But now, people don't like bowing.They usually shake(握) hands when they meet. 4 The traditional greeting is to cup one's own hands(left over right),move them up and down infront of the chest(胸部). 5 In earlier times when greeting an important person, people usually raised(抬高) ...
palm up, to kiss it too, and suddenly he drew a quick breath.Looking down she saw her own palm, saw it as it really was for the first time in a year, and a cold sinking fear gripped her.This was a stranger's palm, not Scarlett O'Hara's soft, white, dimpled, helpless one.This...
As he lovingly embraced his gleaming and polished instrument, his gentle bowing motion and dancing fingers seemed to smoothly guide the audience through the full, rich range of his instrument. His fine performance would win him the evening’s Silver Medal in the Strings Category. [Each Silver ...
Another possibility in graduate classes is that in addition to readings done by all students, each student may also be expected to work independently in some area of interest and later make a presentation that summarizes what her or she has learned. Usually each student then goes on to write ...
I thought for a minute, and then I said,“I’ll explain, you can just wait until we make a quick at the grocery store. I have something to show you.”At the grocery store, we some apples—red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Adam,“It’s time to your question.” I...
“I was the only Buddhist I knew and I was alone and I wanted to meet great people,” he tells me. He wasn’t sure at first that the Rime Center would be the place for him, being that it is a Vajrayana center which to him meant chanting, bowing and praying, and he wasn’t ...
Cows are considered as sacred by the Hindus and thus these animals are highly respected and honoured as they symbolise strength and provide life-giving milk. So do not wonder when you see cows wandering about in the middle of the road or when somebody is bowing to a cow!
"Thanks," said the old gentleman, bowing. "Am I wrong," said Chestnut, "in fancying that there is here a faint flavor of orange-water?" "Well, well!" said Wilmington. "And this man says he has no palate! That is the charm of these lovely wines: they are many things to many lo...
Instead what we get is a bowing down to the free market to provide, purely as a legal concession, tons and tons of ‘affordable housing’ that everyone knows isn’t affordable. Peter John talks a lot about needing to help the ‘squeezed middle’ but can’t grasp that that granting ...
When they mock, I know they can justify their taunt; when they laugh me to scorn, I know that there is reason in the malignant laughter. So Job, too, swings down to the dark point; so Job also becomes as narrow as his critics. But there is some palliation for the narrowness which...