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rub it in / 哪壺不開提哪壺 / 埋汰某人

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, to rub it in is to make someone feel worse about something the person already feels embarrassed about: I know I shouldn’t have paid that much for the poster – don’t rub it in, OK? According to the Collins English Dictionary, to rub it in is to keep on mentioning … Continue reading rub it in / 哪壺不開提哪壺 / 埋汰某人

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Speaking

The Chaos

by Gerard Nolst Trenité This version is essentially the author's own final text, as also published by New River Project in 1993. A few minor corrections have however been made, and occasional words from earlier editions have been preferred. Following earlier practice, words with clashing spellings or pronunciations are here printed in italics.  (Source: … Continue reading The Chaos

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Beyond Ghost Letters

We know that some letters in some English words are silent: love, gnome, climb, indict, Etobicoke, etc. These ghost letters are written but not pronounced. However, other words, as fewer English learners may have noticed, contain sounds that come from nowhere — we just hear the sounds without seeing any corresponding letters. For example, there … Continue reading Beyond Ghost Letters

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New Stuff 新文章

  • Countries that Must Start with “the” Fri, August 14, 2020
  • some time / some times / sometime / sometimes Sun, July 19, 2020
  • pass the buck / 甩鍋 / 踢皮球 Thu, May 28, 2020
  • rub it in / 哪壺不開提哪壺 / 埋汰某人 Tue, May 19, 2020
  • replicate vs. duplicate Fri, May 1, 2020
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