The term "crow road," incidentally, but not surprisingly, is the title of a book by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was turned into a TV mini-series. Neither the book nor the TV show seem to have anything to do with travel, crows, or birds for that matter. English is not Alone It...
To make a beeline for something roughly means to move directly toward some item, usually a desirable one. Why it is that these animals have been chosen as the biological embodiments of linear movement, it may never be known. We might have chosen ¨as shooting star falls.¨ ...
Some of these sayings also find practical application at the casino: A father’s wisdom, “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” Originally, only farming fathers gave this advice to their children. The next time you double down a huge sum of money on a ten against the ...
Scottish Seed Supersport Qupersport Side Skrits String Szver Sumatera Selatan Indonesia, Locations, Colt, Mitsubishi Supersonic Speed in excess of that of sound. Velocity greater than the speed of sound. The SR-71 is characterized as a supersonic aircraft because it travels from three to four...
Chariots of fire, the story of Eric Liddel, the great Scottish racer who loved to run, champion Olympian who attributed his success to God. Saw the movie, bought the Reboks, ran the course, a mile from the house, around the track three times, back to the house. Lasted for some months...
The term comes from the American author Sylvia Wright, who wrote a 1954 article inHarper’s Magazinein which she mentioned misinterpreting a Scottish ballad: “The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better...
依序连接正方形各边的中点得到新的正方形，如此反复三次。阴影部分与空白部分的面积比为（）
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. (Alexander Pope 1688-1744 English Poet) Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this–no dog exchanges bones with another. (Adam Smith 1723-1790 Scottish Politician and Economist) ...
It is a political satire and comedy about a dull civil servant who becomes involved in a plan to populate the desert with Scottish salmon. Politicians manage the media to “spin” this as a plan they support in order to divert attention from problems in the Middle East. There are themes ...
"We need to educate health professionals," said Yuksel. "There are lots who are open to it, but some feel uncomfortable with the topic, or with the use of hormone therapy, because there's still a lot of fear of the unknown," around a subject long considered taboo. ...