I read a story in a newspaper, an old lady has lost a jewellery worth 6.6 Lac. This happened when she was coming back to her home town. Actually she went to meet her sister nearby town. She was in the hospital laying on the bed. She recollected what happened with her. She got into the state transport bus and a man offered her a seat. They showed a friendliness and pretended to be very caring person. They were in two number and taken care of the lady throughout the journey. As part of travel food
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I have always been interested if our pets understand what we say or they just react to the intonation, if they distinguish one language from another. As our family is multilingual (I, together with my wife can speak 5 different languages) and our pats were raised in different countries, it has been quite easy to find it out.
Dogs are considered to react to our speech more consciously than cats. So, we started our experiments with Jenny. She is American born and has always heard only English. She
Hi guy, yesterday I watched The Guardians of the Galaxy movie. I always to hear the one sentence and I think this sentence is very important in this movie. the sentence which I always heard is " I'm Groot!". -00-
Looking for Your Own Garden of Eden
Xuefeng
( Edited by Kaer)
Even tigers may be teased by dogs when they leave the remote mountains and come to lush and flat areas, dragons can be duped by shrimp when they are in shallow water, camels along the coast are harder to ride than donkeys, and domestic captive phoenixes are worse off than chickens.
- The tiger is the king of the mountains, but tigers can only give play to their power and prestige in the mountains. Once they come down to the plains, a pack
It was a rainy cold Sunday morning. A little girl Anna woke up earlier than usual and as she didn't want to disturb her sleeping parents, she grabbed her favorite book, started flipping through the pages and within a few minutes she got immersed into her fantasy world. What draw her attention was a picture of a beautiful blossoming meadow. Anna wanted to be there so badly because it was neither the end of winter nor the begging of spring behind the window. She closed her eyes, imagined the spri
On my challenge about inventions, one of my EC friends, Rahul Wazir, wrote: “If I were an inventor, I would design a device recording pets’ thoughts.” His idea sounded very interesting for me as I have always loved pets and always wanted to know what they think about us. Besides, I have always been interested if they react to the words or just intonations, if they “understand” different languages. So, this blog is for those who love pets!
When I just joined EC I posted a few blogs about my pets.
The protection mechanism of life—conditioned reflex
Xuefeng
August 15, 2002
August 15, 2002
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What is conditioned reflex?
It was a rainy autumn day in 1980. I was looking out of the closed window of a classroom in the Geological Technical School of Zhangjiakou. Suddenly a classmate called Cheng Hongfu from Sichuan, mischievously spitted at me from outside the window. Subconsciously I stepped backward, closing both eyes instantly. This chain of reactions triggered the burst of laughter of Cheng Hongfu
"Small talks" are the reason why most of my neighbors think I'm crabby and unfriendly. If I'm locked in the elevator with someone, I don't need to know how is the f***ing weather!!! I just came from the street for Godiva sake! If you don't really have anything to tell can you just keep silent for the 30 SECONDS that last the elevator's trip??!! ugh... ¬_¬
So that's why I need to look 'unfriendly', for keeping these people who love 'small talks' away from me :P Sorry if i'm grumpy but... I'm j
A few days ago I was asked to to expain how to use SHALL and WILL and I decided to post this blog for everyone to be able to read it.
To use SHALL/SHOULD with the first-person subject sounds old-fasionate now.
In modern English, especially in American English SHALL is used very rarely. Internationally, WILL is the standard choice for expressing future plans and expectations, promises and much more. However, we sometimes use SHALL in the following cases:
1. In the questions implying immediate reacti
Dear friends, as you all like writing different stories using the direct speech and quotations, I decided to tell you how to do it correctly. Here are a few easy rules we should follow.
1. We should always quote the direct speech, the quotations and the words we use in some figurative sense.
She said, “I am leaving.” (The direct speech)
I believe “there is no place like home.” (A proverb)
Mishaikh said, “I have been “run over” by Danny’s task” (TO RUN OVER has been used in figurative sense. Sure, I
The wonder of the great variety of life
Xuefeng
August 15, 2002
Exhibiting its fantastic luster, life of myriad forms as far as one can see is presented everywhere from the tropic zone, temperate zones, frigid zones, to North and South poles, from plains and canyons to precipitous cliffs, from the underground, the earth surface, to the sky, from small creeks and ponds to rivers, lakes, and oceans.
With their insignificant sizes but astronomical numbers, bacteria, actinomycete, epiphyte, microzyme
Why did they ignore him? Who has a tender heart? What do you think about this scene?
Yes, it makes sense to know sentence structure since a blog or an article is made of sentences - only when you can make sentences can you compose a piece of writing.
Indeed, there are just 4 types of sentences: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex sentence. For example:
1. Expector is a doctor. (simple sentence)
2. Expector is a doctor and he loves English. (compound sentence)
3. Expector, who is a doctor, is also a moderator of MyEC. (complex sentence)
4. Expector
Gene—“A sealed book of life”
Xuefeng
August 15, 2002
Gene is a structure and mansion of life. It is the general term for the special nucleotide sequences with genetic effect in DNA molecules. The resemblance of children to their parents is caused by the reproductive function of genes, which pass on the genetic information to the next generation. The different gene structures account for why the white race is white race, black race is black race, yellow race is yellow race, dog is dog, and rose i
Don't show me your sonogram. What am I supposed to say? Hmm? That it looks just like you? Or can I have a copy? See me when it (you heard me, "it") becomes bitter and jaded.
Goes through different phases 24/7.
Changes hair color like a chameleon.
Is embarrassed to be seen with you 'cause you're wearing Mom jeans.
Gets a neck tattoo.
Plays with the idea of getting a ''gnarly face tatt'' two weeks later.
Finally, gets one. Despite your passive-aggressive protests.
Decides to wear a septum ring, which ma
The kids had gone and the old man took a cup of coffee from the coffee pot on the stove, filled a glas with lemonade for the boy and took a seat on his old armchair opposite the boy. Between both stood only an old wooden table. On the table lay some journals, some medical journals and some about gardening and farming.
The boy took a sip of lemonade, looked at the old man and said: "I have seen a shelf with so many medical books and also there are many of them also here on your table. I also noti
Reading Danny’s Writing Challenge: Back to Idioms and Phrasal Verbs I over-confidently thought that it was not a big deal and I would run off a story based on all the idioms provided by him. But that was not the case. I ran on thinking how to cope with it. I ran my mind hard over some hints, some points, some ideas, but my mind was totally blocked. It seemed that I was running like a hairy goat. I was feeling like I ran out of all the thoughts, ideas, even glimpses of some romance. “Oh! The
My friends, I have written my story to demonsrate the use of idioms. It is a true story. Enjoy and learn!
Well, I often run myself into the ground overworking and taking to heart what isn’t worth a bean. But about 3 years ago I decided to reward myself and bought a very good expensive car I had always dreamt about. It was just an ordinary spring day I will never forget, it was already hot and rainy and I decided to get to work by my new car I was still running in. It was my first drive on the hig
