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JB's new words interactive section

 
 
Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 3 Jun, 2005 10:33 am
A friend of mine has said the same thing, Pan. I am a light-weight when it comes to viewing films. (For example... the film The Terminal with Tom Hanks... I couldn't watch it the first time through because the customs agent was so mean and it was such a heartless thing, even though I had seen the earlier French version. Maybe I didn't care so much when I couldn't understand all the words? I finally saw it after skipping over some of the crueler bits.) This is a detriment for me since I've been one of the main people to choose them for our free public performances. You'll be glad to know that we're talking about showing Schindler's List as one of our features for the library film program this fall.
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J-B
 
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Reply Sat 4 Jun, 2005 03:48 am
Movie is really one of the greatest.
In different some terms, it can be viewed as a great artwork, a great textbook about humanitarian, even a great documentary.
I am deeply impressed by the total change of Oskar from a crooked tycoon who only cared about financial proceeds to a humanitarian warrior who at last hired jews only for saving more.


Thanks for the word. Smile
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Piffka
 
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Reply Sat 4 Jun, 2005 08:18 am
Thanks, ^JB^ for so highly recommending it. I promise I will see it soon...
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 10 Jun, 2005 01:53 am
Quote:
An array of people


Array?
And how about other meanings of it?

Thanks
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Piffka
 
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Reply Fri 10 Jun, 2005 08:19 am
Hello ^JB^ ---
Hope your computer troubles are fixed soon.

Array describes a group... It would be hard to figure out what your quote meant without the context. It could mean standing in an organized pattern or even a group of people from different backgrounds.

There are several mathematical and scientific definitions of arrays that also describe a group. The one I'm most familiar with is a set of disk drives that work together in a mainframe system.
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J-B
 
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Reply Sat 11 Jun, 2005 10:50 pm
Quote:
"It would be better to kill this guy," Carlos tells me as we walk the streets of Barrio Triste, past an array of mechanic shops and cocaine addicts.


I hope it will help? Smile
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 23 Jun, 2005 05:42 am
Hi there, I am sorry for the uninformed absense.

It was for the preparation of my Senior Middle School Entrance Examination---another crazy thing of my particular age. All of my activities with my computers was ruled out by my parents, with the approval of me certainly, I needed to concentrate.

The whole "god-awful shitty mess" (quoted from Saving Private Ryan)
ended today. And the cheerful thing is that I am confident I have done well.

The result of the Big Exam will be released on July,10th. But you know that I was a bit cynical, or "潇洒"(xiao sai), which means someone who does not care about those thousands of trifles which was being regarded as trifles by them but considered as important by most others, although this state of living is adored by many----So I am going to arrive in London on July 2nd to attend a self-arranged 7-week summer course in Clary's school in Totnes. And I am going to host a thread to ask for advices----Indeed this is to be my first experience of being out of the borders.

(Hey what about the "array" question? Why is reluctant? Am I naive about that? Embarrassed )
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panzade
 
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Reply Thu 23 Jun, 2005 08:44 am
JB, "smashing" news. How lucky you are to meet Clary and the rest of the Euro-Ruffians. We will expect JB's diary thread to be posted soon.

An array is simply a number or variety of objects.

The rainbow consists of an array of colors.
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panzade
 
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Reply Thu 23 Jun, 2005 08:48 am
I too have traveled recently. Here is a photo of Junior and me at the harbor in Victoria B.C.

Canadahttp://img291.echo.cx/img291/4867/cammichael7wn.jpg
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BorisKitten
 
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Reply Thu 23 Jun, 2005 09:22 am
Hi everyone, I've missed JB's famous Words Interactive Section! Glad to "see" you again, JB!

What an exciting trip you've got planned... I hope you'll tell us all about it.

More on array... an array of numbers is set out like a grid, with a number in each square. You're usually supposed to figure out how these numbers are related, like you add 2 to the previous number to get the next one, and so on.

An array of objects usually means those objects are related somehow, but not necessarily. So an array can mean just a group of something, as in "...a whole array of problems."
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Great photo, Panz, I think that's the clearest one of you I've seen. You look happy, and I'm glad to see it!
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J-B
 
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Reply Fri 24 Jun, 2005 01:29 am
HI Panzade and kitten, Thanks for the help.


What 's "Victoria B.C."? "B.C." makes me think about "Before Chirst". Smile
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 24 Jun, 2005 07:47 am
panzade wrote:
JB, "smashing" news. How lucky you are to meet Clary and the rest of the Euro-Ruffians. We will expect JB's diary thread to be posted soon.


Yay! I like being a Euro-Ruffian. Twisted Evil

I would say an array was usually arranged, like the VLA telescope - Very Large Array - we often use it for goods laid out in a shop, for example.
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 24 Jun, 2005 09:12 am
^JB^ wrote:
HI Panzade and kitten, Thanks for the help.


What 's "Victoria B.C."?


B.C. stands for the province of British Columbia.

The only other Canadian province that is normally initialled is P.E.I.

Can you guess what it stands for JB?
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BorisKitten
 
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Reply Fri 24 Jun, 2005 07:23 pm
Er, no....

oh wait, I'm not JB!
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J-B
 
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Reply Sat 25 Jun, 2005 04:14 am
Let me guess, without searching...

"P"? Province?
"E"? English?
"I"? Islands?

So......the result is "The province of English islands"?! Drunk Laughing
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 25 Jun, 2005 04:18 am
This man is PEI...

http://www.bm30.es/bm30/Epei.jpg

But we are searching for Prince Edward Island...
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panzade
 
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Reply Sat 25 Jun, 2005 08:18 am
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/peilouvre/ext.jpg




http://www.arch.montana.edu/students/Jellison,%20Jessica/IM%20Pei%20Pg1.jpg
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J-B
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 05:08 am
One of my classmates is obssessed with architecture (His father is a celebrated architect, in a rather smaller circle). If you ever want to mention this Pei to him, get ready to endure the interminable harangue first. Smile

I have got 2 questions today.
Quote:
A slightly-built man

Does it mean that this man dosen't have very distinctive features or he dosen't take much care about his appearence therefore he appears to be a bit scruffy?

Quote:
But the densely penned scrawls seem to reflect the equally simple, troubled emotions of all but the fanatical SS, now losing ground in Normandy against appalling odds.

Lose ground to? Lost advantage over?

I have been seeing the word "odds" frequently, what does that mean?



Thanks, JB Smile
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 12:10 pm
Strange, I got a message that said "temporarily restricted". What does that mean?

Anyway, JB, slightly built simply means slender and perhaps short.
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panzade
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 12:29 pm
^JB^ wrote:

Lose ground to?


After the Allies secured the Normandy beaches they began pouring into the french countyside...therefore the Wermacht(and SS) lost ground(territory) to the Allies.
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