Gd21 Flashcards
They had assembled at his behest
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The diversity of Texas is apparent every month through its colourful festivals, jamborees, cook-offs and celebrations
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A group of boisterous lads
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The faintly menacing motto
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The ruling oligarchy of military men around the president
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He went to the airport to personally receive me on arrival and also see me off on my departure
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In children, the abdomen can become swollen and bloated and medical attention should be sought urgently
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Corruption is endemic
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The status quo in Russia is preserved through monopoly rents, state-owned companies, a malleable judiciary, an opaque regulatory system and firms that rely on Mr Putin’s favour
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So long as the current political system prevails, Russia will remain economically enfeebled
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Through these figures shock, they need to be put into perspective
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Even the country’s most vaunted success in the IT industry need to be put in perspective
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International sporting jamborees are fun;outfoxing a timid American president is good for morale
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Its economy crumbled
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Policy address may have sown seeds of conflict between middle-income and poor residents amid fears of creeping welfarism
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The allowance would condition underprivileged groups to expect more government handouts
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Government expenditure might outstrip revenue in 10 years time
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The city’s fiscal reserves will run dry in about 20 years
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The experience of the past few years has indicated a diminishing political return from doling out sweeteners
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CBOE volatility index-Wall Street’s so-called fear gauge
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The ISM reading rattled investors
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There were no other strings, or handling charges, attached
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The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the table
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She was lighting a candle in her Catholic church, pensive and tearful
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She flashed back to scenes of her 18-year-old self getting swept off her feet by a boy at a fair
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Substantial indemnity costs are reserved for cases involving reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous conduct
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He was indentured to a carpenter
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He had never spoken to anyone out of an indelible shame
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It left both mothers bereft and unable to even say farewell to their children
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Brief snatches of sleep
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Have (or get) a foot in the door
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He flew into a fit of rage over the smallest mistakes
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Just lovers’ quarrel
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Patients are to be told to stop calling doctors out unnecessarily at night
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I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel, being waited on hand and foot
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Let me run errands for you
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A deathbed confession
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The paper gave a distorted and very partial view of the situation
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she bought it on a whim
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The office crumbled into an eyesore
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I run slim-up classes now
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What an unfeeling little brute you are
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Do not induce vomiting again
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Gastric acid secretion
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Bad luck always comes in streaks
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the theatre is on a winning streak
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I have a favour to ask you
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His death was due to multiple skull fractures with laceration of the brain
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Let me check all your vitals
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She was a little full of herself
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Keep your chin up
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The department is putting together a committee now
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I was a little out of line
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Their wealth had been stashed away in Swiss banks
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She held up a wad of greenbacks
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I do not want to worry her
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Molotov cocktail
汽油彈
Kneecap
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Play ‘beat the clock’
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Frozen mixed vegetables help you beat the clock with this soup
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I am not retracting my statement
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There is a mixed reaction towards
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An oath-taking ceremony
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She believes that to build status you need to bulldoze everyone else
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The township was bulldozed flat in the 1950s
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In the lead-up to the game, the government
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The ancient skull was pieced together from fragments
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This process can take anything from a couple of days to several months
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China’s position as the factory to the world is under threat by the United States
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Made a daring decision last month to spend
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Expand in a brisk pace
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A typewritten text
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At first she balked at the idea, saying she no longer performed those pieces
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The dog yelped frenetically, wildly gyrating her tail
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Flash trading of stocks can send shares gyrating wildly
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They eventually dropped the idea in the face of strong opposition
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Circuit breakers have been introduced abroad in stock and commodity markets to stop shares or prices from plunging or spiking in a matter of seconds
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The technology-heavy NASDAQ was being run on autopilot
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Within five or 10 minutes, it could spit out trading orders that were supposed to be spaced out over five to 10 days
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Let wind the clock back to a year ago
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Do you fancy a drink
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Fancy that
真巧
Used to express surprise at something: fancy meeting all those television actors
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I am a man of my word
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His doctorly persona is that of a gruff surgeon who does not mince words
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Lock and load bellowed Agent Blackburn
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Sitting duck;target
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The film is a shameless collection of ideas ripped off from other movies
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She thought he was ripping her off over her royalties
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JPMorgan effect cast chill over firms hiring practices in China
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Virtually every global institution, whether Chinese or Western, is careful today of any perception that they are granting favours in return for business
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It was the second IPO deal JP Morgan dropped in quick succession
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Repeated hiring of well-connected Chinese
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We ensure that any candidate for any position is assessed on their relative merits
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Chinese princelings-offspring of influential mainlanders
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The perception of abuse of power can be as damaging as genuine abuse of power
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Joint venture planned to develop 12 upmarket health resorts to tap burgeoning demand for China’s greying population
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Tube with lip applicator
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Minor burns and scalds
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Nappy rash and chafing
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Remove splinter, thorns, or cactus needles
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Aston Martin recalled over dodgy pedals made in China
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Mainland millionaires swamped HK consulate with applications and led to freezing of worlds most popular invested immigration scheme
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There is a backlog of 50000 Hong Kong-based applications
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I gave up a coveted job, that of editor-in-chief
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Reshuffled news
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In many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky, even after sellers have made a 5 or 10 percent cut in the asking price to achieve a sale
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Protest directed at the government is seen everywhere
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He used a swear word to express his feeling
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A purportedly peaceful campaign
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He was deported to Turkey for his public condemnation of the Shah
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Get lost
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The two topics are inextricably intertwined
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This never materialized because the magazine folded shortly after the issue
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The post was few in number and low in rank
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Prosecutors said the committee had approved applicants who presented forged honours that carried dates pre-dating the actual creation of the vaunted title
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He was very thin, with a conspicuous Adam’s apple
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This, I believe, merits our attention
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The studies have been gaining momentum in recent years
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Recurrent themes and salient comments were identified and noted for the final report
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Stage fright and short notice of assignments
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I’ve only read the abridged edition; version of the novel
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Very seldom can professional translators afford such luxury in reality
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His excuse sounded a bit contrived
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Contrived teaching materials
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At most they are only briefly touched upon
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Plenty has been said on
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Common sense is the name of the game
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This had led to the profusion of courses
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It is the breeding ground for
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I snapped, but all the same beckoned to her to follow me
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Coming out of the SL Straitjacket into the TL Dancing Shoes: On freeing the TL Text from the SL Syntax
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Please hold I will put you through
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You rattled the cage
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You can’t take the law in your own hands
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They hold him for ransom
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They limb on
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Do you drive stick
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The original recipe is now also offered with other fresh fruits blended in, like pineapple, strawberry or banana, but I am too much of a purist to try any of these newfangled variations
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Sanctified notions
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He averred that he was innocent of the allegations
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Internet broadcasting was one of the big ideas bandied around during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s
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Business mingling
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an anthology of European poetry
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His seminal work on chaos theory
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Fueled the craze
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The audience began to fidget and whisper
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You can rest assured that no teaching job is being threatened
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He has risen to where he is mainly by sucking up to the president
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Perennial complaint of the students
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They are hard put to apply many of the theories
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An oft-quoted cliche
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Seeing a bride always made her feel weepy
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He blew off million dollar deal
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A third-person omniscient narrator
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She was under sedation and a bit dopey
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This is one of the greatest and tenaciously enshrined myths about translation
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Hard and fast rules
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Generalization is what the promulgation of human knowledge is all about
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Students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose
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To gain access to the vast ocean of related information
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Get it off the chest
just say it
Having a cow
angry and upset
Her mother is sister in a Melbourne hospital
senior nurse
He had a blue with his girlfriend
argument, fight or quarrel
I went to a do
social function
You can say that again
you are entirely correct
You don’t say
really?
I thought that I could crash with you
stay at sb’s place
The drinks are on the house
free
You bet
of course
Take care of him
look after him/kill him
I am from Missouri
I will not believe it until I see it
As the old millennium draws to a close, the entire human civilization is undergoing a sea change
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Modes of operations are turning upside down and inside out
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The New Age, once a fringe movement, is taking on the role of a major swing in world thinking
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Hong Kong, given its specific socio-political development as a once alienated and now unalienable part of China, can be pivotal as both a window and a centre
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I believe these authorities to be wasting your time and taxes on this utterly preposterous project
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We were invigorated by our walk
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To display rhetoric
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In reply to the question, he just produced a lot of empty rhetoric
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A language with more international currency
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It is along the same line of reasoning that
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In terms of signification and expression, this unique paratactic and composite nature of the Chinese language allows fascinating flexibility and creativity on the one hand, but leads to equivocal and imprecise clustering thus hindering perception on the other
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A feature epitomized by Chinese poetry
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It sets a world totally different from that moulded by the multi-syllabic, hypotactic and inflectional Indo-European languages
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The abstract expression mode of classical Chinese texts more often than not poses annotation problems, let alone stark translation problems
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Conventional translators feel obliged to transcode it into an equivalent foreign version
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Meanwhile the project seems to have provoked some bemused commentary among art connoisseurs
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The most important rule of nomenclature is that the name of a substance should be unambiguous
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The issue remains largely philosophical and hermeneutic
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The style of writing of indigenous classics is terse and aphoristic
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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice;La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes
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Racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe
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It has brought about many changes
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Outmoded and outdated English legal documents
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Refine the convoluted and incomprehensible legal clauses
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If you fancy yourself an amateur paparazzi, keep your camera close at hand
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As someone arriving in Hong Kong only recently, just a little more than eight months ago, I feel ill-equipped to discuss translation in Hong Kong in any depth
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I fancy myself capable of turning my blindness into some kind of a fresh insight
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To reach the various strata of society
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Help tourists to locate themselves in the labyrinth of a big city
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Linguistic and cultural narcissism
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The stereotype of a Frenchman is a monolingual snob who never condescend to speak anything but his own language
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The self-enclosure of the mind
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Tie the red ribbon in a bow and stitch in place through the center knot, referring to the photo for placement
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Or it might be trips or conferences in exotic locales, often with a heavy emphasis on play rather than work
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For Chinese syntax does not involve such grammatical categories as verbal inflection and declension of nouns
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They can hear the faintest of sound
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As spring advances/progresses
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The committee choreographs the movement of troops
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They are excellent swimmers despite their bulk
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It is an opportunity too good to pass up
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The tundra thaws
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A single wolf is no match for a bear
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A pair of antler
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At last he stands triumphant
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It links ingeniously the two sections of the quatrain
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The paraphrase confined the meaning of the text to something less fuzzy and less suggestive than the Chinese original
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Regardless of the grammatical disaster and the hermeneutic middle
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The two lines hang in mid-air, separately
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It contravenes the convention of the English tongue and thus leaves a common reader of the language without any textual clue
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It becomes a rather forlorn scarecrow, tatters scattered here and there after a gatecrasher has visited the field. The teacher, like the farmer, is left to pick up the pieces
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To cut a long story short
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To help them see and hear when a text begins falling apart
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The text-maker has to be competent and feel agile enough in the game of syntax to waltz between the two structures
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A Chinese text could be strewn with traps for a native speaker under the illusion of freedom
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Granted we…, we may….
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English language requires more explicit links to make the chain of thought possible
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So, beware, would-be translators, do not leave home without some legitimate striptease
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Although it would mean raking up painful memories, he did make a statement
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You are probably not a stock picker
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Riot police fired tear-gas canisters into the crowd
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The occasional schoolboy howler would amuse the examiners
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I blacked out
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Come on, lighten up! Bottom up!
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Instead he presented them as wallowers, being buoyed up by water, feeding on soft marsh vegetation
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For certain, this match against Scotland is not a pushover despite the fact that they have yet to win a match in the tournament
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Nitric acid
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Care to share on that?
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A fat old hag in a dirty apron
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His unfailing courtesy and forbearance under great provocation
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Coolie
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Cut the sweet talk
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Don’t talk yourself into trouble
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To covet the throne
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Being an umpire is a thankless job
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the thankless task of political canvassing
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To flee under guilty
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The Buddha’s Casserole
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The open fire is a focal point around which many yarns are spun and stories told
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Sing your own praises
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I was away on an errand
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The meat juice gushes out and the aroma fills the mouth
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He couldn’t stand the fact that she ran out on him last night
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They line nine men up in a file, one behind the other
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The former claimed he had stolen their patter, the latter that his vulgar, earthy humour was the contradictory metier of a gauche social climber
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I am only too happy to oblige
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Oblige me by not being sorry for yourself
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Tell me what you want to know and I’ll see if I can oblige
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Please oblige by suggesting the proper food style, life style and other things to avoid further blocks
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only too-used to emphasize that something is the case to an extreme or regrettable extent:you should be only too glad to be rid of him
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The mercury dipped to 7.5 degree
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A band of renegade had captured the prince and were holding him to ransom
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Low approval rate
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Smoke-logged environment
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Players can race in karts, stock cars, all-terrain vehicles and jalopies, but the problem is that none of these different vehicles add new play mechanics
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Horse-drawn carriages
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After the fighting ended, he hid in the jungle for two years before he was coaxed into surrendering
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Dance to the tune
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I know this area like the back of my hand
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He took a lowly job in an insurance firm
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Our tracks no longer cross
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She was lost in thought
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You are toying with death
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He did it out of spite
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I am glad you came to senses and realized that they are not going to help you
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I am still facing totally vindictive charges relating to that little incident with that chap who invaded my doorstep peddling household goods
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Have you taken leave of your senses
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The accident brought him to his senses and made him stop drinking
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On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas
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He is not a man to be trifled with
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But this is too serious a matter to trifle with, and it’s too heartfelt an issue
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Show no remorse
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Ascend the throne
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Everyone kisses up to you
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Spoil the spirit
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Women who feel at risk of breaking down alone have been thrown a lifeline by a motoring organization
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MAX, as the light-rail system is called, hasn’t just reduced traffic-it’s provided a lifeline for the city’s downtown
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Collateralized loan
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The director will join us on the line
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