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So, ultimately, Tiara had a view! :lol: And long may that continue...... :wink:

Right click over the image, select properties, look at address - you see amazon.com. So go to http://www.amazon.com and click the [Books] tab and search for '10,000' ...

Lingvo gives:

только - only, merely;
чтобы - in order to, so as to
этажерка - bookshelf, bookcase, shelves ( для книг )
ярый - violent, furious, raging, vehement, fierce

Actually I have...

Yes, it is easy to be misunderstood - thanks for explaining further.

I think there are two issues. Firstly, in learning a foreign language, is it necessary to learn words that are not used often?...

I'm not sure I get your meaning TiaraNEug. Would you mind explaining a little bit more?

I'm interested TiaraNEug, what are some of the other phrases 'you should not need to now the meaning of'?

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I guess you do have a point joysof! Maybe it's just evolution: social change reflected in linguistic behaviour. In Shaw's day he was able to use bloody as a shock-word in...

No that was Great Britain's Men's 4 x 100m relay team :lol:
(You will get my meaning if you saw the race)

Actually not a joke. I just thought that 'gob-smacked might be an interesting word for a Russian speaker mastering their use of English. Sorry it’s no more entertaining than that :|

At the Olympics, after winning the Gold Medal a minute or two ago in the 1500m - following her Gold in the 800m - Kelly Holmes said she was, "Gob-smacked".

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