When smaller neighbours complain that this country is threatening them, its security folk are convinced that America must have put the tiddlers up to it.The way they tell it, when this country acts tough it is in self-defence, showing that it cannot be pushed around.老师好,问题一:put the t...
The writing of a dictionary,
therefore, is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true
meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what
various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer
of a dictionary is a historian, n...
B=Inspector C=Sergeant D=JimB:Morning,
Sergeant. What have you got for me today?C:We’ve got that
tape from Gentleman Jim, sir. It was sent to us yesterday. They want to know if
it’s all right to send it to his wife.B:And is it?C:I don’t know sir.
I’m sur...
A: You ever think about suicide?B: Suicide? Me?A: Yeah.B:Lord, no.A:Thought so. Stage one.B:What?A:The five stages, but...B:Denial.Then anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.A:So of course you're not thinking of suicide.You're in stage one. Denial.B:What stage are you in?A:Denial.B:And t...
This is a seed.It doesn't look like much right now, but if you put it in the ground, give it some water, fight off invaders, and wait a little while.After a few weeks within a little luck, you might end up with a head of lettuce.这是一粒种子,它现在看起来并不显眼,但如果你...
So was born “Cooking in a Bedsitter” (1961), a bible for the
cookery-challenged for decades afterwards, with its cheery insistence that yes,
you could cook cabbage, if you chucked in a crust of bread to stop the smell
getting into the curtains; and yes, you could knock up a delicious little
dinn...
Livestock in farms or pasture have been trapped as rivers burst their banks or fields saturated with rainwater turned to mud."There were cows that were up to their head in the water," one farmer close to Port Macquarie told the Guardian newspaper.以上句子...