107. women or drink

kitalálod-e, melyik nációról mondta ezt egy közülük való?

a fordításban hogyan oldanád meg a dőlt betűsöket?

 segítség a nyelvtanhoz:
  * előnyben részesít_mondatok

nytimes.com (April 22, 1991)

Sean O'Faolain, an Irish writer who was considered a master of the short story, died on Saturday in the Dublin nursing home where he had lived for two years. He was 91 years old...

...Mr. O'Faolain, whose original name was John Francis Whelan, was born in County Cork on Feb. 22, 1900, the son of a constable. "From an early age he was inhibited," Gordon Henderson wrote in his Dictionary of Literary Biography, by "his father's unquestioning respect for authority, his mother's excessive piety, and the preoccupation both had with rising above their peasant-farmer origins."...

...For more than 60 years, Mr. O'Faolain (pronounced oh-FAY-lawn) won over readers with short stories that were known for their artful blend of lyricism, humor and irony. A prolific writer, he also wrote novels, biographies of leading Irish figures, plays and travelogues...

..."As I see it," he said, "a short story, if it is a good story, is like a child's kite -- a small wonder, a brief, bright moment." Ireland With Some Irony...

..."Everything I write is romantic. But I know too that I have to put in -- that my only hope of sanity and balance is to put in -- irony. Irony is the only element that saves me from being soppy."...

...The most traumatic event of his youth was the Easter rebellion of 1916. He first opposed the uprising, but soon became enraged by the brutality of the British forces in crushing it and executing its leaders. He studied Gaelic, changed his name and joined in anti-British activities, but avoided extreme violence, observing later, "To have cast me for the role of a gunman would have been like casting me as a bull-fighter." Stories of the Troubles...

..."Like Joyce and O'Connor," Gordon Henderson wrote, Mr. O'Faolain "took the short story as he received it from Maupassant and Chekhov and transformed it into something uniquely his own and uniquely Irish."...

106. how much

a söralátétnél is egyszerűbb adóbevallás (a dőlt betűs segítségből kitalálhatod a poént)...
a fordításhoz már nem sokkal a kezdő szint után is nekirugaszkodhatsz.

 segítség a nyelvtanhoz:
  * igeidők (videó)
  * felszólítás (videó)
  * felszólítás_mondatok

Wikipedia: Income taxes are used in most countries around the world. The tax systems vary greatly and can be progressive, proportional, or regressive, depending on the type of tax. Comparison of tax rates around the world is a difficult and somewhat subjective enterprise. Tax laws in most countries are extremely complex, and tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit. Of course, services provided by governments in return for taxation also vary, making comparisons all the more difficult.

Countries that tax income generally use one of two systems: territorial or residential. In the territorial system, only local income – income from a source inside the country – is taxed. In the residential system, residents of the country are taxed on their worldwide (local and foreign) income, while nonresidents are taxed only on their local income. In addition, a very small number of countries, notably the United States, also tax their nonresident citizens on worldwide income...

...The first income tax is generally attributed to Egypt. In the early days of the Roman Republic, public taxes consisted of modest assessments on owned wealth and property. The tax rate under normal circumstances was 1% and sometimes would climb as high as 3% in situations such as war. These modest taxes were levied against land, homes and other real estate, slaves, animals, personal items and monetary wealth. The more a person had in property, the more tax they paid. Taxes were collected from individuals...

...One of the first recorded taxes on income was the Saladin tithe introduced by Henry II in 1188 to raise money for the Third Crusade. The tithe demanded that each layperson in England and Wales be taxed one tenth of their personal income and moveable property...

...The inception date of the modern income tax is typically accepted as 1799, at the suggestion of Dr Beeke, Dean of Bristol. This income tax was introduced into Great Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798, to pay for weapons and equipment for the French Revolutionary War.

...The US federal government imposed the first personal income tax, on August 5, 1861, to help pay for its war effort in the American Civil War (3% of all incomes over US$800) (equivalent to $21,070 in 2015). This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in 1862. It was only in 1894 that the first peacetime income tax was passed through the Wilson-Gorman tariff. The rate was 2% on income over $4000 (equivalent to $109,400 in 2015), which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. The purpose of the income tax was to make up for revenue that would be lost by tariff reductions. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax system. In fiscal year 1918, annual internal revenue collections for the first time passed the billion-dollar mark, rising to $5.4 billion by 1920.

105. if you

ha igazán „romantikus alkat” vagy, tudod, mi hiányzik... a fordítást sem bakizod el, ha megnézted már az Off Course Angol feltételes mód videóját.

 Segítség a nyelvtanhoz:
  * feltételes mód (videó)
  * feltételes mód_mondatok
  * is, szintén_mondatok

Wikipedia: Mental As Anything are an Australian new wave/pop-rock band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from 1977-1999) was Martin Plaza (birth name Martin Murphy) on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa (birth name Chris O'Doherty) on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty onbass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird" Delisle (birth name David Twohill) on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals, keyboards and harmonica. Their original hit songs were generated by Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or collectively; they also hit the Australian charts with covers of songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.

Their top ten Australian singles are "If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?" and "Too Many Times" (both from 1981), "Live It Up" (1985) and "Rock and Roll Music" (1988). Internationally, "Too Many Times" made the Canadian top 40 in 1982, and "Live It Up" peaked at No. 3 in UK, No. 4 in Norway, and No. 6 in Germany, after it featured in the 1986 Australian film "Crocodile" Dundee...

...Mental As Anything's music is characterised by poppy, accessible and well-crafted melodies and lyrics, and their work showcases an ironic, satirical and self-deprecating sense of humour. They are a typically "Australian" rock group, with their music and their satirical, good-time image deeply rooted in the milieu of Australian suburbia, despite the fact that two key members (the O'Doherty brothers) were in fact immigrants from New Zealand. The group's art school background and visual design skills also made them pioneers of the music video form in Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and their videos rank as some of the funniest and most imaginative produced in Australia at that time.

Mental As Anything is arguably comparable with contemporaneous British acts Madness, Squeeze, XTC and Nick Lowe in that their classic pop meets new wave music is typically delivered with a quirky, ironic sense of humour and a decidedly local flavour.