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dorolam 发表于 24-9-2013 22:30

                               
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Good on you! Yes, I guess you are right: gem instead of jem. Thank you for sharing.

Hi, @dorolam  you took us into a new page/new adventure!

dorolam

yping88 发表于 24-9-2013 22:33

                               
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Hi, @dorolam  you took us into a new page/new adventure!

The pleasure is mine!

yping88

ozgeelong 发表于 24-9-2013 22:30

                               
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Don’t get carried
away  这是不是走火的意思？

Generally speaking, it means 别跑题了

But I would go back to the original context and figure out what it exactly meant! Please bear with me!

yping88

A: Yeah that would be cool! Maybe I can also have
a try at other weapons like a machine gun（机关枪） or a
shotgun（猎枪）! Maybe even a rocket launcher（火箭发射器） or an anti
tank missile（反坦克导弹）! Or what about a flame thrower(喷火器）!

B: Whoa, take it easy there Rambo. Don’t get carried
away. These weapons are not toys, and you must
first learn how to handle them properly.

To @ozgeelong

To read into the lines, DON'T GET CARRIED AWAY means 别跑题了，别走得太远了/不要忘乎所以。因为A 偏离了他们正在谈论的手枪以及怎样打枪，却在谈其他的重型武器, 有点忘乎所以。 B was trying to get A's focus back on what they initially were talking about!

Hope this helps!

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 21-5-2013 21:47

                               
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Cool. But as a supporting actress, I won't make a grand entrance (华丽出场), which will make me to s ...

我已经开始 膜拜您了  向您学习   我突然发现我有了斗志

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 24-9-2013 22:52

                               
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A: Yeah that would be cool! Maybe I can also have
a try at other weapons like a machine gun（机关枪 ...

It does help!  有免费的英语老师,太感动,感谢了! 白天口语听力,老外可以教,晚上这里这么多英文老师! 好幸福啊

yping88

ozgeelong 发表于 24-9-2013 22:59

                               
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It does help!  有免费的英语老师,太感动,感谢了! 白天口语听力,老外可以教,晚上这里这么多英文老师! 好幸 ...

Please go back to #814 again, it was revised a bit!

Thanks!

MICHELLE07

yping88 发表于 24-9-2013 22:52

                               
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A: Yeah that would be cool! Maybe I can also have
a try at other weapons like a machine gun（机关枪 ...

原来是这样。谢谢yping。 我简单地以为是小心使用，别乱扣扳机呢，我也没仔细看。。。
经常有人说我“你想多了”，因为我有时想得很远、不切实际、野心勃勃。
是否也可以应用这个词?

"Come on Michelle, don't get carried away.
You are still in the probationary period of being a finance moderator..."

yping88

MICHELLE07 发表于 24-9-2013 23:07

                               
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原来是这样。谢谢yping。 我简单地以为是小心使用，别乱扣扳机呢，我也没仔细看。。。
经常有人说我“你 ...

Don't get carried away--Usually means someone just chatted away to a point too far for people to follow--离题太远，太兴奋而忘乎所以

I don't think this expression serves right your passion and caring attitude, @MICHELLE07

I am sure you are gonna make a wonderful moderator in finance section! And even in English section as well! Just to look at how you can glue us all together, you would know what I mean!

chubbycat

how come @dcxg is not learning English here?

ozgeelong

ozgeelong 发表于 24-9-2013 22:59

                               
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It does help!  有免费的英语老师,太感动,感谢了! 白天口语听力,老外可以教,晚上这里这么多英文老师! 好幸 ...

I love English! The first time I came Australia I have no idea what were they talking about! When people said hello to me? I did not respond, just gave a smile to them! How are you going? That is the usual way people say hi to you. But I Could not understand。 I spent ten weeks studying English hard at The GORDON TAFE (In Geelong) and talking with my colleagues if not busy. Probably studying lauguage in one year, Basic communication is not a big problem! I think I am getting lazy since I can solve many problems by myself with a few lauguage problems!  My English level is far far far far away behind you guys ! You stimulate my enthusiasm! I am going to study English again, just promote myslef! Hopefully this is last time to shout slogan coz I have been shouting slogans for ages! Please, Ples,ples correct my English,point out my problems! Cheers....

ozgeelong

with stammering English will we better

yping88

chubbycat 发表于 24-9-2013 23:31

                               
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how come @dcxg is not learning English here?

ozgeelong 发表于 23-9-2013 17:41
谁能帮我翻译下  貌似  没看懂

Quote: @dcxg

兄弟，看不懂太正常了

哥每次都是连蒙带猜，外加google

尼玛很累的有没有

yping88

Patch-work quilt  用各色花布拼凑起来的被子

Hit the sticky patch 遇到困难

Take the upper-hand 占据主动地位/占上风（在对峙中/在某种关系中）

Beef up 加强/加固/使强壮  it seems beef is closely related to being strong! Now, I have made a decision to change my main menu to BEEF from pork, unless someone can write PORK UP into the dictionary to suggest the relations between pork and strength!

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 25-9-2013 11:28

                               
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Patch-work quilt  用各色花布拼凑起来的被子

Hit the sticky patch 遇到困难

beef up 老出现在报子里面，我以前看报子都有见到！

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 21-5-2013 19:53

                               
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Wow, I never knew you're running this show here, Michelle. Listen, can I be casted in as one of the  ...

I have a hunch that my English is getting better! Hunch is a new word for me, I got it!

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 21-5-2013 21:47

                               
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Cool. But as a supporting actress, I won't make a grand entrance (华丽出场), which will make me to s ...

这几句，好多不知道的短语  正在记笔记

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 21-5-2013 22:23

                               
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To tell you the truth, Michelle! I visited the hot topic you put up there today. All day long, I jus ...

I am following your steps.

ozgeelong

版主  我在浏览所有文章！好多好东西啊

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 21-5-2013 22:23

                               
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To tell you the truth, Michelle! I visited the hot topic you put up there today. All day long, I jus ...

make sth big out of it 怎么理解  你应该可以写出更好更优秀的文章吗？

MICHELLE07

ozgeelong 发表于 25-9-2013 21:42

                               
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版主  我在浏览所有文章！好多好东西啊

你说我的老帖子啊？哈哈，想当年青涩幼稚的我啊。。。
（其实也才几个月）

MICHELLE07

yping88 发表于 25-9-2013 11:28

                               
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Patch-work quilt  用各色花布拼凑起来的被子

Hit the sticky patch 遇到困难

哈哈，Pork up 大概不能是加强的意思，要么是使人变懒惰/愚笨？如果有人要创造的话

浮云云艾米莉

coffle \KAW-ful\ noun : a line of slaves or animals fastened together

Examples: "The abolitionists understood the effect that depictions of an auction block, a slave coffle, and the tearing apart of families had upon their audience." — From Steven Deyle's 2005 book Carry Me Back

"There was the very real possibility that, if captured, families would be broken up, children separated from mothers, brothers from sisters, loved ones sold and marched south in slave coffles." — From an article by John Kelly in The Washington Post, April 16, 2013

Did you know? "Coffle" comes from the Arabic "qāfila," which means "caravan" or "travelling company," though in English it has been used more specifically to refer to a group of slaves or animals chained or strung together. One of the earliest known uses of "coffle" in English is found in the explorer Mungo Park's 1799 Travels in the Interior of Africa. This was not the first time, however, that English had borrowed "qāfila." About two hundred years earlier "cafila" started appearing in print as an Anglicization of the Arabic "qāfila" to indicate a caravan or company of travelers in the Middle East and India.

yping88

MICHELLE07 发表于 25-9-2013 21:50

                               
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哈哈，Pork up 大概不能是加强的意思，要么是使人变懒惰/愚笨？如果有人要创造的话

Wherever you are, whatever you say in this forum, it's always sparkling and creative, MM!

Now, PORK UP was written in FreeOz dictionary, I would probably use it later on!

yping88

ozgeelong 发表于 25-9-2013 21:45

                               
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make sth big out of it 怎么理解  你应该可以写出更好更优秀的文章吗？

With the exceptional talent @MICHELLE07 has got in writing, she can achieve so much more than we can see on this forum!

So, I said MAKE SOMETHING BIG OUT OF IT---意即：利用这种才智，她可以成为著名作家，得到以此带来的名望，财富，社会地位。。。You name it!

Hope I answered your question!  

yping88

ozgeelong 发表于 25-9-2013 21:35

                               
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I have a hunch that my English is getting better! Hunch is a new word for me, I got it! ...

We all are in a learning process and pick up something new everyday! We all are aware how difficult yet fascinating this growth could be, because our mother tongue has absolutely nothing to do with English!

Well done to all of us!

ozgeelong

yping88 发表于 26-9-2013 09:00

                               
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With the exceptional talent @MICHELLE07 has got in writing, she can achieve so much more than we c ...

好像是用 on the forum 我上次好像问过我同事！ 因为我也是用的in，可以去核查下啊！

yping88

ozgeelong 发表于 26-9-2013 09:27

                               
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好像是用 on the forum 我上次好像问过我同事！ 因为我也是用的in，可以去核查下啊！

I am going back to that post amending that now!

Thank you for pointing that out!

cloudynewlife

yping88 发表于 26-9-2013 09:07

                               
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We all are in a learning process and pick up something new everyday! We all are aware how difficul ...

说的太对了，母语的影响太深了。。。 偶刚上班的那一个多月 着急的时候还往外蹦中文！

三个月过去了 至少能控制住不说中文了 哈哈

yping88

cloudynewlife 发表于 26-9-2013 09:55

                               
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说的太对了，母语的影响太深了。。。 偶刚上班的那一个多月 着急的时候还往外蹦中文！

三个月过去了  ...

Absolutely, we all have been there!