responsibility = ability to respond —ср. ответственность = способность нести ответ;
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course."Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous.
The Bhagavad Gita-that ancient Indian Yogic text-says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Last summer, my five-year-old niece had a little friend over to my sister's house to play. I asked the child when her birthday was. She told me it was January 25.
"Uh-oh!" I said. "You're an Aquarius! I've dated enough Aquarians to know that they are trouble."
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring…"
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega — a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. This is Linda — my temporary, special-order, travel-sized Venetian codega.
VOC.
a flake(n) = (North American English, informal) a person who is strange or unusual or who forgets things easily;
a spinning top (n) —юла, волчок;
progeny [ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ] (n) —потомство, отпрыск;
mural (n) — фреска, настенная роспись, наскальная живопись;
frugal (adj) —бережливый, экономный, умеренный, скромный, скудный;
irreverent (adj) —непочтительный, неуважительный;
perilous (adj) —опасный, рискованный;
in shifts (adv) —по очереди, посменно;
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where "all is correct." But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course."Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous.
The Bhagavad Gita-that ancient Indian Yogic text-says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Last summer, my five-year-old niece had a little friend over to my sister's house to play. I asked the child when her birthday was. She told me it was January 25.
"Uh-oh!" I said. "You're an Aquarius! I've dated enough Aquarians to know that they are trouble."
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or breaking up with her aroma-therapist boyfriend, who reads the Tarot cards of kindergarteners and says things like, "Bring Aunty Liz another wine cooler, baby, and I'll let you wear my mood ring…"
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega — a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. This is Linda — my temporary, special-order, travel-sized Venetian codega.
VOC.
a flake(n) = (North American English, informal) a person who is strange or unusual or who forgets things easily;
a spinning top (n) —юла, волчок;
progeny [ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ] (n) —потомство, отпрыск;
mural (n) — фреска, настенная роспись, наскальная живопись;
frugal (adj) —бережливый, экономный, умеренный, скромный, скудный;
irreverent (adj) —непочтительный, неуважительный;
perilous (adj) —опасный, рискованный;
in shifts (adv) —по очереди, посменно;