This study investigated the challenges encountered by English majors at the University of Gharyan when dealing with metaphorical expressions. Such expressions are often embedded within culture-bound concepts, providing nuanced meanings specific to particular linguistic communities. Consequently, the research aimed to identify the strategies employed by Libyan students in translating metaphors from English into Arabic. This was achieved by using a translation test comprising fifteen (15) purposively selected metaphors. The test was given to a sample of forty (40) fourth-year students at the Department of English language, Faculty of Arts and Science, Mazda. The subsequent, data analysis followed a mixed-methods approach, integrating qualitative statistical measures(percentage and frequencies) with a qualitative linguistic analysis based on Newmark's (1988) theoretical framework for metaphor translation. The findings reveal that while students perform well when translating culturally familiar metaphors or those with direct equivalents, significant difficulties arise with abstract and culture-bound expressions. The study concludes that transitional failures are primarily driven by a lack of cultural competence and an over-reliance on semantic fidelity at the expense of communicative resonance. Based on these results, it is recommended that explicit metaphor translation strategies and comparative cultural studies be integrated into the EFL curriculum to bridge the gap between linguistic proficiency and metaphorical competence. Furthermore, the study advocates for enhanced translation training through specialized sessions design to foster a more conducive learning environment.

Keywords: Translation, Metaphor EFL learners, Newmark model, Cultural Competence.

This study focused on documenting flowering plant species in Wadi Al-Yaquib in Gharyan City . The plants were collected between March and May 2024 , dtied, and transferred to the herbarium for classification, During field visits,42 plant species were collected and classified, belonging to 40 genera distributed across 21 families. Of these, and 34 genera were classified under 34 dicotyledonous species, represnting 85 % of the total, and distributed across 18 families, Also 6 genera were classified under speceis of monocotyledonous plants, These species reprsent a percentage of 15% distributed over a number of three plant families, The analysis of flora in relation to the total number of species and genera belonging to each family revealed that the family. Astraceae was the largest family in class dicotyledonus opsida As a comparsion between the current study and the previous studies, this study drew attention to a plant species potentially endangered due to environmental pressures and overgrazing.

Libya is country of desert and the arid climate makes it in extreme lack of surface water .Groundwater then bececomes a very important resource to meet the economical and agricultural demand ,which believed to be comparatively much cleaner and free from poliution than surface water , water poliution is a state of deviation from pure condition .whereby its normal function and properties are affected .The present study is amied at assesses the bacteriologcal pollution of ground water samples used for humans and animals at different 11 localities in Tripoli rigion , Libya .This study related to the bacteriologcal analysis revealed high values of toral bacterial count in groundwater samples from both tanks (648.85 cfu/ml)and wells (394.34cfu/ml) than standard count imit (100cfu/ml)for driking water by EPA. Naarly similar values of MPN of coliform (58.00MPN/100ml) and E.coli bacteria (0.20) from both tanks and wells, other than zero number per 100 ml set by WHO .Finally , we did not find pathogenic bacteria as Salmonella and Enterococci bacteria , but there is very littel number of pathognic bacteria as Staphylocooccus aurous (1.50) and Pseudomonas aerugnosa (0.07) isoaled from both tanks and wells samples . Hence ,it was concluded that . This research to analysis the bacteriologcal pollution of grandwater used for hnmans and animals for some different localities of Tripoli , Libya with review to the hygienic standards and suggest an approach for imporing and prevent such contamination . Microbiological lested ground waters samples are good and mostly suitable for domestic uses. the coliform and pathogenic bacterial contamination render this water unsatisfactory for driking purposes unless bacteriologically perfactly treated ,if necessary for consideration for utility.

تقدم هذه الورقة بحثاً حول إطار عمل يعتمد على التعلم العميق للتصنيف متعدد الملصقات لأمراض الصدر باستخدام صور الأشعة السينية وبنية EfficientNet. يعالج هذا الإطار تحدي تشخيص الحالات المتعددة التي تتشابه في المظهر وغالباً ما تحدث معاً. يستخدم إطار العمل تقنية التعلم بنقل الخبرة (Transfer Learning)، مع إجراء ضبط دقيق لعدة متغيرات من نموذج EfficientNet (من B0 إلى B4) باستخدام مجموعة بيانات NIH ChestX-ray14. كما يوظف البحث تقنيات Focal Loss و Stochastic Weight Averaging لمعالجة اختلال توازن البيانات وتحسين قدرة النموذج على التعميم. يعتمد هذا النهج على آليات الانتباه (Attention Mechanisms) وتقنية Grad-CAM لجعل النتائج أكثر قابلية للتفسير، مما يثبت أن التوقعات تستند إلى ميزات سريرية هامة. حقق النموذج درجات عالية في مقياس ROC-AUC للحالات الأكثر وضوحاً مثل الانصباب (0.8545)، وتضخم القلب (0.8003)، والاسترواح الصدري (0.7820). ومع ذلك، واجه النموذج صعوبة أكبر في تصنيف الحالات الأكثر دقة مثل الارتشاح، والعقيدات، والالتهاب الرئوي. يؤدي إطار العمل بشكل يضاهي أو يتفوق على العديد من نماذج الشبكات العصبية التلافيفية (CNN) القائمة من حيث الدقة والكفاءة. يوفر هذا البحث سير عمل قوياً وقابلاً للتكرار لتطبيقات الأشعة، مع إمكانية استخدامه في مهام تشخيصية أخرى. كما تشير الدراسة إلى بعض المعوقات، مثل اختلال توازن الفئات والحاجة إلى دعم أفضل لاتخاذ القرارات السريرية، وتقترح تحسينات مستقبلية مثل تقنيات أفضل لتعزيز البيانات ونمذجة عدم اليقين.

The transaction of collocation is tought for non-native speakers of a language and creates many problems for students, teachers and translators. The present study aimed to determine, examine and investigate the strategies and techniques adopted by students in translating collocations from English to Arabic. The data examined here, consisted of a translation test that comprised 9 relatively short sentences of a contextual collocations selected from different sources. Students were required to translate these collocations from English to Arabic according to Newmark approach (semantic & communicative approaches). So, the findings and results have shown that, students used or resorted various strategies in order to overcome the problems of rendering certain collocation expressions. In addition, the knowledge of collocation leads to the improvement of oral proficiency, listening comprehension, and reading speed.

Keywords: Collocation, English Majors, Translation, Semantic translation, Communicative translation

Dictionaries are an essential tools for language learning. They are presenting a structured approach to recognizing and using vocabulary. This study investigated the limited use of dictionaries by using as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers in Libyan public secondary schools in the city of Al-Asaba, with focused on evaluating the effectiveness of dictionary skills instruction on students' reference abilities and habits. Researcher employed a mixed methods approach, utilized a survey with Likert scales and open ended questions for both students and teachers, as well as qualitative interviews and classroom observations. The participants included sixty (60) students their ages were between sixteen (16) up to nineteen (19) years old. The males were about twenty-six (36) students, while the females were thirty- four (34). All of them are enrolled in the first, second and third grades of secondary schools. The findings shown a significant underutilization of dictionaries despite an overwhelming consensus among students that these tools were beneficial for comprehending new vocabulary. A considerable number of students do not use dictionaries, and many lack the confidence to use them independently. Furthermore, students response also indicated that teachers do not encourage dictionary use during classroom lessons. To address this, there is a clear need for systematic instruction in dictionary skills, the promotion of a combination of monolingual and electronic resources, and professional development for teachers to maximize the pedagogical value of dictionaries in the Libyan EFL context.

Keywords: Dictionaries, Vocabularies, Teachers Students.