美语世界

• APAD: Square peg in a round hole - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (6356 bytes) () 08/29/2025  08:28:53

• “Be water,my friends“-Bruce Lee - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  08:49:50

• Yes, Master Lee! ;-) but it's so hard to bend the bones ~~ - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  08:58:35

• True, it's only an ideal. Nobody can fit in like water. - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:34:07

• but some r better than others (U r better than me 4 sure:-) - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:55:16

• I saw new college moms worrying about theirs not fitting in. - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:28:29

• They saw fashionable chic affluent skinny girls w/ designer - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:30:24

• bags, things I was totally blind to :-)) - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:31:36

• haha, here's another idiom: Keeping up with the Joneses :-) - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:49:11

• poor moms, that may never end or may never end well ... ... - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  09:52:58

• To be fair, they're brave to speak their worries in public. - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  10:04:34

• Agreed. "honesty is the best policy" :-) - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  10:10:04

• It happened to Apollo 13 - 永远老李 - ♂ (328 bytes) () 08/29/2025  11:36:38

• Haha, put aSquarePeg in a roundHole, Rapidly. A good 1.Thx! - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  11:54:45

• 《离骚》: "不量凿而正枘兮" --- 凿枘 - makehay00 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  18:19:35

• 谢谢！对应成语是“量凿正枘”。中华文化很美丽伟大，史记里也有：“持方枘欲內圆凿，其能入乎？”，对应成语“方枘圆凿”。 - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  18:39:18

• 觉得“方枘圆凿” 更matches today's APAD. What do you think? Thx again - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  18:47:07

• 对呀，长周末愉快！ - makehay00 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2025  07:45:40

• also heard truth rests with the minority - 移花接木 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/01/2025  07:12:34

• heard it 2. go with the herd might not b a wise idea ... ... - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/01/2025  07:35:39

• China Is Not A Dream - jeffnaper - ♂ (6213 bytes) () 08/28/2025  12:09:30

• Awesome! I mean the Chinese poem, the picture & the essay. - makehay00 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  13:11:49

• You're debunking the China/Chinese Dream, weren’t you? - makehay00 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  13:14:41

• Debunking? "Guilty as charged." - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:05:07

• Yours truly is humbled, - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:02:38

• Nice essay with a beautiful dream. I ain’t a poet but feel - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  13:33:04

• this one from 酒仙李白 might fit for your dream : - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (1367 bytes) () 08/28/2025  13:36:24

• Let me say I miss Tang. - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:15:50

• I'm no essayist. That didn't deter me from trying to be one. - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:11:24

• "同舟唯有一株兰， 两岸迎香峡渐宽。" - citadel25 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:28:47

• 谢谢临赏！ - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  14:31:14

• 欣賞詩文之餘，想問一下，中國不是一個夢，美國呢？ - 潛水鄉 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  16:52:35

• "American Dream", of course. But I love Canada! :-) - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:05:55

• "My country, right or wrong". - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:08:12

• Being a Canadian or an American, we have the constitutional - moongazer33 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:15:46

• right to say what's wrong and vote for what's right. - moongazer33 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:18:15

• Liberty makes dreams possible. - moongazer33 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:21:05

• 感謝提問。美國夢所以是夢，乃基於在自由得到保障的大前題下，各展其才，各創其業。這是目前中國所缺乏的條件。 - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:10:20

• 明白了，謝謝！ - 潛水鄉 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  17:42:34

• 請勿客氣。 - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  18:18:57

• Breathing makes sense to life. Thinking makes sense of life. - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  19:47:47

• You‘re a great essayist! The story somehow reminds me of老人与海 - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  19:49:43

• The man battles against the current and finds back peace写得真好 - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  19:51:22

• Thank you! Your feedback is very encouraging. - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  06:41:39

• Hemingway's beautifully simple story holds so much heart! - jeffnaper - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/29/2025  06:49:44

• APAD: Keep the wolf from the door - 7grizzly - ♂ (13183 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:17:12

• Kodus 2 Bill! learned & it reminds me of LittleRedRidingHood - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:25:06

• who wasEaten by theWolf &saved by theHuntsman~~ Thx4Sharing - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:29:01

• Indeed. Who knows but the story & proverb might be related! - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:45:10

• Thanks! Make ends meet? - 硅谷居士 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:49:11

• NP! Sure and not by burning the candle at both ends, I hope. - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  08:58:45

• Ha,myMom wasBad@it that she needed 2 borrow X元from Uni互助会 - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  09:09:32

• @each month end when Dad was sent away 2 countryside - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  09:12:39

• 忆苦思甜. - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  09:31:48

• According to Jung Chang “recalling bitterness and reflecting - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  11:38:28

• on happiness:-) - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  11:38:57

• I established a life style when I could just KTWFTDr - 移花接木 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  09:35:26

• Now I stick to it, not just from but far away from the door - 移花接木 - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  09:36:36

• sameHere by livingSimply& hold enough cash+GIC 4 marketCrash - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  10:04:56

• Keep up the good work! - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  10:05:27

• Ha,突然想起最近文城泛滥成灾的杀猪私信（I got 1 2), hope they spare MYSJ ;-)) - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  10:24:46

• What has 杀猪 got to do with it? :-)) - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  11:40:35

• IMHO, a pig butchering scammer’s trickier &worse than a wolf - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  12:51:22

• by luring people w/ lies & fake promises 4 their own gains~~ - 最西边的岛上 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  12:54:49

• Good for Bill, who can KWFD at late 40s. I‘m getting there:) - 暖冬cool夏 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  14:42:29

• It was more of a whim, he said, nothing to write home about. - 7grizzly - ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/27/2025  17:24:17

• Good one. Learned. - 天边一片白云 - ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/28/2025  10:14:22