32. Why is it difficult for people to make long-term decisions according to the author? A. Technology for time travel is not available. B. Strangers cannot help with decision-making. C. Writing letters to one's future self is impractica...
I'll explain why. Here I'm using the term“generation”loosely. I am from a generation that will be defined by our environmental problems.I was a child when cimate change really began. I will see countries move from being almost enti...
He said that by the end of the spring term he would have been studying English for three years. 他说到了春季学期末,他就学了三年英语了。 She told me she’d have been teaching in that university for 20 years by that summer. 她告诉我到那年夏天她在那所大学教书就满20年了。 被动语态: 一...
the Industrial Revolution: a term applied to the social and economic changes that mark the transition from a stable agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial society relying on complex machinery rather than tools. It is used historically to refer primarily to the period in British ...
Americans would use this term “Nouveau riche” to describe someone who earns a lot of money within a long period of time.___ 内容已经隐藏,点击付费后查看 We Easterners would like to show our personal opinions in a humble or a modest way. However, the Westerners prefer to have something...
[vii]The phrase is from Thomas Merton’s famous revelatory experience at the corner of Fourth & Walnut in Louisville in March 1958. “And if only everybody else could realize this! [the dignity of humanity conferred by the Incarnation]. But it cannot be explained. There is no way of tell...
[vii]The term is Bespaloff’s, referring to Hector’s recitation of everything the war is about to take from him: his city, his family, his comrades, his very life (War and the Iliad, 43). [viii]War and the Iliad, 26.
I wasn’t an excellent student because I didn’t do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn’t have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn’t the type to have a career. I then found myself a job. Looking after two little girls...
The small stream that emerges from the seep (near the top) feeds into another wetland habitat, known as a sedge meadow, where the dominant plants are, well, sedges. The term “meadow” can be misleading. I envision a lush field of grass and flowers where you can hold a picnic and fro...
The term was first used in 1949, but no one has yet decided what postmodern attitudes mean for the future of culture or society. Yet for me, it made me curious, because “postmodern” seemed to describe my cool, sleepy and ironic, T-shirt wearing friends.; 3 We’re “post” in so ...