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Feb 1, 2012 · Chinese. Feb 1, 2012. #1. Hello Everyone, I am reading Brookyn Follies, and I don't understand exactly what the two-bit tyrant mean mean in the following sentences: The background is as follows: in the writing, Jonas Weinberg, is a doctor of internal medicine, who moved to US from Germany in about 1930s when Hiltler in charge of the goverment ...
如何评价美剧《暴君》（Tyrant）？ 依照我自己看快十年美剧的经验，觉得至少第一集拍的很不错而且twist 也安排的很到位 不知道大家觉得这部剧如何 比如大概能拍多少季 后面质量能否保持等…
Sep 26, 2007 · In AE, 'pharaoh' is NOT synonymous with 'tyrant;' it always means a ruler of ancient Egypt. (Or maybe a singing group, if that's what they call themselves.) I would write: They bowed down to the pharaoh. They bowed down to Pharaoh Amenhotep. (or whoever; I just made that name up, I think.) God punished Pharaoh for his unfairness.
Sep 9, 2022 · Polish. Sep 9, 2022. #2. It likely means that the tyrant is a different kind of slave, e.g. a slave to the pursuit of power. dimebag said: by S. C Champion ( could not find who he is, tell me if you know!) Me neither, but I doubt he's the author. Google suggests it may be a foreign proverb, which makes a little bit more sense, given the odd and ...
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Oct 1, 2016 · Member Emeritus. Penang. American English. Oct 1, 2016. #2. Dishonesty and disobedience are certainly not synonyms, so there's no way they would convey the same meaning. Since this sentence deals with a tyrant taking charge of his people, I imagine "disobedience" is the word you want.
Jan 10, 2007 · Lordly tyrant. Thread starter mandarina in Bath; Start date Jan 10, 2007; M. mandarina in Bath Senior Member.
Jan 21, 2016 · The context comes from Jane Eyre Chapter 1. He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated ...
May 29, 2021 · Yes, it’s an idiom – in BE, and I expect in AE too. If the trains on a certain line “run to time”, that means they’re pretty reliable. And we also use “run on time” (perhaps most notably in the urban myth that Mussolini may have been a fascist and a tyrant but at least he made the trains run on time!).
Jan 21, 2016 · He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort ...
