He had heard of rich men who had been blackmailed all their lives by some servant who had read a letter, or overheard a conversation, or picked up a card with an address, or found beneath a pillow a withered flower or a shred of crumpled lace. He sighed, and having poured h...
—Oscar Wilde, from a letter to a friend, 1885 In many of his works, exposure of a secret sin or indiscretion and consequent disgrace is a central design. If life imitated art, as Wilde insisted in his essay“The Decay of Lying” (1889), he was himself approximating the pattern in ...
As for the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter that the main characters are in different ways reflections of him: 'Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps.'In the early ...
Write the correct letter[a-m] for each part of the body.h arm __ back___ ear ___ eye/fot/ ___ hand___ head__leg___ mouth ___/nek/___ nose ___s/'stʌmək/___ tooth 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 【解析】 1a 看图片。为身体的每一部分写上正确的字 母[a-m]。 h ...
“Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time” sounds less like a love letter to America than the vision of a British person who loves America. Wood’s pedal steel and Dick Powell’s violin don’t transport you to dusty highways or Midwest farmland, but to bogs and marshes and rolling verdant hills,...
She is the ~ of her mother. 她跟她母亲一模一样 b. 体现,化身[of] He looked the (very) ~ of health. 他是健康的化身 [非常健康] 8[用单数; 常 the ~]情况,局面,情势 the political ~ 政治情势 → get the PICTURE. (as) pretty as a picture ...
9.B.in addition除了...还有...名片中除了你的名字和职业还应包括你的电话号码和住址.10.D.你读了我们十二月的信了吗,我们在这封信中抱怨你们产品的质量.in which=where We complained about the quality of your product 【in the letter】.which代替letter ...
D Nona and Alice will stop writing to each other答案(1)细节理解题。根据第二段The hobby started in 1942. (这个爱好始于1942年。)可知Nona Avery和Alice Powers是1942年成为笔友的,故选C。(2)代词指代题。根据第二段Some ads in the magazine we asking for pen pals.One of t...
a letter 2—What is a resolution?—It’sA. a promise B. an actionC. a message D. a letter 3What is a resolution?It's .A,a promise B,an action C,a message D,a letter. 4 —What is a resolution?—It’s A. a promise B. an action C. a message D. a letter 5-What ...
Roddenberry was perceived by the studio as a thorn in their side, due to his unbudging character when it came to his Star Trek creation, of which he was over-zealously protective, as well as being stung by his surreptitiously orchestrating the letter writing campaign that for saved the Origi...