After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position— no matter how much “soft pressure ” is put upon them. When womendobreak through to the summit of corporate power--as, for...
"I have already explained to our young friend here," said Challenger (he has a way of alluding to me as if I were a school child ten years old), "that it is quite impossible that there should be an easy way up anywhere, for the simple reason that if there were the summit ...
'To bear acorns at their summit, and bees in the middle; And the sheep are bowed down with the weight of their fleeces,' And many other blessings of a like kind are provided for them. And Homer has a very similar strain; for he speaks of one whose fame is— 'As the fame of...
Then as the moon rose we climbed to the top of the rocks over which our poor friend had fallen, and from the summit we gazed out over the shadowy moor, half silver and half gloom. Far away, miles off, in the direction of Grimpen, a single steady yellow light was shining. It...
a.the space within two lines or three or more planes diverging from a common point, or within two planes diverging from a common line. b.the figure so formed. c.the amount of rotation needed to bring one line or plane into coincidence with another, generally measured in radians or degrees...
acme,apex,apogee,climax,crest,crown,height,meridian,peak,pinnacle,summit,top,zenith. Informal:payoff. Medicine:fastigium. 2.The condition of being fulfilled: consummation,fruition,fulfillment,materialization,realization. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mi...
Most notably, 27 countries including China jointly ratified the BRI Financing Guidelines at the First BRI International Cooperation Summit Forum in May 2017. As the second element, a tax mechanism can have an important influence on the overseas investment behaviors of enterprises. Such influence ...
And as we travelled towards the snow-covered summit, the thunderous booms as Etna spewed magma from its south-east crater reverberated all around. Fossilized tree and ice cores help date huge volcanic eruption 1,000 years ago to within three months PhysOrg - January 24, 2017 An ...
Whatever the horror was, it could scale a sheer stony cliff of almost complete verticality; and as the investigators climbed round to the hill's summit by safer routes they saw that the trail ended - or rather, reversed - there. It was here that the Whateleys used to build their ...
3. …, the captain noticed a sperm whale diving to a depth of nearly 2,250 metres.这位船长发现一条巨头鲸潜入到将近2250米的深处。 【解析1】本句中的diving是v-ing形式作宾语补足语,常用于以下这种结构中see, watch, notice, hear, feel, smell, find…+宾语+v-ing。