who doesn’t think twice before using whatever’s within reach to spice up his adventures, changing the rules of the game in a context where he really shouldn’t be taking
Here’s an interesting experiment for you bloggers to consider. Write your next post in cursive before you take to the keyboard. See if your “voice” doesn’t sound a little more thoughtful than the one from the keyboard. Now here’s an experiment for me. What if I were to spend ten...
For the most part, rabbits mean good luck, so don’t forget to say, “rabbit, rabbit” at the beginning of the next ___10___ month. It could mean 30 days of good luck! 1. A. when B. why C. where D. what 2. A. p...
DNA tests at 70% off (which begs the question: do we really care about our ancestry anymore?) Cyber Monday is a sort of second chance for those who shunned the big box stores the Friday after Thanksgiving (good decision). But here’s what I wonder today. Why endure Black Friday or ...
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown person who lived in Rome in AD (公元) 53 wrote it. We all love new inventions. They are exciting , amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality (品质) ...
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a process used to determine the most appropriate meaning of a word in a given contextual framework, particularly when the word is ambiguous. While WSD has been extensively studied for English, it remains a challenging problem for resource-scarce languages such as...
If he didn’t care for those, he could have chosen the chaparral peas, the silver puffs, the wooly Indian paintbrushes, the wooly blue curls, the scorpionweed, the pipestem clematis, the pink honeysuckle, the white globe lily, or the purple chinese houses. The mountainside was a pollinator...
When someone says they have to “face the music”, it means they have to accept and deal with the punishment of an action. Americans often use the word “face” in this way. For example, “I can't face another night of camping! It's cold and rainy.” Or “In...