○○○ hang on ⪢⪢
Now, don't _____.
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
It slips away and all your money won't a
nother minute buy.
Dust in the wind.
All we are is dust in the wind.
Dust in the wind.
Everything is dust in the wind.
#song
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=6968
○○○ was to ⪢⪢
Ashamed he decreed that the prince was use a special hat that would cover his ears and that he was never to take it off. The prince was
not to know about his donkey ears.
→ decree
#be
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=4042
○○○ get ⪢⪢
Social media is
not real. You're only seeing the curated part of someone's life. Your life is different from theirs because you _____ to experience the stuff that never _____s posted.
→ curate
#quote
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=6804
○○○ token ⪢⪢
"As a _____ of your belief in me, Eurydice must walk behind you as you travel back to the upper world", Hades said, "and you must
not look back at Eurydice until you have exited the under world."
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=23647
○○○ third person ⪢⪢
He explains that English does
not have a third person singular pronoun that does
not identify as male or female.
Zimmer says that more and more "they" is being used to replace the traditional phrase, "he or she".
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9415
○○○ pronoun ⪢⪢
"They" is a plural pronoun. For years, people speaking English have used it as a singular pronoun. For example, "I am meeting a friend for coffee and I hope they are
not late."
#singular_plural
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9352
○○○ Anna Matteo ⪢⪢
Metcalf says the decision for the word of the year is
not based on science. Instead, he says the A.D.S. chooses from words that express the concerns and stories of the past year. For VOA Learning English, I'm Anna Matteo.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=11805
○○○ blackmail ⪢⪢
Bezos accused the owner of the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper of blackmail. Bezos wrote the tabloid threatened to publish private photographs of him and his girl friend if he did
not stop his investigation into its practices.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=11746
○○○ vestal ⪢⪢
She said, 'There is no reason'. And the truth is plain to see.
But I wandered through my playing cards.
And would
not let her be.
One of sixteen _____ virgins. Who were leaving for the coast. #song #lyrics
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7040
○○○ heliocentric ⪢⪢
In a heliocentric model the Sun,
not the Earth, is in the center and all other objects including the Earth orbit the Sun. In this model the Earth is moving in two ways. It revolves arround the Sun and it also rotates on an axis.
→ spin
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=14014
○○○ microscopic ⪢⪢
You will often see snakes flicking their tongue in and out. Again this snake is
not being rude. It is actually tasting the air - collecting microscopic particles which it can analyze using a special organ in the roof of its mouth.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=14809
○○○ 2017.01 ⪢⪢
An IT engineer is looking at the servers in this building and something seems off. The engineer
notices that often in the middle of the night these servers are connecting to some server in Shanghai and uploading Emails and audio files.
#bookmark
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15417
○○○ traitor ⪢⪢
A typical day in wild Tanzania, lioness stalks baboon. But
nothing is quite as it seems. These baboons are
not the prey. They become traitors, ready to sacrifice the lives of others to survive.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15460
○○○ hypersonic ⪢⪢
U.S. officials now believe the objects are mostly likely
not secret U.S. technology but they worry they could be advanced systems by a
nother country, potentially Russia or China, both known to test hypersonic systems.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15561
○○○ Erik ⪢⪢
The voice belonged
not to an angel but to Erik, a strange musical genius who had forever been living in opera and was also called the phantom of the opera by the opera patrons.
→ patron
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20771
○○○ plateau ⪢⪢
Like a mountain a plateau tends to have high elevation different though in that it has very little relief it tends to be fairly flat. Most importantly plateaus do
not have deformed bedrock rather they have horizontal or flat bedrock layers.
→ prairie
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16114
○○○ gulp ⪢⪢
But if that doesn't work, like if there is
not enough oxygen in the water, the axolotl has a backup, fully functional lungs. It can use to gulp air from the surface. These organs are evolutionary leftovers from when its ancestors lived on land.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16131
○○○ Etna ⪢⪢
The country is home to three that are active and many more that are
not.
The eruption was accompanied by large plumes of black and white smoke that shot into the skies and covered the entire landscape.
→ Catania, plume, shoot
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=19628
○○○ 2022.03.02 ⪢⪢
A top Chinese banking official says China will
not join the United States and the European governments in placing financial restrictions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20240