aKarl and the other directors decided to move John to another department. However, John’s new position is less challenging with little opportunity for promotion. He believes he’s been very badly treated by the management and is threatening to take his case to an industrial tribunal. 卡尔和...
Zhao has been a volunteer for 18 years. She still (73) r her experience at an old people’s home several years ago. An old man heldher hand and said, “You don’t need to do (74) a for us. Seeing young people here is all we need.” Those words made Zhao (75) t : in wha...
So I thought I’d come here and write something for the first time since October because my head is chainsawing again. The last time I wrote here was when David died – well, two months after he died as it had taken me that long to find any words about it and I still don’t ...
At some point we gathered around a firepit behind the house and had one of those ceremonies where everyone writes on a piece of paper something they want to let go of from the past year and then one by one, say a few words, and toss that burden into the fire. When it was my tur...
But now I know that a loving silence often has far more power to heal than the kindest words. 【1】What does the author value most in the communication with each other? A.Deep understanding. B.Saying “I'm sorry”. C.Attention from heart. D.Doing nothing. 【2】The woman patient stop...
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.” Now, I lack Orwell’s facility with words, but I have always thought that ...
Knickers – underpants, panties (usually for women) Knobhead – idiot Ladybird – a small beetle with a distinctive red coat covered in white spots (American: ladybug) (to) Lay into (someone) –to attack violently with words or blows ...
The new policy announcement is the Right to Regenerate –a proposal which would give ‘the public’ (in other words anyone) the right to force the sale of ‘underused public land’. It was couched in fluffy community language but it didn’t take long for the professionals to see through ...
So be warned, the next slew of words will be less polished and more frequent. I want to record everything, the whole experience, with honesty. So I’m going to try to repress my natural tendency for obsessive self-editing, and attempt to improve on the snail-like frequency of past ...
The gist of the article can be stated very simply and in the authors’ own words: “We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from .05 to .005.” This proposal is soberly, clearly argued and the article makes some good ...