The objectives of this study are (1) to describe the students' capability in understanding written texts of the second year students of RSBI class at SMP N I Wonogiri, (2) to describe the problems faced by the second year students in und... D Susanto 被引量: 5发表: 2011年 Intravenous...
Words are funny things. We use them to convey meaning - but there's more to words than that. We also use words to try to change the way people view things. In real estate advertisements, for example, you see words like "rustic" used instead of "old", or describe a home as "having...
In addition to being noted for the power of their jaw, they have the largest gap of any land mammal at 1m wide, and their teeth are made of the hardest ivory in the world – despite this, the ivory is easy to carve and was used to make dentures in the 1700s. So, a hippo’s m...
There are a number of adjectives I could use to describe the computerI’m using to type this post. In particular,ancientcomes to mind and maybevenerable,if we’re feeling generous. My current computer started out life as a pre-built HP Pavilion, I think was the model? Let me put it t...
THE WORD“demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are some 800,000 posts on TikTok with the tag #demure. Youngsters today are using the word with lashings of irony, invoking it to describe everything from Saturn to sun...
Your Soul Status The Oxford Language dictionary defines the word “soul” as the spiritual part of a human being that’s regarded as immortal. I was always fascinated as to why airline pilots, when making distress calls to the towers, refer to the people on board as souls. One reason is...
Collins Dictionary named “AI” as its Word of the Year, explaining it as “the modeling (建模) of human mental functions (心理功能) by computer programs”. In 2023, the development of AI was fast, as OpenAI improved the model for ChatGPT, making ...
Food for thought:describe something that provides mental stimulation or prompts reflection or consideration Hard nut to crack:a problem or situation that is difficult to solve or overcome To be spoon fed:to be provided with information or assistance in a very simplistic or overly easy manner, with...
I can try to describe the horrors of slavery to my children all I want, or I can plop them down in South Carolina in July where they can barely tolerate the heat while taking a tractor tour of a plantation (i.e. not even walking), and suddenly the thought of backbreaking 12-hour ...
Should we resort to sanitized language to describe our oppression, the same way liberation has been replaced by equality? Notably, the individuals who say these sorts of things frequently criticize liberal feminism, usually on the basis that it’s fake feminism, which is exactly what they’re en...