12 Surprisingly Beautiful Truths Of Life
#intermediate #life

crappy - дерьмовый
through thick and thin - несмотря на трудности

👇🏻12 Surprisingly Beautiful Truths Of Life👇🏻

Is Being Too Comfortable Killing Your Happiness?
#intermediate #happy

cohesion - сплоченность
prosper - процветать
tension - напряжение

Comfortable 🆚 Happiness

#intermediate #life

To be:
Courage - храбрым
Charitable - шедрым
Vulnerable - уязвимым
And many more...

#intermediate #psyhology
This advice applies no matter how old you are

#life #intermediate
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▫️“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided(при условии) it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”

▫️“You are only young once. After that you have to think up(придумать) some other excuse(оправдания).”

“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”

▫️“I don’t believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster(хомяк).”

▫️“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right(доказываете правоту) or pleasantly surprised.”

#intermediate #joke

🥤 The bartender says, “We don’t serve time travelers in here.”
A time traveler walks into a bar.

🧬 What did the DNA say to the other DNA?
Do these genes make me look fat?
Explanation: This works on a couple of levels: as wordplay (genes vs. jeans) and as scientific fact (genes can determine(предопределить) body shape)

💡 A photon is going through airport security. The TSA agent asks if he has any luggage.
The photon says, “No, I’m traveling light.”(путешествую налегке)
Explanation: Photons are particles representing an amount of light(свет).

#intermediate

▫️ consequences - последствия
▫️ jaded - пресыщенный
▫️ dreary - тоскливый

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#intermediate, #interesting

to insinuate - намекать
pin - булавка
to snagg - зацепиться

Hidden Messages

Тапни, кто такой «yob»?😏

#intermediate #facts #interesting

drugstore - аптека 💊
stuck - закрепиться, прилипнуть 📌
inconsequential - несущественный ❗️

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#intermediate #facts

to expand - расширять
to shrink - сжиматься
hence - следовательно, отсюда, с этих пор

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#things people do around the world to slow down

Fika

The Swedish word fika translates as “coffee and cake break,” yet it means so much more than that. Fika is a mindset: slowing down, being present, savoring the moment(наслаждаясь моментом).
Forget slurping a latte(хлебая латте) while walking down the street and using your phone. When you fika, you put away the screens and sit down somewhere cozy(уютно). You sip your coffee (or your drink of choice). You nibble on a delicious cake or cookie. And you enjoy a proper chat(поболтать как следует) with someone.

#history #food #world
How did hot dogs get their name when there are (thankfully) no dogs involved? Some believe the name began as a joke: Hot dogs were a cheap, affordable (доступный) meal popular with the working class (рабочий класс), and with few people knowing how hot dogs are made, the implication (подразумевалось) was that dog meat was used to keep them cheap.

A more likely explanation is that the German butchers (мясники) behind early American frankfurters (франкфуртские сосиски) noted the resemblance (сходство) between their slender sausages and dachshunds (такса). They nicknamed their delicious creation “dachshund sausages,” and over time, the name gradually morphed into (постепенно превратилось в) the shorter, snazzier (более стильное) “hot dogs.”

#quotes 😂
“Sometimes I feel so sick(чувствовать плохо) at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.” —Banksy, Wall and Peace
“Some cause(вызывать, являться причиной) happiness wherever(куда бы) they go; others, whenever(когда бы) they go.” —Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua
“I am not young enough to know everything.” —J.M. Barrie
“When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That’s how doors work.”
“A positive attitude(отношение) may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy(раздражать) enough people to make it worth the effort(стоит усилий).”
“Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you’re abusing(злоупотреблять) the privilege.”
“Please be patient(терпеливый). I am ruining things as fast as I can.”

10 paradoxes
#intermediate, #life

The more you hate a trait(черта) in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding(избегание) it in yourself. Carl Jung believed that characteristics in others that bother us are reflections of the parts of ourselves that we deny. Freud referred to it as “projection.” Most people call it “being an asshole.”

People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted. People who are chronically insecure (неуверенны) in their relationships are more likely to sabotage them. Call it the Good Will Hunting syndrome, but one way people protect themselves from getting hurt is by hurting others first.

А теперь потренируй свое произношение. Открывай продолжение по кнопке ниже. Включай микрофон и тренируйся)
Now practice your pronunciation. Continue using the button below. Turn on the microphone and train)🎤

3 Amazing Things Invented by Kids

Braille👩‍🦯
Louis Braille suffered a serious impairment(нарушение) when he was just 3 years old. Braille was 12 when he learned of a method of silent communication originally created for the French military. He simplified it, and in 1824 the braille writing system was born.

Superman🥷
As a teen, Jerry Siegel was having a hard time sleeping one hot summer night in 1934. Restless, his mind turned to his favorite science fiction stories—and as he looked outside at the moon, he got an inspiration(вдохновение) of his own. Siegel jotted them down, and in the morning, ran to visit his artist friend Joe Shuster, who made some sketches. .

Christmas Lights🔥
Before electric lights were invented, many people decorated Christmas trees with actual candles(свечи). But by 1917, people were more accustomed(привыкшие) to electricity and 15-year-old Albert Sadacca was ready to capitalize on their trust.

For as long as there have been words, there have been impolite(невежливые) words. The first recorded use of the word fart(пердеж), might date back to the 11th century, when it popped up in The Antwerp-London Glossaries. That would make fart potentially the oldest known rude word.

💩First citation for shit(дерьмо) dates back to the Old English medical text Bald’s Leechbook, where it referred to diarrhea. The word first started to be used derogatorily(уничижительно) in the 16th century, specifically to talk about “a person (usually a man) whose behaviour is regarded as obnoxious(противный)”.

🤬Fuck, however, has referred to sexual intercourse(половой акт) since pretty much the beginning. In 2015, British historian Paul Booth discovered what is believed to be the first use of the word fuck in a sexual/sweary context when he found a court(судебный) document from 1310 that contained the name Roger Fuckebythenavele, which is believed to be a coded insult(оскорбление).