2017年12月21日 · Something Dave took away from his time at IDEO was the importance of embodying your ideas in a physical prototype. Has a similar meaning to. Something Dave learned from his time at IDEO was the importance of embodying your ideas in a physical prototype. From Cambridge Dictionary: take sth away...

2017年10月1日 · I'm writing a song and I'm having trouble with the verb take away. I understand that to take something away means to remove it. But I have also seen that to take away memories can mean to take them with you. Lyrics: When it's time to spread my wings Take away the memories. I want to express "spread my wings (as in "leave and start a new chapter ...

For example, if someone took my right/freedom of speech, by forcing punishments or such. What do I become? Is there one word to describe this situation (where rights are taken away)?

2015年12月11日 · In the US, we don't usually say "take-away." We say "take-out." If it's a counter restaurant, the server will usually ask, "For here or to go?" and then put your food into a bag or on a tray. Another way of saying this is "To stay or to go?" At a sit-down restaurant where there is a large take-out business, the host(ess) might ask, "Eat in or ...

A friend told me that the English word queue is the only word whose pronunciation remains the same when the last four letters are removed.

2018年6月12日 · I am not a native speaker of English. I want to know if there is a verb that means "take away something from other people". For example: If you say I take it away do you understand that (in most cases) you take something away from other people? Removing it from the other person? Is there a better verb than take away? In Spanish the word is ...

I found the phrase, “pull away the punch bowl out of X” and “leave the punch bawl in X” in the following sentence of Time’ magazine’s article (May 17) titled “Is the Fed to blame for JPMorgan’s $2 bill blow-up”: “It is said that the job of a central bank is to *pull away the punch bowl before it gets out of hand.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. It's notably longer than the wikiquote version, and closer to the French meaning.

2018年9月28日 · Is the expression take attention away something that sounds okay in English? I'm a Portuguese speaker, so tirar atenção is a normal expression, so I don't know to what extent I'm writing a natural English expression or just letting Portuguese influence my foreign language knowledge. Let me give you an example:

2014年5月3日 · 'Takeout' / 'take-away' are certainly correct and are established and logically constructed descriptors. While 'pick-up' is obviously also logically constructed, and has accepted and sometimes related roles, I wouldn't say that it is …