词源趣谈 | arrowroot 竹芋
arrowroot 指一种用于烹饪的淀粉，即竹芋，这种淀粉来自西印第安植物 Maranta arundinacea。
与交通运输相关的英语习语
Criticize the Paint Job on the Titanic
To obsess over small flaws and miss serious ones
过于着眼于小瑕疵，而忽略了大问题
短篇小说 | The Mission of Jane
LETHBURY, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his transient conjugal glance arrested by an indefinable change in her appearance.
女生叫 Hedia 是什么意思？
Hedia 这个名字并没有特定的含义，但它可能源自希腊语，意为“智慧”。在阿拉伯语中，Hedia的意思是“善良的朋友”。
词源趣谈 | arrant 彻头彻尾的
arrant 用以强调某物或某人非常坏。
与发疯抓狂相关的英语习语
Fly off the handle
Lose one’s temper suddenly and unexpectedly
心头冒火（多因他人的所作所为）
短篇小说 | The Letters
For many years he had lived withdrawn from the world in which he had once played so active and even turbulent a part. The study of Tuscan art was his only pursuit, and it was to help him in the classification of his notes and documents that I was first called to his villa.
女生叫 Hedda 是什么意思？
Hedda 这个英文名字源于古诺斯语，寓意是“战争，战斗”。
词源趣谈 | argosy 大商船
argosy 指大商船，尤指运载着贵重货物的大商船，它得名自拉古萨（Ragusa，今克罗地亚的杜布罗夫尼克〔Dubrovnik〕）的达尔马提亚港（Dalmatian）。
与死亡相关的英语习语
Over my dead body
Under no circumstances
只要我还有一口气就不能那样做；除非我死了
英语热词 | “国际物流供应链”英语怎么说？
国际物流供应链
international logistics supply chains
短篇小说 | The Lady's Maid's Bell
IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me.
