What does the word "enterprise" mean in the sentence? The use of the diminutive-ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterprise into something rather more endearing. What does the enterprise mean in this sentense? thanks.

Chinese New Year's Eve The seven days holiday for National Day has just become the past tense,the next long holiday we are now on the tiptoe of expectation coming soon is Chinese New Year! For the people like me, a nine-to- five office stuff, who are excited about the next coming holiday since we will have a good rest after the pressure daily work. Chinese New Year is seeming the biggest fesitval we will celebrate soon. Chinese New Year's Eve, we usually call it Lunar New Year's Eve as well,will be on Jan 30,2014 this time. And it is a day for family to gathering together to have a family reunion dinner. Most of the people who live in the northern part of China have the same customs and habits in celebrating this day, haveing jiaozi ,normally.But for the southern part the customs and habits vary from place to place , having nian-gao,zongzi,rice,etc. What's more, there are many other kinds of food that I don't mention and I even don't know about it exist actually. Because my hometown, a small town in southern part of China, really have a different kind of food making to eat on that day so far I know about others. Although a variety of food you can choose to eat at dinner, there are some hard and fast rules on the table refering to the different culture in different place.For example, fish is not allowed to eat somewhere in China because of the sound in Chinese "yu", is similar with "nian nian you yu" （年年有余）, which symbolized the fortune and lucky for the coming year. In addition to the aforementioned food, receiving gift money from the elders after dinner is the most expecting thing for the children. It is a red envelope with money inside and given to represent luck and wealth. Spring festival couplets is the next round after the red envelope, then stay up for all night. Last but not least I believe , watching Spring Festival Gala Evening has becoming popular for some families in China and overseas Chinese. Above all, I am looking forward to celebrating the festival and having a good time with my lovely family.

What would you do when your friend is talking about people behind their backs ?

I am not sure if it is right to talk about things like that on italki. But I really need a way or a space for me to express myself now that I am in a very bad mood. :(

Did you ever encounter with that situation? Someone of your friends at work always talk to you about others bad things or bad charactor (he or she thinks),telling their gossips behind their backs? I am totally and ratherly rebelled about it, I don't want to hear about that, I'm definatly not a good listener concering matters like that and I hate to hear something negative.

It's really to much for me.

May I ask for some advice for handling such kind of troubles? I will be very thankful.

 

 

 

Is this "allow" in flowing sentences the same meaning? 1.Being prepared will allow you to be comfortable speaking about yourself. 2.Several key abilities allow successful people to fall forward instead of taking each failure personally. Question here: is the word "allow" in above sentences means the same and in the same usage? And I will be so grateful if you can share with me some other examples about using "allow"in this kind of sentence. Because I don't konw how to use it correctly and have no idea about it. Thank you .

November.11th The date of November 11 has becomes a more and more popular e-shopping day recent years in China. And today is Nov.11 of year 2013, it's the right time for e-shopping and big sales in the e-shops,such as Taobao.com, No.1 shop, etc. As far as I know, the fesitival was established maybe less then ten years ago. It is not a hoilday nominated by the government, we do not have a public holiday on that day and we still have to work if it is a work day.So how is it becoming a well-known? I'm not sure about that, I guess the number"11"looks like a single person?I doubted that.Then more and more people talk about the topic on th internet.You know, it is becomes much easier for information speading at the age of inernet. Eventually, the holiday is gradually acceptted by us. The date was set up originally for celebrating the people who are still single/available. So, we named the Nov.11 as "Guanggun Day" in Chinese which means "Single day". However, for nowaday, it is utilized as a promotion method by the businessman. It is not so veritable now and gets more commercial. But still a very happy day at all because if you want a big sales, that will be a best choice.

The first session I had In the morning, I just finished my first session with my teacher, she is very nice and friendly. I like her very much. I learnt a lot in the session by reading an artical with many new vocabularies in it. The artical is written about rumors about Zack Snyder's Man of Steel sequel . One of the rumors is about to be confirmed,the Nightwing,also known as Dick Grayson, an entertainment reported that Adam Driver has mostly like to win the part in this superhero film. The other rumers are about the portrayal of the character and cast list for the moive of now could be changed very soon . And the artical we just finished three parts of them , and left two paragraphs to the next session because of the limited time. I also talked about my trip to Xiamen and the travelling situation of China in hoildays. I found that my speaking English is not so fluent when talking to my teacher this time, so I need more practice about that and hope one day I could speak naturally and fluently when I am talking to someone. :)

What I learned tonight in the class. Tonight, I had joined a english open class on the internet. The open class is about the food of America, the teacher B who tought me a lot about the regional cuisines, just like the food variety in China, the food in America is also has many different kinds. The main regional cuisines is Pacific Norghwest, California, Southwest/Texmes, and Cajun. I prefer the Pacific Northwest most, the main cuisines there is freshfood and wild game food ,and the reason why I prefer the Pacific Northwest cuisines is because I love seafood the most, something like salmon, oysster, crab ,these are my favorite. Besides the Pacific Norghwest, California cuisines is also the one I will choose to go and taste the food there, Teacher B described the cuisines there is pretty healthy and enviromental, organic and farm-to-talbe movement are very popular, and there is a very famous restaurant named Chez panisse which is owned by Alice Waters. And I like Southwest cuisines as well , if you want to try something spicy, there will be the first choice, I believe. Does anyone like to eat crawfish ? I like it very much and most of my friends are crazy about that, when the crab seaon comes, the crawfish is the most popular dish in Shanghai, it has got a lot of fans. HaHa. And the Cajun cuisines I can remember in tonight class is about the crawfish boil, which is contain corn, sausage and potato. Apart from the food I learned tonight, it also tought me a lot of the new vocabularies, finally I learnd how to say cilantro, it is a common ingredient people ofthen eat in row. The word I was looking for a long time, I tried to search in the internet, but no answer, I don't know why. Lots of new information and vocabularies I earned tonight, and I still need time to absorb them all gradually. And one day, I will go to America and try all the regional cuisines there.

What does the phrase "think on her feet" mean in the paragraph? "We neen someone who can think on her feet and who is a first-rate person. Someone who ses solutions, not problems, someone like you. So if yo want the job, it's yours." I speculate the meaning of it according to the paragraph's general idea is about someone who is very considerate and always pay attention to everything cocerns, can this phrase be expressed in another way ? And "see solutions" in the sentence means provide solutions? what does the "see" mean in it? Thank you very much.

My lovely dog Toddy Half an year ago, I have a dog , a gift from my sister. His name is Toddy, a very cute dog, only five months old when he came into my life. Toddy is a kind of Poodle, but not pure poodle, usually be called Tidy dog. I learned from the website that the reason why our people call them tiddy is only because of their hair-style , when their hair long enough and be well trimmed, he just look like a tiddy bear. Toddy brings me and my family lots of fun and happiness, though sometimes he will also drive me crazy when he is nauty. Like people always say, dogs is human's best friend. I hope everyone who has dogs will love their dogs all the time.