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#Round_The_World_In_Eighty_Days
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The Discussion
It was 6.10 in the evening at the Reform Club. Phileas Fogg was in the chess room. He was at a chess table with the same five men as yesterday and the day before and the day before that.
Phileas Fogg and the five men didn't usually talk when they played chess. But this evening, before the game started, the men talked about a newspaper story. A thief walked into the Bank of England and took fifty-five thousand pounds. Then he walked out again. One of the men at the chess table, Ralph, had a very good job at the Bank of England.
'They'll catch the man,' Ralph said. 'The best detectives are at every port. They know that the man is tall. He wears expensive clothes. They'll find him.'
'Oh, I don't know,' said Stuart, another man at the table. 'The world is a very big place.'
'It was a big place,' said Phileas Fogg.
'What do you mean - "was"? Is it smaller now?' said Stuart.
'Yes,' said Ralph. 'I think Mr Fogg is right. You can go round the world more quickly now.'
'All right,' said Stuart. 'You can go round the world in about three months, but that doesn't mean ...'
'Not three months,' said Phileas Fogg. 'Eighty days.'
'Fogg's right,' said Ralph. "The Rothal to Allahabad railway, in India, is open now. Look - today's Times has a timetable for a journey round the world.' And he showed them, on the centre page of the paper.
_London to Suez - railway and ship/7 days
_Suez to Bombay - ship/ 13 days
_Bombay to Calcutta – railway/ 3 days
_Calcutta to Hong Kong - ship/ 13 days
_Hong Kong to Yokohama – ship/ 6 days
_Yokohama to San Francisco - ship/ 22 days
_San Francisco to New York - railway/ 7 days
_New York to London - ship and railway/ 9 days
"80 days"
'Yes,' said Stuart, 'eighty days. It's all right on paper. But a lot of things can happen in eighty days. They can stop you on the way.'
'No, they can't, Mr Stuart,' said Phileas Fogg.
'Well, why don't you try, Mr Fogg?'
'Go round the world in eighty days?' said Phileas Fogg. 'All right. I have twenty thousand pounds in Baring's Bank. I'll bet all of it.'
'Twenty thousand pounds!' cried Ralph. 'Something will happen on the journey, and you'll lose all your money.'
'Nothing will stop me,' Phileas Fogg said.
In the end, Phileas Fogg's five friends took the bet.
'Each person will pay you four thousand pounds - that's twenty thousand pounds – when we see you again here in the Reform Club in eighty days at the end of your journey round the world,' said Ralph. 'Or you have to pay us twenty thousand pounds. That's the bet.'
Phileas Fogg thought for a minute. 'Today is Wednesday, 2nd October. So I have to be back here, in this room in the Reform Club, on Saturday, 21st December at 8.45 in the evening.'
thief (n) A thief takes things from people or buildings. Thieves don't pay for things or
give them back.
port (n) A port is a place by the sea. Ships arrive and leave from there.
railway (n) Trains run on railways. Railway companies sell tickets for their trains.
bet (v/n) You bet money because you want to win more money. You win when something happens. You lose when you are wrong.
To be continued...🪶
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*ESSENTIAL IDIOMS IN ENGLISH *
📒to be bound to: to be certain to, to be sure to
This idiom is used when the occurrence of an event seems inevitable or
unavoidable.
✒️ We are bound to be late if you don't hurry up.
✒️ With the economy improving now, their business is bound to make
more money this year.
📒for sure: without doubt (also: for certain)
✒️ In the dark, I couldn't tell for sure whether it was Polly or Sarah who
drove by.
✒️ I now for certain that Gene will move back to Washington next month.
📒to take for: to perceive or understand as (S)
This idiom is usually used when someone is mistakenly perceived. A noun or
pronoun must separate the idiom.
✒️ Because of his strong, muscular body, I took him for a professional
athlete. As it turns out, he doesn't play any professional sports.
✒️What do you take me for --- a fool? I don't believe what you're saying at
all.
📒to try out: to test, to use during a trial period (S)
✒️You can try out the new car before you decide to buy it.
✒️I can let you try the computer out for a few days before you make a
decision.
📒to tear down: to destroy by making flat, to demolish (S)
✒️The construction company had to tear down the old hotel in order to
build a new office building.
✒️The owners had to tear the house down after it burned down in a fire.
📒to tear up: to rip into small pieces (S)
✒️ Diedre tore up the letter angrily and threw all the pieces into the trash
can.
✒️ He told the lawyer to tear the old contract up and then to prepare a
new one.
📒to go over: to be appreciated or accepted
This idiom is usually followed by the adverb well. (I Lesson 6 this idiom has
the meaning to review, as in the second sentence of the second example
below.)
✒️The teacher's organized lessons always go over well with her students.
✒️The comedian's jokes weren't going over well; the audience wasn't
laughing much at all. I think that the comedian should go over his
material more carefully before each act.
📒to run out of: to exhaust the supply of, not to have more of
✒️ We ran out of gas right in the middle of the main street in town.
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"Commitment is very important"
to be committed to what you said, to the things you chose,
commitment to work,
commitment to the people who are in Your life.
No matter how difficult your path is, you should keep your promise,
Shurly commitment determines the quality of people
and how beautiful and genuine, committed people are..
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«تعهد خیلی مهمه»
اینکه به حرفایی که زدی متعهد باشی
به چیزایی که انتخاب کردی
تعهد به کارت،
تعهد به آدمایی که تو زندگیتن،
اینکه هر چقدر هم مسیرت سخت باشه
پای قولایی که دادی بایستی
قطعا تعهدهست که عیار آدمارو مشخص میکنه
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فعلا قابلیت پخش رسانه در مرورگر فراهم نیست
مشاهده در پیام رسان ایتا
هر دم که دل به عشق دهی خوش دمی بود
در کار خیر حاجت هیچ استخاره نیست
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So don't put off..
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