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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx
Ngày tải lên :
13/12/2013, 13:15
... unpopular at the moment.
In the doghouse
If someone is in the doghouse, they are in disgrace because they have done something wrong.
In the face of
If people act in the face of something, they do ... School of English, Bangkok Thailand
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Labour of love
A labour of love is a project or task undertaking for the interest or pleasure in doing it rather than the reward, ... square, they follow the rules and win conclusively.
Fair crack of the whip
(UK) If everybody has a fair crack of the whip, they all have equal opportunities to do something.
Fair shake of the...
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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx
Ngày tải lên :
20/01/2014, 09:21
... done'.
At the end of your rope
(USA) If you are at the end of your rope, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance.
At the end of your tether
(UK) If you are at the end of your tether, ... from the beginning right to the very end.
From the bottom of your heart
If someone does something from the bottom of their heart, then they do it with genuine emotion and feeling.
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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
This...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx
Ngày tải lên :
24/03/2014, 02:20
... the utility
of the
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglgsA as
a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon.
1 Introduction
Within the larger framework of the Alvey Programme
of ... the content of the tar-
get word Ust comes from the fact that even though
there k no provision for the analysis system to handle
semantics, there is still the need to provide a minimal,
theoretically ...
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acknowledge I [TI ,4, S (to) to agree
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Dictionary of english idioms
Ngày tải lên :
18/06/2014, 09:59
... greener on the other side of the fence'.
The more the merrier 99
The more the merrier means that the greater the quantity or the bigger the number of
something, the happier the speaker ...
Talk of the town 99
When everybody is talking about particular people and events, they are he talk of the town.
Talk out of the back of your head 9
If someone is talking out of the back of their ... is an alternative form of the idiom.
A OK 99
If things are A OK, they are absolutely fine.
Idioms 40 of 49
Smoke the peace pipe 9
If people smoke the peace pipe, they stop arguing and...
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Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx
Ngày tải lên :
28/06/2014, 03:20
... chaotic.
At the bottom of the totem pole
(USA) If someone is at the bottom of the totem pole, they are unimportant. Opposite is at the
top of the totem pole.
At the coalface
If you work at the coalface, ... position
At the top of my lungs
If you shout at the top of your lungs, you shout as loudly as you possibly can.
At the top of the list
If something is at the top of the list, it is of highest ... out of the woodwork
When things come out of the woodwork, they appear unexpectedly. ('Crawl out of the
woodwork' is also used.)
Come out of your shell
If someone comes out of their...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... Currently she is the
Chair of the Board of Directors of
Magic Years Day Care. . . .
Correction: the chairman of the judiciary
committee, membership chairman, and
chairman of the board of directors.
Although ... melon is the largest
of the three” but “This melon is the
larger of the two.”
It is a common mistake to use the su-
perlative instead of the comparative; for
instance, to say that someone is the
“tallest” ... of a market scene in Niger,
a book of true adventure contains an ex-
ample of the strict use of career:
A man trying out a camel careered out
of control, much to the amusement of
the crowd.
The...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... another paper:
He was the 14th homicide of the year
in the crack-ridden 34th precinct.
“He was the 14th homicide victim of the
year . . .” or “His killing was the 14th
homicide of the year. . . .” ... further” to more than
2 ,000 miles.
The superlative forms of far bear the
same relationship as the comparative
forms. Farthest is most far in a literal
sense: Of the nine planets, Pluto is the
farthest ... the
farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is most
far in a figurative sense: Of the paint-
ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur-
thest from reality.”
Those cool to the idea of distinguish-
ing the...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... is the sum of a set of figures di-
vided by the number of figures in the set.
The definitions coincide only for a set
of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and
34 is 42 .
A statistical term in which the ... figure
midway in a set of figures arranged in or-
der of size. In the set of three just above,
the median is 36. (When the number of
items is even, the median is the mean of
the two figures in the middle.) ... similar.
Among the items kept there are the
diary of Nazi propaganda chief
Joseph Goebels, an X-ray of Adolph
Hitler’s skull and the first edition of
Pravda, the newspaper of the Soviet
Communist Party.
The...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... not to three
or more. “Neither of the two boys” /
“neither of the couple” / “neither of the
pair” are correct. “Her feelings were
very hurt that neither of the three of us
showed up” (said by ... sequitur). “Little choice”? The
Americans had the choice of not blowing
them out of the sky; the choice of talking
instead of shooting; the choice of going
home. Life presents most of us with in-
numerable ... have is the
length of one and the weight of the other,
and how can these be compared?
In the following example, from a
press article, the problem may lie in the
writing, rather than in the data.
....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... do the best we can,
recognizing that the proof of the pud-
ding will be the reaction of those who
voted with the majority at conference
when they see the draft Court opin-
ion.
The proof of the ... Series errors, 7.) Often they
separate phrases. And they indicate
pauses in thought.
Their function of setting off part of a
sentence resembles that of dashes and
parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, ... controls the
latter phrase (a more likely assumption),
precede the phrase by of: The curbing
of public meetings and of the publication
of newspapers . . .”
If the meaning is clear, omission of
prepositions...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 18:21
... . . . save
by the lawful judgment of his peers or
by the law of the land. . . .
. . . For the sake of God, and for
the bettering of our realm, and for the
more ready healing of the discord
which ... 1.)
The derailment of a series ranks high
among the most common errors found
in print. The main cause of it is the fear
of repetition, even the repetition of so in-
offensive a word as and. The ... languages. None of them are
racial groups, so they are not “typical of
the racial mix” in Russia, which extends
to the Orient and does contain different
races.
2. Races of the U.S.A.
Citizens of the United...
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