aProverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American talk, the boiled-down wisdom that you are as apt to hear from professors as from peasants, from beggars as from elegantes. 谚语是非常照亮拉丁美洲的谈话的普遍的说法, boiled-down智慧您一样易于收到教授的来信象从农民,从叫化...
looking at life and men themselves, and with his own eyes. His aphoristic sayings are the least important part of him, but here are one or two examples:– “Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less.” “There is in some men a certain mediocrity of mind that helps to...
ThroughwhatchannelsdoesAmericanEnglishspreadtotherestoftheworld?Offersomeexamples.3)ChineseisincreasinglypopularoutsideChina,doyouseeanypossibilitythatChinesewillbecomethemostprevailinglanguagethroughouttheworldinthefuture?Why/whynot?2.Eachgroupappointonerepresentativetogiveapresentationaboutthegroup’sdiscussion.BookOne 外...
“My dear friend, I beg of you to lessen your excessive admiration. I assure you that you humiliate me; and that is certainly not your intention. The angels think very little about me, and I do not trouble myself about them. Their praise or their blame is indifferent to me, for I ...
* Delays in Latin American, Middle Eastern and African countries are not uncommon Information about patriotism and ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrismis the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture. It seems natural thatpeople feel pride in the culture in ...
"She was here yesterday. She was very indignant with the high school people on Grisha's account. The Latin teacher, it seems, had been unfair to him." "Yes, I have seen his pictures. I didn't care for them very much," Levin went back to the subject she had started. ...
it seemsthat by this point they had become a staple of Latin gospelbooks,as implied by the brief discussions of them foundin Cassiodorus and Isidore, who both wrote in the half-century or so after Victor.29Victor holds a unique placein the history of the Latin New Testament as a result...
The groups of letters overlaid on the figures can be read independently, contain their own message, and have their own Latin metric. Therefore, they are to be read twice—once by themselves and once together with the “field” of the poem. They receive the name of versus intexti, where ...
Since travel is becoming a necessary part of education, and a journey through the East is no longer attended with personal risk, Jerusalem will soon be as familiar a station on the grand tour as Paris or Naples. The task of describing it is already next to superfluous, so thoroughly has ...
Unit 1-text 1__The_Pleasure_of_Learning LESSONONETHEPLEASUREOFLEARNING ByGilbertHighet QUESTIONS:Whatisthechiefsourceofpleasureinhumanlife?QUESTIONS:Doyouagreethatitisinlearning?Doyoulikelearning?Ifnot,why?QUESTIONS:Doyouthinkschoolingistheonlywaytolearn?Whataretheothers?FAMOUSSAYINGSABOUTLEARNING:It’snever...