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…
There are two primary styles of WAT coding to choose from. One style is the linear instruction style list. The other coding style is called S-Expressions. Unserstanding WAT: MDN Docs Stack Machines For example, local.get is defined to push the value of the local it read onto the stack, and i32.add pops two i32 values (it implicitly grabs the previous two values pushed onto the stack), computes their sum and pushes the resulting i32 value When a function is called,…
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…
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…
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…
반드시 그렇지는 않다. 왜냐하면 나무는 다음 세대를 시작할 때 커다란 어려움이 있기 때문이다. 이들은 전분, 오일, 또는 단백질 형태로 저장된 에너지를 쌔앗인 배아에 제공해야 한다. 씨앗은 생명이 시작될 때 새싹이 광합성을 통해 에너지를 생성하지 못한 상태에서 성장을 시작해야 한다. 뿌리는 땅을 뚫고 들어가 물과 미네랄을 흡수하고 땅 위에서는 떡잎이 자라지만 이들은 종마다 특유의 모습을 가지며 성장 이후의 햇빛을 받아 들이는 잎모양과 매우 다르다. 잎들은 성장한 후에 햇빛을 이용하여 물과 이산화탄소를 설탕으로 변환할 수 있다. 이 때 이후부터 작은 떡잎은 조상으로부터…
bequeath something to somebody to officially arrange for someone to have something that you own after your death She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery. stoical not showing emotion or not complaining when bad things happen to you plunder Jays fly little more than half a mile before they deposit their plunder, but that’s quite far enough for the beech.
infestation If insects, rats etc infest a place, there are a lot of them and they usually cause damage: be infested with The kitchen was infested with cockroaches. I’ve often heard it said that mild winters cause plagues of biting flies or catastrophic bark beetle infestations. overwinter to live through the winter, or to make it possible for something to live through the winter These birds generally overwinter in tropical regioin. in a predicament a difficult or unpleasant situation in…
다양한 색의 빛으로 부터 자신을 위장하거나 속이려면 주위의 배경과 구분이 되지 않도록 비슷한 색과 패턴을 이용하면 된다. 소리로부터 위장하려고 할 때도 동일하게 적용된다. 이 경우 주위를 이용해서 구분이 어렵도록 만든다는 것은 나방에게는 최대한 적은 양이 소리가 반사되도록 하는 것이다. 추후에 산속으로 들어가게 된다면 이것이 어떻게 그렇게 되는지 확인해 볼 수 있다. 주위를 둘러싸고 있는 산비탈이 나무가 없을 경우 메아리를 외쳐보면 아주 명료하게 반사될 것이다. 만약 산비탈이 나무로 빼곡하다면 메이리를 듣지 못할 것이다. 왜냐하면 나무의 줄기나 수관이 소리를 흡수해버리기 때문이다. 이런…