The poor young men _44_ rub(摩擦) them clean every evening with soap and water! Poor mothers,_45_ had not been able to afford playthings_46_their children, were now able to buy them playthings _47_of celluloid. But celluloid had one very serious fault. It caught fire very easily. In...
Kheiron's name was derived from the Greek word for hand (kheir) and meant something like "skilled with the hands." In myth it was also closely associated with the word kheirourgos "surgeon."FAMILY OF CHIRONPARENTS[1.1] KRONOS & PHILYRA (Titanomachia Frag 6, Pindar Pythian Ode 3, ...
The poor young men could rub them clean every evening with soap and water! Poor mothers, who had not been able to afford toys for their children, were now able to buy them toys___ of celluloid. But celluloid had one very serious fault. It caught fire very easily. In fact it burned ...
A lot of the words in Italian are similar to words in Spanish, French or other Romance languages I know, but quite often I come across a word that doesn’t seem familiar at all. For example,idraulico(plumber) – a bit different fromplombierin French,plomeroin Spanish. ...
Word Origin a prim. word Definition a foot NASB Translation feet (83), foot (9), under* (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4228: πούς πούς(notπούς, seeLob. ad Phryn., p. 765;Göttling, Accentl., p. 244; (Chandler, Greek Accentuation, § 566);Wi...
befoul all the water and wine and food which remains, and leave the occupants half dead with fright or violence." Many like or far worse pranks do they play, until at the crowing of the third cock they get them away to their dens. The signal for their final departure does not come un...
Whatdoesthewordecologymean?Itwas 1 byErnstHaeckel,aGermanbiologist.HejoinedtwoGreekwords:oikos,meaning"house",andlogie,meaning"thestudyof".Togethertheymean"thestudyofthehouse".The"house"Haeckelhadinmindisour 2 ,Earth.Earthishomeforalllivingthings—humans,animals,plants,andeventinymicrobes.Tostudyahouse...
四、完形填空The term “ecology” comes from a Greekword that means “the study of the house". Ecology isthe 1 of the relationships between all livingthings and their environments. 2 is the houseof all living things. We all live 3 on this planetand it is our home. Today, we also thin...
Socrates(c. 470–399bce) was also widely considered to be aSophist, though he did not teach for money and his aims were entirely different from theirs. Although there is a late tradition according to whichPythagorasinvented the wordphilosopher, it was certainly through Socrates—who insisted that...
Tact — Ability to communicate and interact with others in a sensitive and effective manner, named after the Greek word táktos (silent, orderly, discreet).机智-以敏感和有效的方式与他人沟通和互动的能力,以希腊单词táktos命名(沉默,有序,谨慎)。 Hedonist — A person who seeks pleasure and self-...