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france-eesti wrote:Empty those shelves and give those clothes, that you don't wear anymore, to that charity that comes to collect them on Tuesday!
tiuwiu wrote:After he donated their entire fortune to charity his wife filed for divorce because she couldn't buy the new pair of shoes she felt was in love with.
azhong wrote:All day long, the Swan Boats circled the lake, carrying their loads of happy people, many of them children. And Louis swam a few yards ahead, leading the way and playing his horn.
tiuwiu wrote:The road leads to a lovely small house, which is inhabited by an old couple and their cats.
france-eesti wrote:As they say in French, it's sometimes a necessity to call a cat a cat.
Dormouse559 wrote:azhong wrote:All day long, the Swan Boats circled the lake, carrying their loads of happy people, many of them children. And Louis swam a few yards ahead, leading the way and playing his horn.
azhong wrote:All the dancers on stage took off their tank tops, crumpled them up into balls, and gagged one another. At first it looked more like a frolic; but later, taking its transformation slowly, it took on sort of a torture.
linguoboy wrote:Dormouse559 wrote:azhong wrote:All day long, the Swan Boats circled the lake, carrying their loads of happy people, many of them children. And Louis swam a few yards ahead, leading the way and playing his horn.
I actually like "load" better. "Loads" implies that the meaning is "lots" but I think the more literal sense of "something being transported" works better here.
tiuwiu wrote:He looks good in this green tank top although I belive a black shirt would fit him better.
tiuwiu wrote:The girl thought the old man had magic powers but he couldn't even pull a rabbit out of a hat.
azhong wrote:Before my bad luck brought me to be your wife
I had been also a princess, a popular sweetie once in my life
Being chased after with flowers and flatteries by many a lad
Who was awfully charming, yet whom my beauty could easily drive whom mad.
france-eesti wrote:Will you look at that, Osias brought chocolate for all of you, so please next time you meet the least you can do is act grateful.
azhong wrote:france-eesti wrote:Will you look at that, Osias brought chocolate for all of you, so please next time you meet the least you can do is act grateful.
Hmm...I think this sentence has athe basic structure as
()Will you look at think/consider … (and) act …?
And, following it, I will write this way, as close to the original sentence as possible:
()Will you think that Osias brought chocolate for all of you (and), so please, next time you meet (him) the least you can do is act gratefully?
azhong wrote:What is more, if I can write it freermore freely, I might go with this one:
()Osias brought chocolate for all of you. So, when you meet him next time, will you please think thatgive some thought to that and show your gratitude? That is the least you can do.
My comment might be imperfect; I am, as a Chinese proverb says, casting a piece of brick first, so as to bring on a next piece of jade from other native speakers.
azhong wrote:I have made an appointment with the sinister sorcerer this evening; I will be very grateful if you can go with me.
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