menos de 1 minuto Jack Scholes If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W.C. Fields If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This is a popular saying. To quit To quit is used informally meaning ‘to leave a job’. If I don’t get that promotion I’m going to quit. He’s quitting as coach of the baseball team. Also informally, it means ‘to stop doing something’. I quit smoking seven years Continue lendo→
menos de 1 minuto Jack Scholes A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOATS AND SHIPS OR VESSELS (FORMAL) Cargo ship / freighter A large ship that transports cargo or freight from one place to another. Tanker A very large ship built for carrying large quantities of gas or liquid, especially oil and petrol. Tugboat A boat with a powerful engine used to pull large ships into or out of a harbour. Barge Continue lendo→
menos de 1 minuto Jack Scholes You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain To depend ON/ UPON something (NEVER – To depend OF) To be affected, determined or decided by something. Are you going to the beach this weekend? I don’t know yet. It depends on the weather. In informal English, it is quite common to say depend rather than depend on before words like what, how or whether. It depends what the weather’s like. It Continue lendo→
menos de 1 minuto “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” Hermann Hesse 1877-1962: Demian (1919) Hermann Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. …+
menos de 1 minuto “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.” William Faulkner (1897 – 1962), U.S. novelist. Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958), referring to Faulkner’s writing contemporaries. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his Continue lendo→
menos de 1 minuto Jack Scholes Love conquers all things – except poverty and toothache. Mae West Pain in different parts of the body In a tooth – toothache. In the ear – earache. In the back – backache. In the stomach – stomach-ache or bellyache (informal) /tummy-ache (especially for children). In the head – headache. (A very bad headache that makes you feel ill is called migraine.) In the throat – sore throat. In British English we always say a headache, but the Continue lendo→