The buck stops here

2007-08-17 14:52

Reader question: "There's an English saying for '推諉', 'passing the buck'or 'passing the puck'?"

That sinking feeling

2007-08-14 14:54

Reader question: "What does 'out of one's depth' mean?"

Like father, like son

2007-08-10 19:06

Sometimes a Chinese idiom has a perfect match in English, as I said in the previous column.

Better late than never

2007-08-07 11:15

Another way to help make new words easier to remember is to examine their origin.

Foreign origins: Kowtow, omerta

2007-08-03 13:55

Another way to help make new words easier to remember is to examine their origin.

The Three Princes of Serendip

2007-07-31 13:54

One thing that seems to trouble Chinese learners of English more than others is that "new words are hard to remember".

The Scapegoat

2007-07-27 13:48

After touching upon the word "scapegoat" in explaining "fall guy" in the previous column, I felt the job was incomplete without elaborating on the Scapegoat.

The fall guy

2007-07-24 14:12

There was an article in The Guardian yesterday (July 23, 2007) on Marlon Brando titled The Fall Guy...

Value for money

2007-07-20 14:06

Reader question: How to say "物有所值" in English? My comments: Value for money.

What about fundamentals?

2007-07-17 13:48

In the Shaquille O'Neal commercial on CCTV 5, the American basketball star says repeatedly: "It's all about fundamentals."

Word of mouth

2007-07-13 14:35

Which literally means passing word from one mouth to another. In other words, it's the spread of the information (word) person-to-person, face-to-face.

Wheeling and dealing

2007-07-10 13:55

So here I am, explaining another term pertaining to the wheel. This time it's the American idiom wheel and deal.

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Raymond Zhou

周黎明,Raymond Zhou,中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)資深專(zhuān)欄作家,用地道英語(yǔ)撰寫(xiě)社會(huì)、娛樂(lè)等題材的評(píng)論文章。

張欣

中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)資深專(zhuān)欄作家,用地道英語(yǔ)撰寫(xiě)詞匯解讀文章,選用國(guó)外的報(bào)刊例句加深讀者對(duì)詞匯的理解。

Leon

雙語(yǔ)心理治療師,前尚友雅思版頻道主編,擅長(zhǎng)美語(yǔ),用生動(dòng)的語(yǔ)言撰寫(xiě)輕松有趣的口語(yǔ)文章。

王銀泉

中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)特約專(zhuān)欄作家,英語(yǔ)專(zhuān)業(yè)教授,碩士生導(dǎo)師,國(guó)內(nèi)知名公示語(yǔ)翻譯研究專(zhuān)家。

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