Tt's not easy going on vacation.
We can rent a boat.
We should have gone to the mountains.
Have you caugh a shark?
Can't I read my paperback?
To be head over heels means to be in love.
Jellyfish,scorpions and bees can sting you.
I've got sand in my eyes.
You can get sunburned if you don't put on lotion.
He runs too fast.
Paperback books are less expensive than hardback books.
Maybe my English tutor cannot understand my e-Mail:),but anyway, he is on his way to Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, which is one of China’s biggest small-commodities distribution Market.
I told he that he would get to yiwu from shanghai by highway or by railway.
Highway: It takes no more than three hour and a half. Ticket fee:100-120RMB Nearly one bus every hour in the daytime. Please go to "Shanghai Coach Union Station"(maybe you can call it "Passenger Tran
Every night at 7:30,the quintessence of Chinese culure Beijing Opera is performed for you in LIYUAN(Operatic) Theatre. You may also look around the performers' making-up room and have a group photo with the performers. The marvelous art of Beijing Opera will bring you an unforgettable pleasant surprise and leave a beatiful memory on your minds.
RSAC no longer exists. In 1999 it was "folded into" a new organization, the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA). The original aims of RSAC, to protect children from potentially harmful content while preserving free speech on the internet, continue to provide the cornerstone for ICRA's work, backed by the biggest names online.
在查PICS资料时(为了更好地掌握网络资源的评价),看到这段外语,很简单,很口语化,很好学。
RSAC (Recreatio
从英国皇家海军陆战队在阿富汗展开的“鹬鸟行动”(Operation Snipe)说起
这一行动的命名引起了英美双方的争议。在英国,“各种长着细长尖喙的鸟”都可以叫做鹬鸟,但这一名字在美国的字典里却有另一层意思。在美国俚语中,鹬鸟是一种“不存在的虚拟动物”,俚语“猎鹬”(a snipe hunt)暗喻把某人骗去猎捕根本没有的东西。
这也是美国英语与英国英语的差别,一个很好的实例。
但是,在邮件列表中,作者写:I do a lot of research on my own these days for a second master I'm pursuing (call it a middle-aged snipe hunt).
a middle-aged snipe hunt又作何解呢?