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Much of the media attention will be on the England captain David Beckham, with (England Coach Sven-Goran) Eriksson claiming his skipper will prove at this World Cup he is the world's best set-piece specialist.
Reader question: In this sentence - There's a grey area around the personal use of office facilities and stationery - what does "grey area" mean?
'A U.S. consumer group sued the operator of the KFC fried chicken restaurant chain on Tuesday to try and force it to stop it from frying foods in an artery-clogging fat.
In this headline - "Iraq has descended into chaos way beyond West's worst-case scenario" - what does worst-case scenario mean?
Confucius Say: He who run in front of car get tired. He who run behind car get exhausted.
English writer and actor Stephen Fry, in his novel The Hippopotamus, ridicules men's sexual tastes using a tennis analogy.
Another question from a basketball fan:
"I found in the following passage (in brackets) 'hoop purists'. Who and what are they?..."
I read this sentence - 'He's everything to me and then some" - from a story online. What does 'and then some' mean exactly? Or, is it just that my English is very poor?
I am an interpreter. I once did some translation on Chinese medicine for a Western visitor. One of the problems I faced was with the term 'Pian Fang' (偏方).
As societies become increasingly litigious, I said last week, it is a good idea to give a disclaimer before you bring a product to the market, including making a film.
Li from Beijing asks:
"In the following sentences - Use of the Software is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement.Please read our disclaimer - what is the 'disclaimer' about?"
J. L writes in from Chengdu, Sichuan Province:
"I am a sophomore aged 22 majoring in chemistry from XH University in Chengdu.
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