tailieunhanh - British english a to z_8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'british english a to z_8', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | sixpence 329 site . locate Large-scale industry is sited in the Midlands. Americans would have said located or situated. sitrep n. see comment Report on current situation a military abbreviation. sitter-in n. baby-sitter An archaic term. See also child-minder. sitting n. approx. serving Some London restaurants have several sittings a night that is why it s so important to book reserve in advance. Nobody rings up a restaurant and asks for this or that sitting which is simply a restaurateur s term as one used to on large ships. sitting adj. incumbent In discussing American presidential elections British television commentators and newspaper columnists invariably refer to the sitting president. Americans call the president the incumbent using the adjective as a substantive to describe the one in office. sitting-room n. living-room Sitting-room sounds old-fashioned in America. Living-room is coming into use as a synonym for sitting-room. See also lounge reception-room drawing-room. sitting tenant statutory tenant A tenant in situ who is legally entitled to remain so despite the expiration of his or her lease. situations vacant help wanted Advertisement page heading. Synonymous with vacancies. situpon n. Inf. backside This is a particularly coy word usually applied to the female genitals by a healthworker who is uneasy about referring to the anatomical parts by their proper name. And how is your situpon feeling six n. see comment In cricket a fly ball that lands beyond the boundary the white line marking the outer limits of the playing field or ground scores six runs as compared with a boundary which scores only four. A six is the supreme achievement of a batsman and rarely happens. It is far rarer than a home run in baseball. To hit sometimes knock a person for six is to knock him for a loop knock the daylights out of him in the sense of demolishing an opponent in an argument. One can hit something as well as someone for six a weak argument from an adversary for .