some doubts One of the links in the chain which DRIVES the wheels had snapped Q: Wasn't it supposed to be like "drived"? Could u elaborberate on that with some examples? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does "fellow workers mean "workmates" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He told her wife he worked for the Corporation AND NO MORE I failed to get and no more --------------------------------------------------------- 1. His earning is only half the amount THEY used to be I thought "they"was supposed to be like "it"

usage of PROVE, fix, and into Does " prove one's guilt/innocence" equal "prove sb guilty/innocent" _______________________________________________________________________________________________ The sides of the dish were so smooth, that it was almost impossible to ATTACH hawsers and chain TO the RIM without damaging it. Eventually chains were FIXED TO one end of the dish. This time they fixed heavy metal clamps TO both sides of the dish, so that they could FASTEN the chains Q1: Are attach, fix, fasten and put interchangeable? Q2:Are to, onto, into interchangeable? Q3: Are rim, edge and side interchangeable _______________________________________________________________________________________________ If you can do without the pastoral pleasure OF COUNTRY, you will find the city can provide you with the best that life can offer Q: Could of country be transfered to "of living in the country"and pleas elaborate on them

some doubts

1 Insuring private or public property is a standard practice in the most countries in the world.

2 It's not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of        salvaging a sunken ship

3 During the party the enormous pie dish where they had the party on capsized and sank in  the seven feet of water

4 By working at a tremendous speed,, the men managed to get the dish on to the dry land before the wave return

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 the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the more you will have to pay as a    premium

 the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the higher premium you will have to pay

I don't get why in the first sentence more is a more suitable word while higher is in the second sentence

 

2 

Three men dived repeatedly into the water

Three men dived many a time/ time and tme into the water

I thought many a time meant the same as repeatedly and time and time and it turned out  it didn't not.

3

For one  agonizing moment, the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water.

Between painful and frightening, which word would a more proper choice in the place of agonizing in the last sentence

History's Joke The first poet who came to China is none but Longfellow among a great number of great poets in Europe. The first poem of Longfellow's is none but A Psalm of Life among his poems of good quality or better one. This would be a mockery and provocation literary comunication carried out to professors of literature and critics! There are numerous unreasonable cases, to be more specific, which is incompatible with the ideals and theories of scholars. It is compatible with what David Hume refered to the confict between to be and outght to be. In historical course, things are going the way which is making fool of or playing a trick on us and demolishing what we have finalized and destorying our blueprint, left our rigorous theoretical systems which are supposed to be of wind and water proof in holes——large or small. The lessons of history by general speaking seems as if history is none but only a stern and decent superior or teacher, actually history resembles a naughty child who is into teasing others. However, haveing the access to teaching and make fun of human beings is a victory of history, while only a few people listen to or get the lessons and the people who ever get to notice his kidding is even much fewer, which is the failure of history.

What does "Trickey " here mean Monica: So you guys don't mind going out with someone else who's going out with someone else? Joey: I couldn't do it. Monica: Good for you, Joey. Joey: When I'm with a woman, I need to know that I'm going out with more people than she is. Ross: Well, you know, monogamy can be a, uh, TRICKEY concept. I mean, anthropologically speaking- (They all pretend to fall asleep.)

”happen for", I think it is a wrong expression. Shouldn't it be like" happen to" Joey: You know, I've done nothing but crappy plays for six years. And I finally get my shot , and I blow it ! Monica: Wait a minute, maybe this wasn't your shot. Ross: Yeah, I-I think when it's your shot, you know, you-you know it's your shot. Did... Did it... feel like your shot? Joey: Hard to tell, I was naked. Phoebe: No, I don't think this was your shot. I don't even think you just get one shot. I really believe big things are gonna HAPPEN FOR you, I do!And, you've gotta just keep thinking about the dayTHATsome kid is gonna run up to his friends and go 'I got the part! I got the part! I'm gonna be Joey: Tribbiani's ass!' (Shouldn't " that " above be " when"?)

Could you explain the red part to me with some other secens or examples, thank you beforehand

(Joey enters.)
All: Hey! Big star!
Monica: Hey, wait a minute, aren't you the guy who plays the butt in the new Al Pacino movie?
Joey: Nope.
Ross: No? What happened, big guy.
Chandler: (to Ross) "Big guy?"
Ross: It felt like a 'big guy' moment.
Joey: I got fired.
All: Oh!
(This is the writer: What I don't get is "big guy" is usually what Chandler and Joey call Ross, however, this time, Ross call others big guy and put it that it's a big guy moment.)

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(Chandler's involved with a glamourous married woman who dates with two men(Chandler and Ethan) at the same time and the three man( her husband and Chandler and Ethan all are OK with it). Now, Chandler finds that she is date with a second man named Andrew and feel resentful. Here comes the conversation)
Aurora: So what'd you want?
Chandler: You.
Aurora: You have me!
Chandler: No-no, just you
Aurora: What'd you mean?
Chandler: Lose the other guys.
Aurora:like... all of them?
Chandler: Come on, we're great together, why not?

(Does "like"mean "for example" here)

 

"bite me" Could you explain this to me with some examples bite meAurora: Why can't we just have what we have now? Why can't we just talk, and laugh, and make love, without feeling obligated to one another... UP TILL tonight I thought that's what you wanted too. (I know what the expression UP TILL means. However,could I exchange it wih TILL simply?)Chandler: Well, you know, part of me wants that, but it's like I'm two guys, you know? I mean, one guy's saying 'Shut up! This is great!' But there's this other guy. Actually it's the guy who wells up every time that GRINCH'S HEART GROWS THREE SIZE AND BREAK THAT MEASURING DEVICE...He's saying, you know, 'This is too hard! Get out! Get out!' ("Grinch's heart grows three sizes and breaks that measuring device... "I have no idea where the sentence comes from and what it means here)

"roll it"what does that mean Director: (Interrupts) Lose the robe. Joey: Right. Ok. Losing the robe. (He takes off the robe.) Ok, and the robe is lost. Director: Ok, everybody, we'd like to get this in one take, please. Let's ROLL IT.. water's working (The shower starts)... and... action. (Joey starts to the shower with a grim, determined look on his face.) Director: And cut. Hey, Butt Guy, what the hell are you doing?