Here are some quotes for you guys. Hope these quotes can cheer you up and motivate you as well.
Source: KaWanku Magazine
Idiom about Love ♥
February is a month that full of love. Everyone knows that. It’s because Valentine exists in this month. Now, let’s take a look to some idioms that we can use to express something about love J
♥ To be the apple of someone’s eye : to be loved by someone normally an older relating.
♥ Those three little words : the words “I love you”.
♥ Have a crush on someone : to begin to feel love for someone.
♥ Fall in love with / to fall for : have strong feelings of love for someone.
♥ To fall head over heels for someone : to completely fall in love.
♥ To be lovey-dovey : for a couple to show everyone how much they are in love.
♥ Seeing someone : dating someone on a regular basis.
♥ Ask for someone’s hand in marriage : ask someone to marry you.
♥ Get engaged : decide to marry someone.
♥ Tie the knot : get married.
♥ Love at first sight : instant love.
♥ Puppy love : love between teenagers.
♥ True love : a genuine feeling of romantic love.
♥ Unrequited love : love that is not returned, one-way love.
♥ Platonic love : love without relations between friends.
"Roar"
Hi guys J This time we’ll learn about idioms which can be found in the songs. Hmm, it sounds interesting right? First, let’s us understand what idiom is. From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, the meaning of idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words.
Now, let’s check some idioms in the Katty Perry’s famous song, Roar. Check it out J
"Roar"
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus]
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
'Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
'Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Now I’m floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough
I see it all, I see it now
[Chorus]
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar...
Ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar, ro-oar
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Louder, louder than a lion
‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You’re gonna hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You'll hear me roar
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
You're gonna hear me roar
1. Bite my tounge/ bite your tounge= to avoid talking = menghindar untuk berbicara
2. Hold my breath/hold your breath= wait for a moment/event to happen
= menunggu sesuatu terjadi
3. Rock the boat = act in a way contrary to tradition or normalcy = melawan arus
4. Stand for nothing/fall for everything= be easily changed = mudah terganti/diganti
5. Hold me down= prevent me from being myself = menghentikanku untuk menjadi diri sendiri
6. Already brushing off the dust/ brush off the dust = forget about the hardships you’ve been through = bangkit dari situasi tersebut
7. Got the eye of tiger/ have the eye of the tiger = be focused on winning and ready for a challenge = fokus untuk menang atau bersiap menghadapi tantangan
8. Walk through the fire= experience severe affliction
*The speaker uses “dance through the fire” instead, to emphasize that she is resilient to the affliction she’s experiencing.* = tabah menghadapi kesusahan yang sedang dialami
9. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee = act with grace and power
= bertindak dengan anggun dan kuat
10. Earn your stripes= show that you deserve a certain position or rank
= menunjukkan bahwa ia layak mendapatkan posisi tertentu, layak mendapatkan apa yang diperjuangkan.
11. Go from zero to hero= become popular, respected, or fortunate
= menjadi populer dan dihormati
Source = writingwindow
Direction
N – North
NNE – North North East
NE – North East
ENE – East North East
E – East
ESE – East South East
SE – South East
SSE – South South East
S – South
SSW – South South West
SW – South West
WSW – West South West
W – West
WNW – West North West
NW – North West
NNW – North North West
Hidden Dragon
Monday was always crazy. It was 5.30 p.m. There was a hawk flying and growling in my stomach. I did not have my lunch. I rushed to the China square to find something to eat. The restaurants were quiet. The restaurants owners or managers were sleepy, staring at their cash registers. Most tables were empty. It might have been busy or it might have been empty earlier. The waiters were holding the menu lists, waiting for customers by the doors.
The hawk in my stomach led me into one of the restaurants, a small clean and quiet restaurant. The lady behind the cash register lifted her slanting sleepy eyes gazing at me as I entered the restaurant. The waiter, a woman in her 30s smiled faintly, seated me in the deep corner and gave me the menu list.
“Welcome. Please choose what you eat, ok?” she left me with the menu list. She came back with a cup and a zinc tea pot. She put the small white porcelain cup and poured the Chinese tea.
“You, ok?” she asked.
“I am still thinking.” I said trying to figure out what to eat. I was often indecisive.
She stood still with a smile on her pale face in front of me. I began to hear strange roaring noise from her stomach. A similar growl to the one from my stomach but of a different kind of animal, it must be a dragon. The hawk in my stomach and the dragon in hers began to talk.
“You have not been fed by your master?”
“No, I have not.”
“But you are lucky. You will be fed soon.” the dragon in her stomach said jealously.
“But your master works in a restaurant. She can feed you anytime she wants.”
“No, the master of my master will not let her eat while she is working. We will eat after this place closes after 10 p.m.”
“Oh, really. Why does not your master find another job?” the hawk in my stomach asked simplifying things.
“She does not speak the language of this land. She only knew few words.”
“You are a dragon. You are strong.” the hawk said.
“Nothing compares to when we came here. I almost died. We were on a kind of big vessel. I was not fed for weeks.”
“You, ok?” asked the lady whether I was ready to order. The dragon and the hawk stopped talking.
“I think, I will have beef broccoli and rice.”
“Chinese broccoli or American broccoli?” she asked.
“What’s the difference?”
“This… Chinese broccoli and this American broccoli.” she pointed at the pictures on the menu.
“I will have the Chinese broccoli please. Thank you.” she took my order, took the menu list and left. The dragon in her stomach was still roaring.
Few minutes later she came back with a bowl of rice, a plate of beef broccoli, and the chopsticks. She smiled as if she had said “enjoy your meal”.
I began eating quietly. She went back to her post, stood still to the right of the entrance holding the menu list and wore a light smile on her pale face. I could still hear her dragon roaring faintly.
She looked at me through the corner of her eyes and learned that I had finished eating. She gave me the bill and a fortune cookie on a small bamboo tray. I paid the bill and left two one-dollar bills and few coins on the table.
“I hope that you will be fed soon. My master left some tips on the table.” said the hawk in my stomach.
“No. The master of my master takes all of the tips.”
I took the fortune cookie and gave it to her.
“For you, for your good fortune.” I said.
She took it in her hands, held it cautiously. She said nothing but I could see a smile on her face, a sweet smile of a dragon.
By: Ouda Teda Ena
Dialogue Magazine 1/XXXIV/2013
Vocabulary:
· A hawk (noun) = a strong fast bird of prey/ a bird that kills other creatures for food = seekor elang
· Rushed/rush (verb) = to move or to do something with great speed, often too fast = buru-buru
· Lifted/lift (verb) = (transitive/intransitive) to raise something or somebody or be raised to a higher position or level = mengangkat
· Slanting (adjective) = not straight or level; sloping = miring
· Gazing/gaze (verb) = to look steadily at somebody or something for a long time, either because you are very interest or surprised, or because you are thinking of something else = menatap, memandang
· Faintly (adverb) = that can not be clearly seen, heard, or smelt = dengan lemah
· Figure out (verb phrase) = to think about somebody or something until you understand them or it = membayangkan
· Indecisive (adjective) = unable to make decisions = ragu-ragu, bimbang
· Whether (conjunction) = used to express a doubt or choice between two possibilities = apa(kah)
· Chopsticks (noun) = a pair of thin sticks that are used for eating with, especially in some Asian countries = sumpit
· Quietly (adverb) = without much noise = dengan tenang
· Through (preposition) = from one end or side of somebody or something to other = melalui
· Cautiously (adverb) = being careful about what you say or do, especially to avoid danger or mistakes; not taking any risks = dengan hati-hati
How to Tell The Time
Here are some phrases you can use when you want to know the time:
- What's the time?
- What time is it?
- Have you got the right time?
- What time do you make it?
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3.15 a quarter past three
3.20 twenty past three
3.40 twenty to four
or you can see this table . . .
| more formal | less formal | |
| It's... | It's... | |
| 3.00 | three o'clock | three |
| 3.02 | just gone three o'clock | three oh two |
| 3.03 | three minutes past three | three oh three |
| 3.05 | five past three | three oh five |
| 3.09 | nine minutes past three | three oh nine |
| 3.10 | ten past three | three ten |
| 3.15 | a quarter past three | three fifteen |
| 3.20 | twenty past three | three twenty |
| 3.21 | twenty-one minutes past three | three twenty-one |
| 3.25 | twenty-five past three | three twenty-five |
| 3.30 | half past three | three thirty |
| 3.35 | twenty-five to four | three thirty-five |
| 3.40 | twenty to four | three forty |
| 3.45 | a quarter to four | three forty-five |
| 3.50 | ten to four | three fifty |
| 3.55 | five to four | three fifty-five |
| 3.57 | three minutes to four | three fifty-seven |
| 3.58 | nearly four o'clock | three fifty-eight |
| 4.00 | four o'clock | four |
Source : englishclub
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