Learning and Teaching English - Strange Strange strange [streɪndʒ] Прилагательное чужой; чуждый; незнакомый, неизвестный2 источникаin strange lands — в чужих краях1I don't like strange people coming into my house. — Я не люблю, когда в мой дом приходят незнакомые мне люди.1strange voice — незнакомый голос3ещё 7 примеровстранный, чудной; необыкновенный; удивительный; необычный;чудесный2 источникаIt was strange to hear her voice again. — Было странно снова услышать ее голос.1strange man — странный человек3strange behaviour — странное поведение3ещё 9 примеровСиноним: odd, queer1сдержанный, холодный, сухой2 источникаto look strange at smb. — равнодушно /сухо/ смотреть на кого-л.3Синоним: reserved, restrained1непривычный1 источникto be strange to smth. — быть непривычным к чему-л.3чужеземный; иностранный1 источникнесобственный1 источникпосторонний; инородный1 источникstrange bodies — инородные тела3неловкий, смущенный1 источникto feel strange — чувствовать себя неловко, смущаться3 I'm strange to these parts — я нездешний3 Next Entry
bole A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bole (bohl) For 1: From Old Norse bolr (trunk). "In the midst of each room and hall, a living tree grows and holds up the roof, and its bole is hung with trophies and with antlers." "Rub off some gold to let the red bole show through." See more usage examples of bole in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent.
How to Be Happier at Work: 10 Tips Happiness--in your business life and your personal life--is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: 1. Blaming. People make mistakes. Employees don't meet your expectations. So you blame them for your problems. But you're also to blame. Taking responsibility when things go wrong instead of blaming others isn't masochistic, it's empowering--because then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time. And when you get better or smarter, you also get happier. 2. No one likes you for your clothes, your car, your possessions, your title, or your accomplishments. Sure, superficially they might seem to, but superficial is also insubstantial, and a relationship that is not based on substance is not a real relationship. Genuine relationships make you happier, and you'll only form genuine relationships when you stop trying to impress and start trying to just be yourself. 3. 4. Interrupting isn't just rude. 5.
Important Infrequently Used Words To Know | Just English Paul V. Hartman (The Capitalized syllable gets the emphasis) alacrity a-LACK-ra-tee cheerful willingness and promptnessanathema a-NATH-a-ma a thing or person cursed, banned, or reviledanodyne AN-a-dine not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull//anything that sooths or comfortsaphorism AFF-oar-ism a short, witty saying or concise principleapostate ah-POSS-tate (also: apostasy) person who has left the fold or deserted the faith.arrogate ARROW-gate to make an unreasonable claimatavistic at-a-VIS-tic reverting to a primitive typeavuncular a-VUNC-you-lar “like an uncle”; benevolent bathos BATH-ose an anticlimaxbereft ba-REFT to be deprived of something valuable “He was bereft of reason.” cynosure SIGH-na-shore (from the Greek: “dog’s tail”) center of attention; point to which all eyes are drawn. dilettante DILL-ah-tent 1. having superficial/amateurish interest in a branch of knowledge; 2. a connoisseur or lover of the fine arts Click to read: Like this: Related
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nudiustertian A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg nudiustertian (noo-dee-uhs-TUR-shuhn, nyoo-) adjective: Of or relating to the day before yesterday. From Latin nudius tertius, literally, today is the third day. "I'd ordered the key on-line for £48 that nudiustertian morning and was not expecting it to arrive until the following week." My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. POST INTERNET SURVIVAL GUIDE Post Internet Survival Guide is a project initiated by Katja Novitskova. At the moment it is realised as a book, an installation (FORMATS) and a series of events and exhibitions. The first book launch and exhibition took place in Berlin at Gentili Apri gallery as a project with Future Gallery, curated by me and Mike Ruiz. The second presentation took place in London, at BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) London, curated by KERNEL. TruEYE surView show with Yngve Holen and Anne de Vries. In correlation with R-U-INS network. Post Internet Survival Guide on view Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 in FORMATS, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 and Carbon by Tabor Robak, Future Gallery/Gentili Apri, Berlin Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 copy in posession of Sam Hancocks, Melbourne Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 copy on view at R-U-IN? Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 copy in Pro qm bookshop, Berlin Post Internet Survival Guide 2010 copy in Hamburger Bahnhof bookshop, Berlin
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau 1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. 2. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. 3. Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes 11. 12. 13. Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Robert Frost Inspirational Quotes 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Inspirational Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Quotes 40. 41. 42. 43. Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda 44. 45. 46. 47. Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes 48. It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. 49. 50. Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle 51. 52. Voltaire Quotes 53. 54. 55. Michael Jordan Inspirational Quotes 56. 57. 58. 59. Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ford 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.
Words in English: Loanwords Words in English public websiteLing/Engl 215 course informationRice UniversityProf. S. Kemmer Major Periods of Borrowing in the History of English Loanwords are words adopted by the speakers of one language from a different language (the source language). A loanword can also be called a borrowing. Borrowing is a consequence of cultural contact between two language communities. The actual process of borrowing is complex and involves many usage events (i.e. instances of use of the new word). Those who first use the new word might use it at first only with speakers of the source language who know the word, but at some point they come to use the word with those to whom the word was not previously known. However, in time more speakers can become familiar with a new foreign word. Conventionalization is a gradual process in which a word progressively permeates a larger and larger speech community. I. Latin The forms given in this section are the Old English ones. II. Latin Celtic III. Church Other
Brain Pickings Animal Rights Quotes, Sayings about Animal Welfare, Cruelty, Compassion Related Quotes Animals Civil Disobedience Integrity Vegetarianism Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. God loved the birds and invented trees. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men. The question is not, "Can they reason?" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Hunting is not a sport.
A.Word.A.Day --camarilla A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg On my morning walk, I came across an old table and some chairs on the sidewalk. A sign was taped to the furniture: My Spanish vocabulary isn't as extensive as I'd like it to be, but something about the sign didn't sound right. But I believe we must give the other person the benefit of the doubt, so my interpretation is that the furniture is not only FREE (as in free beer), but also FREE (as in freedom). But you don't have to know Spanish to understand (some) Spanish. This week we'll see five other words borrowed from Spanish that may not be as common. camarilla (kam-uh-RIL-uh, Spanish: kah-mah-REE-yah) noun: A group of confidential scheming advisers. From Spanish, diminutive of cámara (chamber), from Latin camera (room), from Greek kamara (an object with an arched cover). "In China ... successions to a bureaucratic collective leadership are managed by a tiny camarilla in a self-declared one-party state."