Thu 3 Jul, 2014 06:37 pm - Thanks anyway. I remember seeing something in Chinese that looks like a word-for-word translation, but cannot be sure. (view)
Thu 19 Sep, 2013 03:01 am - Yes, that's right. But how many years do you think "scores upon scores of years" mean? I'm thinking maybe hundreds of years. Or is it too long? Thanks. (view)
Tue 11 Jun, 2013 09:25 pm - "That this state-room had been specially engaged for ‘Charles Dickens, Esquire, and Lady,’ was rendered sufficiently clear even to my scared intellect by a very small manuscript,... (view)
Wed 21 Nov, 2012 08:20 am - A patient was very ill and couldn't swallow anything, so the doctor said, "We gave him fluids for the first two weeks and then fed him through a tube which passed through his nose into... (view)
Sat 15 Oct, 2011 01:23 am - This line is from Thomas Gray's poem Ode on the Spring:
The insect youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon:
Some lightly... (view)
Tue 11 Oct, 2011 10:54 pm - So it simply means that someone is very strong or powerful and has a great deal of influence, just like a natural force. i guess that's all to it. thanks. (view)
