By the same token, one may want a piece of the action, but not a piece of the act. The demands of meaning or idiom often require one word or the other. In some cases, either can be used: my act (or action) was premature. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, ...
There are fragments of it from the cultivated races of Mexico, Yucatan and Peru; and at the other end of the scale we may instance the Guaymis, of Darien, naked savages, but whose “chiefs of the law,” we are told, taught “the doctrines of their religion in a peculiar idiom, ...
Still based in instrumental virtuosity, the tape by Mark Przybylowski diverges from the familiar jazz sounds of previous releases by utilizing stringed instruments alone, and then in a distinctly folk idiom familiar to Kottke and Fahey. Beyond the choice of strings (cello, bass, and guitar), it...
Their arched backs, determined to cultivate this fragile crop under the harsh sun, bring to mind John Wycliff’s 13th-century idiom, ‘by hook or by crook’. To me, who has never succeeded in keeping a basil plant alive for more than a week or two, they are defying nature. Their dete...
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The program focuses on the waysin which European societies, past and present, order reality, make sense oflife and communicate meaning across a range of disciplines and in a widevariety of media. 该课程加深了学生对欧洲文明的理解,并通过跨...
But it has now emerged that the item, which has been donated to the Tank Museum in Dorset, ended its operational life on a child's bike. Following the 8th Army's victorious campaign, Monty gave it to the squadron that was tasked with his personal protection. But the troops decided it ...
成语是指一个整体意义无法由字面推论出的群体词组 (a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words) 。它是由两个或两个以上的单词所构成, 并在组合之后, 产生出不同于单独词义的新词。英语是世界上历史比较悠久的语言, 它包含大量的成语, 每个...