用法学习: 1. 车祸: Her car rolled and then slammed into a tree near Eleanora Road, where she was deemed dead by paramedics. It probably explains why family members arrived to the scene before emergency crews. "It's quite sad to turn up to your own kid's accident where they've died." a cock-and-bull story 胡编滥造的, 明显胡编的, 荒谬的, 讲不通的 (informal) a story or explanation which is obviously not true. A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity. a hard-to-believe, made-up story; a story that is a lie. Don't give me that cock-and-bull story. I asked for an explanation, and all I got was your ridiculous cock-and-bull story! She told me some cock-and-bull story about her car breaking down.
6岁孩子眼珠被挖: Parents' horror as Chinese boy, 6, has his eyes GOUGED [gaudʒ] OUT 凿出, 挖出 (poke eyes out 抠出 ) after being 'kidnapped by organ trafficker who stole both his corneas眼角膜 ( cornea ['kɔ:niə])': A six-year-old Chinese boy had his eyes gouged out after reportedly being kidnapped by an organ trafficker. Family members found the youngster covered in blood some three to four hours after he went missing while playing outside his home. The child's eyes were found nearby but the corneas were missing, reports said, implying that an organ trafficker was behind the harrowing attack(harrowing Extremely distressing; agonizing: a harrowing experience.). Police offered a 100,000 yuan ($16,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of the sole suspect, who they said was a woman. 'He had blood all over his face. His eyelids were turned inside out外翻. And inside, his eyeballs were not there,' his father told Shanxi Television. Its report showed the heavily-bandaged boy being taken from an operating theatre 手术房, 手术间 and placed in a hospital bed, writhing in agony as family members stood at his bedside weeping. The boy was drugged 被施药 and 'lost consciousness' before the attacker removed his eyes, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said. Internet users were outraged by the attack on the boy - who had a cleft palate 唇腭裂, 兔唇 ( cleft the past tense and a past participle of cleave. an indentation or split in something, such as the chin, palate, etc. palate ['pælit] 颚 I. The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate. II. Botany The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon. III. The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate. She had no palate for the wine. a dinner to delight the palate.) - in Fenxi, in the northern province of Shanxi on Monday. 'This is extraordinarily vicious太恶劣了,' said one Sina Weibo user. How and why could someone be so cruel?' 'A truly tragic boy,' said another poster. The youngster was playing alone outside his home when he was snatched抢走, 拖走( a stranger grabbed 抓走, 抓住就走, 抱着就走 him. ) on Monday evening. His parents discovered he was missing when they called him inside at around 8pm but received no response. They began a frantic search with other relatives and eventually found him screaming in a nearby field with blood covering his face around three hours later. The boy's father said: 'We didn't notice his eyes were gone when we discovered him. 'We thought he fell down from high and smashed his face.' However, once the boy was rushed to hospital doctors discovered that his eyes had been removed. The illicit organ trade in China has been triggered by the disparity不平衡, 不均衡 between the 300,000 people on hospital transplant waiting lists and the fact that only 10,000 organ transplant operations are performed each year. Few Chinese agree to donate their organs after death, fuelling the rampant illegal market activity. In December last year, a Chinese surgeon and six accomplices were jailed for illegal organ trading and intentional injury after a teenager sold them his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone. Song Zhongyu performed the back-street operation地下手术, 非法手术 on the 17-year-old schoolboy, identified only as Wang, who agreed to part with the organ in exchange for gadgets worth around £1,900. The student's mother raised the alarm after she became suspicious about where he had got the money for his new gizmos(gismo = gizmo ['gizməu] 游戏机 A mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget.). He finally admitted to the deal when he began suffering from renal failure( renal [ˈri:nəl] adj of, relating to, resembling, or situated near the kidney. ), telling how he had met the gang in an online chat room. The organ trafficker may have been motivated by money. But they could also have been driven to such a horrific crime by the hope of saving someone's sight - or even their own. Problems with the cornea - the clear front part of the eye - can cause the eye to mist up and, if left untreated, lead to blindness. But the most serious conditions such as Fuchs' dystrophy, a degenerative condition that affects older people, can be cured with a transplant. Until recent years, the only operation was a full cornea transplant, an operation that involved 24 stitches in each eye and an 18-month recovery period. But advances in technology have meant surgeons can now carry out a partial replacement under local anaesthetic with a recovery time of just four weeks. wiki: Eye-gouging挖眼珠, 挖眼仁 is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers or instruments.
Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury, such as eye loss
or blindness. Eye-gouging is prohibited in sports. It is a serious offence in rugby football codes where it occurs rarely. It is prohibited in combat sports, but some self-defense systems teach it. Training in eye-gouging can involve extensive grappling training to establish control, the eye-gouging itself being practiced with the opponent wearing eye protection such as swimming goggles.
健身话题: Too many people assume that stress is solely related to ( relegate someone to someone or something 降级, 降职 to assign someone to someone or something. (Often refers to something unimportant or demeaning.) They relegated the old man to a bed in the corner. The former vice president was relegated to the position of manager of special projects. ) what they do in the gym. In other words, they think the only stress that influences their recovery is the masochist ['mæsə,kizəm] 受虐狂( a tendency to take pleasure from one's own suffering. sadism ['seidizəm] 虐待狂 I. The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others. II. The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty. algolagnia [,ælgə'lægniə] n (Psychiatry) a perversion in which sexual pleasure is gained from the experience or infliction of pain.) workouts they put themselves through. As you can see, there are a ton of things that determine how well we recover from a single workout(比如睡眠质量, 工作压力等). If you're not recovering from your training, you're not maximizing your progress. On the other hand, some are quick to espouse training multiple training sessions per day. They'll cite that Olympic caliber athletes often train this way, and that you should be able to as well. This argument is seriously flawed. First off, Olympic caliber athletes are 100% committed to their sport. They don't have jobs and usually have structured their lives to have minimal stress outside of training. They've also taken years, if not decades, to increase their work capacity to a point where they can train multiple times per day. Even for some of the elite guys that may be reading this, chances are you can get more than sufficient gains sticking with a more manageable split. 关于锻炼肌肉块: Building mass may be the program that allows you to train the least frequently. Unfortunately, these need to be seriously kick-ass sessions while you're in the gym! For example, in his new book Mass Made Simple, Dan John would have you train one day and then take two days off before training again. However, he also dishes out complexes and high rep squats, so these workouts are far from a walk in the park( 闲庭信步 (idiomatic) Something easy or pleasant, especially by comparison to something. High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes. )! John McCallum, in his book Keys to Progress, cites three days per week as the optimal training frequency if your goal is to pack on size. At most, I wouldn't recommend more than three times per week. For fat loss clients, I often recommend a minimum of three workouts per week. However, depending on the client, their schedule, and their recovery capacity, that could be bumped up to six training sessions per week. My Philosophy on Training: My philosophy on training for strength and size is simple. I want to do as little as possible to continue making gains. If anything, I'd rather under train than over train. Here's a look at why and workouts to get you there. Let's talk size. Maybe I'm a lazy guy, but if I can build muscle by training less frequently then by all means I'll take it. High volume 大运动量的 5-day training programs take a toll on my joints, my recovery capacity, and my free time—all things I love. I love training as much as the next guy, but I don't want to spin my wheels ( spin one's wheels 原地打转 to waste time; to remain in a neutral position, neither advancing nor falling back. (Fig. on a car that is running but is not moving because its wheels are spinning in mud, etc.). to waste time doing things that achieve nothing (often in continuous tenses). If we're just spinning our wheels, let us know and we'll quit. I'm just spinning my wheels in this job. I need more training to get ahead. The whole project was just spinning its wheels until spring. ) in the gym wasting time. This isn't about gaining muscle with a time efficient workout. There's no impending time crunch. It's just the simple fact that it is possible to gain more muscle by training less. And yes, long term. But don't confuse less with easier别混淆, 别搞错. A fly or flye
is a strength training exercise in which the hand and arm move through
an arc while the elbow is kept at a constant angle. Flyes are used to
work the muscles of the upper body. Because these exercises use the arms
as levers at their longest possible length, the amount of weight that
can be moved is significantly less than equivalent press exercises for
the same muscles (the military press and bench press for the shoulder
and chest respectively). The chest fly or pectoral fly
(abbreviated to pec fly) primarily works the pectoralis major muscles to
move the arms horizontally forward. If medially (internally) rotated,
it is assisted in this by the anterior (front) head of the deltoideus in
transverse flexion. If laterally (externally) rotated, the contribution
of the deltoid is lessened and the pec major is strongly emphasized as
the transverse adductor. The hands are usually brought out further
than the elbows, in which case the flexors contract isometrically to
inhibit undesired excess flexion of the elbow. Muscles which do this are
the biceps brachii, the brachialis and the brachioradialis. The biceps
may also play a limited role in shoulder flexion. The straighter the
elbow is, the more stretch in these muscles. For safety, many avoid
locking out the joint. The movement is performed lying on the back
on a bench, starting weights extended above the chest, meeting at the
midsagittal plane. The arms are lowered through an arc passing through
the transverse plane, terminating when the arm is roughly parallel to
the floor, then returning to the starting position and repeating. This
exercise can be done using other implements than dumbbells, such as
kettlebells or weight plates. There are also machines such as the pec
deck which perform a stabilized version of the movement while allowing
people to sit upright.
杀人游戏 - Mafia: Mafia (also known as Werewolf) is a party game created in the USSR by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986, modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). At the start of the game each player is secretly assigned a role affiliated with one of these teams. The game has two alternating交替的 phases: "night," during which the mafia may covertly "murder" an innocent, and "day," in which surviving players debate the identities of the mafiosi and vote to eliminate a suspect. Play continues until all of the mafia has been eliminated, or until the mafia outnumbers the innocents. Andrew Plotkin gave the rules a werewolf theme in 1997, arguing that the mafia were not that big a cultural reference, and that the werewolf concept fitted the idea of a hidden enemy who looked normal during the daytime. Mafia was called one of the 50 most historically and culturally significant games published since 1800 by about.com. Although the game can be played with a deck of poker cards or slips of paper, Looney Labs successfully marketed a commercial version of the game as Are You a Werewolf?. In June 2006, a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could "teach kids to distinguish right from wrong", and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an "evil narrator" moderating the game as if it were a scary story. In its simplest form Mafia is played by two teams: the mafia, whose members know each other's identity, and the innocents (a.k.a. "civilians," "townspeople," "village," "town," etc.), who begin knowing only the number of mafiosi in the game. Live games require a moderator who does not participate as a player. There are two phases: "night," when the mafia has the opportunity to eliminate a player, and "day," when all players vote to "lynch" (eliminate) a suspect. These phases follow each other as night and day until all of the mafia has been eliminated, or until the mafia outnumbers the innocents. Andrew Plotkin recommends having exactly two mafiosi, while the original Davidoff ruleset suggests a third of the players (rounding to the nearest whole number) be mafiosi. Davidoff's original game does not include roles with special abilities. In his rules for "Werewolf," Andrew Plotkin recommends that the first phase be day, so that all players have the opportunity to participate, and that there be an odd number of players, to prevent votes from tying, and to ensure that the game ends dramatically on a lynching, rather than with an anticlimactic murder. Beginning with night would also weaken the innocents, who would always suffer one extra murder. Night: All players close their eyes. The moderator then instructs members of the mafia to open their eyes and acknowledge their accomplices. They pick a "victim" by silently gesturing to indicate their target and to show unanimity, and then close their eyes again. A similar process occurs for other roles with nightly actions. In the case of the detective, the moderator may indicate the target's innocence or guilt by using gestures such as nodding or head shaking. Night may be accompanied by players tapping gently to mask sounds made by gesturing. Day: The moderator instructs players to open their eyes and announces who "died" the previous night. According to some rules the role of the murdered player is revealed, while according to others it is not. Dead players may not attempt to influence the game. Discussion ensues. At any point a player may accuse someone of being a mafioso and prompt others to vote to lynch him. If over half of the players do so, the accused is eliminated, his role is revealed, and night begins. Otherwise, discussion continues until a lynching has occurred. Because players have more freedom to deliberate, days tend to be longer than nights.
警察开枪自卫: Vlado Micetic, 44, was allegedly armed with a flick knife弹簧刀 when he threatened a police officer in Melbourne's southeast . The policeman - who was working alone at the time - tried to arrest Mr Micetic, who was outside of the vehicle, when he produced a blade. A female passenger in the Hyundai fled the scene on foot. She remains at large, but police said they knew who she was and urged her to come forward. Mr Davies said the officer would have to contend with last night's shooting for the rest of his life, but his singular goal after being allegedly confronted with a knife would have been self-preservation( 自保, 自我保护, self-defense 自卫)( I. Protection of oneself from harm or destruction. II. The instinct for individual preservation; the innate desire to stay alive. Self-preservation 自保护 is behavior that ensures the survival of an organism生物体. It is almost universal among living organisms. Pain and fear are parts of this mechanism. Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists 疼痛依旧, 疼痛持续 despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease. Fear causes the organism to seek safety and may cause a release of adrenaline, which has the effect of increased strength and heightened senses such as hearing, smell, and sight. Self-preservation may also be interpreted figuratively; in regard to the coping mechanisms one needs to prevent emotional trauma 精神创伤 from distorting the mind. Self-defense 自卫 or private defense (see spelling differences) is a countermeasure that involves defending oneself, one's property, or the well-being of another from harm. The use of the right of self-defense as a legal justification for the use of force in times of danger is available in many jurisdictions, but the interpretation varies widely. ). Although Mr Davies said "one-up" patrols were undesirable( one-up To outdo, to do something slightly better than a competitor's prior effort. To keep one step ahead of (a competitor or opponent, for example). Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights. n. An additional life or an object that increases the player's number of chances or "lives" by one. If you hit that block, you can get a one-up.), it may not have made a difference in last night's incident. "This, again, is not a situation of our member's making( in the making in development; in the process of developing. This is a real problem in the making. Let's try to keep it from getting any worse. be a [athlete/star/writer etc.] in the making if someone is an athlete, star, writer etc. in the making, they are likely to develop into that thing. This young swimmer is an athlete in the making. be a [crisis/disaster etc.] in the making if something is a crisis, disaster etc. in the making, it is likely to develop into that thing. What we're witnessing here is a disaster in the making. have [all] the makings of something Fig. to possess the qualities that are needed for something. The young boy had the makings of a fine baseball player. My boss has all the makings of a prison warden. be of your own making 自己造成的, 自找的 if an unpleasant situation is of your own making, you have caused it. The problems she has with that child are all of her own making. be the making of somebody if you say that an event or experience was the making of someone, you mean that it made them develop good qualities (never in present tenses) A spell in the army will be the making of him! University was the making of her, because she was able to escape the influence of her family at last. history in the making something very important that is happening now. The broadcast gave a vivid account of medical history in the making. )," he said. He would not comment on whether he believed the fact the officer was working solo may have contributed to the lethal outcome, but said the issue was routinely brought up in the force's critical management reviews. "No police officer goes to work any day expecting to have to use lethal force. Indeed use of force at any level is a last resort 逼不得已的事情, 迫不得已的事情 for us," Mr Cornelius said. "Particularly where an officer chooses to take another person's life, that is a choice which is invariably made and must be made in defence of one's own life or in the defence of another person who is facing imminent threat. Windsor resident Angus Ledwidge, 23, went down to the scene after hearing the shots from his house. "I heard three loud bangs, they were in quick succession they just went bang, bang, bang." "At first I thought they were fireworks but within a few minutes I heard sirens and saw an ambulance. Another witness reportedly saw a police car pull up in the street and talk to someone on the roadside moments before the gunshot.
Moving Naval Base:Part of navy heads north in defence shake-up - Garden Island opened up to tourism: The Prime Minister said the taskforce would help to implement the recommendations in the Defence Force Posture Review in 2012 that advocated for the Garden Island base to be eventually closed. "We are talking about making the big calls for the long-term future of our nation," Mr Rudd said. "The government is required to look beyond the horizon. You have to make big calls." The taskforce, to be chaired by the chief of the defence force, would be required to report back to government within 24 months as to the plan to move assets north and north-west. He said it would open the island to potential greenfield sites and would also allow cruiseliners to berth 靠岸, 停靠, 靠港 (dock) at the island providing greater tourism opportunities for Sydney. Julia Gillard's guarantee of three cruise visits to Garden Island in each of the next two years overruled a navy indication that large cruise ships would no longer be allowed to dock there. The decision - which was welcomed by NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell - meant that cruise ship companies would no longer have to lobby Defence for individual access to Garden Island, which is vital as some of the largest ships cannot make it under the Harbour Bridge to dock at White Bay. The move would free up Garden Island to host more cruise ships, the report said.
Why are Chinese tourists so rude? A few insights: They are seen as pushy, loud, impolite, unruly不守规矩的, and they are everywhere. And although destination countries welcome the tourism dollars the Chinese spend, they loathe憎恨, 厌恶 the chaos and hassle some mainland tourists bring upon their cities and other tourists. "Why can't they just behave?" people wonder, some aloud. I have been asking myself the same question in the past months after reporting on the uncivilised不文明的, sometimes galling ( galling ['gɔ:liŋ] 让人生厌的 Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing: a galling delay; a galling setback to their plans. gall1 n. I. a. Bitterness of feeling; rancor, bitterness; rancour. b. 苦涩 Something bitter to endure. something bitter or disagreeable: the gall of defeat. III. Outrageous insolence; effrontery. IV. Physiol an obsolete term for bile. V. an obsolete term for gall bladder. gall2 n. I. A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion: a saddle gall. II. a. Exasperation; vexation. b. The cause of such vexation. something that causes vexation or annoyance. a gall to the spirits. v. I. To make (the skin) sore by abrasion; chafe. The saddle galled the horse's back. II. To damage or break the surface of by or as if by friction; abrade: the bark of saplings galled by improper staking. III. To irk or exasperate; vex: It galled me to have to wait outside. An arrogant manner galls me. chafe [tʃeif] vb I. to make or become sore or worn by rubbing. The high collar chafed against my neck摩擦的难受. II. (tr) to warm (the hands, etc.) by rubbing. III. 惹恼, 惹怒 to irritate or be irritated or impatient. To feel irritated or impatient: chafed at the delay. he was chafed because he was not allowed out. IV. (intr; often foll by on, against, etc.) to cause friction; rub. be champing/chomping at the bit also be chafing at the bit to be very keen to start an activity or to go somewhere. By the time he arrived to pick us up we were champing at the bit with impatience. I'm not sure if he's ready for extra responsibility yet, but he's chafing at the bit. chafe at something Fig. to be irritated or annoyed at something. Jane chafed at the criticism for a long time afterward. Jerry chafed for a while at what Ken had said. have the gall to do something Fig. to have sufficient arrogance to do something. I bet you don't have the gall to argue with the mayor. Only Jane has the gall to ask the boss for a second raise this month. ) behaviour of some compatriots同胞. It seems that every time a "rude Chinese tourist" story is published on SCMP.com, it goes straight into the site's top 10 most read articles - one such article even managed to crawl back to the top months after it was posted. So I decided to give the question some serious thought. I read up on ( read up on something 阅读 to learn about something by reading a lot. to find and read some information about someone or something. Please go to the library and read up on George Washington. I don't know anything about that. I guess I need to read up. I've been reading up on Quebec's history. ) the topic, talked to tourism experts and travel agents and chatted with some of these tourists who are now at the centre of public anger. It soon dawned on me that the real question to ask is: "Why are the Chinese rude?" Not every Chinese tourist is a rude one, and educated people 受过教育的 are usually better behaved than those who have had a lower standard of education, said Chen. This could be why middle-aged or older tourists who have been deprived of or received little education during China's politically tumultuous( [tju:'mʌltjuəs] I. uproarious, riotous, or turbulent. Characterized by tumult; noisy and disorderly. a tumultuous welcome. tumultuous applause. II. greatly agitated, confused, or disturbed. a tumultuous dream. III. making a loud or unruly disturbance. tumultuous insurgents. ) times政治动荡时代 tend to act more unruly. Many of them do not speak English, and some are not fluent Putonghua speakers. Their knowledge of the destination country and its culture is often at best outdated or non-existent. This might explain the behaviour of a "rogue" mainland couple who recently visited Hong Kong with a group. They called the police and demanded HK$3,000 yuan in compensation after being made to wait two hours for their coach. The travel agency later said the coach had broken down and accused them of "blackmailing". Disregard 无视 for customs and rules: Jenny Wang, a Beijing-based Maldives travel agent, said uneducated tourists usually turn a blind eye to local rules and customs. A Chinese man who was recently vacationing at a Maldives resort flipped out 发疯, 发飙 after discovering that the restaurant where he wanted to eat was fully booked, Wang said. He yelled threats and slurs at Chinese staff until one member was in tears. "You cannot reason 讲不清理, 讲不清道理 with these kinds of people," Wang said. "They think they can do anything with their money." But one thing many Chinese vacationers don't want to do with their money is tip - a custom in some places which many have ignored, Wang said. Though most travel agents in China would educate their clients about tipping in a foreign country ahead of their trip, most people ended up tipping very little or none. Some are not used to the idea of tipping, and they fail to understand that staff working at the Maldives resorts, who usually earn a meagre ( meagre US, meager ['mi:gə] adj I. deficient in amount, quality, or extent. the meager soil of an eroded plain. II. thin or emaciated. III. lacking in richness or strength. ) salary, rely heavily on tips, Wang said. This has created increasing tensions between the Chinese and their hosts. Staff would naturally prefer serving guests from countries with a tipping culture. Other staff have gone after Chinese clients and asked openly for tips, a rare thing for them to do in the past. Lawless for a reason: Students at Ewha University in Seoul, known for its beautiful campus, have recently complained about an influx of Chinese tourists, said the school. Apparently taking photos on campus was not enough. Some camera-toting 挥舞着 Chinese would also stride into libraries(strive to do something to try hard to do something. She strove very hard to do what she had set out to do. Please strive to do it as best you can.) and take photos without the permission of students, according to media reports. "As much as we want to keep the campus open to the local community," said a university representative, "we'd like to prioritise our students' right to study in a quiet and safe environment." Ewha resolved the crisis by putting up multi-language signs advising tourists to stay clear of study areas. It seems that thousands of years after Confucius admonished ( admonish [əd'moniʃ] vb (tr) I. to reprove firmly but not harshly. II. to advise to do or against doing something; warn; caution. admonish someone for something to warn or scold someone mildly for doing something. The nurse admonished the patient for not eating her dinner.) his students not to "impose on others what you yourself don't desire", the Chinese now act in quite the opposite way. Such people, both overseas and at home, selfishly skirted rules for a reason, said Chen. Living in China, where the rule-of-law( The rule of law 法制, 法律之上 (also known as nomocracy [no'mokrəsi, nəu-]. a system of government based on a legal code. ) generally refers to the influence and authority of law within society, especially as a constraint upon behavior, including behavior of government officials. This phrase is also sometimes used in other senses. ) doesn't exist, means everyone has to look out for their own interest. It also means people have little or no respect for laws. This is bound to happen when ordinary folk are forced to watch their laws being violated every day by their leaders, Chen said, citing the Chinese idiom, shang xing xia xiao, meaning "people in lower class follow what their leaders in the upper class do". How long do we have to put up with bad tourists? China and its people are paying a price for the bad behaviour of their tourists. A poll by the Public Opinion Programme of the University of Hong Kong recently found that the number of Hongkongers holding negative feelings towards Beijing and mainland Chinese is up by about 40 per cent since November. Following that survey, SCMP.com conducted another online poll on Wednesday, headlined "What makes some Hongkongers dislike mainland China and its people?" As of noon, more than 50 per cent readers blamed the negative feelings on "ill-behaved tourists". "The Chinese government and travel agencies should take the initiative to educate our tourists," Chen said, urging co-operation from both authorities and private sectors. While many argue that historically American and Japanese tourists were also criticised for their bad behaviour when they became wealthy enough and traveled abroad for the first time, Chen said the Chinese should not use this as an excuse.
