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This article is available as a PDF only.Szczepaniak, RenataAjn the American Journal of NursingSzczepaniak, R., The Role of Dictionary Use in the Comprehension of Idiom Variants. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 80-86 (2006).Szczepaniak,R.The Role of Dictionary Use in the Comprehen...
use something up finish the supply wake up stop sleeping warm someone/something up increase the temperature warm up prepare body for exercise wear off fade away work out work out exercise be successful work something out make a calculation It's too dark in here. Let's turn some lights on....
Some suggest it’s due to the cake’s relative simplicity, delicacy, and accessibility. Everyone everywhere has a “cake” in their cultural tradition of some kind. When to Use “It’s a piece of cake” The phrase “it’s a piece of cake” should be used among friends and family membe...
Because it is used in serious events. For Christ's sake and for God's sake are the strongest, followed by for Pete's sake, the rest is roughly the same. In addition, there are differences between men and women in use. For Pete's sake and for God's sake, it's for men. For ...
This is showed in idioms. Long before the Qin dynasty, the organic whole viewpoint of “perfect unity of heaven and human” has been formed. The two most important Chinese philosophies of Confucianism and Taoism regard the Heaven theory as their goals, and use this to explain all phenomena....
been led to think that if a translation has considerable impact then it must be a correct example of dynamic equivalence. Because of this misunderstanding and in order to emphasize the concept of function,it has seemed much more satisfactory to use the expression“functional equivalence” in ...
Not only animals,but also colors have cultural differences.In Chinese,we often use the seven kinds of color ”赤橙黄绿青蓝紫” ,while in English the basic color words are black,red,yellow,green,blue, brown,purple,pink,orange,and grey.All the words expressing colors have the same literal ...
中文谚语故事Idiom stories A collection of short stories of Chinese idioms Synopsis of project: Exploring the broad meaning of Chinese idioms with the explanation of the literal and figurative meaning and how to use it in context. The corresponding short story will involve a situation that should ...
4. A Comparative Study on Chinese and English Idioms Idioms are crystallization of human wisdom and gems of a language which have been refined through ages of use. They truly reflect the colorful life of the people in that culture. Since idioms are closely related with a certain society, ...