Now, coming back to our lesson today, we are going to expand our vocabulary with ten more expressive adjectives.现在，回到我们今天的课程，我们将通过十个更具表现力的形容词来扩展我们的词汇量。I'm your English coach, Niharika.我是你的英语老师 Niharika。And if you haven't subscribed to the cha...
h.Columbusin 1493 used a Carib Indian word ___ to describe the small boats the native used. i. In theWest Indiesthe local name fro a violent tropical cyclone is a ___. j. The Australian aborigines use a throwing stick that they call a ___. k.“Look like rain, boy,”sang out L...
physical violence: one slap to the face each. Compared to the verbal onslaught, it’s almost funny, a formality to commemorate a war without weapons. It couldn’t possibly hurt more than what’s been said.
The word has come to describe any complete travel guide. bagatelle An unimportant trifle. (Not a loaf of French bread.) It's best used to describe a knickknack or a small good deed. bailiwick In one's area of interest or authority; the word derives from the area in which a bailiff,...
Carte blancheHaving permission to do what one wantsHaving permission to do what one wantskaɾtə blɑ̃ʃə En gardeOn guardOn guardɑ̃ gaɾdə Excusez-moiExcuse meExcuse meɛkskyze-mwa Je ne sais quoiA quality or feature that is hard to describeA quality or feature that...
“I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine”~ Rita Rudner “Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway”~ Anonymous “But I’m not so think as you drunk I am”~ Samuel Smiles
The bad blocking is most evident at the beginning when the Capulet & Montague boys fight. It's hard to describe if you haven't seen the stage production, but onstage it works perfectly and the first sword fight scene leaves you in awe - but since basic rules of cinematography aren't fo...
Cross-referenced term:SURVIVOR, n. This term has been trounced too often to discuss it extensively here. Suffice it to say that, while intended to describe a person who has suffered some unusual travail and come out of it relatively whole, it is almost always applied, in the national media...
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Using banking terminology may not be the best way to describe the exchange; influencing is probably a better way to conceptualize it. Nevertheless, linguists have been employing words like borrow and loan as metaphors to describe what amounts to be a very complicated and abstract process of ...