take - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" read read - to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" construe, interpret, ...
a state of abstracted musing; daydreaming 幻想,白日 梦:He was so lost in reverie that he did not hear the doorbell ring.他深 深陷入幻想,连门铃声都没听见。 33. oyster [ ] n. a type of shellfish that can be eaten cooked or uncooked, and that produces a jewel called a...
That ruler was Frederick the Great — and his influence was not lost on Kant. “[T]his age is the age of enlightenment,” Kant declared. “[T]he century of Frederick.” Frederick the Great ruled Prussia from 1740 to 1786 and launched a blitzkrieg of Enlightenment reforms impacting religious...
George Orwell Animal Farmby George Orwell is the perfect conclusion to your communism study. The classic allegorical fable at first seems to be a fairy tale for children with talking barnyard animals. However, the informed reader will see it a satire of the communist rule of Joseph Stalin and ...
one is the “rebrand” of the last year’s luckless “Build Back Better.” I was okay with BBB, but it sure went down, choked in coal smoke from Manchin’s mines, then lost in Krysten Sinema’s deserts. A caveat: I’m speaking here only of the title; what’s in it is another...
Lacan refers to this lost object of desire as objet petit a, or “object small a,” with the letter a standing for autre, the French word for other. Objet petit a is the “little other” that belongs only to me, that influences only me. …also refers to anything that puts me in ...
While looking through this excellent book, time slowed down for me, and I lost track of where I was. Just as I write in flow, and forget where I am for a little while, this photobook took me out of my head, and out of my chair, and that was exactly what I needed today. Honestl...
” I mean, she just lost her mom, and here comes her mom’s voice from the grave telling her to shine and smell roses and don’t think negative thoughts and avoid vampires (aka, boys who are bad for her). It’s not enough that we parents hover when we’re alive, we now have ...
to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring - with immense, even startling power.” “A Rose for Emily”, a satire, exposes the life of the Old South ...
A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Dean Swift, Occasion'd by a Satire Said to Be Written by Him, Entitled, a Dedication to a Great Man, ... by a Sparkish 作者:John Arbuthnot 出版年:2010-5 页数:28 定价:$ 16.67 ISBN:9781140970941 豆瓣评分...