“Red Night,” a photograph of a snake curling (蜷缩) around a tree was declared this year’s “Overall Winner.” Taken by Roberto Garcia Roa in Madagascar, the image captures both the beauty of the animal and its vulnerability (脆弱) to human threats like poaching(偷猎) and fires. It ...
2025: the Year of the Snake. I went down to Lan Su Chinese Garden last week in anticipation of the Chinese New Year this coming Wednesday. The celebratory… Continue Reading Helpful Advice. Walk with me, but bring the gloves, on a brilliantly sunny and cold day at the wetlands. Puddles ...
in his trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap and acanthuslike curls, Grifonetto Baglioni, who slew Astorre with his bride, and Simonetto with his page, and whose comeliness was such that, as he lay dying in the yellow piazza of Perugia, those who had hated him could not choose but w...
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. 每当我遇到似乎头脑清楚的大人时,我就用给他看随身携带的一号作品,来测试他。 I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of...
The boy rushes into the garden, where he plays with “a spitting snake”: the garden hose. It’s fun to imagine how this book got written. Linda Ashman composed the poem, but presumably she also knew what the illustrator would be drawing. This might be a good book for younger readers,...
I thought I’d try out the Petit Lenormand cards as a prediction of plot. I gotLilies-Clouds-Snake-Scythe-Whip,all of them Court Cards. Turns out it was pretty darn accurate for“Beasts of the Southern Wild.”It’s a coming-of-age mythic fable about a little girl, Hushpuppy, and he...
You don’t have to be a champion of animal rights to care about bees dying out. You just have to like food. By Joel Worth Bees can survive on the despised dandelion. Bees aren’t the only pollinators out there. But they are, by far, the most efficient. This is a swarm of honey...
The name of Isis may mean 'throne'. She sometimes wears cow horns and a sun disk. TheOxford Classical Dictionarysays she is: "equated with the snake goddess Renenutet, the goddess of the harvest, she is ‘mistress of life’; as magician and protector, as in the Graeco-Egyptian magical...
“One species of Crocus, the Saffron Crocus (Crocus sativus), has wide rolled-up stigmas which are so heavy that the style cannot hold them erect, and they hang like a tassel outside the flower. These stigmas, dried and powdered, are the Saffron used in cooking and dying. Orris-root ...
A.because B.because of C.as a result D.for example 【解析】句意:丁真因阳光而成为一名职业网红——亲吻的皮肤和安慰的微笑。A.因为,连词,连接句子;B.因为,介词短语,后面不接句子;C.结果;D.例如。根据Tamdrin (丁真) becomes a professional online celebrity (网红)丁真成为一名职业网红,his sun-kissed...