plagiarism: 剽窃抄袭

有关“花儿”乐队《嘻唰唰》的版权问题被媒体炒得火热，而今年“3.15”维权行动的一个亮点是公众对学术界及艺术创作抄袭、剽窃等造假行为的关注。近年来，学术腐败、文艺抄袭等现象屡被曝光，如何还学术及文艺一片净土已成为一个亟待解决的社会问题。

请看《中国日报》的相关报道：As China marks the World Consumer Rights Day, the spotlight¹ would inevitably² be on poor products and shoddy service. But attention is also being focused on the rights of a special group of consumers: subscribers or readers of academic and literal journals. Plagiarism³ have become rampant⁴ in China, and are eroding⁵ people's trust in academia and intellectual circles.

报道中的plagiarism专指学术或艺术创作方面的造假行为，用英文可解释为：using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work（在自己所谓的原创作品中，偷用别人的观点和设计方案甚或抄袭文章段落）。Plagiarism由动词plagiarize衍生而来，举个例子，Half the ideas in his writing were plagiarized⁶ from an article I wrote last year （他这篇文章沿用的思想，有一半都是从我去年写的一篇文章里剽窃来的）。