The transitive sense of "cause to run" was in Old English. By late 15c. as "to pierce, stab," hence 1520s as "thrust through or into something." The meaning "enter (a horse) in a race" is from 1750. The sense of "cause a mechanical device to keep moving or working" is by ...
The British slang is a delight, and makes the chickens' personalities more endearing and dare I say it human.One of the best lines comes from Mrs. Tweedy talking lovingly about her soon-to-be chicken pie enterprise. When Mr. Tweedy asks why she only will be included in the ...
Meaning that the MAME game will look just like the original hardware. MAME ROMs that run in a vertical aspect like DoDonPachi need to be rotated within MAME before resolution switching and aspect correction will work. Do this before enabling CRT SwitchRes so that RetroArch will run in your ...
Don’t expect 1986 Week to last all week. Don’t expect a comprehensive survey. Don’t get all army-foldy on me, either. As we used to say in the peculiar slang we employed back in 1986: See you tomorrow! * Special D is fond of quoting that line to me. Hey doll: “I sure do...
Actor Sean Bean played Boromir in the movies, and one of his famous lines, “One does not simply walk into Mordor,” became the inspiration for a meme that plays on the phrase. Bean himself even admitted to seeing a big influx of the memes online during a 2015 interview. I am a man...
If governments build railway and subway lines, you will not use your private cars. If governments build railway and subway lines, people will not use their private cars. 6.Avoid Intensifiers 避免强化词 强化词会使你的观点显得太绝对,不具有信服力。话不多说,直接来看例句↓↓ ...
The meaning "list of entries in a horse race and the odds" is from 1935; hence the generalized slang sense of "summary, account, list of information or facts," attested from 1945. Comparerun-down(adj.). also from1908 Entries linking torundown ...