Sunday 23 April 2017

SIMILE IS A FIGURE OF - SPOKEN ENGLISH.


Q: They have a unique trait of mixing themselves freely
with the young and the old alike - ఇది కరక్టేనా?
A: They have the unique trait of mixing freely with young
and the old alike
10: ఈరోజు ఆమెకు జరిగిన అవమానమే లేపుకూ జరగొచ్చు - The
instilt that was meted out today to her may be meted out
to you too. Is this correct?
A: We don't use 'meted out with insult. Abetter way of
saying it is. The insult she laced today, you may face
tomorrow

Q: కింది సామెతలు సూక్తులను ఆంగ్లంలోకి అనువదించగలరు.

1.దిక్కు లేనిదానికి దేవుడే దిక్కు
... కారణం లేక కార్యం పుట్టదు.
A: 1) God takes care of those who have none to care for
them
2) There can be no effect without a cause.

 పదాల అర్థాలు, వాటి ఉపయోగాల.
1) Accusation 2) Allegation
Acusation is stronger than allega
thon. Accusation' is making complaint
Butainst somebody with some proof
Allegation is just making a complaint
without the support of poor
2) Allege complain without any proof
*Alleged
Fg: He is alleged people say, of course
without proof that he has murdered
Allegation mere complaint without the
support of a proof
0: గండి పేర్కొన్న రెండు వాక్యాల అద్దం ఒంలో అయినా,
దేన్ని ఏ సందర్భంలో లేదా ఏమంలో appre-
private గా ఉపయోగిస్తారు.
He is healthy & He is good health
3) I felt read & I felt sense of pride
i There is a short time & There is a short
A: Il Both are me. However. "Healthy
meas physically and mentally being in
good condition, whereas in good
health means not likely to become ill.
3) Both are same, though I felt a sense of
pnde' is more formal than I felt proud!
3) There is a short time - not so correct.
A better way of saying it is, the time is
short or there is little/ a little time
There is a short span of time' is more
formal than Time is short
Q . పదాల అర్థాలు, వాటి ఉపయోగాలను
1) Contention & Argument
2) Sleep & Fall asleep
A: D 'A contention is a strong argument, it is
an angry disagreement between two
people = dispute. It also means a belief
or an opinion that one strongly sup-
ports
Eg: His contention is that his bike hit the
boy accidentally
* An argument on the other hand, is just
a discussion in which two or more peo-
ple may participate
Eg: We reached an agreement after some
argument
2) Sleep = Be in a state of sleep sleeping.
* Fall asleep = To go into sleep with or
without somebody knowing it.

Q: Sir please explain the following
words with examples.

1) Simile
2) Metaphor
3) Phrase
4) Idiom
sy Empathy
6) Tepid
7) Lake warm
8) Boiling hot
9) Simmer
A: 1) Simile is a figure of speech in which
two things are compare
Eg: Her cheeks are red like a rose.
2) Metaphor is also a figure of speech, in
which we say that something is something
else.
Eg: The camel is the ship of the desert. Here
the camel is equated to the ship.
3) A phrase is a group of words without a
verb
Eg: In the evening, during the class hours,
etc
4) An idiom is a group of words. The mean-
ing of the whole group, however, is dif-
ferent from the meaning of each word in
it.
Eg: 'Be in hot water' = Be in trouble.
5) Empathy means imagining yourself in the
position of another person and understand
their feelings and troubles
6) Tepid = equal to the temperature of our
surroundings. 
7) Luke warm = Just warm- less hot than
tepid.
8) Boiling hot = very hot
9) Simmer= (of water) just below the point
when it boils.

Q: Sir, please say in English
1) వాళ్ళ బాబు ఇంటికి వెళ్లనని మారాం చేస్తున్నా
2) నాకు ఆయాసం వస్తోంది.
3) ఆకలి, దాహం తీరిందా?
A: 1) Their son is refusing to go to school
adamant about not going to schoo
2)lam panting/gasping for breath.
3) Is your hunger is satisfied thirst slaked?
Q: సర్, కింది వాక్యం సరైందో కాలో వివరించగలరు
You appear much better than last week
A: The sentence should have been You
appear much better than you did last
week'. 'You appear much better than last
week is an error
Q: Sir, కొలువుదీరడం - Please say in English.
A: The king held the court.

Q: The day after! the previous day/ the nextt
day/ the following day Please say the
indirect speech of the above words, and
also explain what the above ones become
in IDS
A: The day after/ the next day/ the following
day, the previous day- these are all words
used in INDIRECT SPEECH, and not in
DIRECT SPEECH Tomorrow, in direct
Speech is changed in the indirect speech
nlo the day after/ the next day/ the follo
ng day Yesterday in direct speech is
Changed into the 'previous day/ the day
before in indirect speech.
9:Let him be there- Is this correct?
A: Tbe sentence is quite nght
1 saw you lighting a cigarette/ I saw yo
g went-ls this corect
aw you lighting a cigarctle I savw you
Mgnt a cigarctte. saw you go/ going
Comect. l saw you went-Wrong

invincible.
Invincible x Beatable/ conquerable
Eg: India was conquerable during the
British days, because there was no
unity among Indians.
5. Servile = Slavish.
Eg: By nature he is servile and does not
appreciate independence.
Servile x Aggressive/ dominant
Eg: He is of an aggressive nature

Q: కింది పదాల అర్థాలు .

1) Condition & Stipulation
2) Go back on (a promise) & Back out (of
a promise)
3) Crispy & Crunchy
A: 1) 'Condition' is a rule or a decision you
must agree to as a part of a contract or
an agreement
Stipulation = stating clearly and firmly that
something must be done or how it must be
done.
2) Go back on a promise = Not to keep one's
promise = back out of a promise. - No dif-
ference.
3) Crispy = hard and dry in a pleasant way.
Eg: A biscuit is crunchy if when we eat it, we
feel it is hard and dry (fresh).
* 'Crunchy', on the other hand, refers to the
sound that is made when we eat something
crispy.

Monday 17 April 2017

GRINDING HALT - SPOKEN ENGLISH.


Harihar: Because of
that lazy fool Kumar,
everything has come
to a grinding halt. I
am sure that the other
machine is out of
order too. It will take
a whole day for us to Resume work again ( సోమరి కుమార్
వల్ల అంతా ఆగిపోయింది. ఇంకో యంత్రం
ఆ చెడిపోయుంటుందని నా నమ్మకం. మళ్లీ
పని మొదలవడానికి ఒక పూర్తి రోజు
పడుతుంది),
Mallika: What has he done? Why do
you blame him? (అతనేం చేశాడు?
తననెందుకు తప్పు పడుతున్నావు?)

Harihar: I have been drilling into his
mind time and again not to meddle
with the important parts of the
machine. He doesn't pay heed to me.
See the trouble we are in now
(మాటిమాటికీ అతనికి నూరిపోస్తూనే ఉన్నా. ఆ
యంత్రం ముఖ్యమైన భాగాలను కెలకొద్దని. నేను
చెప్పేది వినలేదతడు. చూడు ఇప్పుడు మనం
ఎంత ఇబ్బంది పడుతున్నామో).
Mallika: True. He is that sort of guy.
But please realise that blaming oth-
ers won't solve the problem. Think of
what we are going to do(నిజమే. అతను
అలాంటివాడే. కానీ నువ్యర్థం చేసుకో, ఇతరులను
నందించడం వల్ల సమస్య తీరదని, ఇప్పుడేం
Flarihar: It beats me. Shall we cal
the technician or shall we wait till
this evening .
Mallika: Waiting till the evening
could only cause a big loss to us. Let
us get down to the brass-tacks, Send
for the technician? immediately. See
that the machine is ready by the
evening .
Harihar: Our technician is over the
hill, and is not in touch with the lat
est in the field. 1ime we changed
him. He will delay things (o
Mallika: Is it the time for Scouting
for new talent. e are losing pre
cious time. Let us make do with him
lor this ime. From the next time
onwards we can think of someone
Harihar: That's ok then .