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Chinglish offers a humorous and insightful look at misuses ofthe English language in Chinese street signs, products, andadvertising. A long-standing favorite of English speaking touristsand visitors, Chinglish is now quickly becoming a culture relic: inpreparation for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinesegovernment was determined to wipe out incorrect English usage.

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Kaplan's Spanish Vocabulary Flashcards includes more than 360 challenging Spanish vocabulary words that often appear on tests. Conveniently designed in a handy flashcard format, it is guaranteed to make learning Spanish vocabulary quick, easy, and convenient. 作者简介： Ken Stewart teaches AP Spanish Language at Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a National Board Certified Teacher in World Languages. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with degrees in International Studies and Spanish, having studied in Seville and Salamanca, Spain. Mr. Stewart has served as content editor to AP CentralTM and has been an AP reader, table leader, and College Board consultant for 13 years. He is the author of an AP Spanish manual for Duke University and The Golden Age Art of Spain. He has been named Spanish Teacher of the Year for North Carolina and the Central North Carolina Teacher of the Year.

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Compiled from G.L. Apperson's original and painstaking research of nearly three thousand works dating as far back as the twelfth century and earlier, and built upon the foundations of the great Oxford English Dictionary, the Dictionary of Proverbs traces the origins and history of English proverbs and proverbial phrases. The original author has avoided the purely aphoristic and moral, which have little claim to proverbial use, and has codified this notoriously verbal rather than literary form in a way which earned the gratitude of the compilers of the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. The proverbs are grouped alphabetically and by subject, with copious cross-references throughout, rendering the dictionary as great a joy to consult as it is to browse through. This new edition includes over 500 new entries covering new examples, such as The customer is always right, There's no such thing as a free lunch, If it ain't broke, don't fix it, Life is too short to stuff a mushroom, and The family that prays togethe

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