No, wait… freedom depends on the whims of the dictator, and happinessis crushed – like the spines of those who once served the people. The people have a voice that cannot be silenced by the puppeteer or the oligarchs or the dictator or the slime that surroundsthe toad on the stump. ...
13.It's her first time to visit the Great Wall. 【点拨】It's sb’s first time to do sth 意为“某人第一次做某事”。 14.I'll be in the running race in the citysports meet the day after tomorrow. 【点拨】be in+ 活动,意为“参加某项活动”,相当于 take part in / join in。 15....
The morning after the funeral Tom took Huck to a private place to have an important talk. Huck had learned all about Tom’s adventure from the Welshman and the Widow Douglas, by this time, but Tom said he reckoned there was one thing they had not told him; that thing was what he wa...
The team took the field. b. To choose for one's own use; avail oneself of the use of: We took a room in the cheaper hotel. c. To require the use of (something): It takes money to live in this town. This camera takes 35-millimeter film. d. To use or require (time): It ...
We tested Genesis's claim that the battery can be charged from 10 to 80 percent in about 22 minutes when hooked up to a 350-kW DC fast charger and were satisfied with the result. Charging time lengthens to seven hours when the vehicle is plugged into a Level 2 outlet. Interior, ...
For the first time, but I hope not last, I meet the natural aristocracy of someone’s language who has mastered both, and who can vary them back and forth easily at will, making of them in her matched sets of poems a wife and husband completing each other’s sentences, interrupting, ...
hang `on (a) grip sth firmly 紧紧握住某物: ,Hang on `tight we're off! 握紧了--我们出发了! (b) (infml 口) wait for a short time 稍等: Hang `on a minute I'm nearly ready. 稍等片刻--我这就完. (c) (infml 口) (on the telephone) not replace the receiver (打电话时)不挂断...
(More on that some other time, and no disrespect to the university, long live its role in the maintenance of a humanistic culture.) And if it feels that way, maybe it’s because the bridge between the university and the rest of the world has gotten a little rickety and neglected, at...
It is a pity that he can only stay such a short time when he comes. Whenever he appears, he tells me of one thing or another that he has seen on the previous night, or on that same evening. “Just paint the scenes I describe to you”—this is what he said to me—“and you ...
第十二黑夜:莎士比亚12th NITE…WHATEVER: QUEERING AND (RE) GENDERING SHAKESPEARE’S PERFORMATVE SPACES, PLACES, AND BODIES IN TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL_部分2.pdf,MALVOLIO Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him: infirmity, that decays t