"We are looking forward to improved performances in 2012 and I believe the Glamorgan future is bright. "We don't want to go over much old ground, but the only change made last year was the change of captain (although Metson was also installed as managing director). "There was a kno...
When somebody’s behavior puts you in a tizzy, ask yourself what it has to do with you. If someone is actively harming you, then by all means stick up for yourself and do what you can to avoid people like that. But remember: If you’re constantly getting in a huff about other peopl...
2.Toadd insult to injuryis to trat someone badly and then do something that makes the situation worse. In this phrase the word ‘injury’ refers to hurt feelings rather than physical harm 雪上加霜,更糟的是 Kevin was drenched from head to toe,to add insult to injury,all his school books...
For example,不入虎穴, 安得虎子, If not entering a tiger’s lair, how can it be to get its cub? Another translation is, “… whence its cub can be gotten?”. Functions the same as焉. In modern usage, 衛生 it is a noun phrase meaning “hygiene”, “hygienic” or “sanitation”. ...
aFor example, there is a phrase “suburban inhabitants”, if a Chinese reader treats the phrase according to Chinese social culture, he would get the wrong meaning. 例如,有词组“郊区居民”,如果中国读者根据中国社会文化对待词组,他将得到错误意思。[translate] ...
Praying for a wise New Year 2016 “…we finish our years like a sigh…” Can you relate with this phrase from Psalm 90:9 ? 2015 zoomed by astonishingly swift and now at the beginning of a new year we may be asking ourselves…perhaps with a “sigh”, if we accomplished all that we...
2. ANAPHORA: the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses. “I think of you at the blowing windI think of you at the dazzling sunlight” –Can’t Stop “My heart stops at this cold love, my heart breaks into piecesMy breath stops at this sick love, my breath slowly die...
The early press release was couched in wordy bureaucratese to make it sound as though everything was under control, but things were clearly were not. Ever hear the phrase that an elephant is a mouse built to government specifications? Well that press release was the government version of someb...
Cherokee Indians: Children run around the house with the lost tooth and then throw it on the roof while reciting this phrase four times: “Beaver, put a new tooth in my jaw!” Argentinians put their teeth in a glass of water. During the night a little mouse will drink the water, take...
The Future, by Naomi Alderman “Body’s Ken”by Simon West Jorge Luis Borges, quoted inThe Marginalia “When in Doubt”by Sandra Cisneros Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted inThe Marginalia “Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World”by Katie Farris ...