Both partners are strangers at a mutual friend's party meeting for the first time, the friend introduced the strangers to each other and either something about each other to help them start a conversation. One partner is a new employer at the company meeting. A coworker for the first time....
Beautiful. Both words are used in Q’eqchi’, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize. Or to be completely accurate, these are the literal bit-by-bit translations of the actual Q’eqchi’ words. Q’eqchi’ has several other such words for metal objects. ‘Awakening iron’ for ...
Mechanical(机械的,呆板的 )readers remember words, the husks(外壳,皮毛 )of things, but digest(消化,融会贯通) nothing. They cram(填满) their brains but starve(使挨饿) their minds. If you are getting the most out of a book, you will feel a capacity(才能,能力 )for doing things which you...
Another interjection used to turn up your nose at something gross isyuck. It also dates to the 1960s. The variantyukis used in the name of the Poison Control mascot, Mr. Yuk, who warns you not to eat harmful substances. Developed by pediatrician Dr. Richard Moriarty, it was first used ...
The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize ...
Living in China has something lovable about it: amid dirt and chaos and grief, one discovers everywhere precious things, things that bring joy for an afternoon, a day, a lifetime. I hear the roads in Germany are so squeaky clean that you can use them as a mirror, that they are wide,...
kisses her and looks at her proudly. However, Aunt Michelle acts skeptical and keeps trying to assure Jude that she doesn't have to wear it if she doesn't want to. Jude tries to explain that wearing her hijab is something she is proud of and not something she feels forced into doing....
The kids (and adults) had a fun 2-hour game. And it was so short and simple, yet fun, that I wanted to write something like it. And then I wrote a bunch of them… Anyway, here is the first of my Tiny Tomb series:Tomb of the Blood Baron. It’s just a few creepy rooms full...
The Other Guys: Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Derek Jeter, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes. Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops, whom they idolize, only things don't quite go as planned.
‘It’s an inside job,’ and I take this to mean that I should focus my attentions inwards rather than out, and to that end, I look infinitely better when I smile, and when I’m not complaining about something. And in these dark times, if I can still manage to find space for ...