Those are not the most encouraging words to hear just before eating lunch at one of Hong Kong's smartest British restaurants, Alfie's by KEE, but head chef Neil Tomes has more to say. "The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England,...
Right now, I’m using a free word processing software called Open Office. It works similarly to Word. The big downside is, like Scrivener, no one really does anything with Open Office. So most of the time, I transfer my documents to Google Docs for writers to critique and share their ...
For more information, see Avoid unnecessarily violent language. happiness and satisfaction link Use happiness when referring to a customer's perception of a site's reliability. Use satisfaction when referring to whether the site meets the customer's needs. Site reliability engineering (SRE) ...
If you are going to write for either personal or professional reasons, you should carefully choose your words. Make sure your words say what you mean by controlling wordiness, using appropriate language, choosing precise wording, and using a dictionary or thesaurus effectively. 17.1Controlling Wordine...
It doesn’t matter to Republican politicians how many Americans die unnecessarily, how many of our fellow citizens struggle in misery and poverty, how many children’s growth is stunted or bodies and brains are poisoned by industrial and mining waste being poured into our air and rivers or terr...
Section Ⅳ Using Language (教师用书独具) THE WORLD'S MOST USEFUL GIFT CATALOGUE(目录) Home page About us Gift order form Contact details Would you like to donate(捐赠) an unusual gift? Then this is the catalogue for you. The gift you give is not something your loved one keeps but a...
operating by using the foot or feet:a foot brake. Idioms drag one's feet, to delay unnecessarily. Idiomsfoot it,[~+it]to walk; go on foot:We'll have to foot it home. Idiomsget off on the right(orwrong)foot, to begin well (or badly):I got off on the wrong foot by arriving ...
If we substitute a number for each letter, the message “Meet me” would read “13 5 20 13 5.” A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. To read the message of a real code, you must have a code book。 39 For example, “bridge” might stand for “meet"...
A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.”―Abhijit V. Banerjee, ...
Let's take a brief look at some of these “handy” English words. 让我们简要地看下这些有用的英语单词。 The Latin dexter means on the right side, skillful. From dexter we inherit the worddexterous, skilled with the hands or body. Now, here's where things get sinister for lefties. The...