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Sep 1, 2017 · English - England. Sep 1, 2017. #2. "Brush the dust off your hands" seems the most natural (the verb "to brush" doesn't always mean using a brush!). If you say "wipe" it tends to suggest you're wiping with a cloth of some kind. To "dust", in this sense, is more usually used in a phrase such as "dust oneself down". And "rub" doesn't work well here.
Jan 16, 2008 · Senior Member. It is a perfect blend of witty dark humor with an incredibly fast paced storyline. This film takes every standard Hollywood approach and grinds it up into dust, creating a raw masterpiece that cuts down on bullshit special effects. I can't get what this phrase means and it seems to have a positively figurative meaning.
Jun 25, 2018 · There is a phrase, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." (the phrase comes from Genesis 3:19: By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.") If I rephrase it as "Dust unto dust returns," does it convey the same meaning with "Ashes to ashes ...
Jan 25, 2024 · 美国散文集The Solace of Open Spaces中的难句 Today the sun is out—only a few clouds billowing. In the east, where the sheep have started off without me, the benchland tilts up in a series of eroded red-earthed mesas, planed flat on top by a million years of water; behind them, abold line of muscular...
Apr 25, 2006 · Carlos Martínez Riera said: Precisely yesterday I was told that the RAE eventually accepted a couple of years ago the use of the simplest form of the past tense of andar as: andé. andaste. andó. andamos. andastéis. andaron. Both the traditional one (anduvo) and the new one (andó) would be accepted.
Jan 26, 2024 · 下面这一段文字来自于美国抒情散文“The Solace of Open Spaces”如何翻译划线部分？ Most characteristic of the state’s landscape is what a developer euphemistically describes as “indigenous growth right up to your front door”—a reference to waterless stands of salt sage, snakes, jackrabbits, deerflies, red dust, a brief...
May 12, 2021 · The words 'dull', 'skull', 'hull' and 'mull' have a /ʌ/ sound, while 'pull', 'bull' and 'full' have a /ʊ/ sound. In most accents of northern England there is no /ʌ/ phoneme. This means that for many people who live in the north of the country, 'dull' does have the same vowel sound as 'pull': both words have the same back, half-close /ʊ/ sound.
Jul 21, 2005 · I would use "beat" in sentences like "We beat them 10-5." or "They beat us fair and square.". Also possible is the other meaning (to strike) in expressions like "We beat the dust out of the rugs on the veranda.". I've heard people say "We beat 21-11" (no pronoun) and that sounds so wrong to me.
French and English words, phrases and idioms: meaning, translation, usage. Mots, expressions et tournures idiomatiques françaises et anglaises : signification ...
Oct 26, 2006 · Aug 12, 2010. #9. 'Swirl' is often used for natural forces moving irregularly: water, wind, clouds, leaves in the wind, and so on. 'Twirl' is often more like a deliberate movement of something more solid: a dancer twirls, or you twirl an umbrella. With 'whirl' there's a sense of a great speed, or your mind in confusion because things are going ...
