ELISA ENGLISH's Blog 英語園地

We are living in an era with a lot of freebies.  I have found the majority of them hidden in the cyber space.  What I enjoy the most is the free ebooks.  When I said free, I meant free as in no monetary exchange and no breaking the laws.  The one website I like the most is “Project Gutenberg”.  Many of the ebooks available for download on that site are free and there is no copyright issue to download the ebooks in the United States.  As stated by the site, copyright for many of these books has expired in the United States.  Others still copyrighted can be downloaded or can have copies given away if you restrict your use to educational and non commercial one.      

 It is therefore safe to download the ebooks without violating the copyright in the US, so long as you use it for your own personal reading. 

繽紛仲夏

A splendid Midsummer.

A radiant Midsummer.

教育部國語辭典

妄自菲薄

= 自卑過甚、自暴自棄, 過於自卑而不知自重

Thrown into disarray -  使…陷入混亂的狀況

1.你去那家做眼睛雷射手術的啊?
Where did you get your laser eye surgery?

**By the way, laser eye surgery is also called: Keratectomy, LASIK, LTK, PRK

There are several ways of saying "高票當選", "高票獲勝".  It depends on where it is used.  Below are the different translations and where they are used.

(最)高(選)票

請問英文句型 dare 和 need

You daren't climb that tree, dare you?
You daren't climb that tree, do you?

My son and his photographic memory

When I said that my son has a photographic memory, I didn’t mean on everything.  Wouldn’t it be nice that your kids have a photographic memory on their academic studies?  This way, parenting would be a lot easier.  I would not have to chase after him to get his homework done and readings completed for the day.

Interrogative Pronouns - 疑問代名詞

An interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions, acting as a subject, object or possessive in a sentence, such as:

1. Personal Pronouns - 人稱代名詞:

• a.  Subjective (Personal) Pronouns - 人稱代名詞主格
• b.  Objective (Personal) Pronouns - 人稱代名詞受格
• c.  Possessive (Personal) Pronouns - 人稱代名詞所有格