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I live and work in Beijing. It would be great to know some new friends and practice foreign language.
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- "be stronger for it", what does it mean? I have a question on grammar in one of the IELTS model texts. In the model text of writing task 2 of Test B in Cambridge IELTS 9, there is a paragraph as the following. "However, the reverse is also true. Adults see anxious, self-dramatising adolescents, and appreciate the joys of maturity. These may include a contented family life, long-lasting friendships and a career. Long-term relationships may not have the fireworks of adolescence, but are stronger for it, because of the wealth of shared experience. At work, many of us are challenged and stimulated by the increasing professional skills we acquire, which ensure that our jobs remain interesting." I didn't get the grammar of "but are stronger for it" in the fourth sentence. Is the usage of "for" here like a "than"? I would be very grateful if someone can help me to understand.July 25, 201420
- Procrastination, my weakness. One great weakness of mine is Procrastination, which means that I tend to put off important things until it's almost too late, thus in some cases it can lead to bad results. I remembered that when I was in primary school, during every summer and winter holidays, I always avoided to work on my assignment until just few days before the beginning of the next term, and then just finished it very hastily. I had read few psychological articles about this, and it is said that my particular type of procrastination is caused by inappropriate judgement of self-worth and lack of ability in handling failures. People with this type of issue think the result of their action indicates their abilities and further more represents their self-worth. By postponing the action, they would consider that the connection between ability and result is broken, because they can blame not getting enough time for any bad result. Procrastination is also a type of Self-Handicapping, which means people set obstacles to themselves to prevent success because of the fear of failure. Long story short, some people who believe that the result of their action is equal to their self-worth are so afraid of failure that they tend to find or make any excuse to blame on, one of the excuses is limited time which can be easily approached by just waiting and doing nothing - procrastination. I know that if an entry is too long there won't be anyone want to correct it, or even read it through. But I still hope you can read this and leave some comment. It's the first time I figure out this issue of mine, and I would very much like to discuss with you.December 9, 201342
结账;海洋;招待;兴奋;事先。
有一天我在马路上碰见了一位好朋友。因为很长时间没见面,所以我很兴奋得地招待他吃海洋鲜。结账时我发现了没带钱包。真是太没面子了!下次请客一定得事先检查一下钱包。
“海洋”泛指整个大海,我猜你们吃的是“海鲜”——海里出产的食物。
“得”改成“地”表示招待他时你的状态是“很兴奋”。不过如果你的本意是想表达你是如此的兴奋以至于非得请他吃饭不可的话,可以把“很”去掉,变成“所以我兴奋得招待他吃海鲜”。我仔细想了一下,在用“什么什么得怎么样”这个句型时,“得”前面通常不能加“很”、“特别”、“非常”等修饰成分,只能用形容词本身。例如:
(正确)我高兴得跳了起来。(表示我是如此的高兴以至于跳了起来。)
(错误)我很高兴得跳了起来。
(正确)我很高兴地跳了起来。(表示我跳了起来,伴随着高兴的状态。)
从语法上来分析的话,上面第一句的谓语是“高兴”,“得跳了起来”是补语;而第三句的谓语是“跳”,“很高兴地”是定语,“了起来”是补语说明“跳”的程度。
0 votedDecember 3, 20130- My daughter's birthday. Today is my daughter's second birthday! I can't wait to go home and celebrate together with her and my wife. My commute is quite long, about one and a half hour, so I would probably punch out early today. She still can't talk yet, which many people think it quite late, but I guess that's ok, for she understands quite a lot what people say. She sometimes practices when she's in good mood, mumbling words that nobody else understands. We've been teaching her to answer "two" when someone is asking for her age. She used to answer "eeei", which sounds a little like "one" in Chinese, and put up her index finger to indicate too. Now she can almost remember to answer "aaah" and put up two fingers. I believe now she would have just had her nap, and my wife is going to take her to a small fun fair near home and play sand there. Later on when I get back, we will meet at IKEA which had just opened two weeks ago near the subway station. She had been there once at the day of the opening, and she loved the place very much.November 18, 201321

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