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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15

... 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 5 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21

... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 09:59

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 03:20

... 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 ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... 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 ... at the Zoo.” The program included Carnival of the Animals, Tiger Rag, Under the Double Eagle, and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. That last selection seemed out of harmony with the zoo theme. ... mind. Novosibirsk, the largest city in the vast expanse of eastern Russia known as Siberia, is more than 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow and even fur- ther west of Vladivostok. . . . Change “further” to farther;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... 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.) ... 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 ... 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...

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. ....

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 ... 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, 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...

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...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

... 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 and THEORY. theory ... countries throw off tyranny through the will of the people, and I wonder whether this could have prevented the Nazi scourge. 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21