...specific direction before it will fit is called an
“allocentric frame of reference”. In the experiment, Goffin’s cockatoos were
able to select the right tool for the job, in most cases, by visual recognition
alone. Where trial-and-error was used, the cockatoos did better than monkeys in
simila...
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education.Intellect is resented as a form of power or...
Whether the weather is good or bad, I will go out.Whether my judgement be right or wrong, I will continue my research without any hesitation.为什么第一个用is,第二个用原型呢?
...ilarity in
the turn of our minds. -- We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition,
unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole
room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.""Thisis no very striking resemblance of your own character, I...
The beauty of our country — or at least all of its south of North Scotland — isas hard to define as it is easy to enjoy.south of 是....南面,加了个its(表示country的)怎么理解呢?这个国家南面的北苏格兰?
... to guess or
what questions to skip.为了表达状态的转换,改成了is knowing,比如 She is being smart.意思是她可能平时不聪明,但现在突然聪明了一下。这里when表示什么时候怎么怎么样,不是“当……时候”。而且“当…的时候”不严格表...
...aulo Magalhaes, a 34-year-old Portuguese computer
engineer, loves to open his mailbox and find a brightly colored picture of Rome’s Colosseum. Or
Africa’s Victoria
Falls. Or China’s
Great Wall. In short, he loves postcards, and the excitement of getting a
hand-written note from someone far awa...
I understand success to refer to one's ability to achieve the predominant part of his goals in his lifetime, which in turn leads to a correlation between success and income since the accomplishment of such a natural goal asto provide a good future for your loved ones demands the means这句的...
.... -- These are the kind of little
things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I
conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.""You
judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that
you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these
ple...
As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive - there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas.He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight be...