lived’是’活着’的意思而不是’居住’，这里它是一个不及物动词(vi)，我们可以再举几个相同的例子： My grandfather is still living. Kings in history wanted to live forever, but none of them succeeded. Live and Learn! 活到老,学到老. ...

Today is a little cooler in Dalian and everything goes well. Alex brought us a topic about stock market, I didn’t speak much in class, because I have little interest in that issue, but I do learn a lot of new words. After the class Alex told us he was happy for his first being paid during the latest 2 months and he did not have any classes in the coming semester until this October. When he first came to the school and saw so many college students were doing an army training, he wondered what on earth the place was. ...

I have been thinking of writing my English diary for a long time, but I do have no idea what I should write down. I have been studying English in Dalian for almost one and half a month and I really don’t know whether I’ve made any progress in English. Now, I have a feeling that there are a bunch of things for me to study, such as classic English sentence patterns, a huge amount of unfamiliar words, one-minute VOA headline listening practice, and so on. There is a saying: no pain, no gain. Although the process of English studying is a little boring, I must study English well, for me, for my career, and for my future. ...

最近南方台风肆虐，不知道是不是大连也受到了影响，天气也很糟糕，特别凉。今天由于两个同事临时有事回沈城了，我们就决定暂时休息一天。顺便抽出时间复习一下前段时间学习的内容。 ...

大连今天终于放晴了，一大早上强烈的阳光就穿透玻璃窗射进屋内。看来昨晚洗的一些衣服可以很快的干了。 今天Alex给我们上的是pronunciation课，他首先按照音标表，分别给我们纠正发音，包括各种Vowels和Consonants，他建议我们练习发音的最好方法就是拿个Recorder录下你的发音，然后听录音，直到你认为’You are comfortable with your pronunciation’为止。 ...