

Because there are many spaces between the fibers of which the paper is woven, tissues are very good at grabbing and holding droplets and grains. Because they are soft, tissues do not hurt the body when pressed against or drawn across the skin. People use tissues to clean up under and inside their noses when they have a sniffle or a sneeze, remove food from around their mouths after they eat, and get rid of fecal matter or urine after they go to the bathroom. (95)įor most people, the word tissue means a very thin and soft piece of paper used for wiping something off their face or bottom. Unlike white-out and correction tape, which mask the markings we wish to change and must remain on the page to be effective, erasers leave small slivers of rubber which can be easily brushed off the page, leaving very little trace of themselves or the markings they have removed. To erase pencil markings, we simply rub the eraser back and forth over the markings until the markings disappear.

They are quite flexible and can come in almost any color. (170)Īn eraser is a tool used for rubbing out pencil markings. 人情味, “person feeling flavor” or the flavor of human feeling is one of the most important ideas in Chinese culture because being with other people is a big part of Chinese life. In fact, there is a feeling of sharing, as if sharing a friendly meal. Being with him or her is a pleasure and seems to be enjoyable for him or her, too. He or she says and does things which show respect and caring for the other person. A person with “person feeling flavor” makes other people feel as if they are drinking a delicious tea or eating a tasty cake. This idea is a little like the idea of personal warmth in English. When we say that someone has “person feeling flavor”, we mean that they treat people in a way that makes people feel good. If we translate each word separately, we get “person” + “feeling” + “flavor”. The Chinese expression 人情味 is often translated as “the flavor of human feeling”. Pencils are better than pens when we might need to change or correct what we are putting on paper.

Pencils are very good for drawing and for doing math, because if we want to change something, we only need to rub it out and draw or write it again. The most important thing about a pencil is that the marks it makes can be erased. The graphite leaves marks on paper and the wood or plastic holds the graphite so it does not break. It is made of a piece of graphite and a piece of wood or plastic.
