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Could you help me to choose the correct sentence? Which sentence is more common? 1. No dollar was wasted for nothing. 2. No dollar was trifled away. 3...
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Hi, Can someone tell me what "whisk out" mean here? Does it mean that she threw them out of the eco-lodge? or the opposite? On the morning that...
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Tim and his sister are at odds over how to care for their aging parents. Hi, Is it right to interpret the bold in the above as "arguing as for?"...
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What does tumble inside mean here? Does it mean to attend?
Over the course of 12 years, I tumbled inside a kaleidoscope of meetings...
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Hi Rupert Brooke wrote (about war): Now God be thanked Who has matched us with this hour And caught our youth , and wakened us from sleeping. --- does...
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Hi, I have a question of "have" and need your help: when I use it as "own" in an interrogative sentence and I want to express the meaning...
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If you've seen the show, would you kindly explain my question? Here is a joke in the episode "The Christmas Picture". It's in a scene...
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What is "the dark con of man"? (from the Da Vinci Code)
What does 'con' mean here? Is it a common usage in modern english?
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i have a question about using pronouns.sometimes i can use them wrongly without noticing, i mean when i need to say "she" i say "he"...
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Hello, can someone explain to me the last sentence below? What does writ mean here?
But soon you notice the concentric lines of giant fingerprints...
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Hello, would someone please tell me what's the meaning of "the first time around", as in "I escaped the first time around" ? is...
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"With Pox Americana, Fenn crafts a sprawling narrative detailing the overlooked smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782 in the Americas and the tumultuous...
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Question 1 in Encarta.msn dictionary one entry of the definitions of Steamroller is: (v) advance something: to move something forward in an aggressive...
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Hello The brain is just matter, but consciousness is something wholly other, an entirely different level of reality. As the philosopher Colin McGinn puts...
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A square courtyard bounded by buildings
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Hello, would someone please tell me what is the meaning of "pick me" (not "pick me up")? could it mean "answer me" ? Thanks...
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Timing difference between paying and receiving the item.
So I have a problem with that sentence.
How does it differ with: Time difference...
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Could anyone please clarify the meaning of this sentence: Send this pestilent, traitorous, cowhearted, yeasty codpiece to the brig. Granted it tends to...
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Do you have any idea about where the common misspelling 'grammer' comes from? I've noticed that many (American) native speakers tend to misspel...
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Hi, Can anyone please reply to my question: Do 'pressure' and 'stress' mean the same in the sentences below? 1.Yoga is excellent for relieving...
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"As a former beat cop, Ron Huberman, the new chief of public schools in Chicago, learned long ago that violence among young urban people could not...
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Hello, would someone please tell me what is the meaning of "in a sick way"? thanks! ... The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing...
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This passage is from Patric Henry's Patriotic Speech. It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against...
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