Saturday, August 20, 2011

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.


EnglishVocabulary

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (နံမယ္ေက်ာ္အေမရိကန္သမတႀကီး)
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (နံမယ္ေက်ာ္သမိုင္းဆရာႀကီး)
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan

Conservative(adj.) traditional(ေရွးရိုးသမား), conformist(အလိုက္သင္.ေနသူ), old-fashioned, old school.
ငါးမရရင္ ေရ ခ်ိ ုးျပ န္မယ္။
if you don't get fish, at least you can take a bath;
The tongue is a sword or a magic wand; it can cut and kill or love
and heal.
magic wand(n) ေမွာ္ဆရာေဆးၾကိမ္လံုး
heal(v) mend ,repair, make well, cure ၿပ ၿုပင္သည္၊ကုစားသည္။
Example1
u Hla is a “internet fanatic”.
He once said “ Internet is a magic wand”.

Fanatic(adj.) extremist(အစြမ္းေရာက္သူ) ,activist (တက္ၾကြသူ), revolutionary(ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမား).
Example2
John Yettaw is “religious fanatic”.
He is an idiot?
Religious(adj.)ဘာသာေရး
Idiot (n) အရူး ?

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