Here are some suggestions from Cruse Bereavement Care if you are finding it difficult to know what to say when someone dies: “I don't know what to say but I am so sorry to hear this news.” “I am so sorry for your loss – you are in my thoughts.” “I'm so sad to hear th...
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an economics professor at Boston University, created software to help people maximize their Social Security benefits. Together, they've been trying to draw attention to what they call, "Social Security horror stories," caused largely, they say, by the Social Security ...
you say I'm dead when something is so funny that you laughed hard and you died. 当你说 “I'm dead”,是在说某事如此搞笑,你笑的很厉害,那你就完蛋了。 在这里, 需要注意的是, you're died.表示的意思是: 你完蛋了,你死定了。 而I'm dead≠我死定了(×) I'm dead=我笑死了(√) 因此,...
You can say, “My bike ride will have finished by Sunday.” That’s why the future perfect tense is usually used with an expression of time, for context. It’s formed by adding the words will have before the past participle. You don’t need to conjugate “have,” because it’s the...
the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. 听力原文: Sunrise, Sunset Has it ever seemed to you like sunsets take longer than sunris...
In other cultures, people go to extraordinary lengths not to interact at all. People from Denmark tell me that many Danes are so averse to talking to strangers, that they would rather miss their stop on the bus than say "excuse me" to ...
Recently, my mother, Ellen died. She lived a very good life. She raised three daughters. She loved art, writing, and travel. I miss my mom. So, for this week’s Everyday Grammar, I want to share how we can express sympathies, or condolences, when someone experienced the death of the...
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I do use the phrase “passed” and “passed away”, because I, like many people, don’t like to say someone died. It does sound a little cold. But if someone uses a religious platitude, I will say something along the lines of “sorry to hear about their death”. Reply Janice Januar...