Indeed at the mere mention of the words her face would slowly darken with shame, and she would stand there craning her neck against the collar of her shirt, or rubbing her swamp boots together, for all the world like a great shamed, dumb-tongued child. But in other matters people trusted...
‘I had no intention of doing that. I forgot that I was wearing iron shoes. Who will believe that I did not do this on purpose?’ ‘No sentimentality, comrade!’ cried Snowball, from whose wounds the blood was still dripping. ‘War is war. The only good human being is a dead one....
I have an app – which is short for an application, whichis a computer programme for a specific purpose. My app tells me the weather… and thisone does all the maths I need… and here's one for translations, and this one he...
During the first few years of my academic career, I’d begin the first class of each semester with the same cliché remark: “There are no dumb questions in this class. If you don’t understand something, raise your hand and ask.” My purpose was to comfort the students. But the remar...
Tune in to any news channel and you'll hear it. The word serves no purpose in the sentence and to me is like fingernails on a chalkboard. So, I submit the extra, meaningless, and overused word “so.” 几乎什么新闻里你都能听到。这词对于整个句子表达来说毫无意义。听着就跟指甲划过黑板一...
Dumb Phone Roundup 1. Light Phone – $299 The Bare Necessities Jumping right into it (and right off the grid), we have the Light Phone (known actually as the Light Phone II). It’s like if you had a Kindle that you left in the dryer for too long (which is a roundabout way of ...
Why don’t you just look up in the sky and see if it is cloudy? 为什么不抬头看看天,有没有乌云呢? Look up to see if it is going to rain?! I have an app - which is short for an application, which is a computer programme for a specific purpose. My app tells me the weather.....
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. — Ibn Khaldun 152 The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not ...
Besides director Paul Verhoeven's warning to audiences of how easily governments make the masses complicit in fascism, the world of Starship Troopers is one in which who you are is determined by nothing more than standardized test scores. The dumb jocks become marines whose only pu...
Dumb phones are basic phones with very limited(有限的) functionality(功能) compared to smart phones. You can typically only make and receive calls and text messages. And, if you are lucky you can listen to radio and take very basic photos, but certainly not connect to the internet or apps...