0921- Idioms
 1. Add insult to injury
To make a bad situation worse; to hurt the feelings of a person who has already been hurt
 First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen.
 My car barely started this morning, and to add insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the driveway.

0921- Idioms
 2. As a duck takes to water easily and naturally
 She enjoys singing, as a duck takes to water.

0921- Idioms
 3. Ask for the moon to ask for too much; to make great demands; to ask for something that is difficult or impossible to obtain
 When you are trying to get a job, it seems unwise to ask for the moon.

0921- Idioms
 4. At sea about something
 When it comes to higher math, Peter is totally at sea.

0921- Chinese Common Expressions
 1. 愛理不理
 2. 礙手礙腳
 3. 礙眼
 4. 擺架子

0921- Famous Sayings
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1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
--- Mahatma Gandhi

0921- Famous Sayings
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1. “ 弱者絕不會寬恕。寬恕是強者的特
質。”
--莫哈瑪 ‧ 甘地

0921- Famous Sayings
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1. A home run yesterday doesn’t guarantee your win today.
---Babe Ruths

0921- Famous Sayings
 1. 昨日的全壘打不能為你帶來今日的勝利
--貝比 · 魯斯

0928 English Idioms
 1. At the eleventh hour
At the last possible moment
 She always turned her papers in at the eleventh hour, so her teacher always punishes her.
 The workers were about to go on strike, but at the eleventh hour they reached an agreement with the company.

0928 English Idioms
 2. Babe in the woods
A naive or innocent person; an inexperienced person
 Bill is a babe in the woods when it comes to dealing with plumbers.
 As a painter, Mary is fine but she is a babe in the woods as a musician.

0928 English Idioms
 3. Bag and baggage with one’s luggage; with all one’s possessions
 After having a ferocious quarrel with her husband, Shelly showed up at our door bag and baggage late on Sunday night
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All right, if you won’t pay the rent, out with you, bad and baggage.

0928 English Idioms
 4. Be a copycat
To be a person who copies or mimics what someone else does
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Sally wore a pink dress just like Mary’s. Mary called Sally a copycat.

0928 English Idioms
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5. Beggars can’t be choosers a proverb meaning that a person should not criticize something he gets for free.
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I don’t like the old hat that you gave me, but beggars can’t be choosers.

0928 English Idioms
 6. Be poles apart to be very different
 George and Mary finish their relationship ten years after their marriage, because they are poles apart in terms of personality.

0928 English Idioms
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7. can’t carry a tune
Unable to sing a single melody
 Singing lessons are always a pain in the neck for Peter because he really can’t carry a tune.

0928 Famous saying
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觸動心靈的美 不見得華麗
Beauty is only skin deep. What counts lies in how you are touched by it.
作家 劉墉
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品質比數量重要 一支全壘達遠勝兩支二壘安打
A great home run in time is more trustworthy than two base hits in a row.
蘋果電腦公司執行長 史帝夫賈伯斯
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7D9t-zuVMo

0928 Famous saying
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給需要水的人一杯水 就是最大的幫助
台灣路竹醫療和平會創辦人 劉啟群
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失敗不致命 不去改變才致命
《伍登教練的成功金字塔》作者 約翰伍登

0928 Famous saying
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登山容易 下山難
江秀珍

1005 English Idioms
 1. bite the dust to fall to defeat; to die
 The team won several games before biting the dust in the final competition

1005 English Idioms
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2. boggle someone’s mind
 to overwhelm someone; to mix up someone’s thinking; to astound someone
 The size of the room boggles my mind. I never expect such large space.

1005 English Idioms
 3. cash-and-carry having to do with a sales of goods or a way of selling that requires that the buyers par for the goods and take them at the same time
 I am sorry. We don’t deliver. It’s strictly cashand-carry.

1005 English Idioms
 4. cross a bridge before one comes to it to worry excessively about something before it happens
 She’s always crossing the bridge before coming to them. She needs to learn to relax.

1005 English Idioms
 5. a diamond in the rough a valuable or potentially excellent person or thing hidden by an unpolished or rough exterior
 Jenny looks quiet and unsociable, but she is a fine person —a real diamond in the rough.

1005 English Idioms
 6. doubting Thomas someone who will not easily believe something without strong proof or evidence
 This school is full of doubting Thomas; they don’t believe any theory in the books until a fine proof is given by their teachers.

1005 Famous saying
 1. 人之所以不快樂 是因為只看到自己沒有的
卻不珍惜手中擁有的
104人力銀行行銷總監

1005 大咖說的話
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5VIhbJwFs
Bill Gates
前世界首富

11/25 短句 - Warfare
 North Korea shells
South Korea's border island, prompting
Seoul to return fire in one of the most serious incidents since the end of the
Korean War in 1953.

11/25 短句 -Climate
 Monitoring our ailing oceansO cean scientists are urging governments to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.

11/25 短句 -Science
 British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.

11/25 俚語
 Birds of a feather flock together
 Bob and Tom are alike. They like each other’s company because birds of a feather flock together.

11/25 俚語
 Black and blue
 My knee is black and blue because I bumped into the side of my desk yesterday and hurt it.

11/25 俚語
 Black sheep of the family
 Mary is the black sheep of the family. She is always in trouble with the police.

11/25 俚語
 A bull in a China shop
 Bob is a regular bull in a china shop. He turnovers the milk and spill it on the guest’s suit.

11/25 俚語
 Blow the whistle
 The gangs are getting very bad. It’s time to blow the whistle on their misbehavior.

12/02 俚語
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Bite one’s tongue
 I sat through that whole conversation biting my tongue

12/02 俚語
 Bite the hands that feed you
 I am your mother! How can you bite the hands that feed you?

12/02 俚語
 Burn the midnight oil
 If you burn the midnight oil every day, you will probably become ill.

12/02 俚語
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Can’t carry a tune
 Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

12/02 俚語
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Can’t carry a tune
 Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

12/02 俚語
 Slow and steady wins the race
 Never give in. Slow and steady wins the race. You will make it finally.

12/02 俚語
 Under the table
 The mayor had been paying money to the construction company under the table

12/02 俚語
 Daylight robbery
 It’s daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room

12/02 俚語
 Take the bull by the horns
 If we are going to solve this problem, someone is going to have to take the bull by the horn.

12/2 俚語小考
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1. 火上加油
2. 如魚得水
3. 好高騖遠
4. 感到茫然
5. 最後一刻
6. 初出茅廬的新手
7. 南轅北轍
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8. 五音不全
9. 一敗塗地
10. 一手交錢一少交貨
11. 杯弓蛇影 (bridge)
12. 物以類聚
13. 瘀青
14. 害群之馬
15. 魯莽的人
16. 取締 / 檢舉