Absence makes the heart grow fonder

The angel took up the rose-bush; then he kissed the child, and the little one half opened his eyes. The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart’s-ease. “Now we have flowers enough,” said the child; but the angel only nodded, he did not fly upward to heaven. It was night, and quite still in the great town. Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed. There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see. Amidst all this confusion, the angel pointed to the pieces of a broken flower-pot, and to a lump of earth which had fallen out of it. The earth had been kept from falling to pieces by the roots of a withered field-flower, which had been thrown amongst the rubbish. “We will take this with us,” said the angel, “I will tell you why as we fly along.” And as they flew the angel related the history. “Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more. During some days in summer, the sunbeams would lie on the floor of the cellar for about half an hour. In this spot the poor sick boy would sit warming himself in the sunshine, and watching the red blood through his delicate fingers as he held them before his face. Then he would say he had been out, yet he knew nothing of the green forest in its spring verdure, till a neighbor’s son brought him a green bough from a beech-tree.

 

Gather:جمع کردن Humble  متواضع-گل ناز: Buttercupگل : Layقراردادن: heart’s-ease آرامش: nod:با سر توافق کردن upwardبه طرف بالا: Quiteتقریبا: Still:ساکت Remain:ماندن Hoveredدر هوا چرخ زدن: Heap توده: Strawپوشال: Ashesخاکستر: Sweepingsخاکروبه: Removeپاک کردن: Fragmentتکه: Ragلباس کهنه: Plateبشقاب: Amidstدر میان: Confusionآشفتگی: Pointاشاره کردن: Pleasantخوشایند: flower-potگلدان: lump توده: Earthخاک: Fallen(fall):افتادن Rootریشه: field-flowerگل:

amongstدر بین: Rubbishزباله: Flew(fly)پرواز کرد: Relateحکایت کردن: narrowباریک: Laneمسیرباریک : Cellarزیرزمین: Poorفقیر: Sickمریض: Afflictرنجور شدن: Childhoodدوران کودکی: Manageانجام دادن: Crutchesعصای زیر بغل: Onceیکبار: Twiceدوبار: Sunbeamپرتو آفتاب: Lieدراز کشیدن: Floorکف زمین: Spotمحل: Warmingگرم کردن: Sunshineتابش آفتاب: blood خون: Delicateظریف: Fingerانگشت: held )hold):نگه داشتن forest جنگل: verdureسر سبزی: brought (bring):آوردن boughشاخه درخت:  beech-treeدرخت راش:

نامه ها به سه دسته تقسیم می شوند:

1. Friendly Letters : From a person to a person
2. Social Letters: From a person to a company or an organization
3. Business Letters: From a company to a company

فرمتهای  متفاوتی برای نوشتن  نامه ها وجود دارد. من فقط در مورد یکی از معمول ترین آنها

 صحبت می کنم.

نکات مهم: قسمت خطاب قرار دادن با قسمت تشکر باید همخوانی داشته باشد.

awesome (or wicked)
-amazing
That was an awesome movie
That was a wicked movie

beat
-tired
Sam is beat today because he didn't sleep much last night

blue (or down)
-sad, depressed
Mary is feeling blue because her cat died
Mary is down because her cat died

brainy
-very intelligent, like a genius
Sue always does well on tests because she's brainy

 fishy
-suspicious
Mrs. Smith thought it was fishy that her neighbor had so many visitors at night

hammered
-drunk
Jim had nine beers so now he's hammered

 hungover
-tired from drinking too much the day before
Al's bachelor party was last night. He's really hungover!

loaded
-rich
Many people who live in Beverly Hills are loaded

nuts (or nutty)
-crazy
That lady keeps talking to herself. Do you think she's
nuts?

on cloud nine
-very very happy
Chris just won a million dollars so he's on cloud nine!

super
-great
Tom is a super singer

American Slang Nouns

airhead
-stupid person
Tony says his boss is an airhead

bash
-big, exciting party
Did you go to Dan's bash last night?

brain
-very intelligent person
Bill Gates must be a brain

chocoholic
-person who loves/is addicted to chocolate
I ate an entire box of chocolates and my sister
says I must be a chocaholic!

drip
-boring person
Lisa says her new roomate is a drip

grub
-food
I'm hungry. Let's get some grub

hunk
-handsome man
Sue thinks that Tom Cruise is a hunk

knockout
-beautiful woman
Miss Universe is a knockout

mula
-money
I took a lot of mula to the casino but when I returned, I didn't have as much!

munchies
-snacks, like potato chips, popcorn, pretzels
Let's get some munchies at the baseball game

penny pincher
-cheap, stingy person who rarely spend money
Megan never goes to restaurants because she's
such a penny pincher

shopoholic
-person who is addicted to shopping
Sandra is a shopholic. She always goes shopping!

stuff
-things (but used as a singular, non-count noun)
I have to buy some stuff at the grocery store

wacko
-crazy person
Some reporters say that famous pop singer is a wacko

windbag
-a boring person who talks too much (negative)
Joe's speech was over an hour long at the meeting. His co-workers think he's a windbag.

workaholic
-person who is addicted to working
Bob works very long hours. His wife thinks he's
a workaholic.

THE ANGEL                                Hans Christian Andersen                                 Part1

“WHENEVER a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with him over all the places which the child had loved during his life. Then he gathers a large handful of flowers, which he carries up to the Almighty, that they may bloom more brightly in heaven than they do on earth. And the Almighty presses the flowers to His heart, but He kisses the flower that pleases Him best, and it receives a voice, and is able to join the song of the chorus of bliss.” These words were spoken by an angel of God, as he carried a dead child up to heaven, and the child listened as if in a dream. Then they passed over well-known spots, where the little one had often played, and through beautiful gardens full of lovely flowers. “Which of these shall we take with us to heaven to be transplanted there?” asked the angel. Close by grew a slender, beautiful, rose-bush, but some wicked hand had broken the stem, and the half-opened rosebuds hung faded and withered on the trailing branches. “Poor rose-bush!” said the child, “let us take it with us to heaven, that it may bloom above in God’s garden.”

Dies : مردن Angel : فرشته Heaven : بهشت Dead : مرده Arm :بازو spread out : گستردن wing : بال flies(fly) : پروازکردن carries(carry)بردن :  the Almighty : خدا bloom : شکوفه کردن brightly : به روشنی press : فشردن kiss : بوسیدن chorus :گروه کر bliss :سعادت

well-known : معروف spot : محل lovely : دوست داشتنی transplant :کاشتن grew(grow) : روییدن slender :نازک.باریک rose-bush :بوته گل سرخ wicked : خبیث stem : ساقه rosebud :شکوفه رز Hung(hang) :آویزان بودن Faded : رنگ پریده wither : پژمردن trailing : به زمین کشیده شدن branch :شاخه garden :باغ

My father still keeps the first dollar he ever made-and the police still keep the machine he made it with.

"I may want to read it again one day" is the reason why my husband keeps every book he reads. Over 25 years most of them, never opened again after the first reading, have accumulated in our cellar. One day, however, thinking he'd never notice their absence, I donated most of them to a charity book sale. As I stood admiring the empty cellar, I heard Frank call to me, "I'm home early so I can get to the book sale before it closes."
While he was gone, I prepared for the worst. But when he arrived home empty-handed, I asked him if there had been any books that interested him.
"Yes, there were lots of good ones," he replied, "but I've got them all,"

Accumulate: جمع کردن

Cellar: زیرزمین

Donate: اهدا کردن

Charity خیریه :

Admire: ستایش کردن

Empty خالی :

Prepare: آماده کردن

the worst بدترین :

empty-handed دست خالی :

"Do you have any anniversary-birthday cards?" a man asked the stationer.
"We have anniversary cards and we have birthday cards, but we don't carry one that combines both. Why?"
"Simple ," replied the man. "My wife is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of her thirty-fourth birthday."

Anniversary سالروز-سال وفات-جشن یادبود :

Stationerفروشنده لوازم التحریر :

Carry داشتن :

Combine ترکیب کردن-توام کردن :

Both هر دو :

Celebrate:جشن گرفتن

Browsing in a pet shop, a man sees a parrot with a red string tied to its left leg and a green  string attached to its  right leg. He asks the shop owner about the bird. " This is a highly trained parrot." The owener explains. "If you pull the red string, he speaks Spanish. If you pull the green string, he speaks French.

"What happens if I pull both at once?" the man askeds.

"I fall off my perch, you fool!" screeches the parrot.

Pet: domestic animal

Perch: A stick specially in a cage that birds sit on it.

Screech: scream

Religion teacher is telling a class of kindergarten students about how all good people  go to heaven .

" So, who woud like to go to heaven?" the teache asks.

Everyone raises their hands except Daniel. Puzzled, the teacher askes him, "why don't you want to go to heaven?"

" Because my mother said I should go straight home after school." 

The back of a man's coat was leaping up and down and people were giving him money. " Do you earn a living doing that?" asked a passerby.

" Yes " he said. " This is my livelihood."

leap: jump, rise

livelihood: business

تمام عبارتهایی که در جلوی آنها ستاره قرار دارد اصطلاحات رسمی وبقیه اصطلاحات غیر رسمی می باشند

American Slang Greetings, etc

Hello*

Hi

Hey there!

Hi there!

Hey!

How are you?*

What's new?

How are you doing?

How's it going?

Goodbye*

See you

See you later

Later

on the telephone, you can say "Talk to you later"

Yes*

Yeah (pronounced ya)

Yup

Sure

You bet

No*

Nope

No way

Not a chance

Not in this lifetime

Let's leave*

Let's blow this popstand

I'm leaving*

I'm out of here

I'm heading out now

Instead of VERY, you can use ...

so

-I'm so hungry!

real

-I'm real hungry!

really

-I'm really hungry!

Instead of VERY VERY, you can use ...

totally

-The movie was totally awesome!