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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx
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Death of a thousand cuts
If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... spend most of their leisure time horizontal in front of
the TV and eats a diet that is mainly junk food.
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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx
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Someone who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy.
Full of the joys of spring
If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy.
Full swing
If ... literature, and often a writer too.
Man of means
A man, or woman, of means is wealthy.
Man of parts
A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways.
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At the drop of a hat
If you would do something at the drop of a hat, you'd do it immediately.
At the end of the day...
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Dictionary of english idioms
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... out of a situation,
no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem.
Idioms 1 of 49
Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary of English Idioms ... talk of the town.
Talk out of the back of your head 9
If someone is talking out of the back of their head, they are talking rubbish.
Talk out of your hat 9
If someone is talking out of their ... a lot of money.
Make a monkey of someone 9
Idioms 11 of 49
A couch potato is an extremely idle or lazy person who chooses to spend most of their
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments" pdf
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... dictionary.
1 Introduction
The goal of the project is to enhance the database
of the
Oxford Dictionary of English
(a forthcoming
new edition of the 1998
New Oxford Dictionary of
English)
so that it contains ... richness of a large
natural-language dictionary in providing cues and
flagging exceptions. The stylistic regularity of a
dictionary like ODE supports the enumeration of a
finite (albeit large) list of ... that ex-
amination of the content of a sense can do no more
than build up lists of
candidate
collocates — a
number of which will be genuinely high-scoring
collocates, but others of which may be...
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Từ điển từ viết tắt - Dictionary of English Abbreviations
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... (regulatory body)
Ofsted Office for Standards in Education (regulatory body)
OFT Office of Fair Trading
Oftel Office of Telecommunications (regulatory body)
Ofwat Office of Water Services (regulatory ... manufacturer
OFFER Office of Electricity Regulation (regulatory body)
Ofgas Office of Gas Supply (regulatory body)
Oflot Office of the National Lottery (regulatory body)
Ofrail Office of the Railway Regulator ... OSTP)
FOForeign Office
FOForward Observer
FOAC Federal Office Automation Center
FOB Free On Board
FOB Full Of Bull (aperiodical of) [TMRC]
FOC Faint Object Camera (on HST) [Space]
FOC Free Of Charge
FOIA...
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Tài liệu Essential English Idioms pdf
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... get out of/ to get off: to leave or to descend from a vehicle
To get out of is used for cars, to get of is used for all other forms of transportation.
- Why don't we stop and get out of the ... the post office immediately?
a. at first b. right away c. sooner or later
4. Be sure to switch off the light before you leave the house.
a. to turn off b. to take off c. to get off
5. ... before you leave the house.
to take off: to remove (usually said of clothes) (S)
- John took off his jacket as he entered the office.
- Take your sweater off. The room is very warm.
to call...
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Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P2 pdf
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... PROCESSING.
adsorption Adhesion of a thin layer of molecules of
one substance to the surface of another without
absorption. An example is adsorption of water to
the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con-
fused ... gravitational
field of the earth. Used for the precise determina-
tion of current of large dimension, or of the size of
the ampere.
ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The
quantity of electricity ... Abbreviation of airborne (or aircraft) early
warning.
aF Abbreviation of ATTOFARAD.
AF Abbreviation of AUDIO FREQUENCY.
AFC 1. Abbreviation of AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY
CONTROL. 2. Abbreviation of AUDIO-FRE-
QUENCY...
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Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P1 pdf
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... determination of the direction
of a source of electromagnetic energy, on account
of the motion of the source and/or the detecting
apparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar-
ent positions of the ... changes at the rate of 1 abampere per sec-
ond induces a potential of 1 abvolt.
ABL Abbreviation of Automated Biology Laboratory
(NASA).
abmho The obsolete unit of conductance and of
conductivity ... magnetic equator. An imag-
inary line drawn on a map of the world or of an
area that connects points of zero inclination (dip)
of the needle of a magnetic compass.
ACM Abbreviation for Association...
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A translation of English idioms on natural and geographical phenomena into Vietnamese
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... Vietnamese and English idioms.
Being aware of the fact that idioms are extremely difficult topic and merely
well-understood by foreign English learners and even if native speakers of
English who ...
works out some of the major causes of non-equivalence in English –
Vietnamese translations by not only students of English but also people who
practice translating as their profession. Each ...
development of target languages, so it can be called “the life source” of
language.
3.2.2 Identifying idioms.
Identifying idioms is not easy so learners should study the features of idioms
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McGraw Hill''''s Dictionary of american idioms and phrasal verbs
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... Use This Dictionary
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of variation is similar to wild card terms. Here are
examples of the sets of limited sets of verbs.
be ahead of Tom
get ahead of Tom
keep ahead of Tom
remain ahead of Tom
stay ... also fairly commonly
known idioms.
GOALS OF THE DICTIONARY
A major goal of this dictionary is to make certain
that each definition of a phrase illustrates the
meaning of the phrase and matches ... terms of use.
How to Use This Dictionary
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terms are descriptive of the kind of words or
phrases they can stand for. Here are some of the
most common wild card terms with one example
of each:
a...
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A History of English Food pdf
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... fame (she was, for example, the foundress of two Cambridge
colleges) she was a champion of printing.
Not only was Margaret the patron of the founder of English printing,
William Caxton, but she ... the office of a good and godly head and ruler; and also for
worldly and civil policy certain days in the year to spare flesh, and use fish,
for the benefit of the commonwealth and profit of his ... majesty’s realm hath more plenty of ships,
boats, crays, and other vessels, by reason of those which by hope of lucre
do follow that trade of living.
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