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doubt

have (your) doubts

have no doubts at all

raise doubts =make people have doubt

express/voice doubts =say that you have doubts

nagging/lingering doubt =a doubt that does not go away

serious/grave doubts

an element of doubt =a slight doubt

there is little/some/no doubt (that) =used to talk about how certain you are about something

not the slightest doubt =no doubt at all

without a shadow of a doubt =with no doubt at all

cast/throw doubt on something =make someone feel

uncertain about something

مریم چهارشنبه 28 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 07:56 ب.ظ

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Tips for Getting People to Slow Down

Tips for Getting People to Slow Down

One of the biggest problems is speed. Native speakers, especially business people, tend to speak very quickly on the telephone. Here are some practical tips to get native speakers of English to slow down

Immediately ask the person to speak slowly
When taking note of a name or important information, repeat each piece of information as the person speaks
This is an especially effective tool. By repeating each important piece of information or each number or letter as the spell or give you a telephone number you automatically slow the speaker down
Do not say you have understood if you have not. Ask the person to repeat until you have understood
Remember that the other person needs to make himself/herself understood and it is in his/her interest to make sure that you have understood. If you ask a person to explain more than twice they will usually slow down
If the person does not slow down begin speaking your own language
A sentence or two of another language spoken quickly will remind the person that they are fortunate because THEY do not need to speak a different language to communicate. Used carefully, this exercise in humbling the other speaker can be very effective. Just be sure to use it with colleagues and not with a boss

مریم چهارشنبه 28 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 05:46 ب.ظ

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job words

Work and jobs

A job

I got a job in a bank when I finished college

Work

A lot of people come to London to find work

If you work for a person or company, you are an

is youremployer. The company employs you. If you work for yourself and

do not have anemployer, you are self-employed. If you work for different

companies when they need you, you are a freelance worker

Asking about someone’s job

What do you do? I’m a nurse

What (sort of)

for a living? I work at/in the supermarket

What do you do

employee. Your company is the activity of having a job, being paid, etc. It is an uncountable noun is the thing that you are paid to do. It is a countable nounjob is the thing that you are paid to do. It is a countable noun

مریم دوشنبه 26 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 09:33 ب.ظ

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tick somebody/something ↔ off

tick somebody/something ↔ off

to tell someone angrily that you are annoyed with them or disapprove of them

Mrs Watts will tick you off if you're late again

مریم یکشنبه 25 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 06:40 ب.ظ

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necktie

necktie

a man's tie

how to tie the necktie

مریم یکشنبه 25 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 06:25 ب.ظ

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earth

earth

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to make electrical equipment safe by connecting it to the ground with a wire = ground

Make sure that the machine is properly earthed

down-to-earth

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practical and direct in a sensible honest way

Fran's a friendly, down-to-earth person

a chef with a down-to-earth approach to cooking

earth mother

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a woman who has all the qualities expected of a mother and is especially interested in simple, natural ways of living

Mother Earth

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the world, considered as the place or thing from which all life comes

earth-shattering

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surprising or shocking and very important

an earth-shattering event

مریم دوشنبه 19 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 05:55 ب.ظ

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water

he treated it as water off a duck's back

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of no importance

He was told that the new plan he'd developed just wouldn't hold water

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wouldn't work

Every time we came up with a new proposal, he would throw cold water on it

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discourage it

After all the money that she's borrowed and also spent, she now finds herself in deep water
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in defeat

He's decided to make a fresh start and regards all his old problems as water under the bridge

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not worth worrying about

Once he's earned a bit of money he immediately spends it like water

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spends it freely

she always feels like a fish out of water

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uncomfortable

It's many years since we last met and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then

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a lot has happened

The jewels in that showcase are clearly of the first water

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of high quality

Their job as advisers was to pour oil on troubled waters

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calm things down

مریم سه‌شنبه 13 مرداد‌ماه سال 1388 ساعت 12:22 ق.ظ

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Civil

Civil engineering	مهندسی راه و ساختمان
Civil law	قانون مدنی
Civil war	جنگ داخلی
Civil society	جامعه مدنی
Civil defense	دفاع شهری
Civil commotion	آشوب شهری
civil aviation	nonmilitary flying
civil code	legal code in Québec
civil day	calendar day the period of 24 hours from midnight to midnight.
civil disobedience	the deliberate breaking of a law by ordinary citizens, carried out as nonviolent protest or passive resistance
civil liberties	the basic rights guaranteed to individual citizens by law, for example, freedom of speech and action
civil list	in the United Kingdom, the money paid each year by the state to support the royal family
civil servant	somebody who works in a state or federal government department
civil year	calendar year the period of 365 or 366 days from January 1 to December 31
civilian labor force	all people aged sixteen or over who are able to work and are neither in the military nor institutionalized