A MAGIC ISLAND CALLED TAHITI In this short text “The Moon and Sixpence” ‚ we can find several descriptions of the Tahiti ‚ a south pacific island which is famous for its magic beauty‚ friendly people and for this reason people around the world enjoy to visit it. This story was narrated and written by the novelist William Somerset Maugham in one of his many long trips to the Pacific Island . This text is about a narrator who visited the Tahiti Island due to a hazard journey. In this
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AMERICAN IDIOMS - to hear sth. by word of mouth/by the grapewine = jedna paní povídala‚ klepy atd. - to call the shuts in the family = být hlavou rodiny - hen peck husband = podpantoflák - don´t be chicken = nebuď srab - to chicken out = ztratit kuráž - to clound around = dělat něco neužitečného - to cook up = vymylet - to cry over spilled/spilt milk = brečet nad rozlitým mlíkem - to be in the red = she is in debts - to be in the black = to be
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Sixpence analyse Setting‚ historical and social context According to the analyzed context and it’s details we may consider that the action may take place in a country house of a rich and noble family somewhere in Australia or New Zeeland in the end of XIX - beginning of XX century.. Firstly Katherine Mansfield born and brought up in colonial New Zealand (could affect the setting ). Secondly in a text we can notice the word “Verandah” which has featured quite prominently in Australian and
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An idiom (Latin: idioma‚ "special property"‚ f. Greek: δίωμα – idiōma‚ "special feature‚ special phrasing"‚ f. Greek: διος –idios‚ "one’s own") is a combination of words that has a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom’s figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language. In linguistics‚ idioms are
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YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology English Philology Chair TERM PAPER THEME: PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN W. S. MAUGHAM’S “THE MOON AND SIXPENCE” AND THEIR TRANSLATION INTO ARMENIAN STUDENT: Sargis Mangasaryan SUPERVISOR: Kh. Nersisyan YEREVAN - 2011 CONTENTS |Introduction __________________________________________________________ |3 | |Semantic
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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” ― Brian Tracy tags: knowledge‚ lifelong-learning “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time‚ when he was an old man‚ to learn music and dancing‚ and thought it time well spent.” ― Michel de Montaigne tags: learning‚ lifelong-learning‚ philosophy
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Haste makes waste. “Haste makes waste” which is an old saying accepted almost by [almost] everyone. Some people are prone to do the tasks as quickly as they can but then they realize that everything got wrong. From my point of view‚ we should not do things precipitately but instead we should act carefully. For a start‚ haste makes us lose our attention.{"lose our attention" is odd - maybe "haste can prevent us from paying proper attention"} The main reason is that we only think about consequences
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Directions to Solve Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom‚ If there is no correct meaning given‚ E (i.e.) ’None of these’ will be the answer. 1. | To make clean breast of | | A. | To gain prominence | B. | To praise oneself | C. | To confess without of reserve | D. | To destroy before it blooms | E. | None of these | Answer & ExplanationAnswer: Option CExplanation:No answer description available for this
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Running head: COMPARISON IDIOMS Comparison Idioms Between English And Vietnamese Đinh Lan Khánh Class 4B07 University of Pedagogy Abstract As a foreign student learning English‚ comparison idioms are really a big problem for me as well as other learners. There are over 3000 idioms in the dictionary‚ so understanding and memorizing all of them are a hard issue. Some students‚ even though‚ live in America or England for such a long time‚ they are still unable to understand what the native
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Commonly Used Idioms And Other Useful References By Randolph Brock and William Griessel Bangkok University Language Institute Introduction A student who wishes to have a reasonably good grasp of English should learn the basic forms of English and how to use them‚ particularly commonly used idioms and verbs. Therefore this book is prepared to assist students of English in learning more commonly used idioms and verb forms. Most‚ if not all‚ languages have numerous idioms. Therefore
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