Head on over to Mixcoacalli and read Arnd Adje Both’s excellent 2004 journal article called“Shell Trumpets in Mesoamerica: Music-Archaeological Evidence and Living Tradition”(downloadable full text PDF). It gives a valuable introduction to the instrument in Teotihuacan, Aztec, and Mayan societies...
n. [救護車,野外醫院] field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements; a wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital His breathing had become so labored she called an ambulance to send him to the hospital immediately. Show examples and contexts amount n. [量,總合] total ...
To get a full appreciation of what this means we must turn first to some recent human inventions. Everyone knows that if he shouts in the vicinity of a wall or a mountainside, an echo will come back. The further off this solid obstruction, the longer time will elapse for the return of...
The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments. Show examples and contexts boredom n. [煩惱,無聊] tedium; dullness; state of being a bore, or the tendency to become tiresome and uninteresting The cure for boredom is curiosity, but there is no known cure for cu...