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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

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... 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 ... activity. In the making When something is in the making, it means it is in the process of being made. In the offing If something is in the offing, it is very likely to happen soon. In the pink ... 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

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx

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... 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. From the ... Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand www.dk -english. com Page 5At 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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Dictionary of english idioms

Dictionary of english idioms

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... 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 ... depressed, you are out of sorts. Out of the blue 99 If something happens out of the blue, it happens suddenly and unexpectedly. Out of the frying pan, into the fire 99 If you get out of one problem,...
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Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions pptx

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... 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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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx

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... 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 ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal of the toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition of the ... source of lexical information. Therefore, rather than batch process the MRD source, the lexicon development software is based around the concept of semi-automatic and rapid construction of entries,...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

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... Currently she is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Magic Years Day Care. . . .Correction: the chairman of the judiciarycommittee, membership chairman, andchairman 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; forinstance, 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

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

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... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is mostfar 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 ... at the Zoo.” The program included Carnival of the Animals, Tiger Rag, Under the DoubleEagle, and Prelude to the Afternoon of aFaun. That last selection seemed out of harmony with the zoo theme. ... mind.Novosibirsk, the largest city in the vast expanse of eastern Russia knownas Siberia, is more than 1,500 milessoutheast of Moscow and even fur-ther west of Vladivostok. . . .Change “further” to farther;...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

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... figuremidway 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.) ... 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, and34 is 42.A statistical term in which the ... similar.Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the first edition of Pravda, the newspaper of the SovietCommunist Party.The...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

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... not to threeor more. “Neither of the two boys” /“neither of the couple” / “neither of the pair” are correct. “Her feelings werevery hurt that neither of the three of usshowed up” (said by ... sequitur). “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of shooting; the choice of goinghome. 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 apress 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

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

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... do the best we can,recognizing that the proof of the pud-ding will be the reaction of those whovoted with the majority at conferencewhen they see the draft Court opin-ion. The proof of the ... And they indicatepauses in thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes andparentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the flow of the ... 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

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

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... . . . saveby the lawful judgment of his peers orby 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 discordwhich ... 1.) The derailment of a series ranks highamong the most common errors foundin 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 areracial groups, so they are not “typical of the racial mix” in Russia, which extendsto the Orient and does contain differentraces.2. Races of the U.S.A.Citizens of the United...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

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... laws of that kind.See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2(misuse of them); THESE and THOSE.THEMSELVES and “THEM-SELF.” See Pronouns, 5.THEN. See FORMER; THAN.THEORY. See HYPOTHESIS andTHEORY.theory ... countriesthrow off tyranny through the will of the people, and I wonder whether thiscould have prevented the Naziscourge.What is “this”? The will of the people? The will of the German people, ... much fun. The consensus “emerged” in the past“as”—at the same time that the Em-peror’s blood pressure rose and fell in the past. There is no reason here to link the action of the past to the present,...
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