Please ignore my first question. I was wrong about my conjecture. The verb is "smack." Just now, I found that "smack of something" is a phrasal verb. But still, please shed some light on the second question. Regards,

I saw in an editorial of the local English newspaper of Taiwan : complained that part of the act giving police the right to break up demonstrations impeding traffic smacks of authoritarianism, arguing “it's like a law from the martial law

Thanks. Given that I change "mere" to "merely," the "a" should be omitted, right? He weighs merely kilograms.

I got it! Thank you so much!!

Hi, Are you a Taiwanese or a China Mainlander? Or else? I can understand your text facial expressions. Such text facial expressions are common in Taiwan. I just want to remind you that people outside your country might not understand their

I saw in a piece of Taiwan local news : 　Convicted of masterminding a murder, Yen was sentenced to three years and as many quarters in prison last year. What does this "quarter" possibily mean? Is it related to the length of sentence in

I saw in a piece of Taiwan local news : 　1. stands a little shorter than 1.7 meters tall but weighed 111 kilograms . 　2. He now weighs a mere 79 kilograms. 　3. The son weighs 90 kilograms. I consulted a couple of dictionaries, and I

Hi, I was watching a Disney animation, the sequel of Mulan . (For your information, Hua Mulan was a Chinese heroine. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Mulan One character's line goes as follows: Old Shang's steaming like a fresh

Hi, The word "lodging," as a noun, meaning ' a room in someone's house which you live in and pay rent for ' is labelled as " old-fashioned " on some dictionaries. I was wondering what the modern term is. Please