Let's talk in English!

去年首度把冷凍豆莢外銷量拱上3萬公噸，創匯6,000萬美元，雙雙創下10年來的新紀錄。
Last year frozen endamame exports hit 30,000 metric tons, generating US$60 million in revenues, numbers that had for many years been thought to be forever out of reach. ◎ out of reach　遙不可及Young people are told to dream big, but they are also taught to choose a goal that is not out of reach.



這種大面積生產的大農模式，顛覆了一般人對農村及老農的傳統印象。Farming at this scale is a far cry from the image most people have of farm villages consisting exclusively of tiny fields cultivated by elderly farmers.
◎ far cry from something　與...相去甚遠Your current job is a far cry from what you said you were going to do.

台灣光華雜誌2012年03月號

spring buzz

Come rain or come shine
the spring comes as a mosquito
buzzing through the air, near and far,
whispering some wisdom into my sleeping ear.

i am dreaming i am taking a test,
i am chiseling out the answer in English;
the result may change my position like a promotion.
As the annoying buzz drives me to the margin of awakening,
i take a glimpse back at where i was;
it doesn't matter where you end up after the test,
because all positions are arranged in a circle,
they are all the same distance from the center.

To express my gratitude for the revelation
i give the mosquito a very big hand;
it becomes a red dot on the spot,
the first blood for a sacrifice to the spring.