2013年6月20日 · Hi, I just wanted to know which of the following expressions is correct: depicted in figure xx depicted on figure xx Thanks in advance!

2016年6月29日 · We GENERALLY use the word "depicted"to talk about the symbolism of something, e.g. the god is depicted by a six pointed star. If it is just a drawing of the god, then you do not need to say he is depicted unless you are going to add more comment on the nature of the depiction. e.g. he is depicted as twice the size of the mere mortals in the image.

2019年11月21日 · Hi there senior members! Do I have to say "depicted in" the triptych or "depicted on" the triptych? My gut says in the triptych.

2021年10月6日 · Increased sweating sounds like a good candidate. This is the classic 'flop sweat' performers suffer when they bomb. Calling it flop sweat is a cliche this year, but you could avoid that by focussing on the narrator feeling simultaneously both cold and sweaty. If your ghost writee is willing to be depicted so unflatteringly.

2009年10月1日 · From Trollope’s Barsetshire Chronicles: “How often does the novelist feel, ay, and the historian also and the biographer, that he has conceived within his mind and accurately depicted on the tablet of his brain the full character and personage of a man, and that nevertheless, when he flies to pen and ink to perpetuate the portrait, his words forsake, elude, …

2006年11月14日 · Oh, yes, your point of view is just to the point, that jogs my memory that was from my reading long time ago, saying: an owl is often depicted as wise on the outside but stupid inside! That is just interesting, I reckon there must be some cultural gap for me, and I am really eager to get the cultural origin now!

2018年6月15日 · The conceptual ideal was particularly vivid in the 19th century, when women were often depicted as angelic, responsible for drawing men upward on a moral and spiritual path. Among those virtues variously regarded as essentially feminine are "modesty, gracefulness, purity, delicacy, civility, compliancy, reticence, chastity, affability, [and ...

2010年10月21日 · Here's the Cassell's Dictionary of Slang's suggestion as to the origin: horns n. [mid-15C+] a generic term for cuckoldry [...] [the obvious link is to HORN n2, the penis, but the term apparently comes from an old German farming practice of grafting the spurs of a castrated cock on the roots of the severed comb.

2019年3月26日 · It is well-known that Greek o-mikron (literally, "small o-letter") derived from Phoenician alphabet's Ayin-letter (literally, "eye" in Semitic) what was depicted like O. That is pictographic eye-sign of writing culture of oral o-sound. …

2021年10月14日 · I definitely remember 'homemaker' as a "nicer" word for 'housewife' in the 50s. Homemakers were depicted in magazines of the time with impossibly tiny waists and wearing cute shirtwaist dresses and high heels as they deftly vacuumed a rug. In the sentence "I have been a homemaker/housewife for his family ... " people used to use "housekeeper ...