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  • Please, don’t worry so much because in the end,

  • none of us have very long on this Earth.

  • Life is fleeting.

  • And if you’re ever distressed,

  • cast your eyes to the summer sky,

  • when the stars are strung across the velvety night.

  • When a shooting star streaks through the blackness,

  • turning night into day,

  • make a wish.

  • Think of me.

  • Make your life spectacular,

  • I know I did.

Please, don’t worry so much because in the end,

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Robin Williams Tribute

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    Colin Lin posted on 2014/08/17
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life

US /laɪf/

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UK /laɪf/

  • noun
  • All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
  • Period of time things live, from birth to death

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turn

US /tɚn/

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UK /tɜ:n/

  • verb
  • To become (a particular age)
  • To become a different quality, color, etc.
  • To change the direction of something, e.g. a car
  • To move in an opposite direction or position
  • To shape metal with a spinning tool
  • noun
  • Place where changing of direction happens
  • Your time or chance to perform a duty
  • Your chance to play or do in say a game
  • Unexpected change, as in the weather

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day

US /de/

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UK /deɪ/

  • noun
  • A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
  • The period of time when it is light outside
  • Person's name

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spectacular

US /spɛkˈtækjəlɚ/

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UK /spekˈtækjələ(r)/

  • adjective
  • Impressive or out of the ordinary
  • Extremely impressive or dramatic.
  • noun
  • A lavish or elaborate display or performance.

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long

US /lɔŋ, lɑŋ/

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UK /lɒŋ/

  • noun
  • Person's name
  • other
  • To have a strong desire or yearning.
  • adjective
  • Large distance from one end to the other
  • Having many parts, e.g. a book with many chapters
  • verb
  • To have a strong desire for something or someone
  • adverb
  • For a large amount of time

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cast

US /kæst/

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UK /kɑ:st/

  • noun
  • People who appear in a play or movie
  • Small amount of a particular color
  • Shape to pour hot metal in to create objects
  • Hard covering put around injured arm, leg etc.
  • verb
  • To give specific roles to actors in a movie, play
  • To describe someone's personality or character
  • To make objects using a mold
  • To be presented in a certain way
  • To send out or direct something
  • To throw something using a line, e.g. when fishing

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distress

US /dɪˈstrɛs/

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UK /dɪ'stres/

  • noun
  • State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
  • Condition of danger or emergency
  • State of lacking money and basic needs
  • The seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.
  • Condition of physical illness, pain or suffering
  • verb
  • To cause someone anxiety or sadness
  • To be in financial trouble
  • other
  • To cause suffering to.
  • To seize (goods) to satisfy a debt.
  • other
  • Great suffering of body or mind.
  • A state of danger or desperate need.

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earth

US /ɚθ/

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UK /ɜ:θ/

  • other
  • A pigment or dye of a brownish or reddish-brown color, derived from iron oxides.
  • The connection of an electrical appliance to the ground.
  • The substance of the land surface; soil.
  • other
  • To cover (a plant or its roots) with earth.
  • To connect (an electrical device) to the earth.
  • noun
  • A connection to the ground that acts as an electrical conductor.
  • Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
  • The hole in the ground that is home to an animal such as a fox or badger.
  • The planet we live on
  • Soil in which we grow plants

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night

US /naɪt/

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UK /naɪt/

  • adjective
  • Working during the very early morning
  • noun
  • Time when sun does not shine

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shoot

US /ʃut/

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UK /ʃu:t/

  • verb
  • To kick or throw a ball at a goal
  • To fire a gun; injure or kill someone with a gun
  • To (cause to) fly away forcefully
  • To use a camera to record a film/take a photograph
  • noun
  • Emerging new part of a plant

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