New Words and phrases I learned

alias-unknown

原帖由 dizzypiggy 于 2009-2-27 11:54 发表
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alias-unknown

[German] [g-zunthait] Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.

bluesky

[quote]原帖由 alias-unknown 于 2008-9-25 09:36 发表
我想以下短语都可译作“一线希望”。如若不是，请指出：
Beam of hope,
ray of hope,
gleam of hope,
glimmer of hope,
flash of hope,
dawn of hope,
star of hope；
和
bit of blue sky。
还有老妖斑竹的 ... [/q

a spark of hope

alias-unknown

Please note that the phrase is not "Here, here"!

A shout of acclamation or agreement.

Meaning:
Me too!
+1

alias-unknown

abrupt and a little bit rude in speaking to a person (be ~, become ~, get ~)

eg
Please don't be short with me. I am doing the best that I can.

greanbean

lz从那里收集的这些好东西？

alias-unknown

原帖由 greanbean 于 2009-3-21 18:47 发表
lz从那里收集的这些好东西？

They are accumulated over a long period, day by day, month by month.

alias-unknown

注意拼写.虽然只是一个字母之差, 意思完全不一样哦!

alias-unknown

One must have a thick hide to do such a thing.
厚臉皮的人才幹得出這種事。

She was carrying a buffalo hide handbag.
她拎著一個牛皮手提包。

alias-unknown

Very foolish; crazy == 脑子注水啦！

Are you going with him? You must be out of your gourd.
你和他一塊去?你一定是瘋了。

注：这个容易记。因为大部分瓜里面都是水。

alias-unknown

to make (something) better.
改善;改良

Usage:
Ameliorate is often wrongly used where alleviate (減輕;緩和) is meant. Ameliorate should be used to mean `improve', not `make easier to bear', so one should talk about alleviating pain or hardship, not ameliorating it.

Synonyms:  improve, better1, help, ameliorate
These verbs mean to advance to a more desirable, valuable, or excellent state. "Improve" and "better", the most general terms, are often interchangeable: "You can improve (or better) your mind through study"; "I got a haircut to improve (or better) my appearance".

"Help" usually implies limited relief or change: "Gargling helps a sore throat".

To "ameliorate" is to improve circumstances that demand change: "Volunteers were able to ameliorate conditions in the refugee camp".

[ 本帖最后由 alias-unknown 于 2009-3-30 13:49 编辑 ]

alias-unknown

I have Scottish blood from way back, so getting something for free gives me a nice warm feeling.

不一定只是苏格兰人吧，我也这样:)

小肉兔

mark

jerryclark

原帖由 林草123 于 26/9/2008 05:48 PM 发表
I learnt a new word from oursteps as well .A few days before ,some one metioned :white goods.I hardly use dictionary ,so i was thinking about the meaning of "white goods"for a long time .I thought it  ...

A few days ago

alias-unknown

和 outskirts 连用的介词：

outskirts 和 suburb 都有“郊区、近郊”之意，但其实是有不同的。其中跟介词连用就不同：

on the outskirts
in the suburbs

The main difference between these two expressions is the difference between the nouns suburb and outskirts. As you can see in the Learner's Dictionary entries shown below, a suburb is a town near a larger city, where people typically live in houses with yards rather than apartment buildings. Suburbs are also associated with a lifestyle oriented around families with children.

The word outskirts, which is always plural, refers to the edges of a community. There are outskirts around a city, and these might be suburbs or they might not. There are also outskirts around the edges of a small town.



on vs. in

You may wonder why "in the suburbs" uses the preposition in and "on the outskirts" uses the preposition on. The most helpful way to think about this is that a suburb is an area with a border around it, so you can be in it (inside the border). The outskirts are more like a line around an area, and it makes more sense to say on a line, than in it.


Learner's Dictionary entries

suburb: a town or other area where people live in houses near a larger city
        ▪ She left the city and moved to the suburbs. [=one of the suburbs near that city]
   often + of
        ▪ I grew up in a suburb of Denver.


outskirts [plural]: the parts of a city or town that are far from the center
        ▪ We live on the outskirts of town.

yukimatu

学习了，也贡献一个：jaywalking 横穿马路