Are they all true ? When the British say "I hear what you say. " They mean "I disagree and do not want to discuss it further." But what others understand is "He accepts my point of view." When the British say "With the greatest respect... " They mean "I think you are an idiot." But what others understand is "He is listening to me." When the British say "That's not bad. " They mean "That's good." But what others understand is "That's poor." When the British say "That is a very brave proposal. " They mean "You are insane." But what others understand is "He thinks I have courage." When the British say "Quite good. " They mean "A bit disappointing." But what others understand is "Quite good." When the British say "I would suggest... " They mean "Do it or be prepared to justify yourself." But what others understand is "Think about the idea, but do what you like." When the British say "I was a bit disappointed that... " They mean "I am annoyed that..." But what others understand is "It doesn't really matter." When the British say "Very interesting. " They mean "That is clearly nonsense." But what others understand is "They are impressed." When the British say "I'll bear it in mind. " They mean "I've forgotten it already." But what others understand is "They will probably do it." When the British say "You must come for dinner. " They mean "It's not an invitation, I'm just being polite." But what others understand is "I will get an invitation soon." When the British say "You must come for dinner. " They mean "It's not an invitation, I'm just being polite." But what others understand is "I will get an invitation soon." When the British say "I only have a few minor comments. " They mean "Please re-write completely." But what others understand is "He has found a few typos." When the British say "Could we consider some other options?" They mean "I don't like your idea." But what others understand is "They have not yet decided." "Ohters" here mean people who are learning english, and sometimes cant figure out the meaning under the words.

the usage of prefer Here is the sentense, "I prefer that my secretary accompany me to Beijing. ", can i say " I prefer my secretary accompany me to Beijing." ?

Taken / 96 hours I watched an old movie today, called "Taken", which is about a father, as well as a retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who was kidnapped on a trip to Paris. It is so great a movie to me that the father is so intellegent and brave enough to step into a complicated crime patry without a single doubt about anything and killed whoever want to stand in his way. Yet there is no denying that the scene is bloody and violent, but im so happy to see all bad guys end in paying what they have done wrong. I like the line when the actor said as he got a chance to talk to a member of the human trafficing of Albanian Mafia " I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." It is a happy ending with bad people cost their life for nasty kidnapping and the father-daughter relatonship goes closer than ever before. But it sort of remind me of another movie i saw before--"Human Trafficking (2005)." Anyway that is a bloody sad, hopeless, desparate movie .

different expressions about " value" Are there any other expressions about " value" ? Appart from " pay attention to " and " attach great importance to" Thanks . 我想问的是中文的‘重视”这个词语。除了"value","pay attention to ""attach great importance to "以外，还有没有其他的表达方式

whats the meaning of the word "feature" in the following sentence Here is a sentence i heard in a programme——"Abortion clinics, the Pope in a hard hat and a naked Sophie Dahl also feature in the first chart of the most complained about promotions of all time." Whats the meaning of the " feature" here in the sentence?

Question about IELTS criteria There are four criterias about IELTS writing: Task achievement, Coherence and cohesion,Lexical resource, Grammatical range and accuracy. There are two simple sentences: "The girl is talking to Tom." "Do you know the girl? " . Instead of writing two simple sentences, i would encourage my students to used this one:" Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?" So here is the question, which criteria suit this example, coherence and cohension , or grammatical range and accuracy?

Difference between simple past and the past perfect tense. What is the difference between "She returned yesterday" and "She has returned from Paris"? The next question has nothing to do with the tense above, its just I am confused which one is right "I was graduated from Nanjing university of chinese tradional medicine" or "I graduated from Nanjing University of chinese traditional medicine"

My life in Aus 3 Then the shopping experience was the next that challenged me a lot. I don’t know what would anyone thought when they walked into a supermarket, had a look on the shelf and found out that they know only know 50% of the language that print on the packing box. Even though I know what the products were by guessing from the picture on the packing box or the products themselves, I was still freaking out because of so many unfamiliar vocabularies. Being shocked by the situation, I didn’t give up, I went to the supermarket three times a week with my e-dictionary along with me. I hope some of them didn’t think me as a thief when I stood in front of the shelf looking at some products for almost half an hour, mumbling. : p The studying experience wasn’t all good at the beginning. And If I have known that my English wasn’t good enough for listening to the lecture 45 minutes without a break, I would have had worked harder on improving my English level. Here I have to say, the education system really differ a lot between china and abroad. In Aus, every single essay that were required to be done, critical thinking was involved, as well as group discussing. They care so much about what we think about the topic and they want brainstorm from our own knowledge. Its so new to me even though sometimes it almost killed me because of the words limitation. What made my school life harder was my Indian tutor….I have no problem with India, I never being racial discriminated, but I really have problem understanding what my Indian teachers said. Anyway, nothing could have stopped me if I pull myself together, every time before the Indian teacher’s class, I made sure i did enough preview and review, afterwards I gradually get used to my Indian teacher’s accent which I rewarded myself a box of chocolates. My life here was good apart from the fact that I was a bad chef. I made some local friends. We chatted a lot, exchange ideas and values about everything. That’s the end of my life in Aus, it is a beautiful country, with amazing scenes and kind local people. I wish I could be there again.

My oversea experience in Australia 2 This situation lasted until I went to college in Nanjing, where I met someone and we fell in love. Everyhing was so wonderful for about three years, and then things changed afterwards, anyway this was the first experience that turned me into another person, a person started to become strong inside and no more a little fragile girl, a person struggling between what is love and what is crulty and ugly truth , a person that wanted to see the outside world,started a new life and moved on after hurting and , maybe wanted to prove that im better than her. So in 8th August 2009, I stood on the land of Australia. At first I didn’t take living in another country a big deal because I was so sure that I could take care of myself( seriously I had no idea where that confidence came from). While in China, at that time my mum cried evey time on the thought of me being alone in Austrlia where she doubted if there were everything I need. Then first strike came from cooking. I never cook at home because I thought it was so easy and anyone who doesn’t know cooking must be an idiot since it looked handy when I watch my mum cooking . In that case I took it for granted that I could cook too without any preactise. Well eveything turned out not exactly what I expected. I almost set the kitchen on fire, and even the kitchen wasn’t burned, all the food that I spent 3 enduring, painstaking hours’ cooking , became black. I didn’t know why, I didn’t know how, it just happened. So that very first night in Australia, I ordered pizza instead of feeding myself with the black burned food I cooked.