(someone) is being (adjective)When someone is acting in a way that's different than how they usually act, you can say that they "are being ___". For example, if one of your children is not cooperating with you, you can say:Why are you being so difficult?Or say this about your friend wh...
...tation. During the week, however, she likes to go to a nearby store
to buy some small things she needs.Last week she walked up to the store, but when she
went to pay for her groceries, she was short about three dollars. The only way to
pay for the groceries was to take off the things she could do wi...
... doing with myself during the summer, and with this help I managed to make some conversation till tea was brought in. The Colonel asked for a whisky-and-soda."You'd better have one too, Amy," he said."No; I prefer tea."This was the first suggestion that anything untoward had happened. 为什么上...
...gs you don’t need is wasteful and even bad for the earth. Before you buy something, ask yourself how much you will use it, and whenever possible, buy things locally made instead of those shipped from far away. ● Dress Green. What really matters is not the colour. It’s how the clothes were made...
...pectation raised (even if raised only by its own use). Thus: I've just had some good news: I've been offered a job in a law firm. [1]Those who lead must be considerate: those who follow must be responsive. [2]In [l] the explication is a clause which can be viewed as being in apposition...
...en a person begins a mediated or immediate encounter, he already stands in some kind of social relationship to the others concerned, and expects to stand in a given relationship to them after the particular encounter ends. This, of course, is one of the ways in which social contacts are geared into ...
...n women have for behaving beautifully at the death-bed of those they love. Sometimes it seems as if they grudge the longevity which postpones their chance of an effective scene."But now -- now it's finished. I'm as indifferent to him as if he were a stranger. I should like him to die miserable, poor...
...etly, without a movement, so that he might have been dead, and he was
like some wild creature of the woods, resting after a long chase; and she
wondered what fancies passed through his dreams. Did he dream of the nymph
flying through the woods of Greece with the satyr in hot pursuit? She fled, swift...
...d there was in them a malicious expression. I felt sure he was seeking for some gibe, could think of none, and so was forced to silence."I've brought an old friend to see you," repeated Stroeve, beaming cheerfully.Strickland looked at me thoughtfully for nearly a minute. I did not speak."I've never ...
...ers to act. Representing Ethos, in speaking to the German
leaders, he said some German businesses had put more importance on economic gain
than on morality.3.In an appeal to
Pathos, Zelenskyy played a video showing injured Ukrainian children to the U.S.
Congress to appeal to our emotions.4.And in hi...
... the islands shrink and slowly disappear or try to rebuild their
community somewhere else. Yet, the relocation is not a move embraced by most,
and some are unhappy living away from their home, and have returned after
struggling to adapt. On the other hand, relocation will be a great challenge to
the...
... ForestCheshire, EnglandI was back in my home town of
Macclesfield to take some winter images. Walking up a path through the forest
towards Shutlingsloe, a local high point, I came across a small clearing and
immediately noticed the dead yellow grasses set against the fresh snow. The
small pine adde...
...created, its alliance with the public
playhouses established, and at least someof its great traditions had been
begun.1.上述黑体部分判定为独立主格结构合理不？2.如果可以判定为独立主格结构，是否可以将其转化为its alliance with
the public playhouses being estab...
In some cases, it’s not so much the treatment of the
animals on set in the studio that has activists worried; it’s the off-set training and living conditions
that are raising concerns. And there are questions about the films made outside
the States, which sometimes are not monitored as closely a...
...#39;s subjects were so unhappy with him. We'll then move on to look at someof the most important clauses in Magna Carta. In finding out about Magna Carta's historical context, you'll be learning English, too.我的问题：1. King John's subjects，请问这里的 subjects 是不是...