English Recordings

(2013.12.21.토) It's Saturday night. On the bus, there are a lot of people who are going somewhere, though I don't know where they are going. Fortunatly, I'm sitting on a bus seat with my husband. I can see the night views along the roads through the window. Right now, 2013 is passing away (=2013 is coming to an end) and 2014 is coming. I can see a lot of winter light decorations along the road. Most of the decorations are shining in the trees. My eyes are getting uncomfortable since I'm writing with my phone in a moving bus. So I'd better stop writing here, and will continue writing next time. I hope all of you will have a good night! ~ ♪

- It is the story of a young girl with a red cap and a big black wolf with big teeth.

- The 2 young children of a poor woodcutter are lost in a dark forest.... They discover a large cottage built of gingerbread and cakes.

- A young girl must live with a terrible stepmother and her two mean daughters but she has a fairy god mother..

- In an Italian village, an old woodcarver, receives a piece of wood which looks perfect for his new puppet.

- It's the story of a talking cat who helps his master get the king's favours.

- Three little pigs leave home to make their fortunes.
They each build a house. A big Bad Wolf appears .....

-She lives underwater and loves to visit the surface world. She falls in love with a human prince.

- A little girl goes for a walk in the forest and comes upon a house where she enters. She finds three bowls of porridge on the table.

-This tale is about a little princess whose mother died and whose stepmother was jealous of her beauty.

-A prince falls under a curse because he was rude to a fairy. He will be a beast for the rest of his life.

-It is the story of a little boy who is as small as his mother's thumb.

The "U" in the USA stands for "united".

A shooting star is really a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earth's atmosphere from space.

They are of the same age

She and I are the same age.

I didn't get top marks in the exam, but my results were fairly good.

He had a bloated stomach after eating too much macaroni salad.

You have only two hours to write this exam, so make the most of your time.

You only get one chance, so make the most of it.

How to bend wood dowels.

Slander or libel, it amounts to the same thing.

I saw this and thought of you.

My uncle hurt his ankle

Once, for a school game, I forgot my shin pads so I tore the front and back pages of my planner out and used that with some tape.

Ana has been playing field hockey since she was 7.

Try taking a cotton swab with most of the cotton removed and dipping it in rubbing alcohol. While it's off, clean the sides of the headphone port on the 3GS.

Relationships are like garage sales. From a distance it looks like it could be interesting. But up close, it's just a ton of shit you don't need.

The cab drivers have a sixth sense about how to navigate the traffic jams - they slither through the streets barely acknowledging something silly like lane markers.

The knife had a fine edge that could cut anything.

We will arrive in a short time.

A cat's paw is soft on the bottom, but has dangerous retractable claws.

Here is my cat Juan meowing and purring.

How to trim your Cat's claws

Recently I did a taste test and found that I really like lobster tail, but not the claw meat.

Mr. Incredible can lift a car.
Frozone can snowboard.
Elastigirl can turn into a parachute.
Violet can become invisible.
Jack-Jack can create fire and burst into flames.
Kari can't control Jack-Jack.
Mr. Incredible can resist pain.
Jack-Jack can shoot lasers.
Elastigirl can stretch her body very far.
Frozone can freeze water.
Syndrome can only create gadgets.
Mr. Incredible can't fasten his belt.
Jack-Jack can lift himself into the air.
Elastigirl can turn into a boat.
Dash can run extremely fast.
Jack-Jack can teleport.
Mr. Incredible can lift a gigantic statue.
Rick Dicker can erase Kari's memory.
Violet can create force shields.
Jack-Jack can pass through walls.

On November 5 people across the country celebrate Bonfire Night. There are small fireworks parties in back gardens along with big firework displays in public parks. The reason we do it is because it's the anniversary of an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament by a man called Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes and some other men put 36 barrels of gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament in London, ready to set off a massive explosion. One member of the group sent a letter to his friend who worked in Parliament, warning him to stay away on November 5th. The King found the letter. The Houses of Parliament were saved!

<Sampltv -stuffed [stʌft] >
stuffed [stʌft]
1. ~ A (with B) | ~ B (in, into, under, etc. A)
All the drawers were stuffed full of letters and papers.
She had 500 leaflets to stuff into envelopes.
The fridge is stuffed to bursting.

2. [타동사][VN + adv. / prep.]
His hands were stuffed in his pockets.
She stuffed the money under a cushion.

3. [타동사][VN] (음식에) 소를 넣다[채우다]
Are you going to stuff the turkey?
stuffed peppers

4. [타동사][VN] ~ your face ~ sb/yourself (with sth)
He sat at the table stuffing himself.
Don't stuff the kids with chocolate before their dinner.
We stuffed our faces at the party.

5. They had had their pet dog stuffed.
I can't sleep because my nose is so stuffed up.
This pillow is stuffed with feathers.

2013.12.21-<Get stuffed>I came home late tonight with my husband.(=Tonight my husband and I got home late.) I am stuffed now. Maybe it was because I ate too much for dinner... It's not a good feeling when I am stuffed.( =It's a really unpleasant feeling when you feel stuffed.)So I rather feel hungry than feel stuffed . (=So I would rather feel hungry than feel stuffed .  )

Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

First, there’s “Open”.

Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.

Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.

Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products. WebKit has been widely adopted. Google uses it for Android’s browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too. Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft’s uses WebKit. By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers.

Second, there’s the “full web”.

Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering perhaps the best YouTube discovery and viewing experience ever. Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video.

Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free. There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod and iPad than for any other platform in the world.

Third, there’s reliability, security and performance.

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?

Fourth, there’s battery life.

To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power. Many of the chips used in modern mobile devices contain a decoder called H.264 – an industry standard that is used in every Blu-ray DVD player and has been adopted by Apple, Google (YouTube), Vimeo, Netflix and many other companies.

Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.

When websites re-encode their videos using H.264, they can offer them without using Flash at all. They play perfectly in browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome without any plugins whatsoever, and look great on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

Fifth, there’s Touch.

Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Even if iPhones, iPods and iPads ran Flash, it would not solve the problem that most Flash websites need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices.

Sixth, the most important reason.

Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.

We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.

Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.

Our motivation is simple – we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins – we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform.

Conclusions.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

1. This car is already too old.
2. I haven't seen Gabriel since Christmas.
3. I came to live in this country twenty years ago.
4. I haven't seen your brother for six months.
5. I spoke to your brother during the interval.
6. I've already read the book you lent me.
7. We haven't met/seen each other since our last holidays.
8. I went to the dentist two months ago.
9. He has been talking for an hour.
10. It was very cold during the night.
11. We already know what happened.
12. We haven't been to Lourdes since 1990.
13. I met many people during my stay there.
14. He already knows the truth.
15. I haven't seen Francis since Monday.
16. I studied Greek many years ago.
17. I haven't washed the car for a month.
18. We met during the rehearsal.
19. I'm afraid that it's too late already.
20. I've been working here since Monday.
21. I told him months ago.
22. She has been putting her make-up on for half an hour.
23. The telephone rang several times during the meal.
24. She already told me what she knew.
25. He has been doing the same job since 1980.
26. I last saw him ten years ago.
27. She has been waiting for him for three months.
28. There were two intervals during the performance.
29. I'm already too old for that.
30. People have been coming since five o'clock in the morning.
31. I started to work with this company 20 years ago.
32. They lived in this house for five or six years.
33. He was taken to hospital during the night.
34. It's already too late for that.
35. Many people have emigrated to that country since 1980.
36. I've just spoken to him a few minutes ago.
37. I haven't seen him for the last two months.
38. It's very hot in here during the summer.
39. James already knows the lesson.
40. We haven't been there since Easter.

1. He says (that) he will do it tomorrow.
2. He thinks (that) he will go today.
3. He said (that) he would speak to his sister.
4. He said (that) he had found the book.
5. He thinks (that) they will come next week.
6. Alice said (that) she would do it.
7. They said (that) they were going to Paris on holiday.
8. She said (that) she would go with him.
9. Rita said (that) she had done it in the morning.
10. Olivia said (that) she was writing a letter.
11. Penelope said (that) she would go to Seville.
12. She said (that) she had spoken to him the day before.
13. He explained (that) he would stay at home.
14. He said (that) he would go to Madrid on Monday.
15. Sandra said (that) she had eaten too much.
16. They said (that) they had found a flat.
17. He said (that) he would like to go the next/following day.
18. Robin said (that) he had bought the book the previous week.
19. Rachel said (that) she had closed the window before going out.
20. Donald said (that) he had gone the day before.
21. The children said (that) they had already done their homework.
22. He said (that) he would kill him if he didn't pay.
23. They said in the bank (that) they would give him the money back.
24. They said (that) they will not take a holiday this year.
25. Pamela said (that) she had already spoken to her boss.
26. Ernest assured (that) he had never been there.
27. He said (that) he had seen the film the day before.
28. He promised (that) he would work harder.
29. He told me (that) he had already finished.
30. Patricia said that she would like to come with us.
31. He told me (that) that day he didn't work.
32. He assured us that he had gone to see her the day before.
33. He says (that) they will come tomorrow.
34. He said (that) they would come the next/following day.
35. He says (that) they will come in two days' time.
36. He said (that) they had come a week before.
37. Felix insisted (that) he didn't have it.
38. Allan said (that) he didn't want to come with us.
39. Laura said (that) she wanted to see the play.
40. They say (that) they haven't found a flat yet.