執筆者 Modern English | 2015年05月14日 | Trivia
A popular office toy (an interactive decoration for your desk at work) is Newton’s cradle. It’s named after the physicist Isaac Newton. If you pull back and drop a ball on one end, the momentum will transfer through the middle balls to the ball on the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年05月13日 | Idioms
“No, I don’t want to see you next week either. I don’t want to see you ever again. Get the picture?” To get the picture is to understand something. You can take in information and words without really understanding it, but when you can...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年05月12日 | Words
“Hearing the crash, he dashed into the garage to see what had happened.” “Dash” can be a noun or a verb. Its most common meaning is a short, fast run. It’s more exciting than “sprint”, and more likely to be used to describe an...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年05月11日 | Pictures
Dandelion seeds have tufts of white fluff so that they can float far away from the parent plant. If you pick a dandelion and blow away all the seeds while making a wish, your wish is said to come true....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年05月09日 | Phrases
“We’re having a great vacation. Wish you were here! Love, Emily” This is something you might write on a postcard. There isn’t much room, and you can’t write anything too personal because there is no envelope and anyone could read it....
