2016年4月23日 · You're kind of cherry-picking Merriam-Webster. "Undaunted by pain or danger" is further down the list than "marked by strict self-discipline or self-denial <a Spartan athlete>" or "marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort <a Spartan room>" -- the latter being the most common usage I've seen.

2023年10月25日 · I found my way here looking for "free from expectation" and "no pressure" and settled on casual. casual 1. relaxed and unconcerned. Google/Oxford Languages. casual 3 a (1) : done without serious intent or commitment Merriam Webster. For example: I am casually providing this for review at your discretion. or Here is a good casual read.

2010年9月9日 · When the symbol includes a non-letter character as well as letter, leave no space: 32°C not 32° C or 32 °C However, the International System of Units, or SI, requires a space to be used to separate the unit symbol from the numerical value, and this also applies to the symbol for the degree Celsius, as 32 °C.

2018年10月25日 · (Although in a more specific way than these definitions.) If I'm told to do something by somebody in an authoritarian manner, and there is no rationale for the action, I will very often do the opposite just to make a point—even if the thing is something I would have been inclined to do on my own if I hadn't felt arbitrarily "forced" into it.

2015年11月18日 · As a scientist I must say that I find the figurative use of "pressurised" (in whatever spelling) confusing, as that term has a very specific literal meaning in science: to place a substance or object under elevated levels of actual pressure (e.g., "to pressurise a container to 1000 bar" - while you could never say "to pressure a container to 1000 bar").

2011年11月14日 · I'm curious about this as well, and for a very specific reason: I saw cell phones referred to "consumable" and that doesn't make sense to me. I suspect it is a marketing tactic to get customers to accept and trust the pressure placed on them to …

2013年12月7日 · But the historical details don't particularly matter anyway: in Darwinian terms, if there was "selective pressure" for the language to evolve to have "the same system" for nouns and verbs, then the language could essentially have evolved in that way whatever the historical "starting point" (there's really no magical "starting point" of course ...

I need a noun to describe the state of being enabled/disabled. Do any exist? UPDATE: For example, I have some device (or software control), which can be in an enabled state or a disabled state.

Just a note: I find expressions such as "so very funny" are hyperbolically humorous. This sounds as an tongue-in-cheek exaggeration, so I would use it only in these situations. OTOH, I am no English expert and my opinion may be wrong, but this seems to be the case to me nonetheless. –

2016年7月23日 · Accept this and move on. Your blood pressure will thank you. – Christi. Commented Jun 1, 2011 at 6:38. 3.