It's great fun to read this page,and great to see people with the same CURIOUS eyes for life~
BUT, I think it should be "an early night",isn't that right?

beccadog在上个帖子中说

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It's great fun to read this page,and great to see people with the same CURIOUS eyes for life~
BUT, I think it should be "an early night",isn't that right?

You are ABSOLUTELY right. Thank you VERY MUCH to point it out! What a shame.... I've amended it. Many thanks ~  

老大就是老大，喜欢~：p
I have MUCH to learn from you~hope to know more about you~
(ME: Rebecca, Junior major in English;
I've beening looking for the way of learning English that could really interested me`MAYBE I've found it)

beccadog在上个帖子中说

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老大就是老大，喜欢~：p
I have MUCH to learn from you~hope to know more about you~
(ME: Rebecca, Junior major in English;
I've beening looking for the way of learning English that could really interested me`MAYBE I've found it)

Making fun and to study mutually. Enjoy your stay~
btw,I am not a 老大~ maybe, a friend of you.

so, you are Emily, nice to meet you here~
and you are there in England?
Wow, I guess you can have great fun during this May Day holiday all the way to Greece or something?
Just curious, how are you spending your holiday there?

发现新大陆.
一直在fw那里活动,突然发现这里有个en版块!以后要常来.菜鸟初学者.(en怎么说)
发现新大陆怎么说?find new land?

As far as I know, there is no "May Day holiday" in UK and US.

发现新大陆，how about "to explore new world“？
打过游戏吧，游戏里难度设置时，有时看到用的字是newbie。

as far as I know, the May Day holiday is INTERNATIONAL...
there are strikes in France ,Greece, and many other places...
I'm kinda sure there is May Day in the States...hehe, I'd better go and check it out~
anyway, just wish you happy

sorry, I just mean that there is no such a long holiday(ten days in china) in UK and US.

noting more to say ,good!

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I long for the time when, as a failure, I was still incomplete.

把插入语先忽略掉，I long for the time when I was still incomplete.
incomplete,not having everything that it should have; not finished or complete

When I havnt finished sth. I long for the time, （long for:want sth very much especially if it does not seem likely to happen soon）， and normally, I failed.

这样或许能有点感觉吧~~不过本句不建议过多研究，找了个native咨询了一下，他说make no sense，跟本没见过本句。

我认为这句话表达的大概是“希望回到自己还不完美（or 成熟？）的那段时光”。我感觉 the time when I was still incomplete 说的大概是童年或者说长大/懂事以前的那段无忧无虑的时光。因为 when I was still incomplete， incomplete 的是 I 而不是某件事情。不过我也不知道这个 as a failure 怎么理解~  

I long for the time when, as a failure, I was still incomplete.
as a failure, 我的看法是把它作为一个插入语成分，理解整句时可以暂时先忽略掉。然后回过头来再看，指I long for 的那件事的最终结果，是以失败而告终的。

He he, I agree that "as a failure" is a parenthesis. But in my opinion, failure is refferring to incomplete. That's why I couldn't understand it. I don't think there is anyone who is "complete".

来这英文论坛有个好处就是开始留意一些平时轻易放过的英文字句。这阵子常用中国人的言语习惯去分析英文。但因为我看的第一手资料，所以不知道如果事先没读到原文的话，我会不会想到同一个字。曾想以问题方式贴到这里，但大家好像一点都不感兴趣。如果我是你们的话，我倒希望以这种方式去学英文。这样去学会看到自己为什么会常犯同一样错误（a  pattern ）。所以今天我就直接把答案写出来。“这别针很伤领带”。 This pin is not very tie-friendly 。我想我们中国人无论如何都不会想到用 friendly 去表达“伤害”吧？。这是我的想法，不知大家是否同意？大家不妨试试把“这别针很伤领带”译回英文，你可能会发觉一些有趣和别扭的字句。很可惜我已把正确答案写出来，要不然话，这应该是个有趣的英文练习。但我又怕若以问答方式去贴可能会落得个自讨没趣。

laiguo在上个帖子中说

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来这英文论坛有个好处就是开始留意一些平时轻易放过的英文字句。这阵子常用中国人的言语习惯去分析英文。但因为我看的第一手资料，所以不知道如果事先没读到原文的话，我会不会想到同一个字。曾想以问题方式贴到这里，但大家好像一点都不感兴趣。如果我是你们的话，我倒希望以这种方式去学英文。这样去学会看到自己为什么会常犯同一样错误（a  pattern ）。所以今天我就直接把答案写出来。“这别针很伤领带”。 This pin is not very tie-friendly 。我想我们中国人无论如何都不会想到用 friendly 去表达“伤害”吧？。这是我的想法，不知大家是否同意？大家不妨试试把“这别针很伤领带”译回英文，你可能会发觉一些有趣和别扭的字句。很可惜我已把正确答案写出来，要不然话，这应该是个有趣的英文练习。但我又怕若以问答方式去贴可能会落得个自讨没趣。

我倒是建议你另外开一个新贴，如果句子不是很复杂，而且你有答案并且适当的讲评，我相信一定是非常受欢迎。 我期待着。我觉得是个非常好的主意。
btw,在你的帖子里学到很多，谢谢。

so far so good,waiting for new comings

thanks

大鸟，liaoguo，感谢提议

不错，我新开本贴的初衷，就是感觉平时不经意间放过了太多精彩，总以中国人的思维去翻译，到头来是中式英语外国人不懂，白白浪费时间。

所以我开始留意身边点点滴滴地道的英语，本贴我想还会继续，我也会继续留意。一起学习和分享。同时我知道个人的所见和能力有限，所以也更希望有更多的朋友们一起加入，补充，壮大这里。(前提是地道的，当代实用英语，而不是从什么地儿转贴那字典式的收集)。

经提醒，我也觉得如果开新贴以提问不给出答案的形式，学习的互动效果会更好。本贴将做为答案公布处和精彩话题index。试行一下。也希望大家共同支持，把看到的好东西以中文提问的形式开贴(答案可以回复到这里，问题答案分开发表，或者更利于我们对比中式思维和英式思维到底差别什么了，以更好加深印象)。同时我也会及时整理收录到第1楼。

同时我的顾虑是大家的参与性。因为中国人爱面子是事实，很多人不愿意写自己的humble apinion出来被人'笑话'。这里我想说，这个版的目的是互动交流与学习，英语的学习是不能怕丢面子的。正如我的签名里写的，我也会出错，我也不是权威答案，我出错后总是又进了一步，所以我喜欢出错，欢迎出错。错了就是错了，我不会觉得没面子，因为我觉得我来这里，并不是来展示自己什么，而是作为一个普通英语爱好者一起学习提高的。

再次感谢大家的关注与支持。谢谢。

支持 laiguo 开新帖~ ^_^
经过自己思考之后学到的东西印象总是比较深！

最近对这个感觉越来越明显，因为我在整理以前的口语课笔记的时候发现了好多好东东，可是当时竟然都没记住！想必是得来太容易，所以不够重视，轻易放过了~

Emily，能不能借你的地盘，把我整理出来的东东也贴这儿来？
集中到一块儿，查找比较方便。

没问题贴吧，可以直接编辑我第一楼的贴啊，我加了”koller收集整理部分“字样，你看到了吗？就接着贴如何？后面两条是收集其他朋友的补充，及焦点话题列表。liaoguo的这条也更新进去了。欢迎分享(不过别一次贴N多啊，懒得看太多。。。更喜欢一点一点的来)
建议你也开新贴以提问的形式出现，这样对大家的学习效果都好。然后这里只负责问题及答案以方便查找。
初步打算，以后我再补充的每条都会以新贴出现，这里放解释和答案用。

我也想听听

To Emily and everyone:
答案放到第二天再公布如何？不然大家看完题目就去翻答案了。

kalloer，这里好象不是在上课。。你发贴当天不一定有人来看过啊，第二天，或者是别人第一次看。。所以建议推荐答案和问题分开放。什么时候看不看推荐的答案，个人自愿原则喽。

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To Emily and everyone:
答案放到第二天再公布如何？不然大家看完题目就去翻答案了。

I am guilty for the exact reason. I'll be the first one to admit that I did just that by looking at the answer without doing my homework.

I got it now.

好记性不如烂笔头

beccadog在上个帖子中说

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老大就是老大，喜欢~：p
I have MUCH to learn from you~hope to know more about you~
(ME: Rebecca, Junior major in English;
I've beening looking for the way of learning English that could really interested me`MAYBE I've found it)

maybe interest me
right?

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beccadog在上个帖子中说
[quote] I've beening looking for the way of learning English that could really interested me`MAYBE I've found it)

maybe interest me
right? [/quote]  √

I got it!

我是一个英盲.也想学一下.
你们能给我一点支持吗?

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