It is a long time for me not to write any blog in the Hive. Maybe because I'm too lazy or I have no inspiration since my life is boring. So I just share some new English words and idioms I've learned recently here.
Desideratum：迫切需要之物；所愿望之物
Oh, I love this word from Latin, which means 'something desired as a necessity'. And I also love that famous poem titled 'desideratum' very much.
Below is an excerpt from it!
Be yourself.
做自己就好。
Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;
尤其不要佯装真情。也别对爱灰心丧气。
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
尽管世界荒芜，现实荒凉，唯有爱如绿草常青。
Is it right？Yeah, love is as perennial as the grass. No matter what happens, we can still find love and hope growing like the green grass in the spring.
Another interesting word is 'dervish'. Oh, what is it？Well,
a dervish is a member of a Muslim religious group which has a very active and lively dance as part of its worship. (伊斯兰教的)托钵僧
It was the first time for me to hear of 'dervish' when I learned the word 'waft' from a Youtube video, where the teacher explained 'waft' by taking 'dervish' as an example.
The whirling dervishes seem to waft round and round with nothing to support them.
Good idea! It intrigued me at a stroke and I could remember 2 words without efforts. Just close your eyes and allow your imagination to fly in your mind: the verdishes' dance is so light-footed that they are like a kind of smoke/dream wafting through the room.
And I also learned a new astronomical term--worm hole from @raj808's Sci-fi blog. God, have you heard of wormhole before？
In physics, a wormhole is a tunnel in space that is believed to connect different parts of the universe. 宇宙隧道
the story of an astronaut who is sucked through a wormhole into the other side of the universe.
...一名宇航员被吸进宇宙隧道到了宇宙另一边的故事。
Can you imagine the existence of such kind of tunnel？So amazing, isn't it？For me, a person from a country with the Great Firewall, wormhole is just like a VPN by means of which I am sucked into the Hive/Youtube world successfully.
At the same time I want to give my feedback to A New Line of Hive Promotional Clothing - Asking for Feedback from the Community: I absolutely would like to own a piece of clothes--a hoodie or a T-shirt with the Hive design art in order to promote Hive community. Pitifully it is impossible for me to sponsor new people to join Hive community, because most of them even have no way to open and register on the Hive website without the help of VPN thanks to the bloody Great Firewall of China.
At last, I just list some new English idioms I've learned from Teacher Mike.
Six Expressions with CUT
6 个带Cut的词语
1.Cut it out. 🛑
Meaning: Stop doing that.
1.Cut it out.
含义：停止做某事。
2.Who cut the cheese? 💨
Meaning: Who farted?
2.Who cut the cheese？
含义：谁放P了？
3.That won't cut it.🙅
Meaning: That's not good enough. That's not acceptable.
3.That won't cut it.
含义：不是足够好。那是无法接受的。
4.Cut me some slack. 😬
Meaning: I know it's not perfect, but I am trying, so please stop making me feel bad.
4.Cut me some slack.
含义：我知道它不完美，但我一直在尝试，请停止批评我吧。
5.Cut to the chase. ✋
Meaning: You're explaining too much. Just hurry up and tell me what happened.
5.Cut to the chase.
含义：你解释得太多了。快点儿告诉我发生了什么。
6.I'm not cut out for this. 🤷🏽♀️
Meaning: This type of activity doesn't suit me. I am not good at this.
6.I'm not cut for this.
含义：这种事情不适合我。我不擅长这个。
Examples:
That won't cut it. It has to be better quality.
Cut me some slack. It's my first time.
Cut to the chase and tell me what happened.
I'm not cut out for basketball. I'm too short.
*Just a quick heads up = Just a quick announcement/notification/warning
*Keep someone in the loop = make sure they know what is currently happening
*Bureaucratic = related to government/business procedures (permits, applications, documents, etc.)
P.S. I'm very sorry to post this blog into 'Blockchain Poet' community carelessly. I don't know how to cancel it. If anyone knows about it, please help me. If not, anyhow I've just quoted a beautiful poem 'desideratum' in it.
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