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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx

Ngày tải lên : 13/12/2013, 13:15
... something. Fingers and thumbs If you are all fingers and thumbs, you are being clumsy and not very skilled with your hands. Fire away If you want to ask someone a question and they tell you ... agree with them and argue. At sea If things are at sea, or all at sea, they are disorganized and chaotic. At the coalface If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, ... negative effect. Come out of your shell If someone comes out of their shell, they stop being shy and withdrawn and become more friendly and sociable. Come rain or shine If I say I'll be at...
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Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx

Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/01/2014, 09:21
... someone red-handed If someone is caught red-handed, they are found doing something wrong or illegal. Caught with your hand in the cookie jar (USA) If someone is caught with his or her hand in the ... floor, it is their turn to speak at a meeting. Have your cake and eat it too If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes ... make a clean break, you break away completely from something. Clean hands Someone with clean hands, or who keeps their hands clean, is not involved in illegal or immoral activities. Clean sheet...
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Idioms and other expressions using ''time''

Idioms and other expressions using ''time''

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 10:20
... Try to decide what the idioms and other expressions in sentences 11 – 20 mean, then check your answers in the back of the book. Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'work' 65 1. ... me. Match the first part of each sentence on the left with its second part on the right, using the idioms in bold to help you. Idioms and other expressions using 'time' 57 1. We've ... job 2. Boring and detailed work, such as examining documents for mistakes, can be described as… (a) hammer and chisel work (b) nut and bolt work (c) bucket and spade work (d) pick and shovel work 3....
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Idioms and other expressions using animals

Idioms and other expressions using animals

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 10:20
... / expressions have a negative connotation and are not very polite, so you should be careful how you use them! 8 Idioms and other expressions for describing character and personality anorak bigmouth bunny ... very clever and important ) 10 Idioms and other expressions using clothes There are several items of clothing hidden in the box below. You will find these by reading from left to right and from ... words and expressions in bold with a phrasal verb from the box. You will need to use some of the phrasal verbs more than once. Exer cise 2: Decide if the definitions given for the idioms and other...
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''do''

Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''do''

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 10:20
... 0000 23 Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'get' 1. He was very rude to the teacher, but got down to / off with / away with it. ( He managed to do something bad without being ... suitable thing to do ) Exercise 2 : Look at the idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences 1 – 25, and choose a suitable definition or expression with a similar meaning from the box at the bottom ... ) Down ( ij ) Idioms and other expressions using food and drink 21 3. Mr Taylor is the best computer programmer I've ever met. He certainly knows his _____! 4. Don't _____ me with so many...
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''go''

Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''go''

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 10:20
... section looks at some common idioms and other expressions that are not included in the main exercises elsewhere in this book. Each of the three idioms and other expressions in bold in the following ... were experiencing the feelings, emotions, etc, highlighted in bold? 28 Idioms and other expressions to talk about health, feelings and emotions 1. Amanda is at her wits' end. ☺ /  2. Ian is in a state. ☺ / ... ones are wrong and replace them with a correct particle(s). Each phrasal verb in its context is explained in italics at the end of each sentence. Exer cise 2: The idioms and other expressions in...
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Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''pick''

Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using ''pick''

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 10:20
... complete the phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using put in this story. You will need to use some of them more than once. Phrasal verbs, idioms and other expressions using 'put' 47 across ... the middle and on the right. Match the prompt sentences with the two parts of the follow-on sentences, and complete these follow-on sentences with a phrasal verb using 'run' and a particle ... wish she would take a _____ and leave me alone. ( understand what someone wants you to do, even though they do not say it directly ) Exercise 2 : The idioms and other expressions in bold in sentences...
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A new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives – A contrastive analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents

A new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives – A contrastive analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents

Ngày tải lên : 10/04/2013, 14:46
... title, aims and objectives, scope, methods and design of the study. Chapter II introduces an overview of English adjectives with the definitions of adjectives and their semantic and syntactic ... similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese adjectives in terms of their functions,usages as well as orders. Both English and Vietnamese, generally, can function as predicative and ... deeply understand English adjectives, in chapter II the writer has presented an overview of the English adjectives with their definitions right at the beginning as well as semantic and syntactic...
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Tài liệu Common Idioms and Expressions pdf

Tài liệu Common Idioms and Expressions pdf

Ngày tải lên : 10/12/2013, 13:15
... about something. Sources: the Internet 4 Common Idioms and Expressions ThaoThy’s Common Idioms and Expressions  Here is a list of the most common idioms that you could expect to encounter. 1. ... up and running: (for a technological process) be operational; be ready to use . Sources: the Internet 1 Common Idioms and Expressions ThaoThy’s “Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web has been up and ... exhausted. Sources: the Internet 2 Common Idioms and Expressions ThaoThy’s "I'm going to lie down for a while. I'm really bushed." 40. by oneself: alone and without help. "I can't...
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Tài liệu EASY AMERICAN IDIOMS Hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give you an edge in English! ppt

Tài liệu EASY AMERICAN IDIOMS Hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give you an edge in English! ppt

Ngày tải lên : 25/02/2014, 08:20
... march in there, and present yourself for the position. 53 12. Low-key. Relaxed and quiet. Simple. 13. Like a chicken with its head cut off. Moving around quickly and crazily, as if without reason ... here. Jeff: And here you both are.Well, come on in and shake off the dust. You can freshen up, and I’ll whip up some of my famous guacamole and a drink or two. We can relax on the porch and catch ... and R. Rest and Relaxation. 14. To recharge the batteries. To rest and regain physical and psychological strength. 15. A weekend getaway. A place to go to for the weekend where you can rest and...
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IDIOMS AND THEIR PROPER USE IN IELTS SPEAKING/WRITING TASKS ppt

IDIOMS AND THEIR PROPER USE IN IELTS SPEAKING/WRITING TASKS ppt

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 02:20
... Idioms can convey that the current situation being described has a resemblance with past history, and in that sense they may be similar to analogies or metaphors. Learning some key idioms and ... emphasis and understood the body language and facial expressions. To master idioms really requires to understand them intellectually (perhaps by first reading) and also to hear them used properly ... me/us/him(someone) a hand (2) – Def 1 W – (also: lend a hand), to give some form of assistance with a task. Declarative, persuasive. Could you give these guys a hand with this shipment? Def...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions" potx

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 22:20
... Washington and Taipei do not put a stop to their ”incendiary gesticulations.” 3 Idioms may, of course, link to the surrounding discourse with their idiomatic meaning, i.e., for play with fire one ... Literal and Non-Literal Use of Idiomatic Expressions Caroline Sporleder and Linlin Li Saarland University Postfach 15 11 50 66041 Saarbr ¨ ucken, Germany {csporled,linlin}@coli.uni-saarland.de Abstract We ... relatively sta- ble, with accuracies above 50% for most idioms. 12 In particular, the classifier performs well on both, expressions with a dominant non-literal meaning and those with a dominant literal...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings" docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Japanese Idiom Recognition: Drawing a Line between Literal and Idiomatic Meanings" docx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 01:20
... discusses the lexical knowledge of idioms for idiom recognition. The chal- lenges are that idioms can be ambiguous between literal and idiomatic meanings, and that they can be “transformed” when expressed ... between literal and idiomatic meanings and “transformations” that idioms could un- dergo. 4 In fact, the mistranslation in (1) is caused by the inability of disambiguation between the two meanings. ... in a sentence with their ambiguity and trans- formations taken into account. In fact, most of them only create catalogs of Japanese idiom: col- lecting idioms as many as possible and classifying them...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings" pot

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings" pot

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 20:20
... quantifiers with frequency f. Figure 5 shows the posterior probability of the correct meanings for the quantifiers ‘a’, ‘another’ and ‘any’ over the course of training with 1, 3, 5 and 7 candidate meanings ... sentences onto their mean- ings, in contrast to the work mentioned above and that of Gibson and Wexler (1994), Siskind (1992) Sakas and Fodor (2001), and Yang (2002). These all evaluate their learners ... both with and without word-meaning guessing. When a word has never been seen at training time our parser has the abil- ity to ‘guess’ a typed logical meaning with place- holders for constant and...
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