⚪️SORRY


✨Sorry for/about + -ing =
الاعتذار عن سلوك أو أمر ما حدث في الماضي

✨Sorry + to-infinitive =
استباق الاعتذار قبل أو فور حدوث الأمر

طبعًا هناك صيغ أخرى في الاعتذار، ولكن دعونا نركز بطرح أمثلة عن الصيغتين أعلاه.

🔻I'm sorry for taking the car without asking.
هنا أعتذر عن عدم الاستئذان في استخدام سيارتك.

استخدام السيارة تم وانتهى، فلاحظ قلنا: for taking.

🔻I'm sorry about losing my temper this morning.
أعتذر عن فقد أعصابي (غضبي أو نرفزتي) هذا الصباح.

أي أعتذر عن نرفزتي التي حدثت في الماضي (صباح هذا اليوم ونحن الآن مثلا في منتصف اليوم).

🔻Sorry to disturb you - could I speak to you for a moment.

لاحظ استبقنا الاعتذار قبل طلب الحديث مع الشخص.

🔻Sorry to keep you waiting - how can I help?

اعتذرنا عن حدث انتظارك الذي تسببنا به للتو، ومن ثم استأنفنا الحديث معك.


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A piece of advice from native speakers of English on the usage of thanks a lot.

5) thanks a lot also thanks a bunch (AmE) spoken used when really you are annoyed about something and you do not mean ‘thank you’ at all
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Fifth Edition (LDOCE5) © Pearson Education Limited 2009

thanks
/θæŋks/ exclamation
informal thank you
"Shall I do that for you?" "No, thanks."
thanks for nothing ( also thanks a bunch , also thanks a lot)
used to show you are annoyed when someone has done something you are unhappy about or has failed to help you in some way
"I told Dad you'd love to wash his car." "Thanks a lot."
Thanks a lot for supporting me (= You did not support me).
thanks
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

🎯Spotlight🎯


📚When the focus of only is a time or a space adjunct, two interpretations are possible:

🔸'at [time/place] and nowhere else' or
🔸with the modality sense present in diminisher downtoners:

🔻John only phoned Mary <an hour ago>.
👉🏻 [either 'at no other time' or 'as recently as an hour ago']

🔻John only lives <in Islington>.
👉🏻 [either 'nowhere else' or 'as close as Islington' or 'in as humble a place as Islington']


✍🏻 By Prof. Omar Alamri

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🔴 accommodation

#noun


🇬🇧In British English accommodation (= a place to stay or live in) is always uncountable:

✨'For the first year we stayed in rented accommodation.'

🇺🇸In American English both accommodation and accommodations (plural) are used.


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🔹Essential American Idioms🔹

⭐️#ACQUISITION

✨Come by something ▶️ to find or get something

🔻How did you come by that haircut?
🔻Where did you come by that new shirt?

✨Come by something honestly ▶️ to inherit something—a character trait—from one's parents.

🔻I know I'm mean. I came by it honestly, though.
🔻She came by her kindness honestly.

✨Come in for something AND fall in for something ▶️ to receive something; to acquire something.

🔻Mary came in for a tremendous amount of money when her aunt died.
🔻Sally fell in for a lot of trouble when she bought a used car.

✨Come into something ▶️ to inherit something.

🔻Jane came into a small fortune when her aunt died.
🔻Mary came into a house and a new car when her rich uncle died.

✨Come someone's way ▶️ to come to someone.

🔻I wish a large sum of money would come my way.
🔻I hope that no had luck comes my way.

✨Get (a) hold of something ▶️ to obtain something

🔻I’m trying to get hold of a glass jar. I need it for school.
🔻Does anyone know where I can get a hold of a spare tire?
🔻I have hold of a very large piece of land.

✨Get one's hands on someone or something AND lay one's hands on someone or something ▶️ to get (a)hold of someone or something; to get someone or something in one's grasp. (#Informal. Sometimes said in anger, as if one may wish to do harm.)

🔻Just wait until I get my hands on Tom. I'll really give him something to think about.
🔻When I lay my hands on my book again, I'll never lend it to anyone.

✨Get one's hooks into someone or something ▶️ to grasp someone or something; to acquire someone or something; to get someone or something in one's grasp. (Said of someone who is grasping and acquisitive and who will not let go easily. Usually said about a person or about something that is small enough to grasp in one's hand.)

🔻I want to get my hooks into a copy of that book.
🔻She cant wait until she gets her hooks into George.

✨Pick something up ▶️ to find, purchase, or acquire something.

🔻Where did you pick that up?
🔻I picked up this tool at the hardware store.


📚#Thematic_Dictionary
🇺🇸#Essential_American_Idioms
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✨ A kangaroo word 🦘


is a word that contains all the letters of one of its synonyms, called a joey word, arranged so that these letters appear in the same order in bothwords.

✨Examples:

🔻Chicken 👉🏻 Hen
🔻Market 👉🏻 Mart
🔻Because 👉🏻 Cause
🔻Gigantic 👉🏻 Giant
🔻Masculine 👉🏻 Male

✨In contrast, an anti-kangaroo word is aword that contains its antonym.

➖for example:

🔻Covert 👉🏻 Overt
🔻Animosity 👉🏻 Amity.

✨A grand kangaroo is a kangaroo word which has two joeys, one of which is in the pouch of the other.

➖For instance,

🔻Alone 👉🏻 Lone 👉🏻 One .


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✨#Haggle

✨تَسَاوَم ؛ تَمَاحَك ؛ خاصَم ؛ ساوَم ؛ كان مُمَاحِكا ؛ مَحَك
✨بالعامية " يفاصِل ؛ يكاسِر "

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✨Prepositions with ACCEPT


Now normally used transitively:

◽️accept a gift,
◽️accept a bribe, etc.

In older English “accept of” is often found, but it is now obsolete.

◽️Her pride would not let her accept of charity.

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✨Put your money where your mouth is

#informal

=to show by your actions and not just your words that you support or believe in something

🔻If you are really interested in helping the homeless you should put your money where your mouth is.

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🔻Problem #noun #Metaphor


Problems and troubles are like illnesses. When things get better, people think of the problems as being cured.

💭She thinks we live in a sick society.

💭We must address the social ills that are at the root of crime

💭She said that there was a cancer at the very heart of society.

💭Transport was another headache for the government.

💭London was paralysed by a series of strikes.

💭We discussed the company and its ailing finances.

💭The economy is very healthy/unhealthy.

💭The economy began to recover.

💭There is no simple remedy for the problem.

💭This latest development has reopened old wounds.

💭He bore the scars of a troubled childhood.

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🔻#Success /səkˈses/ BrE AmE #noun [uncountable and countable]

#Metaphor

   ✨Being successful is like being high up. Failing is like falling or being low down.


⬆️The biography mainly dealt with his years at the top.

⬆️Many people commented on his rapid ascent up the ladder.

⬆️Their new album climbed / rose to second position in the charts.

⬆️They are riding high in the opinion polls.

⬆️They are riding on the crest of a wave at the moment.

⬆️She is at the peak / pinnacle of her career.

⬆️Not many people reach those dizzy heights.

⬇️The government fell from power.

⬇️We are studying the fall of the Roman Empire.

⬇️His political ambition led to his downfall.

⬇️The Wall Street crash took place in 1929.

⬇️After that, she hit rock bottom.

⬇️Another leading player has been toppled in the tournament.

⬇️His comments went down like a lead balloon.

⬇️A year later his career nosedived.

⬇️Another dot.com is about to bite the dust.


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مكتب تنسيق التعريب بالرباط يصدر مُعْجم مُصْطلَحات كُوفِيد-19 ( إنجليزي-فرنسي-عربي)
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صدر عن المنظمة العربية للتربية والثقافة والعلوم وجهازها المختص مكتب تنسيق التعريب بالرباط معجم مصطحات كوفيد 19 (إنجليزي – فرنسي –عربي)؛ ويتوخى إصدار هذا المعجم غايات ثلاث:
- الإسهام في توحيد المصطلح المتعلق بفيروس كورونا على المستوى العربي.
- رصد أبرز المصطلحات المتعلقة بفيروس كورونا ومرض كوفيد 19 من المقالات العلمية، والمواقع المتخصصة، والمجلات الطبية، وتصنيفها وفق المنهجية المعتمدة في وضع المعاجم الموحدة؛ فجاء المصطلح العربي مع مقابلاته الإنجليزية والفرنسية مشفوعاً بشرح مقتضب للمعنى.
- وضع معجم مُتخصِّص بين يدي المهتمين بالمجال الصحي والوبائي يمكنهم من استعمال أداة مصطلحية مُوحَّدة.
ساهم في إعداد هذه النسخة الأولية من معجم مصطلحات كوفيد 19 كل من: إيمان كامل النصر – إدريس قاسمي – لينا إدريسي ملولي – مرية الشوياخ – عبد الحميد الأشقري البكدوري - بإشراف الدكتور عبد الفتاح الحجمري مدير المكتب.
ويرجو الفريق المُعدّ من الباحثين المهتمين تمكينه، عند الاقتضاء، من ملاحظاتهم وآرائهم لأخذها بالاعتبار في الطبعات اللاحقة.
يشتمل المعجم على 188 مدخلا باللغات الثلاث العربية والفرنسية والإنجليزية، ويتضمن فهرسا عربيا وفرنسيا مصاحبا.
بإمكانكم تحميل المعجم بالمجان من خلال الرابط التالي:
http://www.alecso.org/nsite/images/pdf/6-5-2020.pdf

✨ المعاني المختلفة لكلمة:-

🚩 Out of

١. تستخدم بمعنى [ بعيد عن ]

🔻Out of sight بعيداً عن الأنظار
🔻Out of reach of بعيد عن متناول
🔻Out of earshot بعيد عن مسامع
🔻Out of dreams بعيد عن الأحلام

٢.تستخدم بمعنى [ خارج عن ]

🔸Out of control خارج عن السيطرة
🔸Out of service خارج عن الخدمة
🔸Out of range خارج نطاق
.
٣.تستخدم بمعنى [ من باب ]

🔹Out of concern من باب الاهتمام
🔹Out of habit من باب العادة
🔹Out of ignorance من باب الجهل

٤. تستخدم مع بعض الكلمات لتكوين صفة

🔻Out of this world مدهش
🔻Out of mind مجنون
🔻Out of number لا يحصى
🔻Out of humor متعكر المزاج
🔻Out of health مريض
🔻Out of work عاطل عن العمل


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✨Any fool


= used for saying that anyone at all can do or understand something because it is very easy or obvious

🔻Any fool can see that she’s joking.
🔻Any fool knows that!

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✨Any better
any more/better/bigger/etc


= used for saying or asking whether something is more better bigger etc even by a small amount


🔻If your headache gets any worse, you should see a doctor.
🔻The army couldn’t advance any further.

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