a bore an unimportant person humble common no great shakes not special, ordinary a refined lady a woman who behaves well a real lady - a woman who behaves well aristocracy the highest social class ancestor - any of the people from whom sb is descended tails - formal type of man's jacket best circles in highest social class uncertainly not being assured fashion popular style it goes with blue to match smart society a group of popular people, best circles muddle state of misunderstanding check - a pattern of squares formed by lines of different colours crossing each other such a loud check very contrasted colours make a fool of oneself to do sth foolish decisive quick to decide to toss throw sth lightly or carelessly or easily etc pancakes heads you front side of a coin tails you obverse side of a coin sports coat casual clothes flounder to hesitate, to doubt Effusive/ fju.sv/ feeling a bit snobbish Delight
A chance visit to '70s rock star Lester Jones he crystallizes the anxious emotions inside Gabriel and helps him to engage with his gift and to heal the rift with his family. L. Jones gave Gabriel a very valuable painting with what Gabriel began to bring his parents together again. The message. · This is a charming, light-textured story about talent, about how single-minded creativity might embrace the heartbreaking muddle of everyday life. My own opinion I think this is a very thought-provoking story about how a few bad things together can cause a chaos of one teenage boy's life and how they cope with it gradually, in order to move on with your life well. New vocabulary 1.pavement-kõnnitee 2.Lucrative- tulus,kasulik 3.bowing - kummardama,alandlikkus 4.Turbulent-rahutu 5.Fester-mädanema (haav) 9.Fend-hoolt kandma,eest seisma 6.Sturdy-massiivne,tugev 10
behaviour: Somehow, through this ambivalence or fatalism, the miners' violent advent, seemingly so straightforwardly unacceptable from a `normal' point of view, is accepted, incorporated into the muddle and murk of conjectures, interpretations, rumours. (Hoffman, 1999, p. 255; italics mine) 3. Developments: characters, interpreters, friends On a textual level, the encounter with and the cultural translation of the other is the
We cannot compromise with them, for "their ways are not our ways and their gods are not our gods."") "Ekselda ja virelda kauem tähendaks riskida kokkuvarisemisega. Sellises olukorras pole uutel rahumeelsetel ideedel kohta - edukad on vaid vägivaldsed ideed, nagu on seda tõestanud välismaa kogemus. /.../ Võitjana väljub kas fasism või kommunism; viimane tähendaks, et Suurbritannia laul on lauldud." ("To drift much longer, to muddle through much further, is to run risk of collapse. In such a situation new ideas will not come peacefully: they will come violently as they have come elsewhere. /.../ Either Fascism or Communism emerges victorious; if it be the latter, the story of Britain is told.") "Meie vaenlased on eelkõige praeguse parlamentaristliku süsteemi Vanad Olijad. Kui nende võim püsib edasi, saab meie homseks põhivaenlaseks Kommunistlik Partei. Vanad Olijad on katastroofi kujundajad, kommunistid
one word (schoolteacher). A compounded noun whose form no longer clearly reveals its origin (such as bonfire or marshall) is sometimes called an amalgamated compound. Many place names (or toponyms) are amalgamated compounds: e.g., Norwich (north + village) and Sussex (south + Saxons). Sunglasses, chalkboard, sleepwalk 30. Solid, hyphenated, and open compounds Solid compounds blackbird hyphenated compounds muddle-headed open compounds coffee cup …there is an additional preference in US English for the form to be one word and in British English for the form to be two words, e.g. buck tooth Br bucktooth US Eng 31. Endocentric and exocentric compounds Endocentric: is a compound or construction whose distribution is the same as the one of its constituents /// having the same syntactic function in the sentence as one of its immediate constituents.
29. Solid, hyphenated, and open compounds 11 The common rule is to use as few hyphens has possible. The US English generally prefers the parts of the compound to be written together, whereas British English prefers them to be separate. Solid o Teapot, blackbird Hyphenated o Glass-making, muddle-headed, blue-haired Open o Coffee cup, credit card, bank account 30. Endocentric and exocentric compounds Endocentric compounds are the kind whose distribution is the same as that of its constituents. They are more common in the English language. They have the same syntactic function as one of the constituents. o Cold water, greenhouse, skyrocket, trash talk,
Persian Longhairs to distinguish them from other long-haired breeds. In the USA, Persian is the official breed name although some American associations do not recognise the chocolate or lilac solid (self) colours introduced via Himalayan (Colourpoint Longhair) breeding programmes; these are known as Kashmirs. In some American registries, non-colourpointed cats of Himalayan origin are called the Himalayan Reflections or Self Himalayan. Thankfully some have seen fit to sort out the muddle so that Persians and Himalayans can be interbred and some offspring are known as Colourpoint Carriers (CPCs). The history of the Himalayan is in Colourpointed and Masked Cats. A 1950s colourpoint longhair and the 1990s equivalent The British system had its own perversities - each variety of Longhair being regarded as a separate breed, not as a colour variation of a single breed
A poet should not follow the whims of the masses in search of cheap fame … He must fertilize and direct godly strivings in man. Poems treating the main problems of life and death, freedom and destiny, truth and error, value and temptation, rise and decline, aspiration and attainment will persist for ages, bringing forth something deep in man deeper than senses, reason or passion. I am against mean boasting poetry, against blazing, intoxicating verses, against senseless stamping and muddle. Do not contaminate others with your misguided beliefs and distortions.3 Valuable art should have an effect on all strata of human psyche. It is not bad when a composition has a captivating structure. But even more important is its ability to touch us 1 Paramahamsa Yoganda. Autobiographie eines Yogi. /Kapitel XV/ Otto Wilhelm Barth Verlag, Weilheim 1967 2 Alain Danielou. Ethical and Spiritual Values in Music. “The World of Music”, Berlin, Vol.XXII No.2, 1980, p.8. 3
Finally he looked up, his eyes seeking mine, full of his own questions. "Are you ready to go home?" he asked. "I'm ready to leave," I qualified, overly grateful that we had the hour-long ride home together. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to him. The waitress appeared as if she'd been called. Or watching. "How are we doing?" she asked Edward. "We're ready for the check, thank you." His voice was quiet, rougher, still reflecting the strain of our conversation. It seemed to muddle her. He looked up, waiting. "S-sure," she stuttered. "Here you go." She pulled a small leather folder from the front pocket of her black apron and handed it to him. There was a bill in his hand already. He slipped it into the folder and handed it right back to her. "No change." He smiled. Then he stood up, and I scrambled awkwardly to my feet. She smiled invitingly at him again. "You have a nice evening." He didn't look away from me as he thanked her. I suppressed a smile.
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