執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月10日 | Idioms
(Some children are playing a game of Capture the Flag.) Billy: Oh no! Sarah has a water gun! Erica: We’ll have to fight fire with fire. Get the hose! Fighting fire with fire means using the same weapon or technique that your enemy is using. In the example above, fire...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月09日 | Words
Freddy: Dad, what’s the opposite of “tiny”? Dad: Hmm, how about “huge”? Freddy: What about “love”? Dad: Well, some say “hate”, but others say “apathy”. The opposite of a word is another word that is as different from it as possible on some scale (that is, “elephant”...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月06日 | Phrases
Sports commentator: No one thought they could beat the Bobcats, but they pulled it off! They won! Pulling something off means achieving something difficult, like a skateboard trick or a jewel heist. Of course, it can also just mean pulling something off of something...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月05日 | TOEIC
I chose this chair because it is very comfort. Find the mistake: A. chose B. this chair C. because it D. very comfort “Comfort” is a noun. We could say the chair provides a lot of comfort, but a chair cannot be comfort. Here we need an adjective: “comfortable”. D is...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月04日 | Trivia
During an electrical storm, it is safest to be indoors or inside a car. In a car, you are safe because you are surrounded by metal. If the car is struck by lightning, the metal will lead the electricity into the ground. Indoors, you should never talk on a phone with a...
