384,000 vehicles were written off on Britain’s roads last year. Most alarmingly, 44% ofyoungsters who wrote their car off, did so just metres from their own home. Regardless of how hard the nation’s drivers work tostay safe on roads, more than 1,000 vehicles are being written off ev...
From the beach, we returned to the hotel pool where I rinsed off the infernal sand, got in the pool and went directly to the swim up bar. Now that was what I was talking about. We enjoyed Bintang beers and lounged around the pool for the afternoon. Later in the evening we went bac...
用came是因为过去式，用writing是因为本来这个句子是writing the essays came next，writing是做主语的，所以要用write的动名词形式，但是既然next做了句首词，而谓语是came，就要倒装一下才能使句子语法无误。以下是come的意义及用法希望对你有所帮助 不及物动词 vi.1.来; 来到; 到达; 抵达（某地）C...
My head fell back and I pushed off the floor with my toes, and we glided with the pinchy squeak of chains in their hooks, the ice in our drinks crackling. ”Remember that time we stole Rafe’s car?” I asked. In high school we had sneaked the keys to her brother’s car and hit...
The following two excerpts, from recent pieces by Ian Frazier and John Updike, are 100 percent off-the-wall; nothing written during America‘s earlier golden ages was any funnier. Frazier's piece is called "Dating Your Mom," and it begins like this: In today’s fast-moving, transient,...
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Get angry. Anger is an easy emotion to express. When you’re angry you know exactly why something pisses you off. What pisses you off about the world, your niche, or life in general? Vent your frustrations and yourpowerful wordswill pour out. ...
Still, they got along well. They played the piano together and enjoyed picnics in the sun. Everything felt fine, yet there was an underlying sense that something was off. Natalie took Jonathan's arm and entered the ballroo...
(people who remember or forget) encourages the reader to sort people into one of two categories. While persuasive writing styles usually come off as confident, the narrator’s admission that he doesn’t precisely know the answer to this conundrum helps humanize the conflict he’s debating. ...
9.What is your writing routine? As mentioned, I’m quite a disciplined, focussed person by nature, and routine is important for me as far as my writing goes. I get up at 6.30 a.m., drop both my sons off to the bus stop around 7.15 a.m. Then I come back home, have breakfast ...