A few months later, however, Fan was heard from again. Wen Zhong received a letter advising him to quit his post and leave the court(朝廷)as soon as possible.“After the birds are gone, the bows will be thrown away, and after the hares(野兔)are killed, the hunting dogs will be ...
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I did a crossword puzzle to occupy my mind. 2. 'make up one's mind' If you make up your mind, you make a decision. If you make up your mind to do something, you decide to do it. I couldn't make up my mind whether to stay or go. She made up her mind to look for a ne...
I think people are all too prepared sometimes to throw away perfectly good relationships just because they have been led to believe they "shouldn't have to" make efforts. As for that couple in the pub, I haven't seen them in a while. Maybe he's had an affair with a lithesome trapeze...
So in Texas, you can't have an encyclopedia or a full set of encyclopedias. I wonder how our school got away with that because I remember using those for research. The main reason is that they have a recipe for making homemade beer. Texas doesn't want an 11 year old opening their ...
When will this feeling go away? While the best of us can nurse a crush for years (read: me, on any man who doesn’t care if I live or die), eventually the feelings fade. It’s partially because you simply can’t maintain the firehose-level of chemical responses happening to our ...
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my ___5___ Christmas special and memorable there, I ___6___ remembered the women’s visit.I decided that I wanted to create the same feeling of ___7___ for as many children as I could ...
to build vital, expensive spacecraft, like a moon lander. A 2024 moon landing is widely seen as "infeasible" by the space industry,reports SpaceNews. But, if Congress grants Artemis enough money for bold lunar exploration, perhaps the first woman will set foot on the moon later this decade...
It’s clear that self-care is the secret for not only having wellbeing today but for years to come. It’s best to develop the habit of practicing self-care now rather than putting it off for later. But remember to give yourself grace as you learn the art of wellbeing. Many people ...
I’ve stayed away from big-ticket purchases (there’s an Evan Kinori jacket I’ve been drooling over) just because this thing is so crazy I’d hate to have things go really nuts and have a $500 bill for a jacket I don’t really need mocking me. “I’ve only bought from small...