Technical WritingJohn Wiley & sons, Incorporated, 1923 - 337 頁 |
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abstract adjective adverb avoid awkward barite better careless cassiterite clause clear coal comma common concentrate context convey copper correct cyanide definite Delete deposit editor employed English error euphony example expression extract fault flotation flotation process furnace galena Gilpin county gold grammatical hyphen idea indicated introduced isoprene jargon Jock Hutchison kind language limestone literary lode matter means meant to say ment metal method mill mineral mining engineer necessary needed noun operation orebody paragraph person phrase Pittman Act plant plural practical preceding precision preposition preposition-verbs profit punctuation purpose pyrite quartz quotation marks quoted reader redundant refers relative clause relative pronouns replaced restrictive clause rock Ruskin semicolon sense sentence separate silver slime slovenly smelter solution speak speech statement style subjunctive suggest sulphide surface technical writing thing thought tion usage vein verb whereas words zinc
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第 127 頁 - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains...
第 241 頁 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
第 242 頁 - But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate— we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living...
第 127 頁 - When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand...
第 306 頁 - ... whether aught was imposed me by them that had the overlooking, or betaken to of mine own choice in English, or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live.
第 22 頁 - You have; I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity.
第 317 頁 - So did the best writers in their beginnings; they imposed upon themselves care and industry; they did nothing rashly: they obtained first to write well, and then custom made it easy and a habit.
第 306 頁 - I had from my first years by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father, whom God recompense, been exercised to the tongues, and some sciences, as my age wouH suffer, by sundry masters and teachers both at home and at the schools...
第 307 頁 - Punctuation is a most fallible standard by which to interpret a writing ; it may be resorted to when all other means fail ; but the court will first take the instrument by its four corners, in order to ascertain its true meaning ; if that is apparent on judicially inspecting the whole, the punctuation will not be suffered to change it.
第 47 頁 - He was made the recipient of a silver teapot,' you write Jargon. But at the beginning set even higher store on the concrete noun. Somebody — I think it was FitzGerald — once posited the question 'What would have become of Christianity if Jeremy Bentham had had the writing of the Parables?