2016年1月24日 星期日

doubly, honour-system, unusual honor, meet his death, double, death blow


In one experiment, an office honour-system to pay for shared coffee got more contributions when someone taped a picture of a pair of eyes on the collecting tin
Belief in divine punishment may be inherent and a useful evolutionary…
ECON.ST
Mao-lovers in China see the 120th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong on December 26th as particularly special. Reaching the age of 60 is considered a great event in Chinese culture. Mao, though lying embalmed in a crystal casket in Tiananmen Square as he has been since 1977, a few months after his death, will soon be doubly blessed http://econ.st/1ddrE1m

double blow

doubly welcome

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

Google-Disclosed Hole Being Exploited
InformationWeek (blog)
... system without giving the OS maker a reasonable chance to respond. That's doubly true for a researcher employed by Google, a competitor to Microsoft.

....help meet the expense of my time in England, and for that I am doubly grateful since it was a second award to me and an unusual honor.

...met his death prematurely when he exposed himself, experimentally, to an over dose of chloroform.


...receive the death-blow of learning what is ti to become a Christian, to be a Christion.

death blow

noun

  • a stroke with a hand or weapon that causes death.
  • an event or circumstance which abruptly ends something:this feature of quantum mechanics dealt a death blow to the theory


doubly
adv.
  1. To a double degree; twice: doubly protected; made doubly certain.
  2. In a twofold manner.

沒有留言: