One of the valuable insights across the sections is to draw our attention to the way that something as small and concrete as a hand can provide a source of focus in an era when so many big and abstract changes and developments were occurring. The hand is intimate, sensuous, and personal ...
Your preference depends on where you're from. Americans hate favourite with a 'u' so much that spell check takes out the red pen on every spelling of favourite with a 'u'.
The history of the word nigger is often traced to the Latin wordniger, meaning Black. This word...
The History of 'Before Time' An older sense ofbeforetimeis entered in the dictionary as an adverb meaning "formerly." This sense itself very much belongs to the Before Time: it dates to the 13th century. It finds use in a couple of places in the King James Bible ("Beforetimein Israel...
containing the Scientific Principles of Botany ; Nomenclature, Theory of Classification, Phytography, Anatomy, Chemistry, Physiology, Ecography, and Diseases of Plants : with a History of the Science, and Practical illustrations”.Ross,S..Scientist: The story of a word[J].ANNALS OF SCIENCE,1962,...
conquest of the Aztecs, for instance, has masked for us the Aztec conquest of the Huastec people: because of these revolutions of history the voice of the Huastec is now recoverable only at two removes, through a S...
If you want to tel the history of he whole word, a history that does not privilege one part or humanity, you cannot do it through texts alone, because only some of the word has ever had texts, while most of the world, for most of the time, has not,Witing is one of humanity's ...
The history of a country is recorded in various historical documents. Which word can replace "documents"? A. papers B. records C. files D. manuscripts 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 B。“documents”表示文件、文档。选项 A“papers”侧重纸张、论文;选项 B“records”有记录、档案的意思,可以替换“...
Men will say “I love you” to get women into bed with them; women will say “I love you” to get men into marriage with them; both will say “I love you” to keep fear at bay, to convince themselves of the deed by the word, to assure themselves that the promised condition has...
PART 1原文ⅠIn the history of language, words rise and fall. We make and remake them; they make and remake us. The story of a word is as complex as a hurricane. It is difficult to know for sure how it catches on, me...