先来看一句话——Mr Green had been out of work for several months and was on his uppers. 由前半句的“失业好几个月”,我们可以推出短语on one's uppers表示“潦倒、山穷水尽”。只是,意思虽然知道了,但没有原因的结果总不能尽兴。所以嘛,还得翻翻辞源解析。 在短语on one's uppers中,uppers指“鞋...
He is on his uppers: 山穷水尽! 来!先来看一句话——Mr Green had been out of work for several months and was on his uppers. 由前半句的“失业好几个月”,我们可以推出短语on one's uppers表示“潦倒、山穷水尽”。只是,意思虽然知道了,但没有原因的结果总不能尽兴。所以嘛,还得翻翻辞源解析。
Writer gives shopping lowdown on his uppersCatherine Deveney diary
At the exact time specified.True to his word, the detective arrived at 1:38 PM on the dot.If we don't leave the house at 6 o'clock on the dot, we'll miss our flight. See also:dot,on on the double Rapidly; faster than one normally goes.Can you please drive on the double?Yes...
Georges-Lucien Eberhard was 22 years old when he opened his first workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which was already the heart of Swiss watchmaking. It was the year 1887 and the brand established its headquarters in the “Maison de l’Aigle”, one of the most recognizable buildings in town...
his machine on the “MEGA MACHO” setting for his sixty minutes of pure bliss, complete with a dumb bell in one hand, a power drink in the other, while pouring over a book in front of him. If he did sweat, I’m sure the one drop that dribbled down the side of his head smelled...
The broadsideCo-Pilotextends this structurally interpretive technique. The poem “Co Pilot” (no hyphen in the original) hilariously turns the speaker’s conscience into a parrot on his shoulder, “a tiny Charlton Heston” squawking the Ten Commandments. But there is no parrot, no Charlton Heston...
And they’re so bad that I’m inclined to call them anti-patterns. This term is usually reserved for software engineering, but I think it fits here. In his 1998 bookProcess Patterns, Scott W. Ambler gives the following somewhat oversimplified but generally reasonable definition of anti-...
His expertise allows him to design tailored treatment plans for each patient, so that the patient receives optimal care and recovery. Dr Michael Biggs Dr Biggs is a senior specialist in the field of neurosurgery. He joined the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1993 as a consultant neurosurgeon. He...
My dad was my dentist and my sister was his dental assistant but he has now retired and she has changed jobs. (They also live 1,500 km away from me, so even when going to my dad was an option, it was still only once every few years or so.) ...