in response to the comment on 'myriad' by William Gallagher:: both 'myriad design challenges' and 'a myriad of design challenges' are correct in use. Historically, myriad was used to express a static number, ten thousand, but today its use can entail both 'endless' and 'large number'. ...
A thousand pardons for my telling you the truth. eight thousandadj(8000 of[sth])SCSimplified Chinese八千个的 five hundred thousand, 500, 000adj(500,000 in number)SCSimplified Chinese五十万的 The couple have savings of 500,000 pounds.
【3】What does the underlined sentence “There are a thousand Hamlets(哈姆雷特) in a thousand people’s eyes” in the last paragraph meanA.Different countries have different cultures.B.Different people like different books and movies.C.People have different ideas about books and movies.D.People...
For example, a word is a positive term if it belongs to a positive, or “hawkish” category: for example, “increas”, “rais”, “tight”, “pressur”, “strength”, and so on. A word is a negative term if it belongs to a negative or “dovish” category: for example, “decreas...
Parents have been ___ their hair about the ingratitude of children for ten thousand years. A. combing B. trimming C. cutting D. tearing 查看完整题目与答案 He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video cameraabout the brutality ___ upon him. A. done B. suffered C. ...
I was in Dublin on business years ago and took the “try anything once” approach with white pudding. Bad, bad, very bad decision. White pudding (not for the faint of stomach) If I were born in England or Ireland I probably wouldn’t rain on the breakfast parade on the other side ...
A. For a few years. B. For ten years. C. For twenty years. D. For thirty years. 58. What did Nan understand at last when she found a big tiger shark? A. The whale wanted to fight against the shark. B. Th...
It has been known for a long time that obesity tends to run in families, but it was not until about 20 years ago that scientists started to discover that changes in specific genes can have very large impacts on our weight even from early chi...
Romeyka, which is spoken by an ageing population of a few thousand people in the mountain villages near Turkey’s Black Sea coast, separated from modern Greek thousands of years ago. It has no written form. For linguists, it is a“ living bridge” to the ancient Greek world, the loss ...
How __are__ you __going__ __to__ achieve it? A Mrs. Brown is going to give her daughter Ann a birthday party. Ann 1.__will__be__ (be)ten years old. A lot of her 2.__friends__ (friend) will come to the party. Mrs. Brown 3.__is__preparing__ (prepare) for the party...