Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac,
entered by the sun about April 21. Taurus represents quite a peculiar kind of
people. They are usually very stubborn. They refuse to accept the general truth
when it doesn't coincide their personal opinion. Moreover, they often emotionalize
their conflicts with other people on account of being very sensitive and
temperamental simultaneous. Being sensitive is also the main reason why it is so easy to reduce these people to tears. Being obstinate and hot-blooded Taurus makes it hard to believe that they are very gullible. They are not aware of your lies until you tell them. On the contrary, they are good liars themselves, but they never tell a lie without a sensible reason. People of this sign are usually very ambitious.
They easily build up plans for the furthest future, which seem very unrealistic when you hear about them for the first time. Being energetic and competitive helps Taurus organize their time properly therefor they are always in time for an appointment. As for the best feature, Taurus is very
generous. When it’s time to back up friends they are ready to give the shirt
off their back.
They try to stick to the top tree even in trivial events they face. Mostly, they are very optimistic towards life
and people, but can be indifferent when enraged.
Vlad, you could have done it better.
ReplyDelete... on April 21st...
... when it doesn't coincide with their personal opinion...
Neither Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary nor Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English has the word "emotionalize".
... to give the shirt off his back ...
"to be at the top of the tree", not "stick", is used about career or profession.
"Trivial" means "not important or serious, not worth considering", but you meant all events, not only unimportant, didn't you?
"To face an event" - did you mean "to participate"?
Optimistic about smth.
As for the composition, firstly, you shouldn't repeat yourself: "...on account of being very sensitive and temperamental...", "They are also very sensitive, so it’s quite easy to reduce them to tears by any tough words." Secondly, finish expressing one idea, then move to the next. You started speaking about Taurus being ambitious, then for some reason mentioned their generosity, then returned to being ambitious and competitive.
Generally, it too much resembles a translation of separate sentences, not connected logically, rather than an original text. Correct me if I'm mistaken.
First of all, thank you so much for your critical comment. I didn't correct the obvious mistakes because I hadn't got much time. I promise to do it as soon as possible. But anyway, I guess you don't get what I wanted to express using the words you've enlisted. I agree with replacing word "suit" on "coincide".
DeleteThe word emotionalize does exist. You may have a look at the definition in this online dictionary fully based on paper ones. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/emotionalize
When I used the expression "stick to the top three" I meant not being there, but try to be as near as possible. It's not necessary to be in. As for the area of usage then I was explaining the result of being ambitious.
I used "trivial", but I forgot to put "even" in front of it. This is my biggest drawback - I'm very inattentive and always do things fast, even though I haven't thought enough.
Honestly, these are not translated sentences, but absolutely original ones. What I wanted to say is that I'm a kind of person who doesn't follow language patterns even tough I try hard. I'm always trying to think whether it's more natural to use this or that word/phrase, but I have a lack of combining words and phrases into different somewhat peculiar constructions. I know, I should get rid of this feature, because a language is something that cannot be changed by one person. I can't establish new grammar or word order. Moreover, it won't help my during the term.
Thank you so much for mentioning all these facts in your comment. I hope I'll become better so you can be proud.
A search in the British National Corpus for the word "to emotionalize" gives no result. "The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written." Corpus of Contemporary American English, containing 450 million words, returns one single case of usage of the word. So, we can come to a conclusion that it may be a neologism and might find its way into dictionaries in ten years, but currently it is extremely rarely or never used.
ReplyDeleteYou are quite right that you can not establish new grammar rules or coin new expressions, such as "to stick to the top tree". Moreover, you should be aware of collocations. A collocation is two or more words that often go together. These combinations just sound "right" to native English speakers, who use them all the time. On the other hand, other combinations may be unnatural and just sound "wrong".
ReplyDeleteMay be it is a neologism, but I've heard it million times before. Even the Russian language uses the same expression "эмоционировать" to describe the process of showing emotions in more details.
DeleteI know about all that jazz, but I personally don't like to sound natural. I'm trying to cope with this problem, but it can't vanish quickly. Moreover, I think being a little bit unnatural makes a language. You mix up words which don't usually go together, people around you become aware with the expression and start using it. I guess this is the only way to develop a language. Correct me if I'm being mistaken )
Vlad, I did find the word in the Webster's dictionary, so I should confess it was my mistake. Sorry!
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