What about "Rural Idyll"? Just search Flickr and you will get the picture. What else comes to mind? The Shire of the Hobbits? http://www.tuckborough.net/shire.html Thanks Wayne. I got a vivid image of what a rural idyll is from Flickr. Looks like any countryside that looks terribly beautiful, calm,...

Describing cars, trains, planes etc that can go fast: fast [adj] Examples: 1. He is one of the fastest runners in the world. 2. He loves fast cars. Describing a fast movement or physical action: quick or rapid [adj] Examples: 1. He granted me with a quick nod of the head . 2. to walked with short, ...

Wayne 寫:Words and Expressions 1017 2007
觀光景點：touring spot, sight seeing spot

補充:
觀光景點: a tourist attraction: a place that many tourists visit
度假勝地: a resort: a place where lots of people go for holidays

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http://georgechen.idv.tw/wordpress/?p=38 這人對英英辭典的運用已達爐火純青的境界, 竟然可以用英英辭典查出某個中文名詞的英文翻譯為何. 依照他的方法可以避免我們學英文的過程中, 又跳回中式思考模式. 我遵照他的方法, 確實查出了"螢火蟲"的英文 以下是我的步驟: 1. 用Longman dictionary of contemporary v4.2 CD ROM的search功能, 輸入兩個關鍵字 insect, light的交集, 出現三個結果, 其中一個是glow-worm: an insect that produces a small amou...

antelope: 羚羊 cantaloupe: 哈密瓜 (橘色果肉) honeydew melon: 哈密瓜 (綠色果肉) hygiene: 衛生 ==> personal hygiene ==> good / poor hygiene gondola (1)一種威尼斯特有的船 (a long narrow boat with a flat bottom and high points at each end ) (2)= cable car 纜車 reed: 蘆葦 firefly: 螢火蟲 淡水/鹹水: fresh water / saltwater bathe [v]: 在澡盆裡洗澡

強力推薦一本新字典Macmillan Dictionary for Advanced Learners (2007 New Edition) 請參考以下網站推薦 http://blog.roodo.com/bookman/archives/3921235.html 使用心得 http://blog.roodo.com/bookman/archives/3936769.html 另:選用辭典的基本觀念 http://georgechen.idv.tw/wordpress/?p=90 George Chen的Blog http://georgechen.idv.tw/wordpress/ 其實蠻...

I couldn't believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important hing is that the first and last letter be in the right place....

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Words, Expressions, and Collocations: 背著背包的自助旅行 backpacking [n] go backpacking [v] backpacker [sb] a backpacking trip 性騷擾: [n]: sexual harassment [v]: to sexually harass someone 用光現金: to use up all the cash 觀光勝地: tourist attraction 度假勝地: resort 破紀錄的: record-breaking ex: The temperature reached a re...

dry run 跟 rehearsal有差別嗎? 字典上看不太出來, 不過工作中同事都用dry run, 不知是何故?

Wordl expression補充:

pajamas: 男人的睡衣褲
淑女的: ladylike
手牽手: hand in hand
停電斷電: power outage / power cut / power failure

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