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pretending we’re not wet: we open our eyes, look up, look around. And in the opposite case, when it might be tempting to fall, we look to the other hand. Because simply because it seems that the scales have tipped and the anchor is permanently fastened to our soft, lovely hearts do...
He that once deceives is ever suspected. 骗人一次,受疑一世。 He laughs best who laughs last. 谁笑到最后,谁笑得最好。 No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. 在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。 He that climbs high falls heavily. 爬得越高,摔...
This implies that effort duration and direction must be held constant to measure (i.e., isolate) effort intensity. Management accounting researchers frequently rely on this approach, creating a controlled, but often stark, experimental setting, that allows for inferences to be drawn about individuals...
Instead of asking one –or myself– to do all these little tricks that are so easy in the Digital Age, I should be asking, “Do YOU dig it?” That’s all that really matters, me thinks. *BTW, while shooting this, someone –probably a bank guard– called the police, who arrived ...
A dilettante wasa mere lover of art as opposedto one who did it professionally. Today, the word implies you're pretending to be more of an artist than you're interested in or capable of being, so if you call your friend who likes to paint a dilettante, it's like you're calling him...
、 You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You ...
When we draw schematics, we have the luxury of pretending that wire is free. There are only a few cases where you have to account for the electrical characteristics of wire: when the wire is very long or the frequency on the wire is relatively high. This became apparent after the first ...
It is rare that a person who is a narcissist knows they are a narcissist How would they come to know? If they know, how might they act? If someone tells them they are a narcissist, it is likely they would defensively dismiss this. The word itself has such a negative connotation that ...
/ An English wit, / pretending to be giving advice to overseas visitors, / once suggested, / “On entering a railway compartment / shake hands with all the passengers.” / Needless to say, / he was not being serious. / There is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior / ...