insulin noun hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells insurance noun promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made...
Finally, students who are working on their own should complete the exercises at the end of each sec- tion, filling in the blanks and striving for a perfect score. RepetitionThe words with asterisks (*) are those that have been taught in previous lessons. They are planted...
Originally in English a medical term meaning "physical constitution of an individual;" mental sense "peculiar mixture" of the elements in one person that makes up his character and personality first attested 1660s. In modern use, loosely, one's whims, habits, fads, or tastes. Sometimes confuse...
An unavoidable set of (full) words X over a finite alphabet A is one for which every two-sided infinite word over A has a factor in X (when a word w has no factor in X, we say that w avoids X). For example, the set X={aa,ba,bb} is unavoidable over the alphabet {a,b},...
aMid-autumn Day is one of the important traditional festivals with beautiful tales in China. On that day, almost everyone gets together with his or her family, eating mooncakes, chatting and watching the moon. Everyone is very happy on the Mid-autumn night. When I was young, I could always...
all for this g racious welcome party and the kindness you have shown me.6.She r equestedthat no one be told of her decision until the next meeting.7.His children's books are classics that d eserve to be much better known.8.Many professional boxers end their careers with brain d a...
These robots can open doors by themselves and stop if anything or anyone is in the way. These mini-robots are very useful for controlling infection(传染). Usually clean and dirty work is done by the same person, but here, you’ll have robots that do”dirty work”, ...
This article presents a theological–literary response to a concern in contemporary theory with heeding and articulating the speech of nonhuman things. Drawing from Rowan Williams’ metaphysics of poetic addition, I argue that an ‘ecotheological’ liter
Several years ago, I found myself in discussions about how the EU “isn’t really democratic”, but when I asked in what way is it not “democratic”, nobody could give me a coherent answer. I honestly hadn’t thought about it all that much, but when I did begin to seriously reflec...
Teaching was the first profession (职业) open to women soon after 1800.But even so,that was not an e(69)asy profession for women to enter because most high schools and colleges were open only to men.Oberlin College in Ohio was the first college in America toa(70)ccept women.Hospital ...