Vocabulary - Nosegay

Nosegay:

old-fashioned A small arrangement of flowers.

Persian:
دسته ی گل

Poem - My nosegays are for captives By Emily Dickinson

My nosegays are for captives:

My nosegays are for captives;   
  Dim, long-expectant eyes,   
Fingers denied the plucking,   
  Patient till paradise

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Quotes - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein:

You never fail until you stop trying.

Story - The Way to a Man's Heart

The Way to a Man's Heart:

Lina often asked Luke to dinner. Lina loved Luke, but Luke loved Lina's cooking, not Lina herself. Lina accepted that for the time being. But she felt that, with enough meals and enough time, she would get her man.

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Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Persian Literatrue

حکایت سحر خیز باش تا کامروا گردی:

حکایت کرده اند٬ بزرگمهر٬ هرروز صبح زود خدمت انوشیروان می رفت٬ پس از ادای احترام٬رو در روی انوشیروان می گفت:

سحر خیز باش تا کامروا گردی.


شبی٬ انوشیروان به سرداران نظامی اش٬ دستور داد تا نیمه شب بیدار شوندو سر راه بزرگمهر٬ منتظر بمانند.چون پیش از صبح خواست به درگاه پادشاه بیاید٬ لباس هایش از تنش در بیاورندو از هر طرف به او حمله کنندتاراه فراری برای او باقی نماند.

بزرگمهر راه فراری پیدا نکرد. برهنه به درگاه انوشیروان امد٬پادشاه خندید و گفت:

مگر هر روز نمی گفتی٬سحر خیز باش تا کامروا باشی؟

بزرگمهر گفت:دزدان امشب ٬کامروا شدند٬زیرا انها زودتر ازمن٬ بیدار شده بودند.اگر من زودتر از انها بیدار می شدم و به درگاه پادشاه می امدم من کامرواتر بودم

Proverb - The early bird catches the worm

The early bird catches the worm:

Birds that wake early in the morning will find worms to eat, but birds that wake late will find no worms. The saying suggests that the same is true for us in life. If we do something early, before other people, we will be successful.

Persian:
سحر خیز باش تا کامروا شوی

Idiom - A ray of sunshine

A ray of sunshine:

Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone. - This idiom is most often used when talking about something that has brought happiness to someone who's been having trouble in their life.

The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.

After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.


Story - How to Get out of Jury Duty

How to Get out of Jury Duty:

The mailman delivers good news and bad news. Topping the "bad news" list for many people who live in Los Angeles is a jury summons. This document tells you that you must respond by mail or phone for possible service on a jury. Many people feel that jury duty is a boring chore and would prefer not doing it.

In fact, court clerks say that the most common question they hear is: Why do I have to serve? The official response is: Jury duty is a responsibility that all qualified citizens must share.

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آموزش مکالمه 1

Collocation Set 01:

Be on one's deathbed >
لب گور بودن
A skirt-chaser >
زن باز
Call someone by the wrong names >
کسی رو اشتباه صدا کردن
A white lie >
دروغ مصلحتی
Average-looking >
معمولی

Story - The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women:

Grady was rich, but he was 78 and on his deathbed. No amount of money—or love—could save him now.

In his youth, Grady had been a major skirt-chaser. No woman was safe from his charm. He used to juggle three or four girlfriends at a time.

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Poem - I Remember By Jerry Krause Sr

I Remember:

I remember a time in youth
Brothers, best friends, together always.
Fishing, and baseball, - oh those were the days.

I remember, together as teens
The fighting and arguing and all in between
The laughing and joking till tears filled our eyes.

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Quotes - Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey:

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

Quotes - Samuel Jackson

Samuel Jackson:

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

Quotes - Creflo Dollar

Creflo Dollar:

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be.

Quotes - Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer:

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Quotes - Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius:

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts

Quotes - David Viscott

David Viscott:

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Idiom - As sound as a dollar

As sound as a dollar:

Very secure and dependable.

The company president believes that his business is as sound as a dollar.

Persian: امن امان، مطمئن

Quotes - Abigail Van Buren

Abigail Van Buren:

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Idiom - As poor as a church mouse

As poor as a church mouse:

Very poor.

The young mother is as poor as a church mouse and she has little money to feed her family.

Persian: فقیر

Quotes - Francis Of Assisi

Francis Of Assisi:

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Idiom - A bad hair day

A bad hair day:

If you're have a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.

Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.

I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.

Persian: روز تخ-می داشتن

Idiom - As phony as a three-dollar bill

As phony as a three-dollar bill:

Phony, not genuine.

Jack is phony as a three-dollar bill. You can't trust him.

Persian:
قلابی، آدم متظاهر، ریاکار

Quotes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

Poetry is eternal graffiti written on the hearts of everyone.

Quotes - Michael D. Montaigne

Michael D. Montaigne:

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Quotes - Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho:

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,

Quotes - Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar:

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul.


دارک دانشگاهی به زبان انگلیسی و اصطلاحات مربوط به درس و دانشگاه و مدرسه

Some Expression in English and Persian:
مدرک فوق دیپلم
associate's degree

(لیسانس رشته‌های علوم انسانی مثل زبان،...)
B.A. (Bachelor of Arts)

لیسانس رشته‌های علمی و فنی (مثل ریاضی،..)
B.S. (Bachelor of Science
)
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