مردی که نمی خوابد (داستان)

سلام، این هم داستان امروز

Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of the village said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said,"My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor does not work." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.

کلمات جدید

تب	Fever
بی شمار	Infinite
در طول	During
پشت سر هم	Consecutive
بی خوابی	Insomnia
زیر فشار قرار دادن	Impact
کشاورزی کردن	Farm
تایید سلامت کامل	A clean bill of health
کم	Minor
افت	Decline
سالخورده	Elderly
ساکن	Resident
کود	Fertilizer
مشروبات الکلی	Liquor
پزشکی	Medical
عملکرد	Function
اضافه	Extra
جلوگیری کردن	To prevent
کندن، حفر کردن	To dig
حوض	Pond
پرورش دادن	Raise

ترجمه داستان را با کلیک در اینجا بخوانید

 پاسخ چیستان شماره ۲:

Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?

answer: There are only three people. One of the mothers is a daughter also, because there is a grandmother, a mother and a daughter! They each get $7 exactly.

در حقیقت آنها 3 نفر هستند. مادربزرگ، مادر و دختر... پس 21 دلار به طور مساوی و هر کدام 7 دلار تقسیم می شود.

پاسخ چیستان شماره ۳:

One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?

answer: MISSPELLED. It isn’t spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS “misspelled.”

کلمه MISSPELLED جواب است. در حقیقت اشتباه املایی در آن وجود ندارد چیستان هم به دنبال اشتباه املایی نبوده یک بار دیگر با دقت بخوانید.

برندگان:

مرجان خانم و سمیرا خانم توانستند که به چیستان شماره ۲ پاسخ درست بدهند.

اما هیچ کس نتوانست به چیستان شماره ۳ جواب درست بدهد.

از هر دوی شما دوست عزیز تشکر می کنم.

چیستان شماره ۲ و ۳

سلام این هم دو چیستان این مطلب

Riddle number 2

Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?

Riddle number 3

One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?

پاسخ در مطلب بعدی ثبت خواهد شد.
جواب های خود را در قسمت نظرات بنویسید.

Money Expressions (اصطلاحات)

یکی از بهترین راه های یادگیری انگلیسی، یادگیری آنها در جملات می باشد.
سایت هایی در اینترنت وجود دارند که اصطلاحات انگلیسی را در قالب داستان برای زبان آموزان بیان می کنند، من هم بصورت گلچین شده آنها را در اینجا می نویسم.
معنی هر اصطلاح در داخل متن توضیح داده شده که آنها را با رنگ های مختلف جدا کرده ام که کار برای شما ساده تر باشد. فایل Mp3 این مطلب هم موجود می باشد
در این مطلب شما چندین Idiom و Expression در رابطه با پول را یاد خواهید گرفت

I think people everywhere dream about having lots of money.  I know I do.  I would give anything to make money hand over fist.  I would like to earn large amounts of money.  You could win a large amount of money in the United States through lotteries. People pay money for tickets with numbers. If your combination of numbers is chosen, you win a huge amount of money – often in the millions.  Winning the lottery is a windfall.

A few years ago, my friend Al won the lottery.  It changed his life.  He did not have a rich family.  He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.   Instead, my friend was always hard up for cash. He did not have much money.  And the money he did earn was chicken feed – very little.

Sometimes Al even had to accept hand-outs, gifts from his family and friends.   But do not get me wrong.  My friend was not a deadbeat.  He was not the kind of person who never paid the money he owed.  He simply pinched pennies.  He was always very careful with the money he spent. In fact, he was often a cheapskate.  He did not like to spend money.  The worst times were when he was flat broke and had no money at all.  

One day, Al scraped together a few dollars for a lottery ticket.  He thought he would never strike it rich or gain lots of money unexpectedly.  But his combination of numbers was chosen and he won the lottery.  He hit the jackpot.  He won a great deal of money.  

Al was so excited. The first thing he did was buy a costly new car. He splurged on the one thing that he normally would not buy.  Then he started spending money on unnecessary things.  He started to waste it.  It was like he had money to burn.  He had more money than he needed and it was burning a hole in his pocket so he spent it quickly.

When we got together for a meal at a restaurant, Al paid ever time.  He would always foot the bill, and pick up the tab.   He told me the money made him feel like a million dollars.  He was very happy.

But, Al spent too much money. Soon my friend was down and out again.  He had no money left. He was back to being strapped for cash.  He had spent his bottom dollar, his very last amount.  He did not even build up a nest egg.  He had not saved any of the money.

I admit I do feel sorry for my friend.  He had enough money to live like a king.  Instead, he is back to living on a shoestring -- a very low budget.  Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.  He was wise about small things, but not about important things.

به سرعت پولدار شدن	Make money hand over fist
قرعه کشی	Lottery
باد آورده	Windfall
نیازمند	Hard up
مقدار بسیار کم	Chiken feed
صدقه، اعانه	Hand-out
بد حساب	Deadbeat
به سختی خرج کردن	To pinch pennies
خسیس	Cheapskate
پول نداشتن	Flat broke
روی هم گذاشتن (کم کم جمع کردن)	Scrape togehter
ولخرجی کردن	Splurge
پول زیادی داشتن	Have money to burn
می خواهد سریع خرج کند	Money is burning a hole in his pocket
پول چیزی را حساب کردن	foot the bill
پول چیزی را حساب کردن	pick up the tab
خوشحال بودن	feel like a million dollars
بدبخت شدن، پول نداشتن	down and out
پول نداشتن	strapped for cash
آخرین دلارها	bottom dollar
پس انداز	nest egg
بدون تجملات، بدون ثروت	on a shoestring

منبع: VOA

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در خبرنامه وبلاگ عضو شوید تا از جدیدترین اخبار و آپدیت ها با خبر شوید.

به تالار افغان تاک قسمت زبان انگلیسی هم سری بزنید.

Bees who pay their respects (داستان)

این یک داستان واقعیست:

Bees who pay their respects

Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine, about 7 miles from her home in Ludlow, Shropshire (England), died in June 1994. Soon after her funeral, mourners were amazed to see hundreds of bees settle on the corner of the street opposite the house where she had lived for 26 years. The bees stayed for an hour before buzzing off over the rooftops. The local press ran a photograph of the bees hanging on the wall in a cluster.

ترجمه این داستان در قسمت نظرات موجود می باشد.

پاسخ چیستان شماره 1:

The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.

متاسفانه هیچ کسی نتوانسته بود به این چیستان پاسخ بدهد.

چیستان ۱

سلام دوستان عزیز
بخش های جدیدی را به وبلاگ اضافه کرده ام که شامل قسمت Idiom of the day و Riddle می باشد.
Idiom of the day یک قسمت کاملا اتوماتیک می باشد که در پایین هر پست نمایش داده می شود و هر روز یک اصطلاح جدید را به شما نمایش می دهد، این اصطلاحات جزء پر استفاده ترین اصطلاحات زبان انگلیسی می باشند که با معنی برای شما قرار داده شده اند.
قسمت Riddle یا معما (چیستان) هم یک قسمت دیگر است که هر هفته چند چیستان را برای شما قرار می دهم، پاسخ چیستان هم در مطلب بعدی درج می شود.

این هم اولین riddle:

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

New Vocabulary
Condemn: محکوم شدن
raging: شدید
Assassins: آدمکش

می توانید جواب های خود را در قسمت نظرات بنویسید. پاسخ هم در مطلب بعدی به همراه نام کسانی که جواب صحیح داده اند ثبت خواهد شد.