It is not enough to find out the meaning of a word. You should hammer (敲打) it into your mind by using it in actual conversations in everyday life.Also, it may be helpful to know the meaning of the word roots, prefixes (前缀) and suffixes (后缀), especially if they have a Greek...
“bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he ...
Ever since it was invented in the Bronze Age, hardware has been sold in a male-dominated market that paid more attention to utility than fashion.The Bronze Age tools came in basic bronze color, for example. That changed only after the Iron Age arrived and again after steel alloys were ...
Because everyone understood that the violation of the law (and more importantly, of the non-aggression principle) was not the creation of the engines in and of themselves, but the misrepresentation of how the engines actually performed. Social networks now find themselves in a similar situation. ...
Leonardo da Vinci was the person who invented the screw press in the 15th century. It was powered by a water mill. Early on efforts were made to protect the coins by edging. You'll see that Englishmade coins have milled edges.Milled English coins were much more standard in size and...
the tool would be best for in the future (“please, please put the hammer down. I promise you that it will not make our job easier if you slam the faucet with a hammer.). In so many ways, we were building our toolbox for the future. . . for the next problem that we get to ...
The first nonagram. It was the “anthro” burgeoning forth and co-assembling with, and in, elemental material conditions on Earth. FIRE³nonagram overlay (base image of fires along the West Coast viaNY Times/Mapbox) Soon after,WIND over WIND over WINDemerged. ...
Internet pervasiveness has been changing the risk management and product iteration paradigms around software development in the last two decades or so. In some embedded systems, the paradigm shift was named the “internet of things”, although embedded systems that can be upgraded remotely have been...
One day last month after I received my salary, I went shopping with my little son. Unfortunately in the crowded store. I had my pocket1and my whole salary was gone with it. I was so angry that I almost lost2of myself. What could I do? We were not very wealthy. The money was re...
The couple were married in America in 1894, where the eldest of their five children, Alfred, was born. In 1898 the now growing family decamped to Paris, where George was involved in the making and selling of electrical switchgear on his own account. And so to the English Midlands, the ...