听一分钟英文：Plagiarism-剽窃

OK everyone, today's topic is plagiarism¹. If you don't know what that is, it's copying stuff from books or the Internet without letting people know where the stuff came from. Lots of people do it nowadays because copy and paste is so quick and easy. It's OK to copy and paste small chunks² of someone's work but you must make it clear it's copied, and write from whom you copied it or where you got it. Put the text in quotation³ marks and say something like, "according to…" and then put the writer's name. The best thing is to go to the Internet and search for, "how to cite sources". EnglishClub.com has good information on how to do this. The best thing is to make sure what you write is really from your head.

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 chunks   

厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 )； （某物）相当大的数量或部分

参考例句：

• a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
• Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大，还能再切小一点吗？

3 quotation   

n.引文，引语，语录；报价，牌价，行情

参考例句：

• He finished his speech with a quotation from Shakespeare.他讲话结束时引用了莎士比亚的语录。
• The quotation is omitted here.此处引文从略。