blaze a trail be the first to do something and so set an example for others to follow. Blazein this sense comes ultimately from an Old Norse noun meaning ‘a white mark on a horse's face’. In its literal sense,blazing a trailrefers to the practice of making white marks on trees by...
A city man would promptly have lost himself in the tangle; but the woodsman emerged at last on the banks of the stream, leaving behind him a meandering trail of clipped trees that wound, twisted, doubled, and turned, but kept ever to a country without steep hills. From the main road ...
My viral load has been undetectable for years, meaning I cannot spread the virus to others. Except for my arthritic hip — a byproduct of years of basketball — I feel fine. The only time I’ve thought about my mortality in recent memory was at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, w...
You wrest my words out of their real meaning.你曲解了我话里的真正含义。 2 aloof adj.远离的;冷淡的,漠不关心的 参考例句: Never stand aloof from the masses.千万不可脱离群众。 On the evening the girl kept herself timidly aloof from the crowd.这小女孩在晚会上一直胆怯地远离人群。 3 ammuniti...
The material had become, in all sincerity28, a basis for the spiritual. She recognized but two sorts of motives; of which the ideal, comprising the poetic29, the daring, the beautiful, were good; and the material, meaning the sordid30 and selfish, were bad. With her the mere31 money-...