[771] Period Speech

Title Text:The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care. Origin:https://xkcd.com/771/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/771:_Period_Speech 这个阶段的演员正在使用来自不同时期的语言和技术:  “Forsooth”来自伊丽莎白时代(1558年 – 603年)  “Grok”是1961年Robert Heinlein小说“陌生人中的陌生人”中的一句话  “Jive”是20世纪40… Read more

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[770] All the Girls

Title Text:You know that I’ll never leave you. Not as long as she’s with someone. Origin:https://xkcd.com/770/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/770:_All_the_Girls https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 一对年轻夫妇(Cueball和Megan)恋爱了。在第一个小组中,Cueball说他很幸运能拥有Megan,当你恋爱时,这是一个非常好的事情。在第二个小组中,Cueball告诉Megan他在世界上所有的女孩中最爱她,这在你恋爱时再说一遍是完美的。然而,麻烦出现在第三个小组中,Cueball提供了他的… Read more

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[769] War

Title Text:They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet. Origin:https://xkcd.com/769/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/769:_War 今天的漫画似乎是关于战争期间爱情危险的寓言。我们的主角在这里看到靠在低矮的墙后面,对于任何有步枪和范围的绅士来说,肯定是一个很好的藏身之所。从他写作的那封信来看,他与Cordelia有着复杂的关系。一方面,她很有魅力。另一方面,她是一个敌对的战斗员,正如在中间发射的枪声所证明的那样。然而,Cordelia的射击对她起了作用,因为她… Read more

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[768] 1996

Title Text:College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything… but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)…

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[767] Temper

Title Text:Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image… that’s exactly what you find there, too. He’s exactly what he appears to be. Origin:https://xkcd.com/767/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/767:_Temper…

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[766] Green Flash

Title Text:The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it’s thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car. Origin:https://xkcd.com/766/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/766:_Green_Flash 绿光 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/742585034/ 绿色闪光是指在黄昏(黎明初或黄昏)发生的光学现象,在太阳的最边缘可以看到一缕绿光。黑帽试图通过这个事件分散Cueball的注意力,以便他可以用手中的瓶子淘汰Cueball并… Read more

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[765] Dilution

Title Text:Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it’s spelled “echinacea”, and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham. Origin:https://xkcd.com/765/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/765:_Dilution 顺势疗法 顺势疗法两大法宝:一曰稀释,二曰震荡…… https://songshuhui.net/archives/4900……

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[764] One Two

Title Text:Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you’re not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time.…

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[763] Workaround

Title Text:I once worked on a friend’s dad’s computer. He had the hard drive divided into six partitions, C: through J:, with a ‘Documents’ directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at…

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[762] Analogies

Title Text:I just call all of them ‘synecdoche’. Origin:https://xkcd.com/762/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/762:_Analogies 这部漫画围绕着“类比”,“明喻”和“隐喻”(以及“Synecdoche”,“三明治”和“性别”)概念之间的相似性(和差异)。 当梅根站起来问Cueball和他的Cueball式朋友,如果有人想要一个三明治,她非常字面意思是她会在厨房做一个三明治,如果他们希望,她会为他们中的任何一个做一个。 因此,当他问这是一个隐喻时,Cueball是如此厚颜无耻,因为在这种情况下,隐喻将是性三明治的参考,在这种情况下,两个Cueball&#… Read more

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