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救救我！這些句子中文怎麼說啊？

1. Why would you render so much money to a person with a bowing acquaintance?

2. On hearing that Jerry didn't finish his assignment, his dad went off in a huff.

Case Study - Desertification and Alien Species in Australia

個案研究 - 澳洲沙漠化與外來物種生態危機

The following 20 sage mottos will be managed to prsent in various tones of translation as my daily little word game:

【原文】Allocutions On Havard's Library Walls

The Footprints In The Sand

by Mark Stevenson

What is the vocabulary competence to graduate school level? Munch the chunk below:

to abate, aberration, to abstain, accredited, to accrue, acculturation, acquisition, to acquit, advent, aegis, affluence, agoraphobia, alienation of voters, alimony, to dole out, dole queue, to mete out, aloof, ambivalence, to ameliorate, amok, to annex, to disannul, to repeal, to quash, to recant, to retract, to abjure, to countermand, to rescind, to efface, to eradicate, to extirpate, to expunge, to blot out, anomaly, antipathy, apathetic, aphorism, to appall, appraisal, to apprehend, to appropriate, aquatic, archaic, argumentative, assertive, astute, to atone, augur, avaricious, to balk, to foil, to thwart, to obstruct, to impede, to hamper, banal, to barge, to bawl, bedridden, to bellow, to beset, to billow, biopic, bland, blasé, blight, bludgeon, bout, brittle, brunt, bulbous, bulk, burgeon, callousness, canopy, awning, capricious, to careen, cataclysm, catatonic, cauldron, cavern, catacomb, grotto, chivalrous, cavalier, to chortle, to smirk, to titter, a titter-totter, to beam, to simper, clamorous, cogent, cognizant, colicky, commotion, tumult, clamor, fracas, din, turmoil, racket, hubbub, ado, rumpus, communal, to conciliate, concomitant, conducive, be conferred upon, to confiscate, congenial, to congest, conglomerate, consternation, constituency, to contend, contingency, be contingent on, contraception, to contrive, contusion, to converge, convulsion, a spasm of, to be cornered, to corroborate, to corrugate, countenance, covert, craze, fad, furore, vogue, mode, infatuation, credence, credulity, cryptic, culpable, curator, to daunt, to debilitate, decorum, to decimate, to defray, deleterious, to delineate, delirious, to demarcate, demise, dendrite, denotation, to depose, derelict, despondent, destitute, detriment, deviance, dihedral, dilatory, dilettante, to discern, to disdain, to disparage, to spurn, be disillusioned with life in general, to dislodge, disparate, dispassionate, to disseminate, to disperse, to divulge, domesticity, to don, draft dodger, to drawl, to dredge, dyslexia, eclectic, edifying, electioneering, to elicit, to elucidate, elusive, to embellish, to festoon, emissary, empathy, empirical, to encroach, to encumber, to engender, engrossed, to ensue, entity, entrenched, to enunciate, ephemeral, ephemeron, epicenter, to eradicate, erratic, espousal, estranged, euphoria, to eventuate, to excommunicate, exorbitant, expatriate, exponent, exposition, treatise, exegesis, expulsion, to extol, to extricate, exuberant, exultant, facsimile, faction, fallacious, far-fetched, to feint, felon, fervid, figurehead, filament, flaccid, to flag, flamboyant, to flounder, to flout, to jeer, to taunt, to scoff, to deride, formidable, fraught, to fray, frisky, to fudge, fudge and mudge, furtive, futile, gargantuan, garland, wreath, lei, garrulous, gawky, genial, genocide, genteel, germane, germination, ghastly, glib, to gloss, to grapple, gratuitous, gregarious, grievance, grossly, to grouch, to grumble, to mumble, to mutter, to mope, to sulk, to fret, gust, hallowed, to hamper, hands-off, hands-on, haphazardly, haughty, haven, head-on, to heckle, hedonistic, hegemony, hinterland, hubris, to huddle, huffy, hunch, hydrometer, immemorial, immutable, to impeach, to arraign, to inculpate, impeccable, impecunious, imperative, imperturbable, impetus, implicit, inadvertent, to incarcerate, to incarnate, incendiary, incidence, to indict, indigence, indigenous, indignant, indolent, to entice, inebriated, to infatuate, inferno, to infest, infidel, to inflame, to redden, to gag, to obstruct, to constrict, inmate, innate, innocuous, inordinate, insipid, instantaneous, to institutionalize, insurmountable, intelligible, to intertwine, intrepid, to invoke, to beseech, to implore, jolly, Jolly Roger, to jolly up, jovial, gleeful, joyride, judicious, juxtaposition, kernel, knack, to knell, knockoff, knoll, labyrinth, lackluster, languid, to languish, lax, slack, leech, lese majeste, lesion, levee, longitudinal, loquacious, lustrous, magnanimous, magnate, magnitude, malpractice, mandatory, marginal, to masticate, to matriculate, memento, memento mori, meticulous, microbe, mildew, milieu, to mingle, mingle-mangle, misnomer, to modulate, monetary, moribund, mortar board, to mortify, to muddle, to mug, to mug up, munificent, mural, musty, myriad, to nab, nadir, natal, nebulous, nebula, nefarious, negation, neurotic, to nip, nominal, nondescript, non-fiction, notion, nuisance, to obliterate, to obscure, obstinate illness, obstructive, obtrusive, to obtrude, omnipresent, omnivore, onset, outset, onus, opportunistic, optometrist, opulent, orator, ostensibly, ostensive, ostentatious, garish, swanky, pretentious, outcast, outcry, outpost, outpouring, overhaul, overt, palisade, to pamper, pandemic, paradigm, paramount, parched, parody, pedantic, pedigree, pending, peripheral, periphrases, pernicious anaemia, to pertain to, pertinent, perverse, petal, to petrify, petty, phlegmatic, to pigeonhole, pigmentation, plausible, plebiscite, plume, poignant, polygraph, to posit, posthumous, to postulate, to precipitate, to preclude, precocious, predilection, preponderance, preposterous, pristine, proactive management, to probate, probation, to procure, prodigal, a prodigal son, prodigious, profuse, bighearted, prohibitive, to proliferate, to promulgate, to propagate, proponent, proposition, prospector, to puff, to puff at, pundit, to quell, rakish, to ratify, to ration, raucous, to ravage, to rave, to raze, reactionary, realm, receptive, reciprocity, to reciprocate, to reckon, to reckon in/up/on, to repudiate, restraint, to reclaim, reclamation, rationale, to recoup, to rectify, to recuperate, recurrence, red herring, regiment, to regress, to relegate, to relinquish, to forego, to remand, to reminisce about, to render, to repatriate, to repeal, to rescind, to replenish, repugnant, residue, restive, to retaliate, retention, retentive, reticent, to retrospect to, to revamp, to revile, rivalry, to roam, to rove, to gad, to ramble on, to rummage, to rumple, to sag, salient, to sally, sanguine, sapid, sardonic, to scramble, to scuffle, to tussle, to skirmish, melee, secluded, a recluse, secular, sectarian, seismographer, self-contained, sham, to shimmer, simultaneous, solvent abuse, spontaneous, to slant, to slosh, to slumber, to smack, to snarl up, to snatch, snobbish, snobbery, snob effect, to snub, to snuff, to sojourn, to solicit, sordid, speck, spendthrift, spinster, spook, sporadic, to squander, to squeal, to squeak, to squeak by, to screech, squishy, to stall, to stall off, to stall-feed, stark, to stem, to stifle, to smother, asphyxiate, stoic, a stopgap, to stratify, strenuous, strewn, to strew, stringent, stupendous, suave, to subjugate, submissive, subtlety, subversion, to subvert, succinct, to succor, surly, svelte, to swathe, to swerve, synthetical, to tackle, talon, tandem, tawny, to teem with, telepathy, temperamental, temperance, tenable, tirade, to toll, to tout, tout de suite, transient, translucent, trenchant, tributary, trite, to trump, to truncate, unflagging, to unravel, unwittingly, upheaval, to vacillate, to validate, to veer (to swerve), to venerate, venereal, venereology, venous, vertigo, viable, viability, vicarious, vindictive, voracious, wary, weary, to wean, to whisk, to wizen, to wobble, to wrong, to wrong-foot, wrong-headed

久沒碰翻譯，如今都生疏了。下面這一篇科技短文，職業筆譯人員，30分鐘應可搞定。至於口譯，意到則文可不自出矣。這些人的語言能力，真是屌到不行啊！不過不用擔心，只要努力，終能有成。篇末有一評量表，有助了解自身英文熟稔度。朋友們，翻翻看吧！

【原文】

What are the most common mistakes that English learners make? Which mistakes do most English learners need to correct, in order to learn English much faster? Here are the top 5 English Learning Mistakes:

1. Focusing Too Tight On Grammar
This is the biggest, most common, and worst mistake. Research shows that grammar study, in fact, actually hurts English speaking ability. Why? Because English grammar is simply too complex to memorize and use logically.... and real conversation is much too fast. You don't have enough time to think, remember hundreds or thousands of grammar rules, choose the correct one, then use it. Your logical left-brain cannot do it. You must learn grammar intuitively and unconsciously, like a child. You do this by hearing a lot of correct English grammar- and your brain gradually and automatically learns to use English grammar correctly.

As usual, the following is what I take as some of the most important basic vocabulary to master English. Help yourself and enjoy the Chop Suey meal!

a draper, to espouse, civility, urbanity, suavity, decorous, comity, amenity, arboretum, cumbersome, ungainly, lubberly, voluminous, goodly, prodigious, stupendous, ponderous, to flinge, eerie, ghastly, deplorable, outrageous, vile, preposterous, exorbitant, to rustle up, forage, to scrounge, fodder, regular script, blemish, mar, to intent on, intently, tantalum, channeling, cardinal number, privy, arthropod, palaeontology, trilobite, diorama, tertiary education, Palaeozoic, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Mesozoic, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Cenozoic, Tertiary, Quaternary, kinesics, to collude, to connive, to machinate, troposphere, tropopause, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere, to administer to, to bestead, paregoric, diarrhoea, duplicity, dupery, chicane, cozenage, concomitant, celebrant, to warp, grimace, wry, to squirm, to writhe, to flinch, to cringe, to twitch, convolute, falsify, chambray, creosote, analgesic, antipyretic, ibuprofen, frankincense, geodesy, condottiere, mercenary, pachyderm, pallid, wan, sallow, ashen, to gird up one’s lions, to grovel, to adumbrate, to rive, to rupture, to rapture, to dedaub, to denigrate, to disparage, to gainsay, apothecary, to catalyze, drab, to skitter, to scamper, to scurry, to scuttle, to scoot, recusant, heterodox, heretical, cloistral, conventual, monastic, didactic, laconic, terse, curt, vitriol, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, blistering, caustic, acerbic, intransigent, inexorable, adamantine, sandalwood, belvedere, inopportune, unduly, futile, cetacean, crustacean, snout, grampus, diplopod, echinoderm, coelenterate, eponym, bowdlerism, betterment, citronella, cinematograph, comportment, to comport, toiletry, felicitous, admirably, opt out, opt-in email, spam, astute, unsolicited, to canvass, to aerate, to beseech, to implore, to supplicate, to importune, deviation, discrepancy, incongruity, detrimental, pernicious, to demote, a quack, a segment of pomelo, to detoxify, tonic,a statesman, a farce, Taiwanese Compatriot Travel Document, apoplexy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, lard, monosodium glutamate, soggy, pot sticker, pressure cooker, gamy, to singe, blister pack, winter gourd, loofah, bean noodles, enema, chafer, carrot and stick strategy, groupie, flash mob, snob, filial piety, preoccupation, grouchy, to mope about, to sulk, a hotshot, henpecked, a puck, a minx, an imp, a gremlin, a pixie, to troll, a knave, a hooligan, a hoodlum, a cur, a cad, a blackguard, a rapscallion, déjà vu, a nouveau riche, a boot licker, an urchin, a glib talker, rubric, social misfit, an eye pouch, wonder woman, to cut the ribbon, a bazaar, a rialto, dumping, a toastmaster, karma, a sciolist, scilicet, scion, sciomancy, loan shark, jadeite, emerald, sapphire, aquamarine, foundation, blush (cosmetics), skim milk, to purge, to depurate, toner, exfoliate, exfoliant, defoliate, esthetician, to perm, a love seat, a bunk bed, a pillowcase, to play up, play down, inside dope, close-up, pile-up, to extradite, showdown, mass wedding, a coroner, premarital sex, deindustrialization, to confiscate, a hotbed, to loot, political asylum, an incinerator, an extinct book, to embargo, fraternal twins, hideout, a mannequin, even-shifting, photogenic, conspicuous consumption, to enshrine, to hoard, inter nos, inter alia, a ring, a ring binder, a broken line, a caret, a room teacher, dissertation, pharmacology, horticulture, material, to audit, to listen in, summa cum laude, equivalency, alma mater, out-patient, in-patient, Medicaid card, intensive-care ward/unit, ward heeler, stave off, to spurn, to parry, obstetrics, gynecology, ophthalmology, labor pain, prenatal influence, orthopedics, fetus, miscarriage, morning sickness, contraceptive, mumps, hard hearing, sty, conjunctivitis, trachoma, keratitis, myopia, presbyopia, hyperopia, hyperemia, congestion, astigmatism, cataract, glaucoma, Lasik, strabismus, squint-eyed, askance, pupil, cornea, 'Use peripherals!', melanin, dropsy, corn, boil, hives, eczema, herpes, chicken pox, fatty tumor, callus, scabby, scabies, renal calculus, gallstone, prostate, cystitis, estrogen, testosterone, testis, ovum, zygote, ovary, uterus, umbilical cord, oviduct, tubal ligation, vasectomy, menopause, leucorrhea, leukemia, discharge, venereal disease, syphilis, gonorrhea, prick and dull pain, endocrine, hypothyroidism, atrophy, sympathetic nerve, breakdown, concussion, schizophrenia, amnesia, anemia, insomnia, melancholia, paranoia, lethargy, sour stomach, gastritis, gastric perforation, enteritis, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, piles, hemorrhoid, hemorrhage, mole, rickets, rheumatism, arthritis, hemophilia, hack, to cleave, to mutilate, to lacerate, tonsillitis, laryngitis, sinusitis, armpit odor, myocardial infarction, impaction, arteriosclerosis, stretcher, hearse, rabies, congenital, endemic, appendectomy, sex conversion, transvestite, general anesthetic, anesthetist, hot compression, sedative, saline, gentian violet tincture, iodine tincture, cotton swab, Q-tip, a sadist, a masochist, autism, spur, to hypnotize, hefty, amnion, amniotic fluid, glucose, steroid, sexual drive, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, cobalt 60, sulfuric acid, mucus, Viazome, time keeper, skip rope, torch relay, to forfeit, to mark (basketball), on your marks, advance guard, dribble charging, dummy play, to smash, a smash hit, to put a shot, 'hop, step and jump', pole vault jump, hurdle race, tug of war, relay race, obstacle race, bathing cap, side stroke, dog paddle, flippers, a buoy, suntan lotion, skin diving, knee protectors, a horizontal bar, alei, lotus, water lily, lotus root, chrysanthemum, daisy, duckweed, magnolia, poinsettia, azalea, mimosa, reed, banyan, a coyote, a mink, a kid, spawn, mullet roes, a mantis, a cicada, a pupa, larva, an accordion, a baton, a baritone, a mezzo soprano, to crack, mutual noninterference, a fruitless approach, to commit harakiri, to cook accounts, 'a guest upstages a host', double-cross, take someone’s measurement, to level with, to have no control over one’s vital functions, seniority, to lift the ban, to assume/shirk responsibility, slack water, to go the whole hog, hog-wild, to give a lift to the heart, to cry uncle, to give a hand-on blow, with the momentum of an avalanche, to turn the side, 'Tom, Dick or Harry!', to talk shop, be in dire straits, to have a sense of propriety, be in sync, fortitude, ulterior, expedient dishonesty, to vitalize, perfunctory, to temporize

Here are some popular proverbs and idioms usually seen in conversations. How many of them do you know? Can you give them proper Chinese translations? Learn them well, quote them from time to time in the dialoges, and you can also speak in a witty way like gurus! Always remember that practice makes perfect and be riding on an English wave with content! Sayings with BOLD letters need good Chinese translations that I've not solved yet. Will you help me?

1. A burned child dreads the fire. 一朝

Last week, round table knights and I gathered as usual, chattering this time about the most unlike-human four athletes I've ever known: Tiger Woods, who won already 14 Majors and still counting regardless his sexual addiction disorders; Roger Federer, 16 Majors nice and easy without a trivial injuries. Watching Roger playing grand slams is just like a normal and prosaic scene usually spotted on any local tennis courts. He just won effortlessly each time; Michael Schumacher, former F1 World Champ for over 7 times, getting already used to 5 to 9 G, handling the steer with whistles. Schumacher is the only driver in the human history who could keep 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places within a whole racing year. Wow! How could that be?! However, the last but also the most incredible in my opinion is Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who owns most winnings of Tour de France of all time, 7, and back-to-back from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005. Yes, I mean it. Don't ever have a slightest doubt about what you're reading now. I personally don't really like cycling for its potential serious injuries on the lower back, nape, and even groin, which interferes with the normal functions of testicles, but I have to admit that Lance is probably the best endurance athlete in the world.

You will hardly know how insane Lance is if you don't have a clue about Tour de France. So, what is a Tour like this? It might as well be the most honorable laurel for every top cyclist to fetch. Take the 2009 Tour de France for instance, it was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on July, 4 in the Principality of Monaco with a 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco. The race visited six countries: Monaco, France, Spain, Andorra, Switzerland and Italy, and finished on 26 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The total length was 3,445 kilometres (2,141 mi), including 93 kilometres (58 mi) in time-trials. There were seven mountain stages, three of which had mountaintop finishes, and one medium-mountain stage. The race had a team time trial for the first time since 2005, the shortest distance in individual time trials since 1967, and the first penultimate-day mountain stage in the Tour's history. That would be really hard for a cyclist to go steep mountain climbing, not to mention doing so during the end of the game. Anyone who will win this game should turn himself into a vehicle with a strong engine first.

Celebrities are humans too. They build their own ways to see the world, and they can be emotional. They have, according to us Chinese, their own animal as well as zodiac symbols, which might more or less influence their personalities and rhetoric styles, namely, their ways of thinking toward lives through special observations. Here are some wisdom talks belonging to 12 world-wide famous people of 12 animal symbols respectively, the real tycoons, who you may well be familiar with. The riddles are to find out who said what, and who belonged to which animal symbol. Hope their words can be as lanterns enlightening us through the finding of truth of life. Good luck!

Rat - “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Few people could forget th feeling of their first kiss. The excited, willing urge of embracing the true love and mutual interacting is of great joyce in the world ever. No one can fight against the addictive exhilaration as their first kiss. What if, I wonder, we can keep having such impressions when we learn something? As English learning is concerned, what if as we read English materials, we experiece totally excited and refreshed from English as if we first kiss our true love? If so, will you like to read some English every day since? You tell me about it!

To acquire such sensation, I conclude generally 5 parctical approaches to English mastery, by which we can embrace English and other foreign languages as easily as we hug our pretty girls, and also with which we may have a glance at the sophisticated function and complicated network of our brains to form a language we try to express ourselves with:

Linguistically speaking, there are two worlds in English learning: the school world and the real world. Unfortunately, the school world is never like the real world. In the school world of English, students study their textbooks full of grammar “rules” and books full of individual vocabulary. Students learn such rules as “never use a sentence fragment”, "avoid run-on sentences”,"never begin a sentence with ‘and’", and such like that, but they relatively seldom practice daily dialogues, due to the demand and trends of English testing cultures, in Taiwan at least.

Take 'plural' rules in junior high school in Taiwan for instance, making plural nouns is simple: 1 computer - 2 computers. Pretty straight forward, right?

Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the futuristic starlet in fashiong design, OhYeah Baby. This time she will bring us the stunning sensations of the most esoteric, zenanan rendition to lady fashion, with which most of us would turn the boredom of daily chores into delicacies of picturesqueness.

設計主題

Welcome to Chris Bistro! Please allow me to introduce one of our specialties --- Anglo Bovril Cubic, which consists of 250 ~ 500 toughest wild ox sinews in each of the following servings, slowly stewed and condensed into a sturdy lump. There are altogether 10 such compact 'condensed chunks' in our 'Cubic Series' and will be served up ocasionally. You may somehow find a few similar or even the same entries in them for it is normal for a chef to pick up the same material if he considers it necessary every time when cooking. But just don't worry. You will hardly have the chance to feel humdrum with these morsels. Munch them all, ruminate the cud, and assimilate all their nutrients as your own elixir. Then you could slightly impersonate the blowhard like a seasoned polyglot and babble under the Babel.

enthralling, pomegranate, cleanup, facilitator, to oversee, to hold down, to solicit, charter flight, premed, hyperbaric, resort destination, bastion, citadel, vintage, a world away, upscale, sliver, mishmash, dingy, hub, homegrown brand, to chase out, incursion, cockapoo, Lhasa dog, in places, in place, jaunt, an enclave, eatery, a sure fix, grazing, to complement, compliment, to wage a battle against, pestilence, virulent, surfeit, kosher, a jump-start, to enliven, be billed as, inadvertent, slovenly, to insinuate, tomme, chevre, by happenstance, to cull, to toss aside, to stake out, to cut a check, to make higher profile, on the bottom line, pretax profits, brand recognition, altruistic, tax breaks, to backfire, to discard, long vigils, a scape, be up on, euphoric, to take on, to rack up, conspicuous, tendinitis, par for the course, shin, splint, to trip off, mind-set, disposition, doldrums, slacks, low seasons, dog days, off seasons, rush seasons, boom seasons, high seasons, the doldrums, to stalk, gait, stalk, to decimate, Consortium, to edge out, reigning, fabric conditioner, megabrand, lining, to roll around, cachet, to juice up, staid, to stay true to, rarity, a man of his roots, photo op, mawkish, bathetic, maudlin, schmaltzy, mushy, drippy, gauche, to pride oneself on, to smile angrily, ministration, impudent, sassy, saucy, impertinent, flippant, forward, to enfeeble, to jibe with, to tally with, to debilitate, to vacillate, to oscillate, to coagulate, grandioso, bucolic, feline, tawny, golden ager, centenarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, to squelch, to stifle, to subdue, to quell, to allay, reticule, endocrine, iridescent, rhizomatous, ageratum, ecliptic, promissory, insolvent, fullery, full beam, full blown, irradiate, gymnosperms, angiosperms, conifer, galvanic, ebullient, exuberant, abominable, odious, paragon, voltaic, nonpareil , apotheosis, nonesuch, magniloquent, to stoop, to deign to, hodgepodge, patchwork, dobbin, palpitation, gobbledygook, to blot, to obliterate, to plod, to trudge, to lumber, to tramp, jumble, muddle, delimiter, pathogenesis, excommunicate, matador, toreador, to betroth, to affiance, imperceptible, breezeway, bimodal, misbegotten, enmity, rancor, loathing, spite, typhus, typhoid, quadruped, fetid, rancid, putrid, graveolent, mephitic, whiffy, unsavoury, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, objectionable, fulsome, bilious, heinous, detestable, affronting, irksome, distasteful, galling, vexatious, bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious, onslaught, assailment, provocative, projectile, fissure, crevice, cleft, rift, residue, dreg, sediment, pomace, geyser, pantry, tactile, tramp, vagabond, hobo, vagrant, fridge, remittance, menstrual pad, sanitary napkin, menstrual cramps, minstrel, bard, troubadour, anamnesis, tinker, confectionery, potted landscape, bonsai, dwarf potted plant, miniature plant, sleuth, derring-do, incarnation, to prattle, to prate, to piffle, to recompense, to indemnify, to undulate, to cockle, to purl, to trill, to gurgle, to lap, to swash, to swish, to furrow, synergy, reparation, mausoleum, shrine, crypt, tabernacle, stupa, reliquary, receptacle, sepulcher, Occidentalism, Orientals, batiste, nugatory, insurrection, mutiny, sedition, insurgence, hydroxide, tiramisu, infuse, grate, cantilever, girder, stratification, albuminous, fibrin, exoskeleton, magnanimity, superstructure, to impend, purportedly, prostrate, bezel, Phylum, Genus, curator, pound-foolish, prescriptive, normative, bacillus, convolution, mortification, curlicue, squiggle, cant, peavey, milium, sebaceous gland, to eradicate, to extirpate, to uproot, whitehead, penmanship, ram, goad, prick, prickle, tingle, rowel, clandestine, subversive, concerted, macadam, neoclassicism, portend, baleful, salmonella, enterobacteria, nitrobacteria, vassal, vassalage, sclerosis, pique, slight, to interdict, cabana, prodigious, stupendous, mammoth, anthropogenic source, deism, sacerdotal, hieratic, priestly, lanceolate, indelible, pedantic, donnish, stuffy, jejune, median strip, medial, to introspect, truancy, grenadier, monism, syringe, to deprecate, to belittle, to raze, to inveigh, to descry, to palliate, to assuage to pangs of hunger, idiopathic, serotonin, alimentation, macaw, semiotic, ornate, grandiloquent, turgid, entrails, intraocular, reticulum, reticular, cellulitis, cellulite, isomorphism, harlequin, buffoon, conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, concealment, xylem, vascular bundle, cambium, phloem, impenitent, obdurate, redoubt, hexadecimal, beluga, jut out, shabby, tattered, seedy, to fray, pigsty, hovel, shack, hutch, shanty, red herring, netherworld, Hades, infernal, manor, magnitude, pith, symposium, indelible, judgmental, lackey, screech, screech owl, occult, telepathy, lysis, alacrity, bounteous, pinch, predicament, paunch, to disown a claim, wraith, specter, apparition, to recant, to feed rumors, to extradite, impeachment, to arraign, to inculpate, to whet, to filibuster, lilac, mauve, to variegate, foliage, deciduous, bulbous, obituary, at the earliest, at the latest, at the farthest, at the instance of, to bewitch, megrim, hemicrania, leghorn , Panama hat, boater, skimmer, chapeau, chicanery, saltire, cessation, to frazzle, thatch, eaves, icicle, chevron, heraldic, crown cap, to perforate, prevarication, imposition, imposture, sham, subterfuge, wile, wiliness, guile, collusion, knavery, dupery, to bamboozle, hocus-pocus, shenanigan, trumpery, jugglery, surcease, cessation, saltire, bicameral, metamorphosis, iris, Elysian, noncommittal

Idioms are phrases used unexpectedly or not literally which are repeated by the native speakers if they find some figuative descriptions are interesting or humorous, heuristic enough to make a relatively more profound expression of communication. They are indeed of fantastic genres of languages. Here are a little quiz to show the diverse and kaleidoscopic propensities of idioms. Take a look at how much and how well you know about them:

English- Chinese Translations: (100%, 2% for each question)

Neuschwanstein can be auctioned, but not your nest.

My PC mouse broke down. It was then never just a click away any more between the world and me, which I hated most. Yesterday evening Mom gave me two hundred dollars to buy a new one.

When I was happily on my way to the appliance store, I was accosted by a woman. Ragged and unkempt, obviously a homeless vagrant at middle age, she told me with tears, "Mister, a few days ago a man borrowed 185 dollars from me to fetch some medicine for his bad cold. He told me to give my money back today. However, he didn't. He used to sleep somewhere around in the park, but I didn't meet him today. I need the money desperately. Otherwise what can I get from my hand to mouth today?"

I have a dream,

This short story is barely counted as fair description about the current educational systems in Taiwan. The author must have been engaging in the field for quite a while, who successfully expressed out the reluctance and dilemma between the shortage of teaching manpower and the individualistic property of education, where most teachers find it pretty thorny to handle amid, and let alone improve or solve it.

First, the format of this story is stout. The author took up almost a half of the plot dipicting a couple of personal cases of teaching targets such as Benson Chiou, the Naughty Bruce, the idling Paul, and some others, only to make a little attemption to emphasize the quality of single, and very specifically oriented, learning conditions and environments, which also exert impacting leverages on the result of effective education. Hence we might be inferred the major factors of successful teaching, according to the author, of course. These various factors of individualism do make the teacher, Mr. Wu, very confused, not knowing a better idea for the readers ending up rounding all aspects met, which derived the culmination of the story, that is, the solution to the vague and ambiguous contradiction, even to the so-called helplessness of school education nowadays.