အပ်င္းနည္းနည္းထူေနတာေၾကာင့္ Essay အသစ္ဘာသာမျပန္ျဖစ္ေသးပါ ။ အရင္ျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ 1. The Avenging Amateur 2. Raising a Child Costs Some $221,000 Before College ထဲက Phrasal Verbs ေတြနဲ. Idioms ေတြကုိဘဲ Post တစ္ခုအေနနဲ. တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္ ။
1. come about (that) ~ (phrv)to happen ျဖစ္သည္ ။
Can you tell me how the accident came about?
How did it come about that he knew where we were?
ဒီ phrasal verb ကုိ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။
When you say how something comes about, you explain how it happens.
The discovery of adrenalin came about through a mistake.
How did the invitation come about?
The financial crisis came about because we got complacent, depending on all-knowing financial experts – mortgage lenders, Wall Street sharpers, the Federal Reserve- to run our system expertly.
2. along/down the line ~ (idm) (informal) at some point during an activity or a process (လုပ္ရင္းကုိင္ရင္း ။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လုံး။)
Somewhere along the line a large amount of money went missing.
We obviously went wrong somewhere along the line.
He’s created problems all (ie at every stage) along the line.
We’ll make a decision on that further down the line.
3. turn out to be sb/sth; turn out that…~ (phrv) ျမန္မာလုိအဓိပၸါယ္က “လက္စသတ္ေတာ့..ျဖစ္သည္။” Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs အဘိဓာန္ထဲမွာေတာ့ ဒီလုိ ရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္။
If something or someone turns out to be a particular thing, they are discovered to be that thing. နမူနာ ဝါက်ေတြအေနနဲ.
She turned out to be a friend of my sister.
It turned out that she was a friend of my sister.
The job turned out to be harder than we thought.
The Marvins’ house turned out to be an old converted barn.
Mrs Moffat had turned out to be the perfect landlady.
It turned out that the message sent to him had been intercepted.
Until finally the last expert down the line turned out to be just another greater fool, and the system crashed.
4. as it/things turned out ~ (idm) as was shown or proved by later events (ျဖစ္ခ်င္ေတာ့)
I didn’t need my umbrella, as it turned out (= because it didn’t rain).
5. cobble sth together ~ (phrv) to produce sth quickly and without great care or effort, so that it can be used but is not perfect (ရရာနွင့္ စပ္ဟပ္ျပဳလုပ္သည္ ။ လြယ္လြယ္နွင့္ ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္း လုပ္သည္။) အဘိဓာန္ထဲမွာ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္။
If you cobble something together, you make or produce it roughly or quickly, by using things that are available to you.
The essay was cobbled together from some old notes.
Its author has cobbled together a guide to the islands.
He hastily cobbled together an essay from some old lecture notes.
But we can no longer abdicate judgment to them or to the system they’ve cobbled together.
6. factor sth in/ factor sth into sth ~ (phr v) (technical) to include a particular fact or situation when you are thinking about or planning sth :
Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.
It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
ဧဝံေမသုတံ (Idioms & Phrasal Verbs မွတ္စုမ်ား1)
ဒီေန.ေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဘာသာျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ 1. Emptying Pandora’s Box, 2. Real Patriots Don’t Spend နွင့္
3. Barack Obama and the Voice of God ထိ Essay ၃ ပုဒ္ထဲကေန ကြ်န္ေတာ္ထုတ္နုတ္ထားတဲ့ Idioms နွင့္ Phrasal Verbs ေတြကုိ ပဲ တစ္ခ်ဳိ.ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ေလးေတြနွင့္အတူ Post တစ္ခု အျဖစ္တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္ ။ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs နဲ. ျမန္မာစာအဖြဲ.ကထုတ္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္-ျမန္မာ အဘိဓာန္ တုိ.ကုိ ကုိးကားပါတယ္။
1. wish sth away ~ (phr v) to try to get rid of sth by wishing it did not exist (ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ ပစ္ခ်င္သည္ ။):
ဒီ phrasal verb ကုိ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you wish something away, you hope to get rid of it although you do not do anything practical to remove it.
It seems unlikely that the statistical errors can be wished away.
Wishing them away won’t get rid of your problems.
These problems can’t be wished away, you know.
You can’t wish away debt with a magic wand.
2. I wish ~ (idm) (infml) used to say that sth is impossible or very unlikely, although you wish it were possible :
He’s dead and it’s no use wishing him alive again.
I wish you hadn’t told me all this.
3. take a heavy toll (on sb/sth) / take its toll (on sb/sth) ~ (idm) to have a bad effect on sb/sth; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc.(ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္ ။):
Illness had taken a heavy toll on her.
The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.
The civil war has taken its toll on both sides.
4. reach out to sb ~ (phr v) to show sb that you are interested in them and/or want to help them: ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားတယ္ ။If you reach out to people, you give them help, advice, or comfort, or ask them for it.
His phenomenal capacity to reach out to people……
They may reach out to another person for reassurance.
The church needs to find new ways of reaching out to young people.
I’ve had countless uplifting e-mails in recent days that, in different ways, have been about a moral reorientation, a reaching out, the rediscovery of the ways in which we can be our brother’s and our sister’s keepers.
5(a). beyond the pale ~ (idm) considered by most people to be unacceptable or unreasonable: လက္မခံနုိင္ဖြယ္ ။
His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.
5(b). pale beside/next to sth/pale in/by comparison (with/to sth)/pale into insignificance ~ (idm) to seem less important when compared with sth else:
Last year’s riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence.
Diana Strelow, 73, of Portsmouth, Virginia, put it this way: “My vote for Obama was and is about my hope that an intelligent, self-respecting president will lead to a renewal of civility on the part of all of us – perhaps a renewal even of the love that Americans once had for each other.”
Significant as economic anxieties were, she said, they paled beside deeper yearning.
5(c). pale beside/ in comparison with sth ~ (phrv) ေသးနုပ္သြားသည္ ။ ေသးသိမ္သြားသည္ ။ ေမွးမွိန္သြားသည္။
Investment in British Rail pales in comparison with the amount invested in continental railways.
Their other problems paled into insignificance beside this latest catastrophe.
6. tide sb over (sth) ~ (phr v) to help sb during a difficult period by providing what they need : ေလာေလာဆယ္ အက်ပ္အတည္း ေက်ာ္လႊားရန္ ။ If you give someone money or help in order to tide them over, you do it so that they can get through a period of time when they are having problems.
I only want to borrow enough to tide me over till Monday.
if you need a few dollars to tide you over……
the huge grain surpluses that helped tide the world over the 1972-74 shortages.
Can you lend me some money to tide me over until I get paid?
Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season.
7. pick out ~ (phrv) 1. choose specially; 2. see among others, esp, with difficulty: ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ ၂ ခုရွိပါတယ္ ။ 7(a). If you pick out someone or something when they are difficult to see or recognize, you manage to see or recognize them
See if you can pick me out in this photo.
A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child “a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things.
Irene Burns picked out Meehan as one of the two men who gave her a lift. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာ pick out ရဲ. အဓိပၸါယ္က အမ်ားထဲမွာ ေရာေထြးေနတဲ့ အထဲကေန ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ရွာေဖြေတြ.မႈ ၊ မွတ္မိမႈ ဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာရွိပါတယ္ ။
7(b) If you pick out one person or thing from a group, you choose them.
He picks out a flat spot without any rocks on it.
She was picked out from dozens of applicants for the job.
He picked out the ripest peach for me. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာေတာ့ pick out = အမ်ားစုထဲက တစ္ခုကုိ ေရြးခ်ယ္ျခင္း ဆုိတဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္ပါ ။
8. live up ~ (phrv) If you live it up, you have a very enjoyable and exciting time, usually spending a lot of money and dong all the things that you want to do
Next week we report to camp. We are going to live it up meanwhile.
We spent a week living it up in the luxury of the Intercontinental Hotel.
We had little chance of living it up on our meager expense accounts.
Somewhere along the way, THRIFT did not just stop being a value; it became a folly. Saving was for suckers; you’d miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up.
9. resort to sth ~ (phr v) to make use of sth bad, as a means of achieving sth, often because there is no other possible solution ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you resort to a course of action that you do not really think is right or acceptable, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want
Eventually the police resorted to CS gas to quell the rioters.
Some factions have resorted to terrorism.
If you're a casting director looking for a voice whose very timbre communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons.
10. above all ~ (idm) most important of all; especially :
Above all, keep in touch.
Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language.
11. knock sb off their pedestal/perch ~ (idm) to make sb lose their position as sb/sth successful or admired ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္ ။
Our homegrown Martin Luther King Jr. has knocked Winston Churchill off his perch as the ideal.
knock the market leaders off their pedestal…
3. Barack Obama and the Voice of God ထိ Essay ၃ ပုဒ္ထဲကေန ကြ်န္ေတာ္ထုတ္နုတ္ထားတဲ့ Idioms နွင့္ Phrasal Verbs ေတြကုိ ပဲ တစ္ခ်ဳိ.ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ေလးေတြနွင့္အတူ Post တစ္ခု အျဖစ္တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္ ။ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs နဲ. ျမန္မာစာအဖြဲ.ကထုတ္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္-ျမန္မာ အဘိဓာန္ တုိ.ကုိ ကုိးကားပါတယ္။
1. wish sth away ~ (phr v) to try to get rid of sth by wishing it did not exist (ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ ပစ္ခ်င္သည္ ။):
ဒီ phrasal verb ကုိ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you wish something away, you hope to get rid of it although you do not do anything practical to remove it.
It seems unlikely that the statistical errors can be wished away.
Wishing them away won’t get rid of your problems.
These problems can’t be wished away, you know.
You can’t wish away debt with a magic wand.
2. I wish ~ (idm) (infml) used to say that sth is impossible or very unlikely, although you wish it were possible :
He’s dead and it’s no use wishing him alive again.
I wish you hadn’t told me all this.
3. take a heavy toll (on sb/sth) / take its toll (on sb/sth) ~ (idm) to have a bad effect on sb/sth; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc.(ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္ ။):
Illness had taken a heavy toll on her.
The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.
The civil war has taken its toll on both sides.
4. reach out to sb ~ (phr v) to show sb that you are interested in them and/or want to help them: ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားတယ္ ။If you reach out to people, you give them help, advice, or comfort, or ask them for it.
His phenomenal capacity to reach out to people……
They may reach out to another person for reassurance.
The church needs to find new ways of reaching out to young people.
I’ve had countless uplifting e-mails in recent days that, in different ways, have been about a moral reorientation, a reaching out, the rediscovery of the ways in which we can be our brother’s and our sister’s keepers.
5(a). beyond the pale ~ (idm) considered by most people to be unacceptable or unreasonable: လက္မခံနုိင္ဖြယ္ ။
His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.
5(b). pale beside/next to sth/pale in/by comparison (with/to sth)/pale into insignificance ~ (idm) to seem less important when compared with sth else:
Last year’s riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence.
Diana Strelow, 73, of Portsmouth, Virginia, put it this way: “My vote for Obama was and is about my hope that an intelligent, self-respecting president will lead to a renewal of civility on the part of all of us – perhaps a renewal even of the love that Americans once had for each other.”
Significant as economic anxieties were, she said, they paled beside deeper yearning.
5(c). pale beside/ in comparison with sth ~ (phrv) ေသးနုပ္သြားသည္ ။ ေသးသိမ္သြားသည္ ။ ေမွးမွိန္သြားသည္။
Investment in British Rail pales in comparison with the amount invested in continental railways.
Their other problems paled into insignificance beside this latest catastrophe.
6. tide sb over (sth) ~ (phr v) to help sb during a difficult period by providing what they need : ေလာေလာဆယ္ အက်ပ္အတည္း ေက်ာ္လႊားရန္ ။ If you give someone money or help in order to tide them over, you do it so that they can get through a period of time when they are having problems.
I only want to borrow enough to tide me over till Monday.
if you need a few dollars to tide you over……
the huge grain surpluses that helped tide the world over the 1972-74 shortages.
Can you lend me some money to tide me over until I get paid?
Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season.
7. pick out ~ (phrv) 1. choose specially; 2. see among others, esp, with difficulty: ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ ၂ ခုရွိပါတယ္ ။ 7(a). If you pick out someone or something when they are difficult to see or recognize, you manage to see or recognize them
See if you can pick me out in this photo.
A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child “a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things.
Irene Burns picked out Meehan as one of the two men who gave her a lift. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာ pick out ရဲ. အဓိပၸါယ္က အမ်ားထဲမွာ ေရာေထြးေနတဲ့ အထဲကေန ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ရွာေဖြေတြ.မႈ ၊ မွတ္မိမႈ ဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာရွိပါတယ္ ။
7(b) If you pick out one person or thing from a group, you choose them.
He picks out a flat spot without any rocks on it.
She was picked out from dozens of applicants for the job.
He picked out the ripest peach for me. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာေတာ့ pick out = အမ်ားစုထဲက တစ္ခုကုိ ေရြးခ်ယ္ျခင္း ဆုိတဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္ပါ ။
8. live up ~ (phrv) If you live it up, you have a very enjoyable and exciting time, usually spending a lot of money and dong all the things that you want to do
Next week we report to camp. We are going to live it up meanwhile.
We spent a week living it up in the luxury of the Intercontinental Hotel.
We had little chance of living it up on our meager expense accounts.
Somewhere along the way, THRIFT did not just stop being a value; it became a folly. Saving was for suckers; you’d miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up.
9. resort to sth ~ (phr v) to make use of sth bad, as a means of achieving sth, often because there is no other possible solution ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you resort to a course of action that you do not really think is right or acceptable, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want
Eventually the police resorted to CS gas to quell the rioters.
Some factions have resorted to terrorism.
If you're a casting director looking for a voice whose very timbre communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons.
10. above all ~ (idm) most important of all; especially :
Above all, keep in touch.
Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language.
11. knock sb off their pedestal/perch ~ (idm) to make sb lose their position as sb/sth successful or admired ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္ ။
Our homegrown Martin Luther King Jr. has knocked Winston Churchill off his perch as the ideal.
knock the market leaders off their pedestal…
Saturday, October 3, 2009
ကေလးတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ျပဳစုပ်ဳိးေထာင္ရန္ ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ
အရင္ အပတ္ကတင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘာသာျပန္ Essay ရဲ.မူရင္းပါ ။ တကယ္လုိ.စိတ္ဝင္စားမိလုိ.မ်ား ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဘာသာျပန္ထားတာနဲ. မူရင္းနဲ.ကုိမ်ား ယွဥ္ျပီးတုိက္ၾကည့္ခဲ့သူမ်ား ရွိမ်ားရွိခဲ့ရင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ဘာသာျပန္တာ ဘယ္ေလာက္ထိေရွာ္ေနလဲဆုိတာကုိ ေတြ.နုိင္ၾကပါလိမ့္မယ္ ။
Raising a Child Costs Some $221,000, Before College
By NANCY GIBBS
By NANCY GIBBS
Time (Monday, Aug. 24, 2009)
This is the time of year — second only to December, maybe — when we're reminded how much kids cost. It's nice when states suspend their sales tax for a week of back-to-school shopping, but it doesn't change the fact that somehow we have to start over in September: new sneakers, new notebooks, maybe a new lunch box, because SpongeBob is so last season. Even in hard times, economists have found, children are "recession resistant." As investments, they are living proof of irrational exuberance, a leading indicator of our loss of fiscal discipline.
BabyCenter.com offers a calculator to help determine the cost of raising a child; I wonder how great a deterrent this represents. It uses figures from an annual report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which I suppose would be the expert in growing corn — or kids. This year's report says a typical family will spend about $221,000 raising a child through age 17; that's 21% more than families spent the year I was born. Food and clothing are cheaper now, but housing and health care cost more. Turns out parents get a bulk discount: people with only one child spend 25% more per child than families with two, and by the time you have three or more, you are spending 22% less on each one.
The government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables allow about $60 a month for kids' shoes and clothes. It is true that globalization has driven apparel prices down over the years, but if you have daughters, you confront the annual phenomenon whereby the clothes shrink as the prices rise, leaving you wildly grateful for a school dress code requiring that shoulders and navels be covered.
And then, of course, there is the time spent, whose dollar figure is incalculable, though one study says it's worth more than the cash laid out. Parenthood means never really being alone, until the day the kids leave home and you're left with no idea what to do with all the time and energy you used to spend chasing after them. Maybe I'll finally learn to knit. Or cook something with more than three ingredients. Or slide the years of accumulated photographs into fresh, matching albums, the images incubating as memory to hatch as history.
The economist behind this year's report is used to hearing people marvel at how much kids cost. "I tell them children also have many benefits," he says, "so you have to keep that in mind." There are, for instance, all the things parents probably don't do as often when the kids are grown. Will we still make bonfires on the beach, collect driftwood and fairy glass, make s'mores even though no one really likes them, since marshmallows surpass superglue for stickiness? Will we still carve jack-o'-lanterns, color Easter eggs — or will holidays feel like formalities? I wonder if I'll miss Cheez Doodles and Jelly Bellies. I'm pretty sure I won't be buying them anymore.
Children cost a lot up front, but with the right management strategies, you can get a decent return on investment. Helping with homework lets you learn all the math now that you never learned then. Kids give you an excuse to work on your fastball. They're excellent bed warmers, and small fingers can untie hopeless knots. They remind you to be brave and trusting, and that few things worth accomplishing are ever achieved without making a mess first. They often say better prayers than you could ever think to. They smell really good, at least when they're clean.
And yes, they are reminders of our mortality — in fact, I know I'm going gray a lot faster than I would have had I been childless, especially now that I have a teenager. But it's a cosmic gift that, in letting us grow up with them, they keep us young, so that sometime maybe we pass each other, the student becoming the teacher, the parent the child, and we will sit back and marvel at who they've become, knowing they are now smarter and stronger than we are. We'll savor their company and feel safe in their hands. Care to put a price on that?
Notes :
exuberant ~ (adj) 1. full of energy, excitement and happiness : She gave an exuberant performance.; an exuberant personality/ imagination; a picture painted in reds and yellows
2. (of plants, etc.,) strong and healthy; growing quickly and well
This is the time of year — second only to December, maybe — when we're reminded how much kids cost. It's nice when states suspend their sales tax for a week of back-to-school shopping, but it doesn't change the fact that somehow we have to start over in September: new sneakers, new notebooks, maybe a new lunch box, because SpongeBob is so last season. Even in hard times, economists have found, children are "recession resistant." As investments, they are living proof of irrational exuberance, a leading indicator of our loss of fiscal discipline.
BabyCenter.com offers a calculator to help determine the cost of raising a child; I wonder how great a deterrent this represents. It uses figures from an annual report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which I suppose would be the expert in growing corn — or kids. This year's report says a typical family will spend about $221,000 raising a child through age 17; that's 21% more than families spent the year I was born. Food and clothing are cheaper now, but housing and health care cost more. Turns out parents get a bulk discount: people with only one child spend 25% more per child than families with two, and by the time you have three or more, you are spending 22% less on each one.
The government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables allow about $60 a month for kids' shoes and clothes. It is true that globalization has driven apparel prices down over the years, but if you have daughters, you confront the annual phenomenon whereby the clothes shrink as the prices rise, leaving you wildly grateful for a school dress code requiring that shoulders and navels be covered.
And then, of course, there is the time spent, whose dollar figure is incalculable, though one study says it's worth more than the cash laid out. Parenthood means never really being alone, until the day the kids leave home and you're left with no idea what to do with all the time and energy you used to spend chasing after them. Maybe I'll finally learn to knit. Or cook something with more than three ingredients. Or slide the years of accumulated photographs into fresh, matching albums, the images incubating as memory to hatch as history.
The economist behind this year's report is used to hearing people marvel at how much kids cost. "I tell them children also have many benefits," he says, "so you have to keep that in mind." There are, for instance, all the things parents probably don't do as often when the kids are grown. Will we still make bonfires on the beach, collect driftwood and fairy glass, make s'mores even though no one really likes them, since marshmallows surpass superglue for stickiness? Will we still carve jack-o'-lanterns, color Easter eggs — or will holidays feel like formalities? I wonder if I'll miss Cheez Doodles and Jelly Bellies. I'm pretty sure I won't be buying them anymore.
Children cost a lot up front, but with the right management strategies, you can get a decent return on investment. Helping with homework lets you learn all the math now that you never learned then. Kids give you an excuse to work on your fastball. They're excellent bed warmers, and small fingers can untie hopeless knots. They remind you to be brave and trusting, and that few things worth accomplishing are ever achieved without making a mess first. They often say better prayers than you could ever think to. They smell really good, at least when they're clean.
And yes, they are reminders of our mortality — in fact, I know I'm going gray a lot faster than I would have had I been childless, especially now that I have a teenager. But it's a cosmic gift that, in letting us grow up with them, they keep us young, so that sometime maybe we pass each other, the student becoming the teacher, the parent the child, and we will sit back and marvel at who they've become, knowing they are now smarter and stronger than we are. We'll savor their company and feel safe in their hands. Care to put a price on that?
Notes :
exuberant ~ (adj) 1. full of energy, excitement and happiness : She gave an exuberant performance.; an exuberant personality/ imagination; a picture painted in reds and yellows
2. (of plants, etc.,) strong and healthy; growing quickly and well
be living proof of sth/that ~ (idm) to show by your actions or qualities that a particular fact is true: He is living proof that not all engineers are boring. These figures are living proof of their incompetence.
factor sth in/ factor sth into sth ~ (phr v) (technical) to include a particular fact or situation when you are thinking about or planning sth : Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.
whereby ~ (adv) (formal) by which; because of which : They have introduced a new system whereby all employees must undergo regular training. a new system whereby all staff have to carry identification cards.
marvel at sth ~ (v) to be very surprised or impressed by sth: Everyone marveled at his courage.
jack-o’-lantern ~ (n) a pumpkin(a large orange vegetable) with a face cut into it and a candle put inside to shine through the holes
Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime
up front ~ (adv) as an initial investment, beginning capital, or an advance payment: They’ll need a half-million dollars up-front before opening the business.
fastball ~ (n) (in baseball) a ball that is thrown at the pitcher’s fastest speed
have~ Had I known that (ie If I had known that) I would never have come.
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