Thanks MM for your invaluable remarks and the suggestion. I wonder why the word "retaliate" did not occur to me!

1. The commander arrested the villager as a reprisal for taking part in a peaceful protest against his misdeeds. 2. The commander arrested the villager in reprisal for taking part in a peaceful protest against his misdeeds. 3. The

Thanks Clive and MM. Clive, we don't have snows in this part of the world. But we have lots of rains.

I don't know how to express it. I am translating an interview of a torture victim. He says that his torturer shoved him on to the ground, held his testicles and then pulled him up trice, cauding serious damage to his testicles. Can I

I don't know whether it is the proper place to ask this question. Can anyone tell me the meaning of the phrase " making the worse appear the better cause ". This is from The Dialogues of Plato (Section Apology). Let me give the

Some 18,000 security personnel have thrown a cordon around the meeting venue in Cha-am, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, say reports. Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form

Thanks MM, but I have another question. What is the difference between "at night" and "by night"? Could you please give an example, showing the use of "by night"?

Thanks MM and Bob. Bob what do you suggest?

By the night he was taken to a jungle, and was buried alive up to his neck. Is there any mistakes in the sentence above? Thanks