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海角英语自留地 Garden of NeptuneAnything about English Learning and enjoying November 29 人不能二次踏入同一条河Upon those who step the same rivers, different and ever different waters flow down
--ancient Greek saying November 18 mumbo jumbowords or activities that are unnecessarily complicated or mysterious and seem meaningless:
You don't believe in horoscopes and all that mumbo jumbo, do you?
The proof of the experiment isn't in the mumbo jumbo of the caculations. It's in the actual improvement in the skating of three junior level champions
精彩对白You think you can just walk away after injuring my daughter?
It's Joan, right?
Pulling her away from her studies behind my back? Filling her head with a fantacy that she can skate and sabotaging her chances?
I did you a favor. You didn't want this for Casey, and you are right. She is not cut out for it. Is she gifted? I'll give her that. But Casey will never fight for it. She is too polite to do what you have to do to push past everyone and everything and just take it.
So that's the example you set for your daughter. To lie, to sneak around, and to cheat.
I made my daughter strong, and you made Casey at home in a lecture hall. and she will do very well there. So you see, we agree.
My daughter is brilliant and will succeed at whever she does. But she will do it the right way despite people like you trying to convince her otherwise.
ICE PrincessNumber one, Yes!
You crushed, baby! (defeat)
It's only the short, shorty! (矮子)
Forth, we'll take it
Fifth, that's great!
Yeah, but fifth doesn't go to sectionals.
Listen, skate a clean program tonight, you can move up, knoch me out of fourth.
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Tina, i can't believe that you would help.
No fawning. (别奉承)
November 09 I Grind and you glideYou are as good in Physics as I am Not even close. I grind, you glide. Event horizon. Grind and glide are the terms used in glideboard game describing two skills. Grind is to move on the ground and glide is to fly in the air for a momnent. That is what I understand them. The above two sentences are taken from the film ICE PRINCESS, which I am enjoying. November 02 Slow pokeSLOW POKE I am a slow poke Living in a fast, fast, fast world I'll follow the leader Be the end of the line at the never-ending curl
I am what's left behind Left behind Left behind I am a keepsake Standing in place as you shuffle through your day Until the Goodwill takes me I disappear into the thrown out display
(Chorus)
I am suitcase Somehow forwarded into the wrong aero-plane Easily replaced By vouchers that get you exactly the same thing
(Chorus)
Your arms can't reach this low to pick me up Your arms can't reach this low to pick me up Your arms can't reach this low to pick me up, to pick me up You've gone away from me Away from me Away from me Away from me There is no hope or certainty That you'll be back someday
Your arms can't reach this low to pick me up Your arms can't reach this low to pick me up 腰酸背痛腿抽筋I've got cramp in my leg! Go for itI am telling you she went to the airport, and she's gonna go for it with Ross! Oh my God, this is huge, this is bigger than huge. This is like... what's bigher than huge? This? Yes. Go for it. to do everything you have to in order to get something. I still remember when I told an British girl that seagulls wanna bite me when their terratory was intruded and her response was that "They really go for it!" advance in another direction "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." —— Douglas MacArthur Let it slipOk, This is pretty much what's happened so far. Ross was in love with Rachel, since you know... forever. But every time he tried to tell her, something got in the way, ... like cats, Italian guys, And finally Chandler was like, "Fogret about her." When Ross was in China, Chandler let it slip that Ross loved Rachel.She was like Oh, my God! So she went to the airport to meet him when he came back. What she didn't know was Ross was getting off the plane with another woman. So that's pretty much everything you need to know. let something slip: to tell people something unintentially. October 27 majestyThe photograph captures the sunset in all its majesty. The majestic Montana scenery will leave you breathless. The white cliffs rise majestically from the sea. October 26 Stubborn muleHe is as stubborn as a mule.
A mule?
An animal whose mother is a horse and father a donkey.
How about the offspring of a female donkey and male horse?
it's called hinny! September 06 work your fingers to the bone=extremely hardworking
She worked her fingers to the bone to provide a home and food for 7 children. 摸不着头脑作听力的时候听到一个用法：
can't make heads or tails of sth.
查了一下剑桥字典to not be able to understand something
看来就是我们中国人说的丈二和尚--摸不着头脑  手艺没想到今天发现了一个旧词的新用法。Trade，一直以为就是贸易的意思，有时又手艺（这样翻译并不准确，看下面的英文解释）的意思。
剑桥英语词典解释： a job, especially one which needs special skill and which involves working with your hands:
看了下面这个句子就明白怎么用了Young Ben Franklin learned printing trade by serving as an apprentice to his half brother James. 这句话是从《Vocabulary 22000》中选出的。
September 04 Why did the chicken cross the road?终于搞清楚这句话什么意思了。这是英语中最有名的笑话之一，为什么鸡要穿过马路？最初的答案是到另一边去（To get to the other side）.实际上，这并不是一个笑话，但是无数的人引用这个问句，并给出离奇的答案，直到今天还不断的联系现在的时事回答这个问题，以作消遣。
例如，在网上看到取笑布什的回答：
The chicken joined me and other Americans as we marched to President Bush's Texas ranch to protest the war in Iraq.
另一类笑话称为lightbulb，灯泡笑话，常用句式是How many [insert a group here] does it take to change (screw in) a lightbulb.
Q: How many apes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Three. One ape to screw in the lightbulb, and two to throw faeces at each other. Q: How many Amazon Indians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None. They hunt when it´s light, and go to bed when it´s dark. Q: How many mathematicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 0.9, or possibly 2.53. Q: How many miners does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. "I can´t see a thing - Where is it?" 感谢维基百科的解释和例句 July 29 转载：步行的五个理由5 Reasons to Walk
From Yahoo health
Start walking now. Here are the 5 most important reasons why:
July 26 slam and rap读bbc的新闻，以色列炸死了4名联合国观察员，其中包括1名中国观察员。中国强烈谴责了这次袭击。
slam不但有用力摔的意思，也可作为批评来用。 Close the door carefully, don't slam it. Although the reviewers slammed the play, the audience loved it.
美联社报导时用的标题是Israel Rapped For Lebanon Attack That Killed UN Observer
July 24 狗链子与筋疲力尽家里养了一只狗，金毛，虽然才5个月，已经40斤了，用链子拉很费力。这个链子用英文应该怎么表达？
正好今天无意之中发现，赶紧记下来，tether: a rope or chain used to tie especially an animal to a post or other fixed place, usually so that it can move freely within a small area.可以作为动词用，tether the dog! 将狗用链子系上！tethered dog, 链子拉着的狗。
和此相关的有一个短语at the end of your tether，无剩余的力量或耐心：By 6 o'clock after a busy day I'm at the end of my tether
 June 17 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy presentThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present (Abraham Lincoln) “平静的过去时代的那些信条，不适用于暴风骤雨式的现代社会了”(亚伯拉罕·林肯) June 16 At sb's disposalSignal analysts already have at their disposal an impressive arsenal of tools.
=available, formal
I would take you if I could, but I don't have a car at my disposal this week. Having sold the house she had a large sum of money at her disposal (= to spend as she wanted). |
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