четверг, 31 мая 2012 г.
Conditionals
If I had a million dollars, I’d give the most to you.
If I met an alien, I’d invite him to my place.
If my dog could speak, it would tell me a lot of pleasant words.
среда, 30 мая 2012 г.
Top 10 Latin Words to Live By
#1: Amor Vincit Omnia
Over the centuries, certain
Latin phrases have been used widely enough in English to get included in the dictionary.
This list contains some of our favorites.
What It Means: "love
conquers all things"
Where It Comes From:
Shortly before the start of the first millennium, the
Roman poet Virgil wrote "love conquers all things; let us too surrender
to Love."
The phrase and the concept (in Latin and in English)
caught on: a character in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written in the
late 1300s, wore a brooch engraved "Amor Vincit Omnia";
Words That Come from "Mother"
#1: Metropolis
Nowadays, it refers to a large city —
particularly an important one.
In ancient Greece,metropolis referred to the mother city of a
colony.
(Corinth, for example, was the metropolis
of Syracuse.)
Metropolis comes from the Greek mētēr ("mother") +polis ("city").
#2: Matrix
Is matrix the mother of all terms?
Maybe not, but the term originates in the Latinmater, meaning
"mother."
The original (now-archaic) meaning of matrix was "uterus." Today the word
usually refers to a situation or set of conditions
in which something develops or forms.
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