It is called a rainbow perhaps b7it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow (弓). That is why we can never see a rainbow in a c8sky. We see rainbows only when there are raindrops in the air and the sun is shining brightly t9the clouds. Every rainbow has many colors in th...
W: Yeah, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and we could see from miles from the top. What about you? What did you do? M: Busy packing. W: Oh, yes, of course! I forgot you and Jenny are moving into a new house. It's on Wednesday, isn’t it? M: Yeah, two days after. I...
The soup is too hot to eat.(这汤太热了,吃不下。) It's cold outside, so I'm wearing a coat.(外面很冷,所以我穿着外套。) Bright(明亮的)- Dark(黑暗的) The sun makes the sky bright.(太阳使天空明亮。) At night, the room is dark without a light.(晚上,没有灯房间是黑暗的。) Lon...
didaswellinadulthoodascollegegraduateswho grew upinahouse withoutbooks.Now,how mightmereexposureleadtointellectualimprovement? “If wegrow upinahouse,inahome whereparentsenjoybooks,wherebooksaregiven asbirthdaypresentsandvalued,thisissomething thatbecomesapartofouridentityandgivesus thislifelongurgetoalwayscomeclo...
How did it get this name? The character zi refers to the “ziwei star(Polaris,北极星)”. According to ancient Chinese astronomy (天文学), the ziwei star was surrounded by 28 other stars, meaning it was the heart of the sky. People believed that the palace of the God Emperor, which ...
The aerospace company, founded byElon Musk, is laser-focused on bringingStarshipinto operational use. Since April 2023, SpaceX has launched five test flights of the skyscraping rocket and spacecraft. Though the first three ended prematurely in explosions, the fourth, in June, ended without anythi...
water is born in the sky. The beginning of spring belongs to wood, but what grows wood must be water, so the beginning of spring is followed by rain. And when the east wind thaws, it disperses and turns into rai...
The best time to view the Geminid meteor shower is around 2 a.m. local time when the shower's radiant is at its highest point in the sky. Moonlight may affect viewing potential this year. To calculate sunrise and moonrise times in your location check out this customsunrise-sunset calcul...
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Luke 9:58 tn Or “the wild birds”; Grk“the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild bir...