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Vin21
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 132
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:17 am Post subject: smugness was a little premature |
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Unfortunately, our smugness was a little premature .
What does that mean?
Thanks! |
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RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: |
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I guess this sentence means:
smugness partly shows a person's prematurity.
I donna whether my explanation makes sense or not, let's wait for our teachers. |
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iitimone7
Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 400 Location: Indiana, USA
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: smugness |
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in this sentence, smugness us used as an adjective to describe someone. it means that they were irritatingly self-satified, that they knew an answer to a conclusion, and it was too early for them to make that judgement. does that make sense? iitimone7 |
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bud
Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 2111 Location: New Jersey, US
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. It sounds like they were celebrating a success too soon. In the end, they were not successful after all. |
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RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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bud is my recent idol  |
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Vin21
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 132
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: |
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I couldn't agree with you more,RedRose,me too.
Thanks for all replies!
I think I understand now,really,it's the plot of a story about a man and a wonan who were fixed up by their mutual friends,everything seemed go well at first,but later many problems unexpected occured betweem them.So one of their friends said that sentence. |
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bud
Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 2111 Location: New Jersey, US
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Wow! Thank you.  |
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Bob S.

Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 1767 Location: So. Cal
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, they counted their chickens before they hatched. |
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advoca
Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 422 Location: Beijing
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="RedRose"]
I donna whether my explanation makes sense or not, let's wait for our teachers.[/quote
Well, I ain't gonna hold my breath to see if they correct your very informal use of the language.
I donna know where you learn your English. You gonna tell us? |
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Vin21
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 132
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,Bob S.
(Don't)count one's chickens before they are hatched.
I just looked it up in the dictionary.It's a perfect idiom for the situation.Thamks! |
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RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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advoca wrote: |
[Well, I ain't gonna hold my breath to see if they correct your very informal use of the language.
I donna know where you learn your English. You gonna tell us? |
thank you. I am self-taught Now you know why my English is so awful however, I am still crazy about English. |
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Vin21
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 132
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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RedRose,I think advoca meant that where you learned the word"donna" from .
I never knew the word until now.
donna=don't ?
And where is it originated from? |
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RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Vin21 wrote: |
RedRose,I think advoca meant that where you learned the word"donna" from .
I never knew the word until now.
donna=don't ?
And where is it originated from? |
Well, I often chat with some foreigners via MSN, they told me some informal usages of English words. such as wanna, gonna, gotta, lemme, gimme. |
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Vin21
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 132
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: |
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wanna, gonna, gotta, lemme, gimme.
among these words,I only know:
wanna=want to
gonna=going to
gotta=got to
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lemme=?
gimme=?
could you tell me what they mean?
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RedRose

Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Vin21 wrote: |
wanna, gonna, gotta, lemme, gimme.
among these words,I only know:
wanna=want to
gonna=going to
gotta=got to
And
lemme=?
gimme=?
could you tell me what they mean?
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wanna=want to=want a
Gotta=have got a=have got to
lemme=let me
gimme=give me
donna=don't know
whatcha=what are you=what have you
kinda=kind of
you=ya |
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