"Exposed by hidden camera, unethical food retailers often sell fish wash by bleach in order to suppress the odor of decay " is much more correct. bleachingly washed fish is pretty confusing as it is a washed fish... but bleached? or while bleaching the fish is washed?

um. encounters are literally used to describe when 2 or more people meet. it does usually imply it is not planned but not really the emphasis of this word. for example you can have "unexpected encounters" or "planned encounters" or "sudden encounters" all of which only the prior word describes the intention casual encounters in this respect is like when you go out to a bar, met with a stranger and chatted. had a few drinks, gone home and slept. sexual encounters usually refers to intimate relationships happening during or after the encounter. casual encounters in comparison with sexual encounters then seems pretty obvious, one engages in intimate relationships, the other, non. but depending on how you use it casual can be pretty sexual... eg. for tony stark, casual encounters usually end in the bed...

you mean tori as in 鳥? it means bird, but most of the time in food it means chicken eg. yakitori

to Thrash is pretty much to violently beat, flog or plunge/flail around. (imagine a kid rolling on the ground and hitting things crying because he didn't get what he wanted for his birthday) but since Florence and the Machine are a UK band they may be using it as a slang term(which means party...usually with drinks involved) it seems to me though the lyrics is saying the problem with sleeping pills. Don't touch the sleeping pills, they mess with my head Dredging of big white sharks, swimming in the bed And here comes a killer whale, send me to sleep Thrashing the covers off, has me by its teeth thrashing here has 2 meanings(from what I understand from the song), 1. the act of violently taking off the cover to the sleeping pills(by the singer) 2. unveiling the violent pain the singer is enduring while unable to stop using the sleeping pills nice song by the way, and oh, a link to Wiktionary which is pretty awesome http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thrash

I'm in New Zealand but HEY! a fellow Taiwanese! Hi Five!. and I can help with English if you want. can't do Spanish though, that is one rhythmic language

there is that slight variation of 懂 and 明白. both mean understand but with 明白 it also means clear. in this case using 懂 is more suited to your need. but to clarify things, in terms of "know" do you mean listen? to speak? or to read and write, it would be better to specify in the sentence but for general understanding type, 我不太懂普通话 is fine

the sentence is understandable, but probably slightly weird when used. Can we go to find some Chinese food ? similar to what jeff and judy said, by using "go to" implies location seeking. if it were in a conversations eg: A : "can we go?" B:"where?" A:"to find some Chinese food !" then it's okay but in a single sentence it would be as jeff pointed out, referring to a specific location. and Chinese food is not a location! Can we go find some Chinese food? this is also slightly strange but much better than the other one. it is very colloquial and informal since the phrase " can we go find some ..." indicates certain objects. eg : "can we go find some water?" the term Chinese food is pretty broad and not exactly an object so it would be better to say : "Can we go find some place that does Chinese?" or " Let's go somewhere that does Chinese!" the idea of adding food makes the indication of they type of item of the country been referred to but in colloquial terms, I'd just use the country "you know any good indian places around here ?" if you want to be specific then using terms like "restaurant" "eatery" or "food places" would also do.

英語で、なんといいますか How do you say this in English; I'm assuming what you are trying to ask is the English translation of the following sentence: 掃除をはじめるとだいたいいつも、おもしろい本や写真を見つけて、そこで、掃除をやめることになる。 When you start cleaning, always roughly look for the interesting books and photos since these would interfere with the cleaning process my japanese is a bit rusty and I'm unsure about the context of where this sentence was used since it also seemed to me that it is telling one to look for interesting books and photos so they can stop cleaning and waste time. on the other hand it is suggesting one should clean these distractions first to not interfere with cleaning later on... I'm more for the lattter. hope that helps