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t******y
发帖数: 224 | 2 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Chinaman
Chi·na·man
/ˈtʃaɪnəmən/ Show Spelled[chahy-nuh-
muhn] Show IPA
–noun, plural -men.
1.
Usually Offensive . a Chinese or a person of Chinese descent.
2.
( lowercase ) a person who imports or sells china.
3.
( often lowercase ) Political Slang . a person regarded as one's benefactor,
sponsor, or protector: to see one's chinaman about a favor.
—Idiom
4.
a Chinaman's chance, Usually Offensive . the slightest chanc... 阅读全帖 |
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h**********0
发帖数: 37 | 3 偶来美国10年了，PhD读完工作都好几年了。
在国内的时候英语成绩就特别好，（呵呵，是真的），高三就过了四级，大二90分过了
六级，英语口
语考试第一届偶是全校唯一的A，在国内几千人的大学偶是英语演讲第一名。而且偶是
特别爱学英语的
人，... ...
BSO 完了，自己都很恶心，大家别吐，这是为了说明偶下面的问题。
偶刚来美国觉得打击很大，很多都听不懂也说不清，下了些功夫，大概来了两年左右自
己感觉飞跃了
一下。平台期持续到了刚开始工作的时候，突然到了industry，每天跟人交流量猛增，自己
觉得语言障
碍太大，又开始看电视记短语，上下班听收音机，于是终于有了第二次飞跃。过去的两年偶又在平
台上徘徊，无论怎么
努力，似乎都难以再进步了。
现在最大的问题是说话很笨，没办法用美国人的idiom，说来绕去说不清楚。语言老是跟不上思
维，想说的话都被别人先说了。听力似乎
稍微好些，几
乎都能明白，但是那10%的没听懂没听清楚的话经常让我闹笑话... ...
本来也就忍了，毕竟偶自我感觉口语比老公纯正，呵呵呵呵
可是偶今天跟人聊天，才知道有一个officemate也是才来了美国十年的外国人。... 阅读全帖 |
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a***c
发帖数: 2443 | 4 單字發音比大陸的可能發音要好一點點, 但考慮到語調, 造句, 文法, 用字修辭,
idiom應用等等的整體表達能力普遍和我八歲的abc堂弟差不多. 所以大家不用互相看
不起, 因為你們當中百分之九十以上的比香港的還差. |
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a***c
发帖数: 2443 | 5 what's up with all that incoherent mumbo-jumbo? I tried so hard to not rub
it in your face but for some reason you just can't stop asking for it, can
you?
the FACT is you can't even go a hundred words without making mistakes;
actually you made a whole bunch.
Let me get this straight, so you think my writing is horrible because I can
use idioms and set phrases that you cannot?
and now I suppose I should tell you why your writing sucks, just out of
common decency. The stuff you wrote, whatever tha... 阅读全帖 |
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D*******l
发帖数: 5462 | 6 An Open Letter to Shi-Min Fang from Robert Root-Bernstein, Ph. D., Professor
of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA;
r******[email protected]. Dated 3 August 2011.
A number of people, including myself, have accused you of plagiarizing
my work. You and your followers have denied it. Let’s use this difference
of opinion to educate ourselves about what constitutes plagiarism in and see
if we can reach an accord.
Let me begin by stating that I am basing my arguments on ... 阅读全帖 |
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w*l
发帖数: 2550 | 7 你以为是“道歉”，方舟子可能也以为是“道歉”，可当事人不这么认为吧。
你这个例子除了更说明方舟子的虚伪外，还有别的什么用处吗？
An Open Letter to Shi-Min Fang from Robert Root-Bernstein, Ph. D., Professor
of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA;
r******[email protected]. Dated 3 August 2011.
A number of people, including myself, have accused you of
plagiarizing my work. You and your followers have denied it. Let’s use this
difference of opinion to educate ourselves about what constitutes
plagiarism in and see if we can reach an ac... 阅读全帖 |
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n*********a
发帖数: 1956 | 8 没听说过weird out这个idiom。
weeded out本意应该是被淘汰、完蛋的意思吧，和鱼的关系来自"授之鱼不如授之渔"这
个说法。
不过Joe Wang应该是加了个双关：就是鱼闻着味儿太大，被熏晕过去的意思，这意思来
自吸大麻(weed)被熏晕(out)。 |
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h******l
发帖数: 534 | 9 You choose to be a BLUE STOCKING, which is an old ENGLISH IDIOM, so just
face it.
BTW, it is easier for a lady to be successful by comparision with a man in
the western world.
In the meam time, we can think you show off yourself a little bit.
Happy Holiday! |
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y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 10 still remember the chinese idioms...hehehe |
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wh
发帖数: 141625 | 11 【 以下文字转载自 Zhejiang 讨论区 】
发信人: wh (wh), 信区: Zhejiang
标 题: 英语最牛的中国人——葛传槼
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 30 20:00:31 2008)
知道复旦大学外文系教授、《新英汉词典》的主编葛传槼的人可能不多，知道他的学生
、《英汉大词典》的主编陆谷孙的人可能多一点。他俩的英语都地道得看不出一点外国
人的痕迹。说葛传槼最牛，那是《King's English》字典主编H.W. Fowler在1933年说
的，当时陆谷孙尚未出生。葛传槼给Fowler写信，挑出他字典里的几十处错误，Fowler
回信称赞：
… your letter is in faultless English, and, long as it is, nowhere betrays,
as nearly all foreigners’ letters do by some trifling lapse in idiom, that
its writer is not an Englishman. I receive many lette |
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c*x
发帖数: 555 | 12 Aloha, This very interesting bit came to me from Judy Buist Winchell of
Michigan. I am happy to share it with you. Thanks Judy! For my foreign
friends, here's an opportunity for you to learn some idioms and other
expressions commonly used in the English language. And for the friends for
whom the English language is your Mother tongue, here's an opportunity to
learn the derivation of those expressions. Enjoy, y'all. Aloha, DT
Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. She married |
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n****n
发帖数: 492 | 13 about "rat" - rat also means worthless disloyal person
use as a verb, it means acting disloyally
eg. He was arrested, if he cannot resist the temptation, he is going to rat
us out.
In British English, a ratty person is a bad-tempered person. |
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r*****e
发帖数: 1196 | 14 Definition: to do without rush, not to hurry
Note: This idiom is often used in the imperative form.
neuron: Do I need to hurry scanning those pix?
lwzhi : No. Take your time.
fencer never works rapidly. He always takes his time in
everything he does. :))) |
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r*****e
发帖数: 1196 | 15 Definition: to become unable or afraid to do something
Note: This idiom is usu. used in the case of an important or
dangerous action.
Karl was supposed to marry Elaine this weekend, but at the last moment
he got cold feet.
Only one of the rock climbers got cold feet when the group reached the
base of the hundred-meter cliff. |
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k***y
发帖数: 217 | 16 """stir up a hornet's nest"""
If you say that someone has stirred up a hornet's nest, you mean that
they have done something which has caused a lot of controversy or has
produced a situation which is extremely difficult to deal with.
According to my brother Paul, this Lonnie Norton was asking a lot of
questions and stirring up a hornet's nest around town.
I seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest. Three weeks ago I wrote a
column about the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. Letters, fr |
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k***y
发帖数: 217 | 17 red-handed
catch someone red-handed
If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are doing
something illegal or wrong.
In fact, the little lwzhi wasn't inside the flat, but on the roof and was
caught red-handed by the police.
Three smugglers caught red-handed with several kilograms of uranium and
other radioactive materials were detained last week in the southern
Polish city of Rzeszow. |
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k***y
发帖数: 217 | 18 mad as a hatter
If you say that someone is as mad as a hatter, you think that they are
very strange, foolish, or crazy.
Her sister's as mad as a hatter and if you ask me she's not much better
herself.
But ~~~~~~~~how did hat-makers get this reputation? |
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k***y
发帖数: 217 | 19 Hat-makers used to suffer brain damage as a result of inhaling nitrate of
mercury, which was used to treat felt. There is a hatter in Lewis
Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865), but he is not actually described as
mad, although his behaviour is certainly strange. Carroll is believed to
have based the character on an eccentric Oxford furniture dealer,
Theophilus Carter, who was known as the Mad Hatter. Although the expression
may have become more popular as a result of Carroll's hatter, recorded |
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f****r
发帖数: 311 | 20 Not Have a Leg to stand on
-- to have no good defenses for one's opinions or actions
Tome maintains that the firm owes him some back wages for having worked
overtime. however, he won't have a leg to stand on unless he can prove
that he put in all those extra hours. he doesn't stand a chance of getting
his money without a strong foundation of facts to support his position. |
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f****r
发帖数: 311 | 21 Get off someone's back: Stop bothering someone |
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f****r
发帖数: 311 | 22 Drive someone up a wall: annoy someone greately |
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f****r
发帖数: 311 | 23 String Someone along: lead someone on dishonestly |
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f****r
发帖数: 311 | 24 Sell someone down the river: betray someone |
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k***y
发帖数: 217 | 25 finders keepers
If someone, especially a child, says `finders keepers' when they find
something, they mean that they have a right to keep it.
Although I phoned the club immediately I got home and checked again on
Saturday, my umbrella has not been returned. Obviously, someone picked
it up and has made no effort to find the owner. Finders, keepers. |
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n****n
发帖数: 492 | 26
xixi, this is not a funny place, but a fun place - a place for fun.
your writing is very good, but somehow too formal for a place originally
put in a section called "leisure". my guess is you are still in china.
i used to compose my english articles this way, using way too many idioms,
some of which i never use when speaking english. now i basically write
what i'd say. when i come here, i don't write to somebody. i TALK to
somebody.
this is very true. but nobody is perfect. i always bear |
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d*o
发帖数: 108 | 27 1. got the better of me:
what is the 'better' exactly?
2. the guys wearing white hats:
what kinds of guys here?
good morning :) |
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l***i
发帖数: 167 | 28 来自主题: EnglishChat版 - idiom rub sb in the wrong way - make sb uncomfortable
wolfie: our great nut heart sometimes rub me in the wrong way ah.
kittyweidong: no arh, ss lwzhi usually rub me in the right way ah,hoho |
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s***s
发帖数: 148 | 30 翠花, you should be more specific. |
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a*e
发帖数: 431 | 31 Copyright http://cssa.ucla.edu/services/deardave/dd-copyright.asp
Dear Dave Q&A 7-28-03 The 8th Issue
"My 2 cents."
"drag queens"
You made "Top Gun"!
"I got the facts from the horse's mouth."
1. We have seen the frequent usage of the phrase "my 2 cents" in emails. Do
you know where the phrase originates and why people use it to refer to their
personal opinions?
A: This is a very common idiom in American English, which is not surprising,
since we Americans always want to speak our mind! Its defi |
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r**i
发帖数: 2328 | 32 haha, i happen to learn statistical theory these days
i don't know what this phrase means though.
here is some background knowledge from which you
might figure out the correponding Chinese idiom.
http://catlin.casinocitytimes.com/articles/1236.html |
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h*****w
发帖数: 244 | 33 the most entertaining and least expensive way -- watch TV -- not sports or
those shows that emphasize action instead of speaking. i just watched tv
whenever i can on whatever topics/shows that give me even the slightest
interest. listen to (1) idioms and set phrases; (2) usage of words/phrases in
context; (3) catchy words/slang (you just need to understand them in case
someone use them, don't have to use); and (4) how emotions/feelings/opinions
are expressed though tones and intonation. addition |
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q*d
发帖数: 22178 | 34 play devil's advocate
later
//thanks |
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n********a
发帖数: 10 | 37
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This is a movie's name |
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c*****l
发帖数: 23 | 38 最常见的意思: I'm gonna play devil's advocate -- 我有不同意见
通常在讨论一个观点时候用. Devil's Advocate是God's Advocate的反方,
前者argue against someone,后者argue in favor of someone. |
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w********c
发帖数: 2632 | 39 nod, and often times he just means to play against someone in order to clarify
the problem, not necessarily means disagreeing with the others. |
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c*****l
发帖数: 23 | 42 freesearch: to immediately work hard and successfully at a new activity
idioms: be able to work effectively when you begin a new job (self-starter)
dictionary.com: To begin a venture with great energy, involvement,
and competence
Phrase Finder: Get off to a quick start. Probably from a military origin.
Soldiers are expected to land from parachutes or from helicopters and get
straight into action. |
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h*****o
发帖数: 240 | 43 from wiki
Down to earth is an English idiom meaning 'practical and realistic': a down-
to-earth person. |
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f*********n
发帖数: 11154 | 44 Not exactly. If you "get some thing in a pinch", it means it is not exactly
what you are looking for, but it's close enough for your purposes, and you
don't have the luxury to wait, so you get it.
If you "do something in a pinch", you acknowledge the way you do it is not
the ideal way, but in the interest of time or other constraint, you do it
the fastest way, not necessarily the ideal way.
The closest Chinese idioms I can think of, are 将就，凑活，权宜之计 |
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z***1
发帖数: 371 | 46 ok. the implied meaning the idiom is that you'd stand a better shot being
successful by being thoroughly prepared ahead of time and giving your best
shot when the opportunity comes.
So still doesn't make sense to you? |
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l***i
发帖数: 632 | 47 There's another one called `Mind your language'... which is about an English class consisting of students from different countries...
One can learn many idioms from the sitcom... |
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