From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 18 March 1789
2002年1月14日 · The frivolities of conversation have given way entirely to politicks—men, women and children talk nothing else: and all you know talk a great deal. The press groans with daily …
“The Englishman,” by Douglas Stuart - The New Yorker
2020年9月7日 · The little Englishman laughed so long that I was almost encouraged to laugh along with him, to go along with it, if only to keep the peace. Then William stood up abruptly …
Thousand-yard stare - Wikipedia
The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or …
An Englishman, dosing under a kind of half reformation, is not excited to think by such gross absurdities as stare a Frenchman in the face wherever he looks whether it be towards the …
The Different Types of Stares: Decoding the Language of the Eyes
2024年10月4日 · Eyes have a way of speaking volumes without uttering a single word, and understanding the various types of stares can shed light on the intentions and emotions of …
Alan Macfarlane on the national character of the Englishman
2012年11月15日 · ‘Englishmen are said to be very proud; certainly many are so, but in general they are more cold and reserved than really proud, and they are taciturn by nature, especially …
BBC Learning English - 你问我答 / 单词 gaze 和 stare 的区别
2024年7月6日 · 一位网友来信询问 “gaze” 和 “stare” 之间的区别。 这两个词都有 “注视” 的意思，但它们所描述的 “注视” 原因却不同。
Arthur Young - Irish Biography - Library Ireland
Knocking down is spoken of in the country in a manner that makes an Englishman stare.
Arthur Young (1741-1820) - Ricorso
Young gives detailed and graphic account of Irish peasant and his poverty (he even includes a detailed labourer’s budget, and a sketch of a particularly miserable-looking cabin), but he …
E.M. Forster and the Character of ‘Character’ - Oxford Academic
2021年5月15日 · In ‘Notes on the English Character’, first published in the American journal Atlantic Monthly in 1926 and reprinted as the opening essay in the 1936 collection Abinger …