As Maria Edgeworth put it in her Castle Rackrent (1800): Deal on, deal on, my merry men all, Deal on your cakes and your wine, For whatever is dealt at her funeral to-day Shall be dealth to-morrow at mine.16 Tobacco was a central feature of the merry wake, both as a stimulant...
69 immortality n.不死,不朽 参考例句: belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念 It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。 70 countenance n.脸色,面容;面部表情;vt.支持,赞同 参考例句: At the sight of this photograph he...
In the Gilgamesh epic, the aging folk hero, haunted by the prospect of his own death, sets off to visit Utnapishtim, who, with his wife, was the only mortal to have achieved immortality. He meets Siduri, the wine maiden, who exhorts him to make the most of the present for “the ...