Football Game [252]

A football game was held at 7 o’clock last evening. Mr. Lee arrived his home at 7:30 p.m.. As soon as he arrived, he turned on the television and started to watch the game.

Mr. Lee’s girlfriend called him several times from 8 o’clock. He could not receive the call because his cellular phone was in his bag. She was upset very much ("She was really upset" is what I would say), and later they quarreled hammer and tongs. (This phrase is correct, but I've never heard it.  Seems to be something from a Chinese to English dictionary.)

(This is a liberal translation of a Chinese text from "http://bitex-cn.com/". I did not post the original text, so just correct my English. Thank you in advance.)

*Note* I'm not correcting every single thing to make it sound like a native speaker.  I'm only pointing out the more important things you should focus on at your level. **

 

The conversation was with boss.

Hi, Recently, My boss pretty often drop by store than before.
As many as I have a lot of chance talking with him.
Below sentences is that I had talking with my boss.
Could you help me fix them?? Thanks.


(1)
My guess was wrong. I thought that one of this restaurant applicant would be old. But In fact, it he is not.

Boss: Do you think he is old?

I: Um, I know now, Actually I'm also surprised that he isn't old. The reason why I said he seems to be old is that his Korean expression and the word which he used in the e- mail were like old people saying. So I judged thought he would not be not young.

Boss: He is only 26. and According his resume, he came to University just at 2010.. How come an old person came to University at 2010?

I: Okay.. I admit It's totally my misunderstanding. I am really sorry to confuse make you confusing. Are you satisfied with this?


(2) During While I was washing a small dishes. It seemed that boss was finding looking for something. (찾다 = find, but "뭘 찾아요?" is "What are you looking for?".  Also 찾고 있다 = looking for / trying to find)

I: what are you finding? Are you finding something? <--- (Can you figure out how to fix the 'find' in these two sentences now?)

Boss: Yes, I am finding something to do. I'm not you. (This confuses me too)

I: (-_-;;;) What does that mean?

Boss: It is including everything...

I: omg...;;;;


(3) When I was trying to squeez the mop and the water in it out. Boss was approached me...

Boss: Oh, You shouldn't do that, it would be will flipped it over and spilled the dirty water. (the plastic box for washing the mop) I'll teach you. You have to lean on this the mop using your body weight.

I: (You are teaching me everything..) Thanks for teaching me.
--------After a while, when I was trying to mopping the floor, found that there were was no more water in mop.----

I: Your weight is too heavy to remain the leave any water in the mop(?)

(4)About My English.

Boss: Hey, Why don't you watch American drama not Korean drama.

I: I'm always watching it.

Boss: I means American drama.

I: Yes, I am watching it.

Boss: What do you watch?

I: Breaking bad.

Boss: Breaking bad is old.

I: I don't think so. It's all new for me. and I don't matter care if it is old or not. It's fun enough to me.
I am watching the season 2 recently.

(Two ways to fix this sentence "I have been watching season 2 recently." or "I am watching season 2 now."

(5)

I: Jenny said the scissors isn't supposed to put in the dish washer machine.

Boss: I just want to sterilization sterilize it.

I: But If doing like you that, the scissors is are gonna be broken. Because the part of handle material is made of plastic,
when it is into the washer machine, It is gonna be melted(rusted, worned). Look, Its handle is already changed the colour. Now I am confusinged now who's instruction do I follow.

Boss: Okay, I will gonna ask Jenny. It's up to you.

 

Good job on working hard and posting a lot of notebook entries.  Keep it up ^_^

There probably is a difference, but most people use them both the same way. It's used to explain a sentence like, "Time flies when you're having fun." because time doesn't literally fly. Anyone could say "metaphorically speaking" or "figuratively speaking" before this sentence and it would mean the same thing.

If something has a 'cult-like' status, it means people will like it or buy it just because of the brand. An example would be pre-ordering an iPhone before Apple tells you what features it will have. Also, the term 'cult-like' is usually used by someone who is trying to bad talk about whatever action they're describing.

I'd like to know the answer to this too if someone can comment. My wife is from 서울 and I had a similar question about 지금 vs 이제. The confusion is because we use 'now' for many situations in English, while Korean has different words for different situations. "I'm eating now" and "I'm taking some college classes now" are different in Korean. The first one is 지금 and the second one is 이제. Dictionaries used to translate 이제 to 'these days', so my wife and some of my Korean friends used 'these days' when they were supposed to use 'now'. So it's equally confusing for both sides.

Yep that's what it means, but it's spelled 진짜.

일이 바쁘긴 하지만 한국에 있는 직업은 더 바쁘니까, 한국에 이사 가서 취직할 때 좋은 대비가 될 거예요.

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여기 일이 바쁘긴 해도 한국에 있는 직업은 더 바쁠 테니까 좋은 경험이 될거예요.