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Eva Wong （fafa）
Chinese (Mandarin)
May 29, 2024
又是一节非常愉快的课程，John给我推荐了很多很有意思的书📖！ 非常棒👍🏻！ 期待下次的课程！
Eva Wong （fafa）
Chinese (Mandarin)
Nov 5, 2023
非常愉快的课程，John总是能分享很多有意思的事情。今天的话题是难度比较大的"社会问题", 但是他很好地完成了这个话题～ 我们学习了很多新的词汇，继续加油！！！
Eva Wong （fafa）
Chinese (Mandarin)
Nov 3, 2023
和John上课非常愉快，他的中文很好，词汇量很多，可以用中文描述很多有意思的事情！继续努力，会越来越进步 ~ 期待下次的课程~~
Jessica Jie
Chinese (Mandarin)
Jan 20, 2019
John真的很博学很健谈，谢谢你！
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    With “yourself,” it always means that the speaker thinks the listener is panicking or otherwise losing control of themself. “Pull it together” = “stop panicking and think clearly.” “Hold it together” == “You’re at risk of panicking; don’t panic.” The “it” sentences can be used the same way: when a PERSON is out of control. But the “it” sentences can also be used when a SITUATION is getting out of control. “The company is losing money every month. I’ve got to hold it [the company] together until business improves.” “The advertising department is a mess. We hired Sue to pull it [the advertising deparment] together.”
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    August 30, 2020
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    They both mean the same thing. The second is a bit old-fashioned or poetic. To understand the second one properly, you have to understand the omitted words: “He cannot [do anything] but laugh.” You see this construction from time to time, but it sounds old-fashioned: “I cannot but cry.” “I cannot but think that . . .”
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    August 30, 2020
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    An “affectation” is something somebody does with the way they dress or the style of their hair to achieve a certain “look.” The word has a negative connotation that the attempt to achieve the look is artificial somehow or a passing trend. During the COVID lockdown, many men are letting their beards grow. The author is referring to this as an affectation — that it’s just a temporary thing that is fashionable now — and he’s saying that Rimac had his beard long before beards became more common during the lockdown.
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    August 28, 2020
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    This comes from the idiom “raise the bar.” The idiom “raise the bar” comes from sports like high jump thing and pole vaulting. There, to “raise the bar” means to increase the difficulty of succeeding. As an idiom, “raise the bar” similarly means to make the standard for success higher. If you set the bar low, then something is easy to achieve. If you set the bar high, success is harder to achieve. In your quote, it was really easy to find people guilty of witchcraft, but really hard for the accused person to prove that she was innocent.
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    August 28, 2020
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    Yes, it all makes sense and seems sufficiently formal to me. The only part that is quite informal is “and now this happens.” If you want to be more formal, you could change that to “and so I do not understand the justification for the delay.” Also, it should be “to another date” not “for another date.”
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    August 25, 2020
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    Distinctive = easy to recognize as being a particular thing. E.g., “The distinctive smell of burning rubber.” Distinct = strong enough to be obvious; not a faint smell. E.g., “In the house there was a distinct smell of food cooking.”
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    August 23, 2020
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    Yes, it is correct. The pronouns on both sides of the verb “to be” should be in the same case. That is the technical, traditional, and correct rule. But most English speakers (at least, American English speakers) now say “He is taller than me,” even though this is not the traditionally correct way to say it. If you say “He is taller than I,” many American English speakers will think that you made a mistake. Or they will think that you are trying to sound fancy. Curiously, if you add “am”. — “He is taller than I am” — then it sounds correct and natural to everyone.
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    August 23, 2020
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    You could try: “In what order did the students arrive today?” or “Who arrived first? Who arrived second? . . .” Or “How many students arrived before student A?” Simply asking “In what order did student A arrive?” — this sounds strange and ambiguous.
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    August 23, 2020
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    Usually, “everything” is a noun and “all” is an adjective. So, “I like everything” or “Everything is broken.” And, “I like all things” or “All people want peace.”
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    August 17, 2020
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    There is no need to learn these words. There are a few collective nouns that get used a lot — “a herd of cows,” “a flock of sheep,” “a school of fish” and some others — but the ones you listed are obscure. Almost nobody knows them, and nobody uses them.
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    August 17, 2020
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