Quote:For example, in the US, states are divided into smaller counties, and each county has a "County Seat," which is where the county government offices are located.
Good example
Quote: A fishing lure is a little wiggly worm or shiny thing thrown into the water to make fish bite.
I have learn something beyond the sole answer to my question.
Thanks.
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Quote:1. Though ever thanking God for his lot, Hossein was as poor and thin as most berbers we were to meet in our trip.
Why is "were to meet"? Why not simply "met"?
Quote:2. But beyond the herds of tourists there is another Yosemite---less familiar, perhaps, but charged with a power of its own.
How to understand charge here?
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Well, let's see here....
I think the writer used "were to meet" to indicate they would, as the story continued, meet other Berbers. If they said "met," we would not get the hint that other Berbers would be part of the story later on.
"Charged with a power of its own" is a bit subtle... This version of charge would be like a battery charge, indicating stored-up power.
Hey, where's Francis? We haven't heard from him in a while!
I'm just sort of winging it here, Francis. Let me know if you think of better explanations than I can, OK?
First part, nothing to add to your explanation, BK...
Second part, as you said it's a bit subtle...
When something is "charged with a power of its own", IMO, it means it has some inner powerful qualities, uncommon, and perceptible only to those few who can understand it...
So now I know the original meaning of this "charge" comes from the "charge" of the battery.
I have found "charge" a really strange word. It has a number of meanings and there are nearly no reasonable connections among them.
JB, it's really interesting to see how difficult these "easy" words can be! As a native speaker, I never really noticed this until I saw it posted here.
I've seen certain word lists, like
through, though, thou, threw, trew, tough
which make me so how silly some things are in this language.
Oh, I actually saw the word "purfle" in print for the first time just this week! What a surprise! It was in a musical instrument catalog, describing a violin with purfling (as we all know, a decorative border). Who knows, maybe now I'll se "purfle" all the time?
Haha cool
We've all learnt something. :wink:
Duct tape! There are a lot of jokes about duct tape, like you can tape together a rocket or a car.... I think it was originally meant for air conditioning ducts (those round tubes under a house or car through which the cool air travels).
Duct tape is, oh, a couple of inches wide and is silver/grey colored, and very sticky. It is fairly thick and very strong. It's made of some sort of strong plastic, I think.
People are known to use duct tape for all kinds of things it wasn't meant for... thus the joke about it curing the common wart! Er, at least I think it's a joke...
There's a new product in Wal-Mart called "Duck Tape," a joke on "duct tape," but it's the same product.
Compare to masking tape, which comes on a similar roll (but a bit more narrow, maybe). It's paper-like, and is easily removed, unlike duct tape which sticks on very well. I just used several rolls of masking tape to "mask" parts of the walls I didn't want to paint. If I'd used duct tape, I never would have been able to remove it!
I have searched on Google Image for "duct tape" and I have found this:
Combined the picture with your explanation I believe you have got ya point.
Btw, what will you do if you write down something unwanted on the paper and then you want to get rid of it?( Do not tell me you will throw away the paper
)
Sad but true...unless it's written in pencil...then you ERASE it with an ERASER
OK, I would like to talk about a Chinese invention:
We use tapes....
This is a staple equipment in Chinese every student's pencil box. :wink:
So, er, do the students write on the tape after sticking it on paper? Is it clear tape? Gee, we don't write on tape, mostly....
And hey, that's a scary picture of duct tape! Here's hoping nobody does that to us!
No, we write on the paper, and use tape to stick the words out.
got it?
Quote:As I sip the juice and the hot soup, I break down, weeping onto the countertop
coutertop?
I find this word interesting:
Ram means "to strike", shackle means "A metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or captive", but the whole thing means "So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely".
How could it be?
[Back-formation from obsolete ranshackled, ramshackle, alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle, to ransack, frequentative of Middle English ransaken, to pillage. See ransack.]
Got to read the whole definition my friend
panzade wrote:[Back-formation from obsolete ranshackled, ramshackle, alteration of ransackled, past participle of ransackle, to ransack, frequentative of Middle English ransaken, to pillage. See ransack.]
Got to read the whole definition my friend
Oops, I am wrong from the start
