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2015年2月27日 · Evolution is usually thought of as making improvements or refinements. The Latin meaning of e-, “coming out”, is mostly forgotten, but lives on in evolve’s sense of “gradually realize a more perfect form”. Refinements can make a bad thing stronger, of course, like when a virus evolves or when an evil genius evolves a plan for world ...

2016年3月26日 · forces that shape the course of evolution. Meeting Sally changed the whole course of his life. Although the collocation that has been used for course in your example is over. Course in the sense of a period of time or process during which something happens normally collocates with during/in/throughout/over as in,

2015年5月1日 · Meaning "strange, odd, causing perplexity" is by 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern (marked as colloquial in Century Dictionary). The two senses of the word led to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested by 1916.

2021年5月28日 · In this situation, "inter-temporal evolution" refers to the "mean change in asset growth in (..) the 2 years before and the 5 years after the adoption of a leniency law". The two time frames are "2 years before" and "5 years after". They are looking at the difference in evolution between these two time frames.

Evolution has not finished yet, any more than it was finished 100,000 years ago. Source. I need your help with understanding the passage in bold. The first part is clear but the second one does not make much sense to me. (Evolution has not been finished and at the same time it was finished 100,000 years ago.)

2015年9月16日 · I suppose it may have the same meaning of ever-changing which means constantly changing, according to oxford dictionary because Google suggested it in the search page other than ever-evolving and evolve. Slang is ever-evolving, and terms can grow outdated. My ever evolving definition of success. Thanks.

2020年1月2日 · "Don't say anything yet." means the same as "Don't say anything right now." Essentially, the young man is telling the young woman that she doesn't have to make this decision instantly; he's saying it is okay if she takes time to think it through and decide later.

2023年8月1日 · "On a war footing " is an idiom meaning "ready to fight a war". When applied literally it means that a country has shut down luxuries and optional parts of its economy and is only working on necessities of war: food, steel, and munitions.

2015年2月27日 · Thus, use of re as a preposition meaning about or regarding seems perfectly reasonable to me; it's a concise alternative to regarding, a word which is often used verbosely. Use re when introducing a new topic. For example, the following would be grammatically and perhaps even stylistically acceptable: Re item 1, she has no opinion.