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Idiom dan Ungkapan Bahasa Inggris Paling Populer dan Artinya #Seri 1   Ilustrasi idiom lose your touch Seiring perkembangan kebudayaan dan bahasa suatu komunitas, maka dengan sendirinya memunculkan serangkaian teknik kerumitan bahasa yang unik. Salah satu bentuknya kita kenal dengan idiom atau ungkapan. Dia unik karena makna tak diraih dari defini langsung kata-kata penyusunnya. Melainkan pengalaman historis dan kebudayaan yang melekat di masyarakat.   Apa makna Idiom?   Cambridge Dictionary mendefinisikan idiom sebagai a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own. Pendeknya keseluruhan makna tidak sejalan dengan makna kata per kata yang menyusunnya.   Misal idiom 'stabbed in the back' secara harfiah bermakna menusuk dari belakang. Ungkapan ini dalam kultur tertentu yang melepaskan konsep idiom di dalamnya, akan dimaknai sebagai serangan dari belakang menggunakan pisau. Na...

Task 1 Dengan pengetahuan teoretis tentang analisis teks sumber yang Anda peroleh dari Buku Materi Pokok “Analisis Teks dalam Penerjemahan (BING4320)”, jawablah keempat pertanyaan berikut. a) Termasuk jenis teks apakah teks berikut? Richard Cohen: The debacle of gun control Once, after I had written about gun control, a guy called to differ and said that had the Jews of Germany been armed, the Holocaust never would have happened. That assertion, so ahistorical as to be almost laughable, stopped me in my tracks because it went to the black heart of the gun-control debate: It’s not about guns. It’s about the government. It’s about the government in two respects. The first is the conviction that guns are needed to protect Americans from their own government. This fear — maybe paranoia is the better word — is embedded in the National Rifle Association’s message and in the statements of its officials. As The Post recently reminded us, shortly before the 1995 bombing of a government office b...

Tugas Bahasa Inggris 1 (MKDU4107) I.              Use the words in the box to find synonyms for the bold and italicized words: destroy tired convince worried remember forecast Attack Agree think about help (1) I was anxious about my test results. ( 2 ) If water gets in the building, it will ruin the paintings. (3) He began to ponder the reason that he failed. ( 4 ) The captain began the assault in the middle of the night. (5) I am weary . I need to rest. II.              Choose the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters (Antonym)   1 . ELIGIBLE A. disqualified B. undesirable C. proper D. clumsy 2. PERSIST A. endure B. quit C. remain D. vacate 3. ENTERTA...

Latihan Bahasa Inggris:  SCANNING Read the passage carefully and answer the questions correctly. Immigrants Suffer from Losing Their Identity by Howard Kim Language is a way to communicate with each other. We started to learn language when we were born. However, people are used to speaking their native language, so immigrants are having many problems between the first generation and the second generation because they don't have the same native language. Also, the second generation is losing their identity. Especially in America, there are many immigrants that came from different countries to succeed in the States. Because they suffer in lots of areas such as getting a job and trying to speak English, they want their children to speak English, not only at school, but also at home in order to be more successful. Because of this situation, their children are losing their ethnic identity and, even more, they are ignoring their parents whose English is not very go...