The Navy Bureau of Ships asked him to come up with a more interesting name to make the job of an acoustic ranging technician sound more glamorous. He suggested SONAR, and said that it stood for Sound Navigation and Ranging – so it is in fact a backronym (an acronym based on an ...
4.B. 推理判断题.根据第四段中There is always the possbility that historical events may be recorded by the presence ofgraffti. Perhaps the most interesting example of this is the grafti relating to the gladiatorial contests held in Pompei. (历史事件总是有可能被涂鸦的存在所记录.也许最有趣的...
Incidentally, another word for card in Spanish istarjeta[taɾˈxeta], as intarjeta de crédito(credit card). It is a diminutive oftarja[ˈtaɾxa] (tally [stick], plaque, plate, shield), which comes from Frenchtarge[taʁʒ] (targe [a small shield], buckler [a kind of shield...
The Italian word for family is “famiglia.” The plural form is “famiglie.” Easy, right? As you can see, it’s rather similar to the English word, which really helps memorization. You can define your relationship to someone according to the degree of kinship, “grado di parentela” in...
Hope for the Future Portugal - Póvoa de Lanhoso Second meeting May 2013 Learning Europe: Culture & Civilization. 1. Spanish food 2. Czech food 3. Italian food 4. German food 5. French food. Sauces. Early days The word “sauce” is a French word Sauce: a relish to make food more...
Early American silent features do not get better than this. The Library of Congress' restoration is excellent. Treat yourself; check it out. Helpful•0 0 mbrindell Feb 27, 2020 Permalink Archaic is the word Helpful•0 2 kekseksa
Questions are the fundamental building blocks to getting to know someone, establishing common ground, finding out something new or interesting and, simply, getting the flow of conversation going. Questions in Italian follow no particular pattern—no word order inversion, and no adding of extra words...
Since this process has been going on for centuries, some interesting insights into English vocabulary of the past emerge, though there are also many recently clipped terms to be noted. Lastly, a look at one or two clipped Italian terms lent to English proves that the same thing caNigel J....
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And Feijoada was certainly one of those interesting dishes. The most frequently told legend about the origins of this dish claims that it was created out of necessity by Brazilian slaves who combined beans with scraps of the pigs that their masters slaughtered for other meals. And though the na...