2. Which is NOT true about Webster’s dictionary? A. It has local words in it. B. It is a 70,000-word dictionary. C. All the words are spelled without “u”. D. Its words are in American-style spelling. 3. What does the underlined phrase “rely on” in Paragraph 3 mean? A....
And he changed “centre” into “center” for children to learn English by spelling words more like they sounded. Webster wasn't shy about expressing his opinions. In defining(定义) preposterous(unreasonable), he wrote: “A Republican government in the hands of females is preposterous.” ...
Whenever you can engage in extensive bad health habits that fill you with pleasure irrespective of their devastating implications for the quality and length of your life and your dependence on healthcare, you should do so. Even though suicide is not explicitly spelled out, the gradual killing of...
Buckingham Palace spelled it out soon after Sunak’s announcement, announcing that members of the royal family would postpone all engagements that “may appear to divert attention or distract from the election campaign.’’That meant the king on Friday ditched trips to a Bentley car factory and ...
Much of Starbucks’ innovation takes place at the Tryer Center, a 20,000 square foot engineering and innovation space on the first floor of its Seattle headquarters. The centre, which employs more than 20 baristas, reportedly abides by a motto of ‘idea to action in 100 days, or less’ to...
(Yes, we used needles to press holes in the spools for the homemade drawn glass fibers, and yes it is hard to do, but that’s typical of prototypical work.) At each end of the spools attach (leave center hole clear) homemade wind cups that will catch the wind and spin the spools...
To put it another way: it is more fair to say that it is magnetic chlorine or oxygen, rather than magnetic silver, present in such impurity center. This explains the failure to dope copper oxides with Ag2+ in the early days of high-T C superconductivity: diamagnetic Ag1+ was always ...
And he changed “centre” into “center” for children to learn English by spelling words more like they sounded. He used “subway” instead of (代替) British word “underground”. Some other words are “soccer” and “football”, “fall” and “autumn”. Webster spent 28 years finishing...
“aarde”. All these likely originate from a Proto-Germanic term that was never recorded. Nevertheless, linguists have been able to go back and reconstruct this mystery word. Spelled “ertho” in scholarly texts, it’s always marked by an asterisk (星号). This asterisk acknowledges the lack ...
根据最后一段“‘He was the maker of our language and the maker of American identity,’ said Joshua Kendall, who is writing a book about Webster. ‘He at last brought us together through our language.’”可知,Noah Webster是美式英语和美国特征的创造者,使得美国人民紧密联系在一起。选项B“Noah ...