"`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'" [Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass]"Words just say what you want them to say; they don't know any better" [A.L. Kennedy The Role of...
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Yet the English language does not always work in a way that makes sense. Not only do words change meaning, but some of our prefixes do not always mean the same thing. For instance,dis-can mean 'do the opposite of,' as indisqualify, and also can mean 'completely' as indisannul. It ...
COMMONIf someone has toeattheirwords, they have to admit that an opinion that they stated publicly has now been proved wrong.He was very doubtful about our chances of success but he'll be eating his words now.The company's chairman has had to eat his words about the company being recessi...
On that basis, we would also say that “nice pedant” means “stupid schoolmaster” (for that is what those words used to mean) and rejig the calendar so that September, October, November and December become the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months. ...
Happy 100th birthday to these words! Here's a short collection of words from 1921 that are still in use today. Read the list to learn them all.
I shall havewordswith these stupid friends of mine! 我真应该跟我这些愚蠢的朋友理论理论! 柯林斯例句 In a fewwordsshe had put him in his place. 她简单几句话就杀了他的威风。 柯林斯例句 The things that stuck out were his cockiness and his four-letterwords. ...
become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases. Great writers are those who not only ...
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell Do not fear mistakes, there are none. Miles Davis Boy 1: What ya got? Boy 2: Chocolate! Boy 1: Where'd ya get it? Boy 2: Dog dropped it! Anonymous ...the accuse...
KISS原则(懒人原则): Keep It Simple & Stupid >>> import this # zen of Python The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. ...