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  • GRE student vs. Normal Person
    學而時習之不亦悅乎/언어 2008. 6. 22. 13:14

    GRE STUDENT: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.
    NORMAL PERSON: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.



    GRE STUDENT: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
    NORMAL PERSON: Twinkle, twinkle, little star



    GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
    NORMAL PERSON: All that glitters is not gold.



    GRE STUDENT: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
    NORMAL PERSON: Beggars are not choosers



    GRE STUDENT: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
    NORMAL PERSON: Dead men tell no tales



    GRE STUDENT: Neophyte's serendipity.
    NORMAL PERSON: Beginner's luck



    GRE STUDENT: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant. NORMAL PERSON: A rolling stone gathers no moss



    GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
    NORMAL PERSON: Birds of a feather flock together



    GRE STUDENT: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
    NORMAL PERSON: Beauty is only skin deep



    GRE STUDENT: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
    NORMAL PERSON: Cleanliness is next to godliness



    GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
    NORMAL PERSON: There's no use crying over spilt milk




    GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers. NORMAL PERSON: You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks



    GRE STUDENT: Surveillance should precede saltation.
    NORMAL PERSON: Look before you leap



    GRE STUDENT: The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
    NORMAL PERSON: He who laughs last, laughs best



    GRE STUDENT: Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
    NORMAL PERSON: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.



    --------------------GRE를 공부하다보면 가끔 한국어로도 모르는 단어를 외워야 할 때가 있었다. 오랜만에 이 글 찾아보니 머리에 단어를 우겨넣었던 그 시절 추억이 새록새록 -_-;


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