We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that quicksnad takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

我们有时候习惯的以为英语就是这样说的，但如果我们探讨它似是而非的地方，我们会发现流沙是让你慢慢陷下去的，拳击场是方型的，而天竹鼠既不是来自几内亚，更不是猪。

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"In recent years, we've seen the world's imagination captured by things we Indians take for granted, " says Satya Saran, editor of Femina, the leading English-language women's magazine in the country.

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