In daily life, we often use the words "hot", "dry" or "open" to describe a place. Do you know what it is? It's the desert. Desert covers about 20 per cent of the Earth's land area. However, the number is becoming bigger because of human activities. And it has caused enviro...
Gabriella Madombwe from South Africa chose “explore“, “choice“ and “self-trust“ to describe the past 12 months, as she had just graduated from high school and taken a gap year to decide what she wanted to do with her life. She took new courses, including one on cybersecurity, and...
People from English-speaking countries also use some witty( 智慧的)words.For example,"throne(王座)"to describe the toilet and"throne room" for the bathroom.A.WC,which stands for"water closet" and"lavatory" is quite popular nowadays.B.here are some of the words that are used in different ...
Gabriella Madombwe from South Africa chose "explore", "choice" and "self-trust" to describe the past 12 months, as she had just graduated from high school and taken a gap year to decide what she wanted to do with her life. She took new courses, including one on cybersecurity, and was...
Byline: Ben Lyttleton EURO 2012: THE FALLOUTYOU KNOW there's something amiss when not just sports psychologists, but also professors of philosophy and sociology are asked to comment on the behaviour of five of your national team's star players. That's exactly what happened last week when ...
Dispatcher Maura, our lead Russian interpreter, can describe the process for you, so that –“ “Did you finish your doctorate?” “No, Mr. Petrov.” That was certainly not a secret. But that academic ordeal in graduate school was still a source of deep regret. It ended the dream of ...
Lingua Franca is a pidgin, a trade language used by numerous language communities around the Mediterranean, to communicate with others whose language they did not speak. It is, in fact, the mother of all pidgins, seemingly in use since the Middle Ages and surviving until the nineteenth century...
Anything associated with England attracted the adjective. In the 15th and16th centuries, an often fatal sweating sickness (probably a type ofinfluenza) was called the English sweat. In the 18th century, foreignerswould describe people who ...
She stresses that wabi sabi is not an adjective to describe an object but a feeling inspired by the natural wonders of our imperfect world. You might feel wabi sabi while watching cherry blossoms fall to the ground or when admiring a well-worn carpet in your family's home. "For a taxi-...
“Metaphorically, the desert is a place of testing and transformation, of being divested of empire and ego.” Desertscapes are enormous reservoirs of silence. After walking for a time on various desert trails, I realized no words could ever adequately describe the land’s vast topography, its ...