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warm, communicate, keep one's word, German, ring, sudden, dark, honesty Last year, my wife and I went to 【1】 and we faced a difficult situation while traveling by car in the mountains with our hired (雇佣的) driver. Just as we began to feel sleepy, the car made a strange, loud...
Word History and Origins Origin ofone1 First recorded before 900;Middle Englishoon,Old Englishān;cognate withDutcheen,Germanein,Gothicains,Latinūnus(Old Latinoinos); akin toGreekoínē“ace on a die” Origin ofone2 Perhaps <Greek-ōnēfeminine patronymic ...
Luftschloss: literally, a castle in the air, a dream that is unattainable. A word suggesting that German culture is deeply indulgent about big dreams, but also gently realistic about how hard it can be to bring them off. 空中楼阁:(Duden词典:etwas Erwünschtes, was sich jemand in seiner Fa...
shemomedjamo, meaning to be full but to keep eating because the food is so good; Bantu’s mbuki-mvuki: whipping off your clothes to dance; and Waldeinsamkeit—that’s a German word for the mysterious, and possibly slightly creepy, solitude you may feel when you’re in the woods by ...
30. (tr) archaic to record in a book [Old English bōc; related to Old Norse bōk, Old High German buoh book, Gothic bōka letter; see beech (the bark of which was used as a writing surface)] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Pu...
(2009). Writing two words as one: Word boundary errors in a German case of acquired surface dysgraphia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.06.002Bormann, T., Wallesch, C.-W., Seyboth, M., and Blanken, G. (2009). Writing two words...
In Berlin, Coulter saw German staff of a Fortune 500 company being briefed from their Californian HQ via video link. Despite being competent in English, the Germans gleaned only the gist of what their American project leader said. So among themselves they came up with an agreed version, which...