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Thứ Hai, 27 tháng 7, 2009

NHỮNG CỤM TỪ TIẾNG ANH BỎ TÚI

A

Arcording to ...: Theo ...
As far as I know: Theo như tôi được biết


B
Be of my age: Cỡ tuổi tôi
Beat it: Đi chỗ khác chơi
Big mouth: Nhiều chuyện
By the way: À này, Nhân tiện
Be my guest: Tự nhiên
Break it up: Dừng tay
But frankly speaking: Thành thật mà nói


C

Come to think of it: Nghĩ kỹ thì
Can't help it: Không thể nào làm khác hơn
Come on: Thôi mà gắng lên, cố lên
Cool it: Đừng nóng
Come off it: Đừng xạo
Cut it out: Đừng giỡn nữa, ngưng lại

D

Dead End: Đường cùng
Dead meat: Chết chắc
Down and out: Thất bại hoàn toàn
Down the hill: Già
Don't bother: Đừng bận tâm
Don't peep!: Đừng nhìn lén
 Do you mind?: Tôi có làm phiền bạn không?
Don't be nosy: Đừng nhiều chuyện
Do as I say: Làm theo tôi

E

F

For better or for worst: Chẳng biết là tốt hay là xấu
For what: Để làm gì?


G

Good for nothing: Vô dụng
Go ahead: Đằng trước
God knows: Trời biết
Go for it: Hãy thử xem


K

Keep out of touch: Đừng đụng đến

H

How's it going?: Dạo này ra sao?
How cute!: Ngộ nghĩnh, dễ thương
 Hang in there/ Hang on: Đợi tí, gắng lên
Hold it: Khoan
Help yourself: Tự nhiên
Take it easy: Từ từ


I

I see: Tôi hiểu
it's all the same: Cũng vậy thôi mà
I 'm afraid: Rất tiếc tôi...
It beats me: Tôi chịu (không biết)
I was just thinking: Tôi chỉ nghĩ linh tinh thôi
I was just daydreaming: Tôi chỉ đãng chí chút thôi
Is that so?: Vậy hả?
I guess so: Tôi đoán vậy
I can't say for sure: Tôi không thể nói chắc chắn được



J

Just for fun: Giỡn chơi thôi
Just looking: Chỉ xem chơi thôi
Just kidding / just joking: Nói chơi thôi

L

Last but not least: Sau cùng nhưng không kém phần quan trọng
Little by little: Từng li, từng tý
Let me go: Để tôi đi
Let me be: Kệ tôi
Long time no see: Lâu quá không gặp

M

Make yourself at home: Cứ tự nhiên
Make yourself comfortable: Cứ tự nhiên
My pleasure: Hân hạnh

O

Of course: Dĩ nhiên
Out of order: Hư, hỏng
Out of luck: Không may
Out of question: Không thể được
Out of the blue: Bất ngờ, bất thình lình
Out of touch: Không còn liên lạc
One way or another: Không bằng cách này thì bằng cách khác
One thing lead to another: Hết chuyện này đến chuyện khác
P

Piece of cake: Dễ thôi mà, dễ ợt
Poor thing: Thật tội nghiệp

N

Nothing: Không có gì
Nothing much: Không có gì mới cả
 Not at all: Không có gì (Trả lời Khi ai đó cám ơn)
No choice: Hết cách,
No hard feeling: Không giận chứ
Not a chance: Chẳng bao giờ
Now or never: ngay bây giờ hoặc chẳng bao giờ
No way out/ dead end: không lối thoát, cùng đường
No more: Không hơn
No more, no less: Không hơn, không kém
No kidding ?: Không nói chơi chứ ?
Never say never: Đừng bao giờ nói chẳng bao giờ
none of your business: Không phải chuyện của bạn
No way: Còn lâu
No problem: Dễ thôi
No offense: Không phản đối

S

So?: Vậy thì sao?
So So: Thường thôi
So what?: Vậy thì sao?
Stay in touch: Giữ liên lạc
Step by step: Từng bước một
See ?: Thấy chưa?
Sooner or later: Sớm hay muộn
Shut up !: Im Ngay
Speak up: Nói to lên

T

That's all: Có thế thôi, chỉ vậy thôi
Too good to be true: Thiệt khó tin
Too bad: Ráng chiụ
The sooner the better: Càng sớm càng tốt
Take it or leave it: Chịu hay không

Y

You see: Bạn thấy đó
You better believe it: Tốt hơn bạn nên tin nó

W

 What for?: Để làm gì?
What's up?: Có chuyện gì vậy?
What a jerk!: Thật đáng ghét
What have you been doing?: Dạo này đang làm gì?
What's on your mind? Bạn đang lo lắng điều gì vậy?
Well?: Sao hả?
Well Then: Như vậy thì
Who knows: Ai biết
Way to go: Khá lắm, được lắm
Why not ?: Tại sao không ?
White lie: Ba xạo
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MUSK-FLOWERS - HOA KHỈ

"Mimulus" is also an OpenWetWare community for the Mimulus biology.
"Monkey-flower" and variants redirect here. The term is also used for Common Toadflax and other snapdragon-like Lamiales.
For the crab genus, see Mimulus (crab).
Mimulus

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Mimulus
Linnaeus
Species

Presently some 150, but see text.
Synonyms

See text

Mimulus (pronounced /ˈmɪmjuːləs/)[1] is a diverse plant genus, the monkey-flowers and musk-flowers. The about 150 species are currently placed in the family Phrymaceae. The genus has traditionally been placed in Scrophulariaceae. The removal of Mimulus from that family has been supported by studies of chloroplast DNA first published in the mid-1990s[citation needed]. Multiple studies of chloroplast DNA and two regions of nuclear rDNA[2] suggest that the genera Phryma, Berendtiella, Hemichaena, Leucocarpus, Microcarpeae, Peplidium, Glossostigma, and Elacholoma are all derived from within Mimulus and would need to be rearranged.

It is recognized that there are two large groups of Mimulus species, with the largest group of species in western North America, and a second group with center of diversity in Australia. A few species also extend into eastern North America, eastern Asia and southern Africa. This enlarged group is a part of the newly redefined Phrymaceae.

Characteristics

Most of the species are annuals or herbaceous perennials, but a few species are subshrubs with woody stems; these are treated in the section Diplacus. Diplacus is clearly derived from within Mimulus s.l. and was not usually considered to be generically distinct. Hence, it would not be treated as a genus separate from Mimulus now, though it might become a section of a yet-to-be defined split from Mimulus s.str.. A large number of the species grow in moist to wet soils with some growing even in shallow water. Some species produce copious amounts of aromatic compounds, giving them a musky odor (hence "musk-flowers").

Mimulus are called monkey-flowers because some species have flowers shaped like a monkeys face,[3] others have painted faces resembling a monkey. The generic name, Latin mimus meaning "mimic actor", from the Greek mimos meaning "imitator" also references this. The stem of a few species of Mimulus can be either smooth or hairy, and this trait is determined by a simple allelic difference[verification needed]. At least M. lewisii is known to possess "flypaper-type" traps and is apparently protocarnivorous, supplementing its nutrients with small insects.

Uses and ecology

Mimulus cv. 'Jack'

In horticulture, several species, cultivars and hybrids are used. Most important are those derived from M. bigelovii stock, a species with large, spread-out flowers. One of the standard Bach flower remedies is derived from Mimulus[verification needed]; some species are also used in folk medicine.

Several taxa, namely the yellow monkey-flowers (M. guttatus and relatives) and the section Erythranthe (including e.g. M. lewisii, M. cardinalis and M. parishii) are model organisms for research in ecology, genetics and genomics. The genome sequence of Mimulus guttatus was released in late spring, 2007.

Mimulus is used as food by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, e.g. the Mouse Moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis). For a list of Mimulus pathogens, see List of mimulus, monkey-flower diseases.

Edibility and medicinal uses

Mimulus species tend to concentrate sodium chloride and other salts absorbed from the soils in which they grow in their leaves and stem tissues. Native Americans and early travelers in the American West used this plant as a salt substitute to flavor wild game. The entire plant is edible, but reported to be very salty and bitter unless well cooked. The juice squeezed from the plant's foliage was used as a soothing poultice for minor burns and skin irritations. [4]

Selected species of Mimulus senso lato

Wild Mimulus bigelovii near Las Vegas, Nevada
Wide-throated Yellow Monkey-flower
Mimulus brevipes
Yellow Monkey-flower
Mimulus luteus
Downy Mimetanthe
Mimulus pilosus

See also

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PUTTY ROOT - LAN ADAM-VÀ-EVE

Also called: Adam & Eve Root Botanical: Aplectrum hyemale

Description: A native wild orchid that has a lone leaf that endures all winter. This leaf can be up to 10" long and 3" wide with striking silver veins. In the spring, the leaf vanishes and a thin stem of green purple flowers appears.

Habitat: Native woodland plant of North America that can be found in the shade of rich moist woods.

The name "putty root" comes from the fact that Indians used the sticky matter retrieved from crushing the bulb of the plant. This was used in the same manner as glue, to mend pottery and other objects together.

"Adam & Eve" comes from the growth habit of the bulbs. As the flower and leaf grow from the year's growth, referred to as "Eve", last year's bulb, called Adam, is still present. One way of propagating the plant is to cut Adam away from Eve and replant him.

This is one of the easier orchids to grow from seed. Pour boiling water over a pot of soil to sterilize it, let it cool and sprinkle the seeds over the soil. Then cover with a dusting of fine granite grit to prevent slugs from eating your seedlings, and set it outside and let nature take its course. The seeds will usually germinate the following spring and before long you will have a settlement of plants that will be sure to receive comment.

If you're foraging for wild "putty root" it would be best to search during the autumn and winter, especially when there is a light coating of snow on the ground. The plants are much easier to find then. They grow in small colonies, with only a few plants flowering in a season.

What the Ancestors Knew:

The Catawba used this root as a pain killer. The roots were boiled, pounded and powdered, then used for boils and head pains. A dressing of the beaten roots was applied to boils.

The Cherokee give this to endow children with the gift of expression and to make them fat.

Adam and Eve; Putty-root

(Aplectrum spicatum) Orchid family (A. hyemale of Gray)

Flowers—Dingy yellowish brown and purplish, about 1 in. long, each on a short pedicel, in a few-flowered, loose, bracted raceme 2 to 4 in. long. No spur ; sepals and petals similar, small and narrow, the lip wavy-edged. Scape : 1 to 2 ft. high, smooth, with about 3 sheathing scales. Leaf : Solitary, rising from the corm in autumn, elliptic, broad, plaited-nerved, 4 to 6 in. long. Root : A corm usually attached to one of the preceding season.

Preferred Habitat—Moist woods or swamps.

Flowering Season—May—June.

Distribution—Georgia, Missouri, and California northward, into British Possessions.

More curious than beautiful is this small orchid whose dingy flowers of indefinite color and without spurs interest us far less than the two corms barely hidden below ground. These singular solid bulbs, about an inch thick, are connected by a slender stalk, suggesting to the imaginative person who named the plant our first parents standing hand in hand in the Garden of Eden.

But usually several old corms—not always two, by any means —remain attached to the nearest one, a bulb being produced each year until Cain and Abel often join Adam and Eve to make up quite a family group. A strong, glutinous matter within the corms has been used as a cement, hence the plant's other popular name. From the newest bulb added, a solitary large leaf arises in late summer or autumn, to remain all winter. The flower stalk comes up at one side of it the following spring. Meantime the old corms retain their life, apparently to help nourish the young one still joined to them, while its system is taxed with flowering.


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Chủ Nhật, 26 tháng 7, 2009

COLUMBINES

Tên columbine có là do ngươì ta tưởng tượng cái vòng 5 cánh hoa trắng ở giữa hoa là 5 con chim bồ câu nhỏ (doves) chụm đầu hút mật trong nhụy hoa .

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Columbines

Aquilegia sibirica fruit (left), flower (right) and leaves (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Subfamily: Thalictroideae
Genus: Aquilegia
L.
Species

60-70, see text

Aquilegia (pronounced /ˌækwɨˈliːdʒiə/)[1] is a genus of about 60-70 species of columbines, herbaceous perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere. They are known for their distinctive flowers, generally bell-shaped, with each petal modified into an elongated nectar spur. Its fruit takes the form of a follicle.[2] Columbine is derived from the latin word for Dove.

Columbines are closely related to plants in the genera Actaea (baneberries) and Aconitum (wolfbanes/monkhoods), which like Aquilegia produce cardiogenic toxins.[3]

They are used as food plants by some Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) caterpillars. These are mainly of noctuid moths – noted for feeding on many poisonous plants without harm – like Cabbage Moth (Mamestra brassicae), Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae) and Mouse Moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis). The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia), a geometer moth, also uses columbine as larval foodplant.

Use by humans

File:Aquilagia columbine magpie cultivar 2.jpg
Columbine cultivar 'Magpie'
Double-flowered Aquilegia × hybrida

Several species are grown in gardens, including the European Columbine (A. vulgaris), a traditional garden flower in many parts of the world[4]. Numerous cultivars and hybrids have also been developed as well. They are easy to propagate from seed.

The flowers of various species of Aquilegia were consumed in moderation by Native Americans as a condiment with other fresh greens, and are reported to be very sweet, and safe if consumed in small quantities. The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food. Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as an effective treatment for ulcers. However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.[3]

The Colorado Blue Columbine (A. caerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado (see also Columbine, Colorado).

Also, columbines have been important in the study of evolution. It was found that Sierra Columbine (A. pubescens) and Crimson Columbine (A. formosa) each have specifically-adapted pollinators, with hawkmoths that can pollinate one species while usually failing to pollinate the other. Such a "pollination syndrome", being due to flower genetics, ensures reproductive isolation and can be a cause underlying speciation.[5]

Cultivation

Large numbers of hybrids are now available for the garden, since the British A vulgaris was joined by other European and N American varieties. [6] Aquilegia species are very interfertile, and will self sow. [7]

Selected species

Columbine species include:[8]

Aquilegia alpina
Dark Columbine, Aquilegia atrata
Fan Columbine, Aquilegia flabellata
Fragrant Columbine, Aquilegia fragrans
Aquilegia × maruyamana
Pyrenean Columbine, Aquilegia pyrenaica
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