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“For decades, Ben Johnson was thetop dogin Osage County. He was larger than life. He was a rodeo champion, indeed a three-time world champion.” Noun ▲ One expected to win in a competition “People can root for the underdog or put their money on thetop dogas a rookie cyclist take...
Richard Hawley, headlining the Garden Stage at EOTR on Saturday night, declared his love for the festival. He comes every year with his kids. What he loved about it, he said, is that “There’s no bullshit.” I know what he means. This was my seventh festival – but for lockdown in...
this point. Maya was super-excited and, therefore, harder to control. And I was carrying two bags for our lunch. I stopped for a moment when I saw something on Maya’s head. It was a tick. I put the food down and was trying to get her to hold still so I could pull the tick ...
Horizontal scrolling support (no longer word wrapped) Supports pinch-to-zoom Uses a monospaced font Error messages are highlighted New color scheme Attempts to force-stop a runaway/stuck OpMode without restarting the entire app Not all types of runaway conditions are stoppable, but if the user...
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind...
Stop! Not another word from any of you. You guys cannot just keep it down for a while? 【对话精彩点拨】 Here there are two American slangs. The first one is“hit the books” which means“to study hard”. The second one is“between jobs” which means“to be out of one’s job. ...
He does this because he really believes in the POTUS, but also to put Sen. Bowman in his place. HAND-OFF While walking down the street, a quick briefcase exchange happens between some unknown and Lozano. This is followed by an email indicating “Lozano has package” followed by a text ...
The concept behind the Smoked Old Fashioned was “to put the idea of the drink inside the drink i.e. to sit down in a big leather sofa with a cigar and smoke-swirling drink”. It is this reason why many bartenders across the globe consider Tony as THE go-to drinks authority. Such ...
Or, as Lacan put it in 1973: meaning is always fleeting from the cask of language (Lacan 1975d[1973]:11). 就像欲望,意义不断地转换。尽管这个事实:语言总是带着意义,语言并无法固定意义。因为分享者的要求被镶嵌于语言,他们的欲望将总是被表达在这些要求里(欲望将会言说,通过文辞表达)。但是要求将...