In this work the focus is the survival of the Arthurian material in children`s literature across an intertextual approach. Specifically, two juvenile novels written in Spanish are examined into greater depth, The Adventure of Sir Karel of Northumbria, by Manuel Alfonseca, and King Arthur Rides ...
The bird disappeared with a startling suddenness.(那只鸟惊人地忽然不见了。) 在这种用法里,抽象名词后面通常有一个形容词从句(如第一句)或形容词短语(如第二句),否则它的前面有形容词(如第三句)。 7.a(或an)用在物质名词前面指(1)“一种…”或(2)“一份…”或“一客…”。例如: a green tea, ...
Freya and I love this yard, its unfenced expanse, getting to know the neighbors who walk by with their binoculars because they say they have spotted a rare bird though I didn’t catch the name. And yesterday the badger next door poked his head out from his cubby hole underneath my landla...
There are flowers at the memorials to the victims of the Wall, but the atmosphere is positive, even if the anniversary of both the collapse of the GDR and reunification is considered with a little more nuance than the simple celebrations that marked previous landmark editions. * The registratio...
In my room, I shared these precious moments with my bridesmaids, creating an even stronger bond with the people dear to me. Joy and enthusiasm were palpable as we helped each other put on our dresses, sharing laughs and toasts with a good Prosecco. Meanwhile, Marco was getting ready in hi...
A 1927 postcard commemorating Nungesser, Coli and their airplane, The White Bird (L’Oiseau Blanc). Owen also wrote about those who would soon be taking the same daring leap into “the illimitable terror of space”… Although Charles Lindbergh had yet to accomplish his transatlantic feat, he...
Here at home we’re also experiencing not only the large flock of doves I mentioned in the last post, but our house has basically become a bird sanctuary – increasing by the day. We literally have like a hundred birds that have for some reason all made our house their heart home too....
However intentional or not-intentional it may have been, Guadagnino and David Kajganich (the film’s screenwriter) sketch a surprisingly examined portrait of women who, amidst the torture and deceit and bodily sacrifice that they’re all embroiled in, genuinely care for one another. In a movie...
All there is, is a small paragraph under WIDOW SLAIN amidst the other news about floods and fireworks. He calls the newspaper to ask why the story was buried, they tell him that they didn’t have time to get all the facts, when they ask who’s calling he hangs up. “Miss Palmer, ...
or the creak of the vans as they bore its ripened sweetness towards the great barns, while bird and bee and locust joined in the harmony of the Harvest Home, until the sun sank to rest amidst cloud draperies of royal purple and crimson and gold and the sweet-voiced twilight soothed the...