Vocabulary - Courser

Courser:

A fast horse.

Persian: اسب جنگی، سمند

Vocabulary - Frigate

Frigate:

A small fast ship used especially for protecting other ships in wars.

Persian: کشتی بادبانی تند رو جنگی

Poem - Who has not found the heaven below By Emily Dickinson

Who has not found the heaven below:

Who has not found the heaven below   
  Will fail of it above.   
God’s residence is next to mine,   
  His furniture is love.

Idiom - When the time is ripe

When the time is ripe:

At the right time.

When the time is ripe, I'll bring up the subject.

Persian: در وقت مناسب

Vocabulary - Minuet

Minuet:

A slow dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, or a piece of music for this dance.

He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body.

Persian: رقص مینوات

Vocabulary - Carol

Carol:

To sing or say something in a happy way.

‘Goodbye,’ caroled Boris happily.

Persian: سرود خواندن

Vocabulary - Saunter

Saunter:

To walk in a slow relaxed way, especially so that you look confident or proud.

He came sauntering down the road with his hands in his pockets.

I sauntered into the garden, where some friends were chatting near the barbecue.

Persian: راه رفتن

Vocabulary - Bobolink

Bobolink:

An American migratory songbird.

Persian: بوبولینک

Vocabulary - Ditty

Ditty:

A short simple song or poem.

In each ditty the name of the country was used to finish a rhyme.

But choose such books carefully, because some of these texts are nothing more than meaningless, silly little ditties.

Vocabulary - Wend

Wend:

To move or travel slowly from one place to another.

The procession wended its way through the streets.

We watched the train wend its way through the mountain pass. 

Persian: سفر کردن، رهسپار شدن

Quotes - Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson:

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy... But how much you enjoy what you have.

Poem - There is no frigate like a book By Emily Dickinson

There is no frigate like a book:

There is no frigate like a book   
  To take us lands away,   
Nor any coursers like a page   
  Of prancing poetry.

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Vocabulary - Incarcerate

Incarcerate:

To put or keep someone in prison; imprison.

He spent 10 years incarcerated in prison.

Carter spent 19 years incarcerated in New Jersey on murder charges.

There are too many people on death row who are innocent of the crimes for which they are incarcerated.

Persian: زندانی کردن

Story - Gets Booked, Writes a Book

Gets Booked, Writes a Book:

A man convicted of writing bad checks to casinos has written a book that he predicts will become a national bestseller. Entitled A Casino Is Born Every Minute, the 250-page book details James Duncan’s successful and unsuccessful attempts to beat casinos.

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Quotes - James Baldwin

James Baldwin:

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

Vocabulary - Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton:

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.

Vocabulary - Steed

Steed:

A strong fast horse.

Persian: اسب، سمند

Vocabulary - Chalice

Chalice:

A large cup or goblet, typically used for drinking wine.

Persian: جام باده، گل استکانی شکل

Vocabulary - Phoebus

Phoebus:

An epithet of Apollo, used in contexts where the god was identified with the sun.

Persian: خورشید،  آپولو: خدای خورشید

Vocabulary - Lark

Lark:

A small brown singing bird with long pointed wings.

Persian: چکاوک

Vocabulary - Hark

Hark:

Used to tell sb to listen.

Hark! I hear a distant trumpet.

Quotes - James Clarke

James Clarke:

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Poem - While I was fearing it, it came By Emily Dickinson

While I was fearing it, it came:

While I was fearing it, it came,   
  But came with less of fear,   
Because that fearing it so long   
  Had almost made it dear.

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Story - Trees Are a Threat

Trees Are a Threat:

The mountain town of Canton is at an elevation of 6,000 feet. It is surrounded by thick underbrush and pine trees. Because of six years of drought, these plants are a major fire hazard.

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Story - Misery by Anton Chekhov

Misery:

The twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin soft layer on roofs, horses' backs, shoulders, caps. Iona Potapov, the sledge-driver, is all white like a ghost. He sits on the box without stirring, bent as double as the living body can be bent.

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Vocabulary - Cubit

Cubit:

An ancient unit for measuring length, equal to the length of your arm between your wrist and your elbow.

Poem - We never know how high we are By Emily Dickinson

We never know how high we are:

We never know how high we are   
  Till we are called to rise;   
And then, if we are true to plan,   
  Our statures touch the skies. 

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Idiom - A Can of Worms

A Can of Worms:

A very complicated situation that causes a lot of problems when you start to deal with it.

I just don’t know what to do – every solution I can think of would just open up a whole new can of worms.

Persian: مخمصه

Vocabulary - Surcharge

Surcharge:

Money that you have to pay in addition to the basic price of something.

a 10% surcharge on airline tickets

Banks claim surcharges are needed to help offset the cost of installation and maintenance.

Persian: اضافه قیمت

Story - Rentals at the Oceanside Community

Rentals at the Oceanside Community:

The oceanside community of Lozano Beach is debating whether to allow homeowners to rent out their homes on a weekly basis during the summer. Such rentals produce high incomes for the owners and the city, which gets part of this income through a 15-percent surcharge to the owner.

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