2020年1月2日 星期四

【#逐字學英文國際日報】47: childhood, turntable, second childhood /life, Childhood's End, glint

One year before his death at 94, Peter Drucker, with a glint in his eye, told me the only universal truism about leaders is that they all have followers. ..

Child on the outside stairs


Paul Klee
Kind an der Freitreppe, 1923

The learning center strategy uses eight basic learning centers to address the countless objectives of Americanearly childhood classrooms, attempting to develop the student’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and aesthetic abilities.

There are eight basic learning centers in an early childhood/elementary classroom, according to the Stephen F. Austin State University Charter School program, each structured to expand the students’ experiences in a variety of meaningful and effective ways. Each center is constructed to encompass numerous objectives, including state and federal standards, school standards, and community standards. The learning centers approach focuses on student autonomy and learning style by giving each student an opportunity to explore his learning environment hands-on in a developmentally appropriate classroom (see Constructivism). Teachers act as facilitators, providing materials and guidance, as well as planning discussions, activities, demonstrations, and reviews.




Today's young people are brainier than any previous generation—yet, as our special report from last January highlights, their elders are stopping them from reaching their potential
🔊 "When the conversation turned to something important we turned the turntable on."

Crane Turntable’s 2nd Life Is an Issue in Collapse

In the spring of 2007, a bolt of lightning struck a crane at 46th Street and Eighth Avenue, damaging a crucial part — the turntable at the top. Over the weeks that followed, the turntable’s bearings began to grind, and the stress apparently caused a crack in the surrounding steel that grew so wide that a worker noticed daylight glinting through it, according to an engineering report for the crane’s owner.

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, childhood consists of two stages: preoperational stage and concrete operational stage. In developmental psychology ...
2019/12/25 - childhood翻譯:童年;孩童時期,孩提時代。了解更多。


second childhood noun [S]
when someone starts to behave like a child, especially because of mental weakness caused by old age:
Her grandfather's in his second childhood and talks nonsense most of the time.
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

glint
verb [I]
1 to produce small bright flashes of light reflected from a surface:
The stream glinted in the moonlight.
A large diamond glinted on her finger.

2 When someone's eyes glint, they look bright, expressing a lively emotion:
She smiled at him, her eyes glinting with mischief.

glint  [C usually singular]
when something glints:
the glint of a knife
There was a mischievous glint in his eye.





turntable 

Pronunciation: /ˈtəːnteɪb(ə)l/ 



NOUN

1circular revolving plate supporting a record as it is played.
1.1(turntables) A set of two or more record decks connected to sound mixing equipment, used by a DJ:the two DJs who preside over the turntables play all kinds of cool electronica
2circular revolving platform for turning a railway locomotive or other vehicle.

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