A Scottish word meaning a shepherd’s hut. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited Translations Spanish / Español Select a language: shieling [ˈʃiːlɪŋ]N(Scot) (=pasture) →pastom,pradom; (=hut) →chozaf,cabañ...
A 'chantey' or 'shanty' is traditionally a tune sung by sailors to unite them during the day's work. Learn the history behind these sea songs.
penny-anteInsignificant or unimportant; strictly small-time; involving a trifling or paltry amount of money. Originally,penny antewas a poker game in which the ante or limit was one penny. Though this literal meaning persists, the term is used figuratively as well. ...
only the Endless Potential for these things--for in the absence of absolutely everything, absolutely anything becomes possible. And so it was that this Endless Potential realised its own existence, thus creating the Universe and all the planes of existence that run parallel to it. As Time and...
【题目】阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。 There's no better place to be than beside the seaside in the summer. And even in Britain you can still find beaches away from the crowds with golden sand.
Every home, every house has a story to be told, and this is me telling the story of my slanty shanty. Telling the houses’ own story. Letting it go. My dear friend Louise said to me one evening, you know as soon as you release it it will go. Of course she was right. So I ...
I think Ford spent so much effort trying to make his characters into symbols that he failed to make them people. At no point did I care whether the Joads made it to California; the deaths of the old folks made no impression on me. The villainy of the local cops and those who ran ...
新概念英语4确实才是这一套书的重点所在。正如豆瓣网友“云水”指出,中文译本删去了19篇,又增补了其他篇目。这些增补的篇目其实也有其实用价值,基本都与金融经济、科学技术相关,很符合上世纪末的国人走出国门的实际需求。但是,原版的思想价值也就因而不彰了。于是,笔者从图书馆借来英文原版,将这19篇摘抄如下,序号按...
” The last he said to himself, not laughing but tucking his chin into his collar; lines sprang to the corners of his eyes. He would not let us see the dog, whom we could hear yipping and squealing inside his shanty, for he said that our disappointment would weigh on his conscience...
Indeed, these made me chuckle, tear up, and ultimately ponder the meaning of their message. They all had something of value to convey--maybe none more so than the book’s namesake. It's no secret that Zvi is an original raconteur of the highest order, a storyteller par excellence, ...