visit - the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time; "he dropped by for a visit" 7. call - a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement margin call demand - an urgent or peremptory request; "his...
She dropped the cup, which broke into several pieces. Someone has broken the shop window. See broken 2. 'brake' A brake is a device on a vehicle that makes it slow down or stop. He took his foot off the brake. Brake is also a verb. When a vehicle or its driver brakes, the driv...
All passiveness and unconcern had dropped from them. They were alert and active, anxious that the work should go well, and fiercely irritable with whatever, by delay or confusion, retarded that work. The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they ...
When the shaking stopped, Martha clambered unsteadily to her feet again. The land before her was all a jumble, as if a careless deity had lifted the entire plain up a foot and then dropped it. The silvery glint of the lander on the horizon was gone. When she pushed her helmet’s magn...
Even Steve Jobs seems rattled; last October, he dropped in on an investors' phone call to deliver a rant on what he sees as Android's flaws. 就算斯蒂夫·乔布斯也开始抓狂。去年10月,他在一个投资者的电话会议上大声叫嚷出他所认为的Android的缺陷。 27. 43kb Still to come should be Mulinsk...
8. - If there's not one yellow belly in the whole group, then...being brave doesn't have any meaning. 如果这个群体里每个人都表现得很勇敢,那么……勇敢就失去它原有的意义了 - Andie handles an impossible, situation with grace. That's not to be admired?
“Last night a dime suddenly dropped in my house. But the weird thing is…I am from Europe. I have never been in USA.” “When I find a dime I look to see which side it is on. If it is on the flame side(the torches) I take that to mean direction. The torches are a trinity...
“So he drives up,” Faxon said, “and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”The cheating is not just to impress pro golfers. Reilly also details stories with ESPN announcer Mike Tirico, LPGA pro Suzann Pettersen and actor Samuel L. Jackson. In ...
But increasingly the story is about the plummeting prices of renewables, especially wind and solar。 The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years。 In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a ...
(adding those who identify as bisexual, transgender, straight allies, and others). By the early 1990s, we see written evidence that reflects the broadened scope ofPrideevents: the date is often dropped,prideis sometimes capitalized and sometimes not, and it is applied to a much wider range ...