Buy a package of franks for the barbecue.

The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing, and waste.

Before beginning his more recent work in Chung-she, Pasternak devoted a year to a study of Ta-t’ieh, a Hakka-speaking community located at the southern end of the coastal plain, 15 miles south of P’ing-tung City (see Map 25.1).

Don't take it personally. We're just being ironic.