This construction has a structure and meaning similar to the Standard English use of call oneself with a noun phrase or adjective, as in He calls himself a dancer or She calls herself intelligent. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by ...
c. to discern (sense or meaning). d. to work out (a melody) note by note; play by ear. e. to extract by picking. 25. pick over, to examine (an assortment of items) in order to make a selection. 26. pick up, a. to lift or take up: to pick up a stone. b. to...
)8. What's the meaning of the underlined word"quarrel"? A.约定 B.发展 C.争吵 D.发明C9. What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk. about? A. The possible reasons why children with an elder brother develop their language skills later.The ways to help children with an elder brother ...
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"But isn't the real meaning of salvation 'being forgiven of your sins and going to heaven when you die?'"Most church-goers ask this.Forgiveness of sins = restoration to fellowship with God, Forgiveness of sins = restoration to our original Edenic Mandate to build the Kingdom of God....
He could not have written a word of it. Mackintosh thought with rage that if his chief pencilled in some insertion it would be childish in expression and faulty in language. If he remonstrated or sought to put his meaning into an intelligible phrase, Walker would fly into a passion and ...
The meaning of the above series of queries, as translated in the heart of this ingenious young woman, was simply this: "If Mr. Joseph Sedley is rich and unmarried,why should I not marry him? I have only a fortnight,to be sure, but there is no harm in trying." And she determined ...
find a definite ground for itself in any trivial incident, this sudden eagerness in Stephen, and the change in Maggie's face, which was plainly reflecting a beam from his, seemed so strong a contrast with the previous overwrought signs of indifference, as to be charged with pai...
broach [someone’s] claretTo give someone a bloody nose. This euphemistically elegant expression for a very inelegant action and its result plays on the meaning ofbroach‘to draw liquor from a cask’ and on claret as a red wine of Bordeaux. ...
The unusual syntactical structure of this expression may be clarified by noting that the obsolete or archaic meaning ofconfoundwas ‘to overthrow, to bring to ruin’ while the obsolete meaning ofconfusionwas ‘Overthrow, ruin.’ Thus, the lineconfusion worse confoundedfollows the pattern of repetitio...