Ten Thousand Birds 1 The complete antithesis of a typical soft and fluffy small bird, swifts are fast flyers that feed, sleep, and copulate on the wing. In 1946 David Lack and his wife, Elizabeth , started a study of Common Swifts breeding ... T Birkhead,J Wimpenny,B Montgomerie 被引...
There are two types of participle in English: the past participle and the present participle. 英语中有两类分词: 过去分词和现在分词. 《简明英汉词典》 May the friendship between the peoples of ( our ) two countries last forever. 祝两国人民的友谊万古长青. 《现代汉英综合大词典》 There is keen...
WALTER:Yeah.You see,this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be 'bout thirty thousand,see.That be ten thousand each.Course,there's a couple of hundred you got to pay so's you don't spend your life just waiti...
"At fifteen thousand times the stake--yes, you are right; it is just two hundred you must pay up!" cried Philippe.Madame Descoings bit her lips; she knew she had spoken imprudently. In fact, Philippe was asking himself as he went downstairs:--"That old witch! where does she keep ...
When you walk through a town like this—two hundred thousand inhabitants of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags they stand up in—when you see how the people live, and still more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking am...
Thanks for your Stanhopes, that cost two thousand five hundred francs apiece, about twice as much as my three jewels put together, and maul your type to pieces, because there is no give in them. I haven't book-learning like you, but you keep this well in mind, the life of the ...
The hostilities on the Gold Coast might have been averted with honour to ourselves at any time between 1863 and 1870, by a Colonial Office mission and a couple of thousand pounds. I need hardly say what has been the case now. The first steps were taken with needless disasters, and the ...
Twenty-six-year-old Penny was apprenticed to Ella. Ella and her friend Clara pushed aside the hanging quilt that covered the only doorway of the cabin. While allowing some air flow, the quilt blocked the view of the men waiting outside that hot night. From the moment they stepped out of...
and I landed on the Big Island of Hawaii with less than two thousand dollars, knowing no one in the world was going to help us. I rented an unfurnished apartment where we slept on the floor and lived on cereal. I worked three jobs scrubbing floors on my hands and knees, selling ...
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