W. Fowler wrote of lengthy that it was “sometimes used as a jocular of styling synonym for long but more commonly and more usefully as implying tediousness as well as length.” Ambrose Bierce rejected lengthy as “no better than breadthy, or thicknessy.” Lengthy is rarely used for ...
11. So long at all event, as the fine weather lasted he was prepared to enjoy himself. 所以,长时间的事件,如晴朗的天气持续,他准备放松自己。 12. Mr Ibbs I would seem sometimes to catch gazing at me with a certain light in his eye-as if, I thought, he was seeing me suddenly for th...
Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it. But one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea lasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends...
which lasted even longer (1977–1994) than the one over legalizing abortion (1970–1981). Confessional parties feared that Christian schools, for example, would be forced to employ gay or lesbian teachers. Eventually, a compromise was found by...
WCO is considered part of ‘municipal solid waste’ (MSW) which in Italy is a synonym of domestic waste. However, since WCO is part of domestic waste, the use of the acronym ‘MSW’ is not completely correct and, more importantly, it is a proof of the poor attention given to the corr...