Person of Interest S1E1
My friend recommended to watch POI. After watching the first episode, I found it very interesting. It is still a old-fashioned theme-police, detectives and gangsters, but with new technology-a machine that could predict lurking crimes.Correct example. In some cases the same as the other expressions but not always. 'the heat of the moment' implies tension and pressure. 'spur of the moment' is more just spontaneous. 'rash' would be similar but implies a bad decision.
2. in a kind of limbo
Does that mean "at a loss"/"in a dilemma"?
Sentences:
She didn't know whether her husband was alive. She felt she was in limbo.
He was stuck in limbo since he was unwilling to go back and turn to his family, and he couldn't find a job to sustain his life.(This sounds ackward...but don't know how to revise it.)
'Limbo' is a state where you can't do anything except wait. It comes from Catholic religion. Good people go to heaven and bad to hell. But some are undecided (like babies who die very young) so they have to wait in a kind of middle level. I'm not sure but I think until prayer can send them to heaven. I think I'm right in saying it was one of the things the protestant reformation in the 16th century abolished. I'm not sure if it has been revised by the Vatican too in more recent years. I'm not very good on religion so maybe someone else can clarify more.
3. I am a really private person. = I am really conservative.
Very interesting meaning of "private"!
I didn't know this use.
4. I can buy you dinner.
I was confused between this sentence and "I will treat you to dinner". The former sounds colloquial and to my ears, it was like "I will buy you something to eat and take it upstairs" rather than "invite a girl for dinner and pay for the bills". However, when I searched online, some people say that that is how they would extend their invitation for girls.
Treat sounds like it is going to be really good. So I would use it if the dinner is a reward, maybe for a birthday or a celebration or in return for a favour. For a romantic date 'treat' sounds overconfident and bigheaded as it implies the girl / boy really wants to have dinner with you. So it is more modest to say 'buy' and wait for them to say if they would like that or not.
So how would you use this sentence? And have you ever used "I will treat you to dinner"? Any other alternatives for "inviting someone for dinner and paying for the bill"?
"Can I take you out to dinner' also implies you pay.
5. eat away at
Guilt is eating way at him.
Perfect.
6. from on high
They were protected from on high= They were protected by some organization superior to yours.
Perfect.
Thanks for any corrections or advice!