Many will know that the word "muscle" comes from the Latin for "mouse" (rippling under the skin, so to speak ). But what about "chagrin", derived from the Turkish for roughened leather, or scaly sharkskin. Or "lens" which comes from the Latin "lentil" or "window" meaning "eye of wind" in old Norse Looked at closely, the language comes apart in images, like those strange paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo where heads are made of fruit and vegetables.
Not that Henry Hitchings’s book is about verbal surrealism. That is an extra pleasure in a book which is really about the way the English language has roamed the world helping itself liberally to words, absorbing them, forgetting where they came from, and moving on with an ever-growing load of exotics, crossbreeds and subtly shaded near-synonyms. It is also about migrations within the language’s own borders, about upward and downward mobility, abou
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B. An institute established by France to promote French education in the world
C. An institute of France that have all the renowned scholars in France
D. An institute of higher education in France, especially famous for its authentic language education
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A.没有发现资本主义发展的规律 B.没有发现找到创造新社会的社会力量 C.没有阐明资本主义制度 D.没有发现公有制的优越性 [单选题]往复泵是利用活塞位置改变来吸入和排出。当活塞从最左位置向右运动时（），工作腔容积扩大，液体在吸入压力作用下，顶开吸入阀，直到活塞走到最右点为止
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