問：以下一句，in a homegrown answer to是什麼意思？──A team of baby pandas will predict World Cup scores in China in a homegrown answer to deceased soccer soothsayer Paul the Octopus。
答：這一句是說：「中國會出動一群幼熊貓，來預測世界盃結果。這是中國版的『八爪魚保羅預測足球結果』故事。」原句較難明白的，應是answer一字。Answer除了指「回答」，還可解作「和……相等的人、物」，其後習慣用to帶出和什麼相等，例如：Cheng Kwan-min was reputed to be Hong Kong's answer to Elvis Presley（鄭君綿當年有『香港皮禮士利』的美譽）。Homegrown是「自家種植的」或「土產的」，例如homegrown tomatoes是「自家種的／本土的番茄」。讀者示下那一句的homegrown answer to，自然是指「中國產的同類東西」。
問：以下一句，動詞應用那個時式？──When you last time said "I see / saw worse", I really feel / felt that I am/was not as ugly as I thought（上次你說「我見過更差的」，當時我真覺得自己不是那麼醜）。
答：這一句不應用現在式動詞。正確時式如下：When you last time said "I have seen worse", I really felt that I was not as ugly as I had thought。留意I have seen worse是常用語，有「還不算太差」含義，例如："Isn't the situation very bad?" "Well, I have seen worse."（「情況不是很差嗎？」「嗯，更差的情況我都見過。」）