Day: March 14, 2007

  • new words from College English 2 Lesson 1

    Taking more salt than one was entitled to. allowed offender One that offends, especially one that breaks a public law: a corrections institution for youthful offenders. Hence the English word, salary. from then on not worth his salt a person felt to be incapable of doing a job incapable of sth/doing sth not able to […]

  • new words from College English 2 Lesson 2

    disturbance disturbing or being disturbed nail small thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end and flat head at the other 釘子 spirit-level glass tube partly filled with water or alcohol, with a bubble of air, used to test whether sth is horizontal by means of the position of the bubble 酒精水準儀 […]