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Disillusionment Humans think in stories rather than in facts. formulated three grand stories that claimed to explain the whole past and to predict the future of the entire world: the facist story, the communist story, and the liberal story. In 1938 humans were offered three global stories to choose from, in 1968 just two, in 1998 a single story seemed to prevail; in 2018 we are down to zero. In 2018 the common person feels increasingly irrelevant. Lots of mysterious…

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자세히 보면, 나방과 나비의 뚜렷한 차이점 2개를 발견할 수 있다. 나비는 예쁜 색을 띈다(컬러TV). 예를 들어, 공작나비(peacock butterfly)는 새 또는 다른 적들로부터 자신을 보하하기 위해 양쪽 날개에 커다른 눈을 과시한다. 나비의 몸과 날개에는 비교적 털이 적다. 따라서 적들이 보게되는 시각적 이미지는 반짝이고 명료하다. 이와 반대로 나방은 주로 단색을 띄며(흑백TV) 회색과 갈색이 주된 색이다. 왜내하면 이들 나방은 낮에는 주로 나무 껍질이나 가지에 앉아 잠을 자고 밤이 되기를 기다리기 때문이다. 낮 동안에는 활동이 둔하고 쉽게 새들의 먹이가 된다. 새들은 예리한 눈을 통해…

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the ravages of something the damage caused by something a building hat has survived the ravages of time The old tree (birches don’t live much past a hundred) has already experienced the ravages of time – or I should say of woodpeckers. dire extremely serious or terrible The country is in dire need of food aid If we did that, we’d have to say that dogs are in dire need of a pair of glasses.

smack your lips to make a short loud noise with your lips before or after you eat or drink something to show that it is good He drained his glass and smacked his lips appreciatively. What better idea than to smack your lips and enjoy this product from the cecum fresh from the anus, ingest it anew, and extract valuable calories during its journey through the small intestine? revolting extremely unpleasant (= disgusting) The food was revolting So it is…

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at this juncture a particular point in an activity or period of time At this juncture I suggest we take a short break Incidentally, the parent-child relationship in our family improved markedly at this juncture, because we were no longer constantly getting on each other’s nerves. break out into a sweat/break out in a sweat to start sweating to become very nervous or frightened Drops in stock market prices have investors breaking out into a sweat Barli returned, but then…

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It is customary (for somebody) to do something something that is customary is normal because it is the way something is usually done (= usual) In some cultures it is customary for the bride to wear white. Gourmets advance a similar argument every year at Christmas when it’s customary to load the table with tasty crustaceans, and Der Spiegel (the print sister magazine to Spiegel Online) has reported on this, as well.

lose no time in doing something do something immediately Murdock lost no time in taking out a patent for his invention. Yeti lost no time adopting fourteen piglets, even though their own mothers were still around. threading your way through/into something etc to move through a place by carefully going around thing that are blocking your way She came towards me, threading her way through the crowd. When the sun shines, the danger comes from agile hawks threading their way…

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malleable In your own backyard, a much more malleable rule applies, which states that under some circumstances culturally manipulated landscapes are also worthy of protection, particularly when the original landscape has completely disappeared. blow somebody away to make someone feel very surprised, especially about something they like or admire It just blows me away, the way everyone’s so friendly round here. We were blown away by the United States. be out of the question if something is out of the…

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reprehensible reprehensible behavior is very bad and deserves criticism I find their behavior morally reprehensible Firefighters put their lives on the line every time they go out to make sure people and property are safe, which make it all the more reprehensible that there are very a few who, to ensure their jobs are secure, start fires themselves when things slow down. toil/work/labour in obscurity work without being well-known After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging…

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