What does the word "enterprise" mean in the sentence? The use of the diminutive-ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterprise into something rather more endearing. What does the enterprise mean in this sentense? thanks.

Chinese New Year's Eve The seven days holiday for National Day has just become the past tense,the next long holiday we are now on the tiptoe of expectation coming soon is Chinese New Year! For the people like me, a nine-to- five office stuff, who are excited about the next coming holiday since we will have a good rest after the pressure daily work. Chinese New Year is seeming the biggest fesitval we will celebrate soon. Chinese New Year's Eve, we usually call it Lunar New Year's Eve as well,will be on Jan 30,2014 this time. And it is a day for family to gathering together to have a family reunion dinner. Most of the people who live in the northern part of China have the same customs and habits in celebrating this day, haveing jiaozi ,normally.But for the southern part the customs and habits vary from place to place , having nian-gao,zongzi,rice,etc. What's more, there are many other kinds of food that I don't mention and I even don't know about it exist actually. Because my hometown, a small town in southern part of China, really have a different kind of food making to eat on that day so far I know about others. Although a variety of food you can choose to eat at dinner, there are some hard and fast rules on the table refering to the different culture in different place.For example, fish is not allowed to eat somewhere in China because of the sound in Chinese "yu", is similar with "nian nian you yu" （年年有余）, which symbolized the fortune and lucky for the coming year. In addition to the aforementioned food, receiving gift money from the elders after dinner is the most expecting thing for the children. It is a red envelope with money inside and given to represent luck and wealth. Spring festival couplets is the next round after the red envelope, then stay up for all night. Last but not least I believe , watching Spring Festival Gala Evening has becoming popular for some families in China and overseas Chinese. Above all, I am looking forward to celebrating the festival and having a good time with my lovely family.

What would you do when your friend is talking about people behind their backs ?

I am not sure if it is right to talk about things like that on italki. But I really need a way or a space for me to express myself now that I am in a very bad mood. :(

Did you ever encounter with that situation? Someone of your friends at work always talk to you about others bad things or bad charactor (he or she thinks),telling their gossips behind their backs? I am totally and ratherly rebelled about it, I don't want to hear about that, I'm definatly not a good listener concering matters like that and I hate to hear something negative.

It's really to much for me.

May I ask for some advice for handling such kind of troubles? I will be very thankful.

 

 

 

Is this "allow" in flowing sentences the same meaning? 1.Being prepared will allow you to be comfortable speaking about yourself. 2.Several key abilities allow successful people to fall forward instead of taking each failure personally. Question here: is the word "allow" in above sentences means the same and in the same usage? And I will be so grateful if you can share with me some other examples about using "allow"in this kind of sentence. Because I don't konw how to use it correctly and have no idea about it. Thank you .