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Chapter 27 the eyes can sometimes be fooled

Dear Xiaowen: There are several English words for "see", and look is a common one. What are you looking at? I looked but saw nothing. I looked but saw nothing. Xiaowen, look, in addition to look, there is another word for seeing (the past tense is saw). There is a very interesting word called seesaw, which is a seesaw for children to play. Just like Chinese words such as "看", "觉" and "目", the usage of this kind of words in English is also fixed, so you have to learn it directly, pay attention to when to use look, when to use see, when to use Use another word.

Look before your leap. Look before you jump, which means "Think twice before acting" in Chinese. Look for a needle in a haystack. Looking for a needle in a haystack means "find a needle in a haystack" in Chinese (it means wasting effort, futile). Lookers-on see most of the game. It means "bystanders clear" (see clearly) in Chinese. Most seen games on the sidelines It is said that when a lion heard the frog croaking, he thought it must be a huge animal. Later, he tramped on the frog and realized that it was so small. This fable leads to an English sentence:

Don't be afraid of a thing you hear until you have seen it. Don't be afraid of a thing you hear unless you've seen it. This means to believe only after seeing. In English, it means Seeing is believing. But relying on seeing with your own eyes is not necessarily reliable sometimes, because eyes can sometimes be fooled.People often see "mirages" in the desert, that is, hallucinations and illusions. Travelers on the desert may see a mirage of palm trees and water. Travelers in the desert may see hallucinations of palm trees and water. Watching a movie is see a movie, watching TV is watch TV, and staring at it is stare (past tense is stared).

The little girl stared at the toys in the window. dad March 7, 1974 P.S. Your letter dated March 27 was received by Dad on the 11th of this month. The pictures and instructions you cut are very good. Xiaowen, which of the two lines is longer than the arrow?the one below?No, they are actually the same length, which means that sometimes the eyes can be fooled.
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