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2024-12-25

【英文 Essay】Benefits of Working from Home

    Working from home has emerged as a transformative approach to employment, bringing numerous benefits to individuals and organizations alike. As remote work becomes increasingly popular, its advantages—ranging from flexibility and cost savings to enhanced productivity and well-being—demonstrate its viability as a sustainable work model. This essay explores these benefits in detail, showcasing why working from home has become attractive for many.

2021-03-31

【英文 Essay】Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be (Intermediate Level)

        We all have been borrowers or lenders at some point in our lives. The saying seems to imply (意味着)that we should do neither. There is no doubt that an unpaid debt puts it strain on friendship, just like a borrowed item that is kept for too long or not returned at all. Seeing that it is virtually impossible to avoid borrowing or lending among friends and family members, there are certain practices that must be adopted so that relationships do not suffer.

【英文 Essay】How do you think that young people are influenced by what they see on television and in film.



    In most families in the modern world, television is most important source of entertainment and information. It would be true to say that, since in many countries, both parents have to work in order to provide decent lifestyles for their families, young people end up spending several hours in front of the 'goggle box' (电视机). Though it is undeniable that there are some good benefits from watching television, it is mostly a negative influence for the young. Television projects a sense of unreality (非现实) to its young viewers; it promotes violence and other negative influences.

【英文 Essay】Should smoking in public places be banned?

    Some countries, such as Singapore and the UK, have already introduced legislation 法律 which imposes a ban on smoking in workplaces and other public places. Other countries are considering such as ban and this has given rise to much controversy 公开辩论 among the population of these countries.

2020-11-19

【生活】Sir, how would you like your eggs? 鸡蛋的不同煮法,英文怎么说?

有时候到餐厅,想要来份鸡蛋享用的时候,服务员一般会以英语向你询问:

“Sir/madam, how would you like your egg?”
“Erm, I would like to have err... fried egg!”

你是否经历过,想要点其他样式的蛋,但一时语塞,最后只会点 fried egg 的窘境吗?

接下来,就让小编来告诉大家不同鸡蛋做法的英语怎么说吧!

2020-10-18

【英文 Essay】Write About Emotions and how you deal with them


Dealing with Emotions

Dealing with emotions is vital to your health. Managing our feelings is facing, accepting, and working through them. We will always have emotions, so we have to learn to deal with them. If repressed 压抑, they will find ways to come out as in depression, anxieties, panic, eating disorders to name but a few. 

A lot of the time, people do not want to feel what they are feeling. They may be ashamed or guilty of these feelings, or they just do not like a certain emotion. For example, you start to like your best friend's girlfriend or boyfriend. You don't know how it happened, but you're now stuck in a predicament 困境 where you are totally infatuated 痴情 with your best friend's' girlfriend or boyfriend. Naturally, you would try to suppress 抑制 these feelings. If you ignore them, maybe they'll go away, right? WRONG! The chances are small that your feelings will just leave you; you'll most probably be feeling terrible about yourself, plus, a build-up of pent-up 被压抑的 emotions leads to stress!

Confront 面对 those emotions that you're trying to ignore. Here's what you may like to do: keep a diary in which you write down your feelings. This diary is a way for you to think about the emotions that you are undergoing. By writing down and analyzing your feelings, you become aware of the real reason why you're feeling the way you are, and the emotion becomes less painful.

2020-09-18

【英文】写作时常用的英语替换单词,教你避免词汇的重复使用,LET作文告别平庸!


无论 SPM 1119 还是 MUET Writing,最令许多考生头痛的,无非是遣词用字方面的瓶颈。

想写好英语作文必须要有一定词汇量的积累。这是为了避免在作文出现重复使用的单词,在内容充分的前提下,若能再写出丰富高级的词语,必定会得到阅卷老师的欣赏。

博主在这里就深有体会,因此列出了极具闪光点的高分替换词,是时候向平庸的作文说声:慢走不送!

2020-05-30

【英文 Essay】Importance of Education to Young Children


Most parents are anxious that their children should do well in life and they often feel that this includes receiving a good education. Many parents are of the opinion that in order to achieve educational success, children should start on their formal school education as early as possible. Not content with this, they also feel that it will help their children enormously if they attend nursery schools which provide some kind of preschool education.

Nowadays, many countries place a great emphasis on the importance of state nursery education. To some extent, this is in response to the pleas of working parents for the state provision of better childcare. These state nursery schools, at least for the older children attending them, often have a kind of curriculum which the children have to follow, although this is not usually so rigid as an actual school curriculum. The idea is that nursery schools should teach the children a certain amount of knowledge about letters and numbers, for example, so that they will find learning easier when they get to school.

2020-04-18

【英文】 超好用作文惯用语 / 名言,让批改老师对你刮目相看!Essay Useful Expressions & Quotations



写英语作文的时候,会不会想要升级简单的词汇,让你的作文看起来不至于枯燥乏味呢?
其实你绝对可以适当用点高级的惯用语,让你写得酣畅淋漓!

不过千万要记得,所谓学以致用不是叫你学了一大堆就在考试时硬是乱用全部进去。作文追求的是 Quality,而不是 Quantity。小编不多挑,专门从参考书转载几个较常见的。

*建议在写作添加 expressions 之前,一定要知道怎样加入句子才不会读起来怪怪的(这得靠你们自己去网上找咯)


Arguments / Disagreements / Disputes 冲突争议类
A bone of contention
A matter / a subject where there is a lot of disagreements 争论的起因,争论的焦点
all hell breaks loose
A sudden angry or noisy reaction to something 突然恼怒或乱作一团(尤指人们顿时争吵、打斗)
argue the toss
One who disputes the choice that has already been made 唱反调
at loggerheads
To be in conflict / disagreement with someone or group or organisation 和某人/组织起冲突
bone to pick
One is annoyed with someone over a particular matter and wants to talk about it ...不满而有意见;有可挑剔的事(争端)
bury the hatchet
People who have had a quarrel decide to forget their disagreement and become friends again 握手言和
cat and dog life
Partners who are constantly quarrelling 双方老是吵架
caught in the crossfire
To suffer the consequences of an argument or a dispute between two people or groups 受到两面夹击
clean the air
To try to remove the causes of suspicion, fear or
worry by talking about the problem openly 消除隔阂,坦诚谈谈
go against the tide
One who does not conform to the current trends or the opinions or behaviour of other people 反潮流,不跟随大众
let bygones be bygones
One who is able to forget past disagreements 不追究过去,不咎既往
lock horns
To get into an argument or fight with someone 引发冲突
make a mountain out of a molehill
To make a small unimportant problem seem much more serious than it is 小题大做
much ado about nothing
One who makes a lot of fuss over something unimportant 大惊小怪
olive branch
To hold out an olive branch means wanting to end a disagreement or dispute and make peace 主动让步,提出和解
sit on the fence
Not wanting to take sides in a discussion or argument 保持中立不表态
send someone packing
To tell someone to leave in a forceful and unfriendly way 赶走某人,慢走不送!
skating on
thin ice
One who is doing or saying something that could cause disagreement or trouble 如履薄冰,身在惹祸上身的处境


2020-04-07

【英文 Essay】Describe a person who left a lasting impression on you / My Idol



“If I fail, I try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it’s not the end. Just because you had failed once doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.” The quote, yet motivational and inspirational, is always echoing on my mind. Born without four limbs for no medical reason, he knew from an early age that he was different. He faced more obstacles and discrimination than many of us, but eventually he had achieved success. He showed the world that there still have hopes and meaning in life. He did leave impression on me for his values. Who is this extraordinary person? He is my true idol, my true hero, even my hope. He is Nick Vujicic. 

Nick Vujicic is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. When he came to this world, he was unfortunately classified as “disabled”. Unlike other active and lively children, he could not be like them. Sometimes, he was often teased by the children for being different. He once contemplated committing suicide at one point in his life, but luckily he didn’t. Out of curiosity, he asked his parents about his birth. Several days before he was born, there was no notification from either doctor or nurse that something was wrong with the baby. However, when he was born, there was a silence among the nurses. At first, his mother refused to see him or hold him when the nurse had him in front of her, but she and her husband tried to accept it and tried to understand God’s plan for their son through a strong faith in God. 

Nick Vujicic is a very perseverant man. There were a lot of worries from his parents when he was a child, but he proved and showed that he could be like a normal child. Even though his mother gave him a cushion to support himself, he overcame all sorts of hardship and taught himself how to stand up with a method by leaning his forehead over the wall and slowly standing up. Originally, he was born with combined two toes. His parents decided to have an operation for him to separate those toes so that he could use them as fingers to grab, turn a page, write articles and as many useful functions. Although the operation didn’t go as well as they wanted, he tried to adapt using these freed toes and got an electronic wheelchair, a computer, and a cell phone to free him even more so. There is no denying that his childhood was truly an “amazingly normal childhood”. 

2020-04-05

【英文】Cohesive Devices (Linkers) 连接词



写Essay的时候,写到一半不知如何接字, 该怎么办?
那就需要用到 Cohesive Devices 也就是所谓的 Linkers。

What is Cohesive Devices (Linkers)?


Cohesive Devices is the organisation of sentences and ideas in an essay within the paragraph.
连接词 = 文章段落里句子和要点的组织

Linkers 的好处 (4):


a) Increase the standard of essay 增加作文的水准
b) Increase the number of words 增加字数
c) Improve the flow of ideas and show writing organisation 要点能够写的行云流水,进而展现作文的架构
d) Link ideas and supporting details more effectively 更有效地把论点和论证相结合

    以下小编列出了较常使用的 Cohesive Devices 予大家参考!

    1. Add Similar Points

    比如你要给更多资讯,或者你有类似的要点想要加长叙述
    • In addition
    • Besides
    • Plus
    • On top of that
    • As well (as)
    • Also
    • Too
    • Similarly
    • Equally important
    • Another
    • Additionally
    • Moreover
    • Furthermore
    • Other than that
    • Apart from that

    2. Show Sequence

    显示要点之间的顺序
    • First and foremost / Firstly
    • Secondly
    • To start off
    • To begin with
    • Initially
    • At first
    • Following this
    • Next
    • Then
    • Plus
    • Last but not least / Lastly
    • Finally
    • Eventually

    3. Compare Points

    比较两个或以上的要点或转换论点
    • In Contrast
    • But
    • However
    • Instead of
    • While
    • Whereas
    • In spite of
    • Compared with
    • By/In comparison
    • Rather than
    • On the contrary
    • On the other hand
    • Despite
    • Conversely
    • Otherwise
    • However
    • Nevertheless
    • Nonetheless

    4. Show Consequences

    表示行动所带来的结果
    • Therefore
    • Hence
    • Thus
    • So
    • As a result
    • Consequently
    • On that account
    • Accordingly
    • In that case

    5. Show concession or situation

    表示情况的转折
    • Even though
    • Though
    • Although
    • Even if

    6. Emphasis a point

    强调重点
    • Of course
    • Undoubtedly
    • Obviously
    • In fact
    • Actually
    • Indeed
    • Certainly
    • Significantly
    • Absolutely
    • Naturally
    • Truly
    • Notably

    7. Give examples 

    举个例子以辅佐要点
    • Such as
    • For instance
    • For example
    • Like
    • Namely
    • To be specific
    • Specifically
    • Particularly
    • To enumerate
    • To illustrate
    • As an illustration

    8. Make Positive Comparison
     

    比较相同的要点
    • Similarly
    • In the same manner
    • Also
    • Too
    • Likewise

    9. Repeat a point

    重复重点
    • In brief
    • as I have said
    • To repeat

    10. Make a conclusion

    做总结
    • To conclude
    • To sum up
    • To summarise
    • In other words
    • In a nutshell
    • It can be concluded that
    • In conclusion
    • In summary
    • In general
    • In short
    • In brief
    • To wrap up
    • Finally
    • All in all

    希望这些可以帮助到大家,赶快分享给更多人学习吧!

    2020-03-20

    【英文 Essay】"Respect for the elders is lacking among youngsters today." Do you agree?


    Respect is needed for a society to work well. Children are usually taught by their parents to respect their elders, but it is disturbing to learn that many youngsters are not sensitive towards elderly people nowadays. Recently, there has been an increasing number of news articles on old folks expressing disappointment over how they were treated in public, especially by the young ones. Much resentment has been generated between these two groups of people. Therefore, I strongly agree that respect for the elders does lack among youngsters today.

    2020-03-18

    【英文 Essay】"Money is the root of all evil"



    Money, or in its formal statements, the currency is a thing that was conceived long before the age of the technology. Tracing back to the prehistoric era, we humans invented currency as a means of replacing the bartering system. The creation of currency enabled humans to make transactions with dealers without any inconveniences whatsoever. As time passed, the evolution of currency also advanced greatly, inventing new ideas such as the ATM, credit cards, and even online transactions. What was before a method of convenience has now evolved into a basic necessity.

    However, due to its importance in our daily lives, we humans have toiled restlessly to earn money. What was before a basic necessity has now risen to be our masters, or in other words, God. We let our lives be controlled by money, and we labor hard to our body's limits for more. Nevertheless, some unscrupulous miscreants who loathe the idea of work tend to use some devious methods for the sake of earning quick bucks, sometimes at the expense of others. Some are willing to turn their backs on good just for the sake of money. Such events have inspired the well-known quote: money is the root of all evil.

    "Money is the root of all evil" is truly a realistic quote if we examine from a religious point of view. In Christianity, evil is formed by the seven cardinal sins, namely pride, envy, lust, gluttony, wrath, sloth, and greed. The sins are also connected with the Ouroboros, meaning the serpent who devours itself. Coincidentally, money 'inspires' all seven sins in mortals, which causes mortals to pit themselves against each other, about devouring itself. Therefore, I conclude that money causes humans to commit unredeemable sins. The question is, how?

    First and foremost, money is the catalyst for greed or avarice inside the human soul. In the basics of economy, 'want' is an infinite hole that cannot be filled. When we have one wish fulfilled, another kind of 'want' appears, by the myth of the Hydra. Therefore, when one gets his hand on a sizeable amount of money, it is undeniable that he will not feel contented and will strive to obtain more. The more we get, the more we want, thus continuing the endless cycle of greed. As the list for getting money gets shorter and shorter, some individuals turn to the dark side. Some are even capable of betraying their companions for the sake of satisfying their own greed. As the never-ending cycle continues on, greed will eventually destroy the nation, the globe, and inevitably humanity itself.

    Money is also the reason why we humans have become ever so prideful. In our current policy, money is equivalent to power and status. Without money, one is condemned to be lowly status, or crudely, from the gutter. However, humans tend to get drunk on their own power and money and start to consider themselves as elite or superior. This hubris often goads them to oppress those of the lower class in a flaunt display of their status. As the situation worsens, riots and strikes occur daily all around the globe due to oppressive employers, causing numerous causalities and death.

    Money also inspires the sins, sloth, lust, and gluttony in the human psyche. As humans have an increasing rise in income, they tend to indulge in hedonistic cultures such as frequenting pubs, drinking, prostitution, etc. Rich individuals also abstain from plain and common 'swill' and stuff their mouths with caviar, abalone or lobsters. With this indulgent lifestyle, it's not a wonder why most rich people tend to get obese rather easily. As humans earn more, they start to work less, leaving their subordinates to shoulder the role of a coolie while they sit back and relax. As time passes by, they start to waste away.

    As for the last two sins, envy and wrath, they are like twins and both complete each other due to the presence of money. As stated before, money is tantamount to the status and power of an individual. This causes those from the lower class to look high up, green with envy. As their jealousy accumulates, they start to be resentful at the unfairness of it all. This resentment is eventually manifested in domestic violence or cruelty to others, rebellions, riots, or even homicides, which always result in the same thing - death. It is all for the sake of money.

    Money, which was once a tool of convenience has now risen to be God. The throne it sits upon is built from ashes, bones, and blood-borne from countless corpses. This dystopia will continue unless humanity realizes the sins they committed for the sake of money.

    Written by Loh Jia Quan
    Adapted on 18/03/2020