I need your help please! I am dealing with some translation work which is drving me crzay now!! Please help me out of it!! Thank you!! 1.Well, what do you say we end that streak right now? 你说咱俩怎么都到了这个地步( I am not sure about how to translate " streak" into Chinese) 2.Everyone, with the governor coming, 大家注意了 主管来了（My problem is finding a proper word in Chinese to replace "with" in this sentence. Or should I just leave it?) I want this office running like a well-oiled machine. 我想让在座的每个人像上了油的机器一样运转起来

A question about the tutor thing on italki Yesterday I was here on italki and I happened to see a homepage of a Chinese tutor who helped with foreingers to learn Chinese. I spent few minutes looking over his introuduction and I found something that I couldn't really understand. There were so many simple mistakes in his English which appeared in his form of writting, chose of words and even some basic grammer mistakes. But the feedbacks from his students approved that he seemed to be a very good tutor. I am not saying that he isn't a good teacher and I just wonder that if a person wants to be a tutor like a Chinese tutor for example (I mean tutor, not professional language teacher), should he/she be good at English or at least at which level you can accept? And if you ever took a tutor's class before, would you like to share your feelings about your class? Thank you!

What is your ideal language partner like？ What is your ideal language partner like?

What is your ideal language partner like？ What is your ideal language partner like?

A paragrah The clock yelled loudly and woke me up from my sweet dream. “Today is a big day” I couldn’t help thinking about that while I was putting on my clothes. First day of school meant an adventure to every kid and I didn’t know what to expect as well. Would my teacher be kind to me? Would my classmates like me and want to be friend with me? Was I going to do well in my first class? With all these questions packed in my brain, I didn’t even have the mood to eat my breakfast. After I shoved something randomly into my mouth, I was getting more and more nervous. I told my mom that I didn’t want to leave home and go into the environment which was totally strange to me. She didn’t say anything pushy and just comforted me that everything was going to be fine. Time went on so quickly and I only had half an hour left, but I still felt reluctant to take a step.Finally I had to make up my mind and hit the road.

A Boring Topic As we all know ice cream and cake are all delicious food and popular not only among little kids but also many adults. For me, a huge fan of sweet food, it is really a tough work to tell you which one I would rather to eat. After thinking it again and again, I finally figure out my choice and the answer is ice cream. As for the reason why I choose ice cream, firstly, there is no doubt that ice cream is made of ice. Ice may be the best thing to keep you cool during the hot summer. There is nothing better than staying in a room with the air-conditioner open and enjoying the ice cream at the same time when the outside world is on fire. Secondly, you can eat cake all year round if you like. Cake can be taken as breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It can be snack but also can be taken as staple food. As for ice cream, you can't eat it as staple food and it can only serve as dessert. So this may be the most important point that makes ice cream more special than cake. People always get bored easily with something they can get without trying hard. For example, I was only allowed to eat ice cream when the weather was extremely hot as a little kid so I always yearned for a bite of the ice cream before summer. In my mind, a summer without ice cream isn't complete. Although the better one has been decided and the reason is obvious, It doesn't mean that I can eat as many ice cream as I want. One thing we should always keep in mind is that the more sweet food you eat, the more unhealthy you may be. (This is an awfully boring essay I have ever written but it's an assignment so I have to do it:) Hope you can point out my mistakes and help me correct them! Many thanks!!!)

My Grandmother’s Yard Before I went to primary school, I spent most of my childhood time in my grandmother’s yard. Chasing and playing hide and seek with my friends; the yard collected my laughter and precious memories about the old time. My grandmother used to live with my uncle. Their home was a little far from the city. It was a village, small but lovely. People living there all built their houses with yards. My grandmother’s house wasn’t so big, but there was a big yard providing enough space for me to play. Opening the heavy iron door, there stands a big pomegranate tree. It was planted when I was 3 years old. At that time it was as tall as me but now it may be taller than the roof. The long branches crowed with green little leaves spread to all directions, almost filling the sky above the yard. Every year when autumn was coming, the whole tree was hanging uncountable flaming flowers just like many burning torches swaging in the wind. I was usually longing for the fruitful pomegranates and begging my grandmother to pick one still green. “It haven’t mature, just be patient.” She always smiled and said that. In the corner of the yard, there were also four pitches of land to plant vegetables. Carrots, cucumbers, rapes and cabbages, I have ever watched them to grow up from a spout to a slump vegetable. In winter they were covered with thick snow as cute as cream cake. I didn’t know whether they died or not. All we could do was just waiting patiently till the next year’s spring. My grandmother also planted many different kinds of flowers in both sides of the yard. Such as red rose, yellow chrysanthemum, purple morning glory. They blew when different seasons came, so the yard was decorated by colorful flowers all year round. There used to be a rocking chair in front of the big pomegranate tree. In the midnight summer, what I liked most was to sit on the small stool leaning against my grandmother and letting her to tell many stories to me. Nice and cool wind blew the tree and made a pleasant rustling sound. I watched the high moon through the bushy leaves and the moon light shining, making hundreds light spots. I fell in love with it. Time has passed by and everything is changing every moment. The house with the yard was no longer there and my grandmother moved to the down town. But I still miss the yard and my best memories left there.

Should English Majors Study Math? Recently, some complains about whether students who major in English should learn math have risen to a heated discussion. Students’ points of views on this issue vary from one to another. In my part, I think our English majors shouldn’t learn math in university. First of all, I think it’s a waste of time for our English majors to deal with those kinds of difficult math questions. We don’t use it a lot both in our studying life or daily life. Secondly, teachers in math classes always teach us something that is very complicated and abstract, so we need to spend most of our time finishing the homework after class. Therefore we can’t focus on our own major. What’s more? The purpose that we study math is just to get good grades in our math exams, rather than to use it help us thinking in a logical way. After we pass the exam we will forget all the things we have learned in the class and won’t use the knowledge anymore. To sum up, I think it isn’t wise for our English majors to learn math in university. We should focus on our own major and try our best to do it well! (This is a small argument I wrote in my writing class and I would really appreciate it if you can help me correct some mistakes in my writing! Many thanks! )