never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

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Face your past without regret.
Handle your present with confidence.
Prepare for the future without fear.
Keep faith and drop the fear.
Don’t believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.

Life is wonderful if you know how to live it.

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never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

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Don’t talk to me – не обращайтесь ко мне, я c тобой не разговариваю!
Don’t / never tell me – не может быть!, рассказывайте!, что вы говорите!, не рассказывайте сказки!
Don’t ( you ) worry – будьте спокойные, не беспокойтесь
Don’t worry him etc! – оставьте его в покое!
Don’t forget it! – имейте в виду!
Down! – лежать! ( приказ собаке)
Down with smb / smth ! – прочь кого-то / что-то!
Draw it mind! – не преувеличивайте!
Drop dead! – отцепись!, иди прочь!
Drop it! – прекратите!
Dry up! – молчать!, молчите!
Easy! – спокойно!, спокойнее!
Easy all! – стоп!, остановитесь! ( в спорте )
Encore! - бис! ( просьба повторить выполненный номер )
Enjoy yourself! - желаю повеселиться, желаю хорошо провести время!

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Orbi-et_orbi (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 Ladies and Genetelmen!

Возможно ли создать раздел Trip, где люди смогли бы  написать о том, какие англоязычные туры они посещали. Ведь каждый человек, хотябы раз в жизни летал за океан. И он мог бы рассказать об этом, дать какие-то советы, сколько денег брать, какие сувениры привозить, есть ли зарубежом скидки?

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angryrat (Learning_English) все записи автора

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Dispatcher : 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?


Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich .
Dispatcher : Excuse me?
Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher : Was anything else taken?
Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!


Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.

My Personal Favorite!!!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!

And the winner is..........

Dispatcher: 9-1-1
Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath. Darn....I think I'm going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I'm at a pay phone. North and Foster.
Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?
Caller: Running from the Police

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angryrat (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his money.
Just before he died, he said to his wife...'When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.'

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there - dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, 'Wait just a moment!' She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked it and took the casket down and they rolled it away.

So her friend said, 'Girl, I know you were not foolish enough to put all that money in there with your husband.'

The loyal wife replied, 'Listen, I' m a Christian; I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.'

You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?'

I sure did,' said the wife. 'I got it all together, put it into my account , and wrote him a cheque.... If he can cash it, then he can spend it.'

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CupOfTea (Learning_English) все записи автора

Fevinn (Learning_English) все записи автора

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During the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short.
Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.
The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie.....Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'.
 

A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends in the 100-Acre-Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. The characters, Rabbit and Owl, were based on animals that lived, like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home, Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex. It is this area on which the 100-Acre-Wood was based.
'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard, which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favorites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over!

The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all over the world. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proven to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, twenty years after the release of the first feature-length animated film, Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off. In February 2000 Disney released the third Winnie the Pooh movie called 'The Tigger Movie', this time with the leading part for Tigger.

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never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

 

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Happy Birthday Learning English!!!
Сегодня ровно один год исполнился нашему сообществу!!! Дружно все поздравляем!!!

P.S. Принимайте активное участие в работе сообщества. Добавляйте интересные посты. Если у Вас есть вопросы, советы, заметки, относительно нашего сообщества пишите в комментариях! ...

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never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

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It don’t matter what happened in the past
Because what we have, it’s gonna last

You make me smile
Your worth my while

You let me know how you feel
Which lets me know you’re the real deal

You let me see, what you mean to me
Without you, who knows where I’d be?

When I’m not with you, I feel blue
Whoever knew, our love would be true?

When I think of you
There’s no other clue
How much I care for you

In so little time, I made you mine
And we’re gonna last, til the end of time!!

 

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never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

 

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Don’t call us, we’ll call you – не звоните нам, мы сами вам позвоним!
Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do – не делай того, что я бы не сделал
Don’t get me wrong – поймите меня правильно!
Don’t give me that – бессмыслица!, глупости!, так я тебе и поверил!
Don’t go doing that! – не смей это делать!
Don’t I know it – я уже это знаю, к сожалению
Don’t just stand there ( do something ) – я уже это знаю, к сожалению!
Don’t look now, but – не оглядывайся ( говорят, чтобы внезапно привлечь внимание )
Don’t make me laugh – не смешите меня ( пренебрежительный ответ на замечание )
Don’t / “dear” etc / me – никакая я тебе не "дорогая" ( выражает раздражение )
Don’t mention it – пожалуйста, не за что, не стоит благодарности
/ I / don’t mind if I do – я охотно, я не против
Don’t mind me – не обращайте на меня внимание, не берите из меня пример
Don’t pile it on! – не ври!, не выдумывай!
Don’t ring us, we’ll ring you – см. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.

 

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