Are You the Windshield or the Bug? — VOA Learning English
Теми: суспільство
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
Life has its ups and downs. We all have good days and bad days. Sometimes life seems easy, sometimes difficult. We can’t always feel on top of the world every day.
Today, we explore some idioms and expressions that describe this common condition of life.
A windshield is the transparent screen, usually of glass, on a vehicle. It protects the people inside. But to many insects a windshield can also be a screen of death.
Take a drive in America in the warm months, especially on higher speed roads, and watch as bugs meet their end on the windshield glass.
And that is where we get our first expression: Some days you're the windshield, and…
Торкнись будь-якого слова — переклад з’явиться одразу, а слово ляже в твою добірку разом із реченням.