TRUE
WEALTH (Different Perspectives)
One
day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country
with the purpose of showing his son how the poor people live so he could be
thankful for his wealth.
They
spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a
very poor family.
On
their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the
trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people
can be?" the father asked. "Oh yeah" said the son. "So what
did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.
The
son answered, "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a
pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no
end." "We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the
stars at night." "Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have
the whole horizon." "We have a small piece of land to live on and
they have fields that go beyond our sight." "We have servants who
serve us, but they serve others." "We buy our food, but they grow
theirs." "We have walls around our property to protect us, they have
friends to protect them."
With this the boy's father was speechless. Then his son
added, "Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are."
give
someone a hand (1):
help someone.
"I can't do this alone. Can you give me a hand?"
give
someone a hand (2):
applaud (to show respect or appreciation for someone/something).
"Dave's
done a wonderful job for the Company. Let's give him a hand!"
a
(real) go-getter: a
(very) ambitious, hard-working person.
"I'm not surprised that Jean finished before anyone
else. She's a real go-getter."
go with the flow: take things as they
come.
"There's no need to worry. Everything will be OK if
you just go with the flow."
grab a bite: get something to eat.
"I'm really hungry. Would you like to grab a bite
with me?"
green: inexperienced.
"I
don't think you can depend on Jack to do that job by himself. He's too
green."
What ‘O’ are internal organs of an animal used as food Offal
What ‘O’ is a place for transacting business Office
What ‘P’ is a tall structure that carries power cables Pylon
What ‘P’ is a legal heir Prince
What ‘P’ is a liquidized pulp of vegetables Puree
What ‘P’ is an edible seed -- and throbbing of the
arteries Pulse
What ‘P’ is a publicly displayed advertising placard Poster
What ‘P’ is a cougar (a large American cat ) Puma
What ‘P’ are apes, monkeys and man Primates
What ‘Q’ is a four footed animal Quadruped
What ‘Q’ is to nullify or suppress completely Quash
What ‘R’ is to cause continuing irritation Rankle
What ‘R’ are leftovers Remains/Remnants
What ‘R’ is reddish-brown Russet
What
‘R’ is the sound of dry leaves in motion Rustle
What ‘R’ is a rebaked piece of bread Rusk
What ‘R’ is to prove the falsity of an argument Refute
What ‘R’ is to become less stern or yield to compassion Relent
What ‘R’ is a hernia Rupture
What ‘S’ is the flexible tissue surrounding the body of a
vertebrate Skin
- Juan is apt
to do something silly, something that will likely
get him in trouble, or even something that he may be liable
for in a court of law.
- She wanted a good lawyer,
so I told her about my attorney.
- I'll be back in a while.
Can you wait awhile?
(Awhile [one word] is an adverb that can modify a verb.)
- He told a funny anecdote
about mixing up his soda with the snake-bite antidote.
- The eager
audience awaited the anxious,
sweating performer.
- She felt bad
about his behaving badly
at the conference. [Use the adjective form with linking verbs.]
- The man who sings bass
in the choir once played third base
for the New York Yankees and is also an expert bass
fisherman.
- She was afraid of him after
seeing his bizarre
behavior at the county's annual bazaar.
- Besides
my unphotogenic aunt and uncle, there were fourteen other people standing beside
the train station.
- He has divided the money between Carlos and his daughter. He has divided the rest of his property among his three brothers. [This distinction is not as important as some people think. See the usage of both words in your dictionary
The
saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" was first spoken by
St. Ambrose. When St. Augustine arrived in Mediolanum (modern-day Milan) in 387
A.D., he noticed that the Church in Milan did not fast on Saturday as did the
Church at Rome. He asked Ambrose about this, who replied "When I am at
Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Folow the custom of
the Church where you are". The comment was changed to "When they are
in Rome, they do there as they see done" by Robert Burton in his Anatomy
of Melancholy, and still later assumed the form we know it in today.
The
original name of Los Angeles was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles de Porciuncula", which means "The Village of Our Lady the
Queen of the Angels of 'Little Portion'" in Spanish.
Euclid
is the most successful textbook writer of all time. His Elements, written
around 300 B.C., has gone through more than 1,000 editions since the invention
of printing
The
best-known story about Archimedes is that when he discovered the principle of
buoyancy in the bathtub, he ran naked through the streets of Syracuse, shouting
"Eureka! Eureka!" ("I have found it! I have found it!").
That was not a very astonishing thing for him to have done. The Greeks
habitually exercised in the nude, and the sight of a naked male figure meant
little to them
In 391 A.D., the largest repository of knowledge in
the ancient world, the Library
of Alexandria, was burned by a crowd of fanatic monks under the leadership
of the Christian Archbishop Theophilus.
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