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#Memories
Somebody once asked me what the most valuable things that I owned were.
I thought about that for a long time.
Then I realized that most of the things that I had could be replaced.
What I would not be able to replace were the photographs that I had of my friends and family.
Photographs are memories that are captured on film.
Some of the photographs are of people who are no longer with us.
I would hate to lose them.
Memories are precious.
They are all we have sometimes to link us to days gone by.
I remember the good times.
I try to relive them in my mind sometimes.
I remember the sad times.
Some of the sad memories are painful, but they are all a part of my life, and I don't want to lose any of my memories.
People come into our lives and people leave our lives, but most people leave a memory for us.
I have lots of memories, and when I look at my photographs, the memories come flooding back into my brain.
I remember what people were like when they were younger.
I remember vacations that I took.
I remember days that seemed ordinary at the time, but you never get to relive even the ordinary days.
Memories are so precious.
Cherish your memories, and keep them in a place close to your heart.
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#level1
@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
🔶 Receiver:
▪️ [noun] a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
▪️ [noun] (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
🔶 Peculiar:
▪️ [adjective] beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
▪️ [adjective] unique or specific to a person or thing or category
🔶 Dial:
▪️ [noun] a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
▪️ [verb] choose by means of a dial
🔶 Tone:
▪️ [noun] a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
▪️ [noun] the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
🔶 Notify:
▪️ [verb] inform (somebody) of something
🔶 Complaining:
▪️ [adjective] expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment
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#Phone_Out_of_Order_(2)
Gerald: Hey! What's the matter with the phone?(Handing the receiver to B) Listen to this peculiar noise.
Thomas: It doesn't sound like a dial tone.
Gerald: It must be out of order. We'd better notify the phone company.
Thomas: How do we do that? We can't use the phone.
Gerald: Let's go next door and use our neighbour's phone.
Thomas: He's always complaining about people. I don't want to ask any favours of him.
Gerald: How about across the street?
Thomas: I forgot about Mrs. Riley! I'm sure she'd let us use her phone.
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#level6
@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
✳️ Mammals: ثَدْيِيَّات , رُتْبَة اَلثَّدْيِيَّاتِ
✳️ Grizzly: أشيب
✳️ Elk: الأيائل
✳️ Moose: غزال أمريكي ضخم
✳️ Mule: بَغْل
✳️ Deer: إِيَّل
✳️ Bison: الثور
✳️ Coyotes: الذئاب
✳️ Pronghorn: ذَوَات اَلْقُرُونِ
✳️ Antelope: ظَبْي , بَقَرَة وَحْشِيَّة
✳️ Beaver: قُنْدُس
✳️ Trumpeter: عازف البوق
✳️ Swan: بَجَع , إِوَزّ عِرَاقِيّ
✳️ Heron: مَالِك اَلْحَزِينِ , غُرْنُوق
✳️ Cormorants: قِيقَان
✳️ Bald: أَصْلَع , أَقْرَع , أَجْلَح , جَلْحَاء , صُلْع , صَلْعَاء , قُرْع , قَرْعَاء
✳️ Eagles: نُسُور
✳️ Osprey: أوسبري
✳️ Pelicans: البجع
✳️ Geese: إِوَزّ
✳️ Consist: تتكون
✳️ Lodge: حَلَّ
✳️ Numerous: تَعَدُّدِيّ
✳️ Geysers: السخانات
✳️ Volcanic: بُرْكَانِيّ
✳️ Molten: مَسْكُوك
✳️ Lava: حُمَم بُرْكَانِيَّة , حُمَم
✳️ Bubbles: فَقَاقِيع
✳️ Geyser: السخان
✳️ Plume: عمود
✳️ Eruption: ثَوَرَان , طَفْح , طَفْح جِلْدِيّ , اِنْدِلَاع , شُبُوب , نُشُوب
✳️ Spectacular: مُذهِل
✳️ Preserved: مَصُون , مَعْصُوم , مَكْنُون , مُودَع
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
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Words of the article:
🔶 Mammals:
▪️ [noun] any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
🔶 Grizzly:
▪️ [adjective] showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
▪️ [noun] powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
🔶 Elk:
▪️ [noun] large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
▪️ [noun] large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
🔶 Moose:
▪️ [noun] large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
🔶 Mule:
▪️ [noun] a slipper that has no fitting around the heel
▪️ [noun] hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile
🔶 Deer:
▪️ [noun] distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
🔶 Bison:
▪️ [noun] any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
🔶 Coyotes:
▪️ [noun] small wolf native to western North America
▪️ [noun] a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
🔶 Pronghorn:
▪️ [noun] fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
🔶 Antelope:
▪️ [noun] graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
🔶 Beaver:
▪️ [noun] a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
▪️ [noun] a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
🔶 Trumpeter:
▪️ [noun] a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
▪️ [noun] (formal) a person who announces important news
🔶 Swan:
▪️ [verb] move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
▪️ [verb] to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
🔶 Heron:
▪️ [noun] Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
▪️ [noun] grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
🔶 Cormorants:
▪️ [noun] large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
🔶 Bald:
▪️ [adjective] without the natural or usual covering
▪️ [adjective] lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
🔶 Eagles:
▪️ [verb] shoot two strokes under par
▪️ [noun] any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
🔶 Osprey:
▪️ [noun] large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years
🔶 Pelicans:
▪️ [noun] large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
🔶 Consist:
▪️ [verb] be composed of
▪️ [verb] originate (in)
🔶 Lodge:
▪️ [verb] provide housing for
▪️ [noun] a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
🔶 Numerous:
▪️ [adjective] amounting to a large indefinite number
🔶 Geysers:
▪️ [noun] a spring that discharges hot water and steam
▪️ [verb] to overflow like a geyser
🔶 Volcanic:
▪️ [adjective] explosively unstable
▪️ [adjective] igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
🔶 Molten:
▪️ [adjective] reduced to liquid form by heating
🔶 Lava:
▪️ [noun] rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
🔶 Bubbles:
▪️ [verb] flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
▪️ [verb] expel gas from the stomach
🔶 Geyser:
▪️ [noun] a spring that discharges hot water and steam
▪️ [verb] to overflow like a geyser
🔶 Plume:
▪️ [verb] clean with one's bill
▪️ [verb] dress or groom with elaborate care
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#Yellowstone_National_Park
The area is rich in wildlife. Among the mammals are black bears, grizzly bears, elk, moose, mule deer, bison, bighorn sheep, coyotes, pronghorn antelope, beaver and wolves. Birds, especially waterfowl, are common all year. These include the trumpeter swan, blue heron, cormorants, bald eagles, osprey, pelicans, Canada geese and many kinds of ducks. Sport fish are also plentiful.
About 80% of the forests consist of lodge pole pine, but there are many other evergreens. Wild flowers are numerous and varied.
But the chief attractions are the geysers and hot springs. They occur in what was a very volcanic area a million years or so ago. Here, hot molten lava from the center of the earth has remained close to the surface of the earth. This lava heats the surface rocks, which in turn, heats the underground water. The heated water shoots up to the surface as geysers, or bubbles up as hot springs.
The most famous geyser is Old Faithful which shoots its plume of water 150 feet into the air every 65 minutes or so. The eruption lasts up to five minutes. There are 200 geysers in Yellowstone Park and about 50 of them are spectacular. Some shoot their spray over 200 feet high.
Visitors from all over the world are delighted that this region has been preserved as a national park!
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#level4
@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
🔶 Mixture:
▪️ [noun] a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
▪️ [noun] the act of mixing together
🔶 Distinct:
▪️ [adjective] constituting a separate entity or part
▪️ [adjective] recognizable; marked
🔶 Derived:
▪️ [adjective] formed or developed from something else; not original
🔶 Scandinavian:
▪️ [adjective] of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures
▪️ [noun] the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland
🔶 Absorbed:
▪️ [adjective] giving or marked by complete attention to
▪️ [adjective] retained without reflection
🔶 Origin:
▪️ [noun] the descendants of one individual
▪️ [noun] the place where something begins, where it springs into being
🔶 Technical:
▪️ [adjective] of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
▪️ [adjective] of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill
🔶 Ancient:
▪️ [noun] a very old person
▪️ [noun] a person who lived in ancient times
🔶 Immigrants:
▪️ [noun] a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
🔶 Adopted:
▪️ [adjective] acquired as your own by free choice
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#The_History_of_the_English_Language
Most people know that the English language is spoken by many millions of people around the world. However, few people are aware of the history of the English language. Today, English is one language, but in some ways it is a mixture of many different languages.
The English language is most closely related to a group of languages called the Germanic languages. This group also includes languages such as German and Dutch. About 1500 years ago, these languages were not yet distinct from each other. Some of the people of Germany and the Netherlands then moved to England. Those people were called the Anglo-Saxons, and their language then evolved into English. Most of the basic words of the English language are derived from these very old Anglo-Saxon languages. For example, the words for the parts of the body, for numbers, and for animals are mostly Anglo-Saxon words.
Some new words were brought to England over 1000 years ago by people who came from the Scandinavian countries of northern Europe. Many words that begin with the letters "sk", such as skin and skill, are Scandinavian words.
A major change happened in the English language after the year 1066. In that year, England was conquered by a king from the northern part of France. He and his followers spoke French, so French became an important language in England. During the next few hundred years, the English language absorbed a very large number of French words. In fact, today's English dictionaries contain more words of French origin than of Anglo-
Saxon origin. Part of the reason why the English language has so many words is that it often has two words for each idea-one word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and one word of French origin.
Many more words entered the English language a few hundred years ago, when science and technology became more widespread. Most scientific and technical words are derived from words of the ancient languages of Latin and Greek. Because there are so many of these scientific and technical words in the English language today, the influence of Latin and Greek has been quite large.
Other languages have also contributed many words to the English language. Some words have come from the Celtic languages, spoken in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Many words have been added to the English language by immigrants who came to North America from various countries of Europe. Also, many more words have been adopted from the Native languages of North America, Australia, and the Pacific, and from the languages of peoples in Africa and Asia. All of these words have made English a very interesting language!
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#level3
@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
🔶 Candy:
▪️ [noun] a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
▪️ [verb] coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
🔶 Garbage:
▪️ [noun] a worthless message
▪️ [noun] food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
🔶 Weed:
▪️ [noun] street names for marijuana
▪️ [noun] a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
🔶 Gift:
▪️ [noun] natural abilities or qualities
▪️ [verb] give as a present; make a gift of
🔶 Gifts:
▪️ [noun] natural abilities or qualities
▪️ [verb] give as a present; make a gift of
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#The_Birthday_Gift
It is going to be my father's birthday.
What can I give him? I don't have much money.
I have looked all through the stores, and I have not found anything that I think he would like, or that I can afford.
I have thought very hard about what to buy for him.
I thought that he might like some candy, but my father really doesn't eat many sweets.
I thought that he might like a new shirt, but he has lots of clothes.
I can't afford a new car or computer for him.
I was watching him on the weekend.
He cut the grass, washed the car, took out the garbage, weeded the garden and watered the plants.
I got an idea.
I went to my room and took out some paper.
I cut out pieces of paper, and I wrote on them.
I wrote on one piece of paper that I would wash the car every weekend for the summer.
I wrote on another piece that I would take out the garbage every week for the summer.
I also wrote that I would cut the grass, weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer.
I made a birthday card for my dad, and I put the pieces of paper inside it.
I went downstairs and gave my gift to my dad.
My dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful.
He said that it was a gift from the heart.
I did all those things for my dad all summer.
He said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much.
My dad and I are good friends.
I don't mind doing things for him because I know that he is always there to help me out.
A good gift doesn't have to be something that costs a lot.
My dad says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person.
I'm glad my dad liked his gift.
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#level2
@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
🔶 Assistant:
▪️ [noun] a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
▪️ [adjective] of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
🔶 Crayon:
▪️ [noun] writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
▪️ [verb] write, draw, or trace with a crayon
🔶 Eventually:
▪️ [adverb] after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
🔶 Tray:
▪️ [noun] an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
🔶 Create:
▪️ [verb] create by artistic means
▪️ [verb] make or cause to be or to become
🔶 Credit:
▪️ [noun] a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
▪️ [verb] ascribe an achievement to
🔶 Pride:
▪️ [noun] a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
▪️ [noun] unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
🔶 Brave:
▪️ [adjective] possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
▪️ [adjective] invulnerable to fear or intimidation
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#Amy
Amy was a girl who came into our classroom.
She had many things wrong with her.
Amy was in a wheelchair, and she couldn't talk.
She couldn't make her hands and feet do what she wanted them to do.
We wondered why Amy would even be in our class, because she really couldn't do much of anything.
Amy had a teaching assistant who had to stay with her all the time.
One day the teaching assistant got called away.
I had to look after Amy.
I was afraid to look after her.
I really didn't know what to do.
I sat beside Amy, and I smiled at her.
She smiled back at me.
I never realized before that she had such a nice smile.
Amy made a noise.
It seemed like she wanted a crayon that was lying beside her.
I put the crayon into her hand.
She had trouble holding it, but eventually she got the crayon into her hand well enough so that she could make marks on the paper that was on the tray in front of her.
Amy spent a long time making marks on the paper.
She tried so hard to create whatever it was that she was drawing.
She worked for a long time.
I just watched her, and I gave her a lot of credit for not giving up when she obviously had so many problems.
When she was finally done, she picked up the paper with great difficulty.
With a look of pride on her face, she handed me the picture.
It was for me.
I was very touched that she spent all that time drawing something for me.
I thanked Amy and smiled at her.
I told her I loved the picture.
I still have that picture, although I'm not sure what it is a picture of.
I learned a lot from Amy that day.
I saw a brave girl who wouldn't give up.
Whenever I think my problems are too big to handle, I think of Amy and I remember her smile.
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#level1
@Practice_English
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#Phone_Out_of_Order_(1)
Gerald: Hey! Hey!
Walter: What's wrong?
Gerald: There is something wrong with the phone. I'm getting a strange noise.
Walter: Are you? I can hear you very clearly.
Gerald: Hello! Hello!
Walter: This pay phone might be out of order. I'll call you again with another phone....
Walter: Hello! How about now? Is there still a strange noise?
Gerald: Yes. Perhaps my phone is out of order.
Walter: You should get in touch with the phone company.
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#level6
@Practice_English
🔶 Sovereignty:
▪️ [noun] royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
▪️ [noun] government free from external control
🔶 Conqueror:
▪️ [noun] someone who is victorious by force of arms
🔶 Motion:
▪️ [noun] the act of changing location from one place to another
▪️ [verb] show, express or direct through movement
🔶 Purports:
▪️ [noun] the pervading meaning or tenor
▪️ [noun] the intended meaning of a communication
🔶 Reflect:
▪️ [verb] be bright by reflecting or casting light
▪️ [verb] reflect deeply on a subject
🔶 Aspirations:
▪️ [noun] the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
▪️ [noun] a cherished desire
🔶 Democratic:
▪️ [adjective] representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
▪️ [adjective] characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality
🔶 Decisive:
▪️ [adjective] forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
▪️ [adjective] characterized by decision and firmness
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📈 #Vocablary_Levels 📉
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Anti
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Exchequer
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Capitulated
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Ghastly , Divisive
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Subversives
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Clumsy , Dignified , Purports
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Commonwealth , Spectator , Madame , Conqueror
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Bureaucratic , Chancellor , Nonsense , Contemplate , Theft , Aspirations , Decisive
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Wealth , Consent , Treaty , Alliance , Abandoning , Chamber , Confidence , Democracy , Constituents , Status , Parliament , Constitution , Executive , Communists , Submit , Merging , Sovereignty , Motion , Reflect , Democratic
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Looser , Introducing , Common , Proposal , Secretive , Regard , Object , Duties , Elected , Traded , Role , Crown , Prime , Minister , Destroyed , Proposed , Lent , Therefore , Determined , Council , Ministers , Vote , Chief , Whip , Labour , Invite , Community , Argument , Nor
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Another , Way , Would , Be , To , Have , A , Wider , I , An , Idea , For , Of , Am , Bill , On , The , Subject , Rather , Like , We , Work , By , With , People , Or , Could , Accept , This , Which , Is , Centralized , And , That , How , Was , Born , Will , Die , One , But , Never , Put , My , Behind , It , Hate , Being , Called , Can , When , In , Saying , If , Does , Not , Agree , What , Lot , Ask , Myself , Why , House , Ready , Its , As , Fear , Forty , Years , Ago , Month , Has , Lost , Believes , Must , Governed , Someone , Else , Afraid , Use , Powers , Entrusted , Power , Gets , Asked , Go , Telly , Member , Want , Accepted , Joined , Part , Leaving , Under , Control , Threw , Away , Rights , Are , Us , Give , Even , Everything , Cannot , Hand , Me , Five , Just , Do , Public , There , Only , Answer , Themselves , Tell , Planned , They , All , Said , Our , So , Did , Possible , Support , Government , S , Told , Against , Take , Faster , Into , Those , Who , Here , Nationalist , About , Should
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@Practice_English
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Words of the article:
✳️ Receiver: جِهَاز اِسْتِقْبَالٍ , جِهَاز لَاقِط , مُسْتَلِم , مُسْتَلَم , قَابِض , مُسْتَقْبِل , رِسِيفَر
✳️ Peculiar: غَيْرُ مَأْلُوف
✳️ Dial: قُرْص اَلتِّلِيفُونِ
✳️ Tone: نَبْرَة , نَغْمَة
✳️ Notify: أَشْهَرَ , أَنْذَرَ , أَشْعَرَ
✳️ Complaining: مُتَذَمِّر , تَظَلُّمِيّ
✳️ Favours: حسنات
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
📈 #Vocablary_Levels 📉
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Notify
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Peculiar , Dial
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Receiver
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Tone , Complaining , Favours
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Hey , What , S , The , Matter , With , Phone , Handing , To , Listen , This , Noise , It , Doesn , T , Sound , Like , A , Must , Be , Out , Of , Order , We , D , Better , Company , How , Do , That , Can , Use , Let , Go , Next , Door , And , Our , Neighbour , He , Always , About , People , I , Don , Want , Ask , Any , Him , Across , Street , Forgot , Mrs , M , Sure , She , Us , Her
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#Sir_Geoffrey_Howe:_'resignation_speech'_(1)
As long ago as 1962 it was Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan, who first put the central point clearly. He argued that we had to place and keep ourselves within the Community. He saw it as essential then as it is today not to cut ourselves off from the realities of power, not to retreat into a ghetto of sentimentality about our past and so diminish our control over our own destiny in the future.
The pity is that the Macmillan view had not been perceived more clearly a decade before in the fifties. It would have spared so many of the struggles of the past twenty years had we been in the Community from the outset, had we been ready, in the much too simple phrase, to surrender some sovereignty at a much earlier stage.
Had we been in from the start we should have had more not less influence over the Europe in which we live today. We should never forget the lesson of that isolation, of being on the outside looking in, for the conduct of today's affairs.
We have done best when we have seen the Community not as a static entity to be resisted and contained, but as an active process which we can shape often decisively provided we allow ourselves to be fully engaged in it with confidence and enthusiasm and in good faith.
We must at all costs avoid presenting ourselves yet again with an over-simplified choice, a false antithesis, a bogus dilemma, between one alternative starkly labelled 'cooperation between independent sovereign states' and a second equally crudely labelled alternative 'a centralized federal super-state' as if there were no middle way in between.
We commit a serious error if we think always in terms of surrendering sovereignty and seek to stand pat for all time on a given deal by proclaiming, as the prime minister did two weeks ago, that we have surrendered enough. The European enterprise is not and should not be seen like that, as some kind of zero sum gain.
Sir Winston Churchill put it much more positively forty years ago when he said: 'Is it not possible and not less agreeable to regard this sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions?' I find Winston Churchill's perception a good deal more convincing and encouraging for the interests of our nation than the nightmare image sometimes conjured up by the prime minister who sometimes seems to look out on a Continent that is positively teeming with ill-intentioned people scheming, in her words, to extinguish democracy, to dissolve our national identity, to lead us through the back door into a federal Europe.
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🔶 Eruption:
▪️ [noun] (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
▪️ [noun] the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material
🔶 Spectacular:
▪️ [adjective] sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
▪️ [adjective] having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
🔶 Preserved:
▪️ [adjective] kept intact or in a particular condition
▪️ [adjective] prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
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Pronghorn
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Geysers , Geyser
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Cormorants , Osprey
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Grizzly , Elk , Bison , Pelicans
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Moose , Coyotes , Antelope
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Beaver , Molten
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Swan , Heron
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Mule , Lava , Plume
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Trumpeter , Bald , Geese
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Mammals , Deer , Eagles , Volcanic , Bubbles , Eruption , Spectacular
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Consist , Lodge , Numerous , Preserved
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Sheep , Wolves , Common , Include , Ducks , Pole , Pine , Varied , Chief , Attractions , Occur , Remained , Surface , Famous , Faithful , Lasts , Spray , Delighted , Region
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The , Area , Is , Rich , In , Among , Are , Black , Bears , And , Birds , Especially , All , Year , These , Blue , Many , Kinds , Of , Sport , Fish , Also , Plentiful , About , Forests , But , There , Other , Wild , Flowers , Hot , Springs , They , What , Was , A , Very , Million , Years , Or , So , Ago , Here , From , Center , Earth , Has , Close , To , This , Heats , Rocks , Which , Turn , Water , Heated , Shoots , Up , As , Most , Old , Its , Feet , Into , Air , Every , Minutes , Five , Park , Them , Some , Shoot , Their , Over , High , Visitors , World , That , Been , National
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Words of the article:
✳️ Mixture: مَخْلُوط , خَلْطَة , اِخْتِلَاط , خَلِيط , مِزَاج
✳️ Distinct: متميز
✳️ Evolved: تطورت
✳️ Derived: مُسْتَقًى , مَصُوغ
✳️ Scandinavian: إِسْكِنْدِنَافِيّ , إِسْكِنْدِينَافِيّ
✳️ Conquered: غزو
✳️ Absorbed: يمتص
✳️ Dictionaries: قَوَامِيس , مَعَاجِم
✳️ Origin: أَصْل , مَعْدِن , أُمّ , مَصْدَر , مَنْبَت , مَنْشَأ , مَوْطِن , مَحْتِد
✳️ Technical: اِصْطِلَاحِيّ , تِكْنِيكِيّ
✳️ Ancient: عَتِيق , عَرِيق
✳️ Immigrants: المهاجرون
✳️ Adopted: مُتَبَنًّى
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
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Scandinavian
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Conquered
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Dictionaries
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Mixture , Distinct , Evolved , Derived , Absorbed , Origin , Technical , Ancient , Immigrants , Adopted
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Language , Languages , Includes , Example , Northern , Skill , Contain , Technology , Influence , Contributed , Various , Native
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Most , People , Know , That , The , Is , Spoken , By , Many , Millions , Of , Around , World , However , Few , Are , Aware , History , Today , One , But , In , Some , Ways , It , A , Different , Closely , Related , To , Group , Called , This , Also , Such , As , And , About , Years , Ago , These , Were , Not , Yet , From , Each , Other , Then , Moved , Those , Their , Into , Basic , Words , Very , Old , For , Parts , Body , Numbers , Animals , Mostly , New , Brought , Over , Who , Came , Countries , Begin , With , Letters , Skin , Major , Change , Happened , After , Year , Was , King , Part , He , His , Followers , Spoke , So , Became , An , Important , During , Next , Hundred , Large , Number , Fact , S , More , Than , Reason , Why , Has , Often , Two , Idea , Word , Entered , When , Science , Scientific , Because , There , Been , Quite , Have , Come , Added , North , Peoples , All , Made , Interesting
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Words of the article:
✳️ Candy: حَلْوَى , سُكَّر نَبَاتٍ , حَلَّى
✳️ Garbage: قمامة
✳️ Weeded: الأعشاب
✳️ Weed: مُدَخَّن
✳️ Gift: عَطَاء , عَطِيَّة , مِنْحَة , نِحْلَة , إِنْعَام , نَفْحَة , هَدِيَّة , هِبَة
✳️ Gifts: عَطَايَا , هَدَايَا
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
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Garbage
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Candy
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Weeded , Weed , Gift , Gifts
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It , Is , Going , To , Be , My , Father , S , What , Can , I , Give , Him , Don , T , Have , Much , Money , Looked , All , Through , The , Stores , And , Not , Found , Anything , That , Think , He , Would , Like , Or , Afford , Thought , Very , Hard , About , Buy , For , Might , Some , But , Really , Doesn , Eat , Many , Sweets , A , New , Shirt , Has , Lots , Of , Clothes , Car , Computer , Was , Watching , On , Cut , Grass , Washed , Took , Out , Garden , Watered , Plants , Got , An , Idea , Went , Room , Paper , Pieces , Wrote , Them , One , Piece , Wash , Every , Summer , Another , Take , Week , Also , Water , Made , Card , Dad , Put , Inside , Gave , Thoughtful , Said , From , Heart , Did , Those , Things , Had , Lot , Free , Time , Because , Helped , So , Are , Good , Friends , Mind , Doing , Know , Always , There , Help , Me , Something , Costs , Says , Best , Ones , Show , How , You , Care , Other , Person , M , Glad , Liked , His
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Words of the article:
✳️ Assistant: مُسَاعِد , مُسَانِد , عَوْن
✳️ Crayon: تلوين
✳️ Eventually: مؤخراً
✳️ Tray: صِينِيَّة
✳️ Create: بَعْث , اِسْتَطْرَفَ , تَفَتَّقَ , أَوْجَدَ
✳️ Credit: اِئْتِمَان , اِئْتِمَانِيّ , دَائِن
✳️ Pride: إِبَاء , أَنَفَة , تِيه , شُمُوخ , شَمَم , اِعْتِدَاد , عِزَّة , اِعْتِزَاز , فَخْر , مَفْخَرَة , اِفْتِخَار , مُفَاخَرَة , فَرْعَنَة , كِبْر , كِبْرِيَاء , تَكَبُّر , مَخِيلَة
✳️ Brave: نَشِم , مُجْتَرِئ , شُجَاع , مُتَشَجِّع , أَشْوَس , ثَابِت اَلْقَلْبِ , شَجِيع , خَوَّاض , جَاسِر
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
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Crayon
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Assistant , Eventually , Tray , Create , Credit , Pride , Brave
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Was , A , Girl , Who , Came , Into , Our , She , Had , Many , Things , Wrong , With , Her , In , And , Couldn , T , Talk , Make , Hands , Feet , Do , What , Wanted , Them , To , We , Wondered , Why , Would , Even , Be , Class , Because , Really , Much , Of , Anything , Teaching , Stay , All , The , Time , One , Day , Got , Called , Away , I , Look , After , Afraid , Didn , Know , Sat , Beside , Smiled , At , Back , Me , Never , Realized , Before , That , Such , Nice , Smile , Made , Noise , It , Seemed , Like , Lying , Put , Hand , Trouble , Holding , But , Well , Enough , So , Could , Marks , On , Paper , Front , Spent , Long , Making , Tried , Hard , Whatever , Drawing , Worked , For , Just , Watched , Gave , Lot , Not , Giving , Up , When , Obviously , Problems , Finally , Done , Picked , Great , Difficulty , Face , Handed , Picture , Very , Touched , Something , Thanked , Told , Loved , Still , Have , Although , M , Sure , Is , Learned , From , Saw , Wouldn , Give , Whenever , Think , My , Are , Too , Big , Handle , Remember
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📈 #Vocablary_Levels 📉
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Hey , What , S , Wrong , There , Is , Something , With , The , Phone , I , M , Getting , A , Strange , Noise , Are , You , Can , Hear , Very , Clearly , Hello , This , Pay , Might , Be , Out , Of , Order , Ll , Call , Again , Another , How , About , Now , Still , Yes , Perhaps , My , Should , Get , In , Touch , Company
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Words of the article:
✳️ Commonwealth: كُومُنْوِلْث , كُومُنْوِلْثِيّ
✳️ Wealth: ثَرْوَة , غِنًى , غَنَاء , قُدْرَة , ثَرَائِيّ
✳️ Consent: موافقة
✳️ Ghastly: مروع
✳️ Clumsy: خُرْق
✳️ Bureaucratic: بِيرُوقْرَاطِيّ
✳️ Divisive: اِنْقِسَامِيّ
✳️ Treaty: مُعَاهَدَة
✳️ Alliance: تَحَالُف , مُحَالَفَة , تَحَالُفِيّ , حِلْف
✳️ Anti: مُضَادّ
✳️ Chancellor: مُسْتَشَار
✳️ Exchequer: الخزانة
✳️ Nonsense: خَطَل , تُرَّهَات , تَخْرِيف , خُطَّافِيّ , سَفَاسِف , هُرَاء , قَوْل فَارِغ , كَلَام أَجْوَف , كَلَام حَشْو , كَلَام فَارِغ , كَلَام فِي اَلْهَوَاءِ , تَخَارِيف , سَقَط اَلْكَلَامِ
✳️ Contemplate: تَأَمَّلَ , أَجَالَ , تَفَكَّرَ , أَنْعَمَ , اِسْتَدْبَرَ
✳️ Abandoning: مُقَاطَعَة , مُقَاطِع
✳️ Chamber: غُرْفَة
✳️ Confidence: ثِقَة , وُثُوقِيَّة
✳️ Democracy: دِيمُوقْرَاطِيَّة , دِيمُقْرَاطِيَّة
✳️ Constituents: الناخبين
✳️ Status: حَالَة
✳️ Parliament: بَرْلَمَان , تَشْرِيعِيَّة
✳️ Spectator: مُتَفَرِّج
✳️ Dignified: كريمة
✳️ Constitution: دُسْتُور , خِلْقَة , تَأْسِيسِيَّة
✳️ Executive: تَنْفِيذِيّ
✳️ Communists: الشيوعيين
✳️ Subversives: المخربين
✳️ Theft: سَرِقَة , نَشْل
✳️ Submit: اِسْتَخْذَى
✳️ Madame: مَدَام
✳️ Capitulated: استسلم
✳️ Merging: اِسْتِدْمَاج
✳️ Sovereignty: سُؤْدُد , سِيَادَة
✳️ Conqueror: فَاتِح , مُذَلِّل , فَتَّاح , كَاسِر
✳️ Motion: تَحَرُّك
✳️ Purports: يزعم
✳️ Reflect: يعكس
✳️ Aspirations: مَطَامِح
✳️ Democratic: دِيمُوقْرَاطِيّ , دِيمُقْرَاطِي
✳️ Decisive: جَازِم , حَاسِم , فَاصِل , فَيْصَل , فَيْصَلِيّ , قَاضِي , قَاطِع
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ملاحظة: الترجمة آلية وقد لاتكون في سياق المقالة, نرحب بمساهماتكم في التعليقات
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Words of the article:
🔶 Commonwealth:
▪️ [noun] a politically organized body of people under a single government
▪️ [noun] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
🔶 Wealth:
▪️ [noun] the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
▪️ [noun] an abundance of material possessions and resources
🔶 Consent:
▪️ [verb] give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
▪️ [noun] permission to do something
🔶 Ghastly:
▪️ [adjective] gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
▪️ [adjective] shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
🔶 Clumsy:
▪️ [adjective] showing lack of skill or aptitude
▪️ [adjective] difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
🔶 Bureaucratic:
▪️ [None] of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
🔶 Divisive:
▪️ [adjective] dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
🔶 Treaty:
▪️ [noun] a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
🔶 Alliance:
▪️ [noun] the state of being allied or confederated
▪️ [noun] a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
🔶 Anti:
▪️ [noun] a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
▪️ [None] not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.)
🔶 Chancellor:
▪️ [noun] the British cabinet minister responsible for finance
▪️ [noun] the person who is head of government (in several countries)
🔶 Exchequer:
▪️ [noun] the funds of a government or institution or individual
🔶 Nonsense:
▪️ [noun] ornamental objects of no great value
▪️ [adjective] having no intelligible meaning
🔶 Contemplate:
▪️ [verb] think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
▪️ [verb] reflect deeply on a subject
🔶 Chamber:
▪️ [noun] a room used primarily for sleeping
▪️ [noun] a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
🔶 Confidence:
▪️ [noun] a trustful relationship
▪️ [noun] freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
🔶 Democracy:
▪️ [noun] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
▪️ [noun] the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
🔶 Constituents:
▪️ [noun] an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
▪️ [noun] an abstract part of something
🔶 Status:
▪️ [noun] a state at a particular time
▪️ [noun] the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
🔶 Parliament:
▪️ [noun] a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
▪️ [noun] a legislative assembly in certain countries
🔶 Spectator:
▪️ [noun] a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel
▪️ [noun] a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
🔶 Dignified:
▪️ [adjective] having or showing self-esteem
▪️ [adjective] having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance
🔶 Constitution:
▪️ [noun] law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
▪️ [noun] the act of forming or establishing something
🔶 Executive:
▪️ [noun] someone who manages a government agency or department
▪️ [noun] a person responsible for the administration of a business
🔶 Communists:
▪️ [noun] a socialist who advocates communism
▪️ [adjective] relating to or marked by communism
🔶 Subversives:
▪️ [adjective] in opposition to a civil authority or government
▪️ [noun] a radical supporter of political or social revolution
🔶 Theft:
▪️ [noun] the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
🔶 Submit:
▪️ [verb] yield to another's wish or opinion
▪️ [verb] hand over formally
🔶 Madame:
▪️ [noun] title used for a married Frenchwoman
🔶 Merging:
▪️ [noun] a flowing together
▪️ [noun] the act of joining together as one
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#Tony_Benn:_'The_Importance_of_Democracy'_(3)
Another way would be to have a looser, wider Europe. I have an idea for a Commonwealth of Europe. I am introducing a bill on the subject. Europe would be rather like the British Common-wealth. We would work by consent with people. Or we could accept this ghastly proposal, which is clumsy, secretive, centralized, bureaucratic and divisive. That is how I regard the Treaty of Rome. I was born a European and I will die one. But I have never put my alliance behind the Treaty of Rome. I object to it. I hate being called an anti-European. How can one be anti-European when one is born in Europe? It is like saying that one is anti-British if one does not agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
What a lot of nonsense it is.
I ask myself why the House is ready to contemplate abandoning its duties, as I fear that it is. I was elected forty-one years ago this month. This Chamber has lost confidence in democracy. It believes that it must be governed by someone else. It is afraid to use the powers entrusted to it by its constituents. It has traded power for status. One gets asked to go on the telly if one is a Member of Parliament. The Chamber does not want to use its power. It has accepted the role of a spectator and joined what Bagehot called the dignified part of the constitution, leaving the Crown, under the control of the Prime Minister, to be the Executive part.
If democracy is destroyed in Britain it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.
Therefore, there is only one answer. If people are determined to submit themselves to Jacques Delors, Madame Papandreou and the Council of Ministers, we must tell the people what is planned. If people vote for that, they will all have capitulated. Julius Caesar said, 'We are just merging our sovereignty.' So did William the Conqueror.
It is not possible to support the Government's motion. I have told the Chief Whip that I cannot support the Labour motion. I invite the House to vote against the Government's motion and not to support a motion which purports to take us faster into a Community which cannot reflect the aspirations of those who put us here. That is not a nationalist argument nor is it about sovereignty. It is a democratic argument and it should be decisive in a democratic Chamber.
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