Unlikely to remain for much more time in:not long for this world. the long and the short of it The substance or gist:You can look on the front page of the paper for the long and the short of it. [Middle English, from Old Englishlang; seedel-inIndo-European roots.] ...
If you’re including technical words, the longest English word— and longest word in the world—is this word, a chemical name for a protein that is 189,819 letters long. It takes three hours to say the whole thing! 14 of the longest words in English 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano...
This is considered to be the official longest word because it is in the Oxford dictionary, but others say it doesn’t matter than it is in there, only that it is an official word coined in an English publication, no matter what that publication is. It means: ” a lung disease caused ...
In Language on Vacation (Scribner's, 1965), Dmitri Borgmann devotes several pages to a survey of the longest words in the English language. As might be expected, he finds it necessary to proceed from standard reference works such as the Webster dictionaries to ever-more-esoteric sources as th...
The China traditional culture should include: After the classical Chinese literature, the poem, the word, the tune, the tax, national music, the national play, the acrobatics, the traditional Chinese painting, the calligraphy, the antithetical couplet, the lantern riddle, shoot, the wine games du...
254 THE DOUBLE NATURE OF FORSTER 'S FICTION; A ROOM WITH A VIEW AND THE LONGEST JOURNEY By Judith Scherer Herz (Concordia University, Loyola Campus) Love is clearly the key word for Forster. More than any other, it binds together his wri... JS Herz - 《English Literature in Transition》...
听力原文: The word "salon" first appeared in an English text in 1699. A salon was described as the great hall or reception room in a castle or palace. English writers continued to use the French spelling of the word until in 1728 the English spelling "saloon" was used in describing the...
This problem has a variety of applications in bioinformatics, molecular biology and file plagiarism checking, among others. All previous approaches from the literature are dedicated to solving LCS instances sampled from uniform or near-to-uniform probability distributions of letters in the input strings...
I can't begin to go into detail about it here, and indeed wrote a comparative review of this and the other English translation by Rickard Berghorn released a couple of months afterwards for the Dracula Society zine, Voices from the Vaults anyway, so my thoughts are on record elsewhere. ...
As a teacher in high school teaching English, I often used small group discussions or group projects to let students be creative and interactive with the literature. However, I think that what they learned about mutual respect and cooperation was far more important than what they learned about ...