应该是“all of a sudden” 指“突然地,出乎意料地”,相当于suddenly,是副词性短语,表示这件事发生的迅速、突然且出乎预料,通常放在句首或句尾。例如:All of a sudden someone grabbed me around my neck. =Someone grabbed me around my neck all of a sudden.突然有人抓住我的脖子了。希望帮到你!
She found that Trudeau appeared to be more “masculine” than people previously believed, and, in turn, that aided his transformation into someone seen as a suitable leader for the Liberal party. Canadian political history is full of momentous imagery, from professional photography to ...
An orange and grey image fades into his patchwork bedspread – with the boy seen in the background, kneeling and praying. “If your papa went away to war,” Lyon repeats again, this time adding to the hypothetical that he came back missing a limb or with a bad scar –“you wouldn’t...
Once I took care of an elderly friend at the monastery. Her feet were very painful, so I was putting band-aids on them. I found myself in this posture of supplication. I was kneeling, and I realised thatthatis what love is: taking care of other people’s tiniest needs, if you can...
As we’ve often observed, it’s a funny thing that incredibly well-known dinosaur specimens can sit around for decades, or formore than a century, before someone notices something fascinating about them. One lesson to learn from this is the importance of collections — their creation, maintenanc...
Someone had already claimed the lions when we got there, so London picked hyenas as our totem animals. Lights out was at 10:30 PM, and the lights came back on at 7:00 this morning. Breakfast was out from 7:15 to 8:00, and then we had the museum to ourselves until the public ...
Had someone been sailing with a particular nation’s navy or privateers during or prior to the War of Spanish Succession? Makes you wonder. I was both surprised and baffled to find this totally cool flag where I did. The Bloedvlag influence is undeniable. Here’s a pic of one you can ...
Speaking of the AFC ... ON THE BUBBLE Jon Kitna has gone from virtual unknown to MVP candidate. Cincy (7-6)-- I'll admit it: I jumped on the bandwagon. Maybe it was having Chad Johnson on my fantasy team. Maybe it was Jon Kitna throwing those TD strikes, then kneeling down and ...
It is interesting in how many ways you can ignore someone. They knew that I was a foreigner and did not want the complications of even trying to communicate with me. They were not unfriendly, rather a bit uncomfortable. We had no languages in common. An hour later my companions came ...
I would like to thank everybody who visited my blog in 2014. Thank you for your support during the year. The last few months was hectic and I am still trying to catch up… Getting there slowly but surely. May everybody have a Blessed and Happy 2015. ...