soul_sincerity (Learning_English) все записи автора

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Public transport isn't in a great condition. However buses are acceptable to ride in.
However buses are being acceptable to ride in.

Как правильнее написать второе предложение?

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Rrrrrosalina (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 Ghoti is a constructed example used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling. It is a respelling of the word fish, and like fish is pronounced. It has:

gh, pronounced [f] as in tough (or enough);
o, pronounced [i] as in women; and
ti, pronounced [sh] as in nation (or exeption).

The first known published reference is in 1874, citing an 1855 letter that credits ghoti to one William Ollier (born 1824). Ghoti is often cited to support English spelling reform, and is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, a supporter of this cause. However, a biography of Shaw attributes it instead to an anonymous spelling reformer.

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apperception (Learning_English) все записи автора

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Здравствуйте. Тема моей дипломной работы - "Культурологические проблемы перевода". Может быть кто-то что-то писал по подобной теме? И если у кого-нибудь есть информация по данной теме - поделитесь пожалуйста, если не жалко!! Очень нужно!

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HerbstLuft (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 Здравствуйте, у меня к вам просьба, не могли бы вы мне помочь)

Мне нужно написать сочинение про первое мая, но я незнаю, что туда и приблизительно писать, можете хоть что-то приблизительно сказать, что в этом сочинение нужно написать, можно и на русском) правда нет даже ни одной идеи^^
заранее благодарю)

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CupOfTea (Learning_English) все записи автора

 

angryrat (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 A general store owner hires a young female clerk who likes to wear very
short skirts and thong panties.
One day a young man enters the store, glances at the clerk and glances at
the loaves of bread behind the counter.
Noticing the length of her skirt (or general lack thereof) and the location
of the raisin bread, he has a brilliant idea.
"I'd like some raisin bread please," the man says politely.
The female clerk nods and climbs up a ladder to reach the raisin bread,
which is located on the very top shelf.
The young man standing almost directly beneath her is provided with an
excellent view, just as he surmised he would..
Once she descends the ladder he muses that he really should get two loaves
as he is having company for dinner.
With each trip up the ladder the young lady seems to catch the eye of
another male customer.
Pretty soon, each male customer is asking for raisin bread, just to see the
clerk climb up and down..
After many trips she is tired, irritated and thinking that she is really
going to have to try the bread herself.
Finally, once again atop the ladder, she stops and fumes, glaring at the men
standing below.
She notices an elderly man standing amongst the crowd staring up at her.
Thinking to save herself a trip, she yells at the elderly man, "Is yours
raisin too?"
"No," croaks the old man, "but it's a quiverin."

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angryrat (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 An offer NOT to be missed! I thought this was a hoax at first...
Summer 2009 is almost here. To celebrate this many supermarket stores are giving away
free barbecues to all that can go and collect them.
You can get a free BBQ from any of big stores.

All BBQs come with a higher shelf which can be used for keeping things warm!

PLEASE NOTE: Some stores may charge a 1 administration fee.

If you wish to see a picture of this product please scroll down.

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angryrat (Learning_English) все записи автора

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COCONUT CRAB:
The coconut crab is a large edible land crab related to the hermit crab, and are found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans .
They eat coconuts for a living! How would you like to be on an island and come across a crab that is more than 3 feet from head to tail and weighs up to 40 pounds, with a pair of large pincers strong enough to open coconuts! They can climb trees too, but they only eat coconuts that have already fallen to the ground.

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never_givin_up (Learning_English) все записи автора

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1. If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Virginia Woolf

2. If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Voltaire

3. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca

4. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde

5. Let deeds match words.
Platus

6. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller

7. Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

8. Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something wortwhile, before you die. Leave behind a work sublime, that will outlive you and time.
Alfred A. Montepert

9. Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

10. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

11. Real unselfishness consits in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana

12. Staying angry with you is how I protect myself from you. Refusing to forgive you is not only how I punish you: it is also how I keep you from getting close enough to hurt me again, and nine times out of ten it works - only there is a serious side effect. It is called bitterness, and it can do terrible things to the human body and soul.
Barbara Brown Taylor

13. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus

14. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

15. The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it.
L. W. Lynett

16. The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
James Whitcomb Riley

17. Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson

18. We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

20. When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

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Lace_jot (Learning_English) все записи автора

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 Verne, Jules (1828-1905), French author, the father of science fiction.

He  was born in Nantes, France, and ran away to sea at the age of 11.

Verne studied law in Paris, and from 1848 until 1863 wrote opera librettos and plays

In 1850 he wrote a comedy in verse.

Jules Verne  visited the United States in 1867

 

Laying a carefully documented scientific foundation for his fantastic adventure stories,

he forecast with remarkable accuracy many scientific achievements of the 20th century.

He anticipated flights into outer space, submarines, helicopters, air conditioning,

guided missiles, and motion pictures long before they were developed.

The best-known book ( the best english -mp3 ) is :   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea   ,was written in 1873. 

Verne rode a wave of 19th-century interest in science and invention to enormous popular favor. 

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