Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ( ' , 固定 看法 )? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

The author was not much surprised when his school teacher marked his essay as flawless.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint ( ' , 印記 ) on you as a person.

Perhaps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with that he or she is still published in hard copy.

Mark Zandi, an economist at Moody's Economy.com, predicts that the recession will shrink America's economy by 3.5% in total.

So when a French submarine (潛水艇) detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.

An extraordinarily important study skill is knowing how to mark a book.

Students mark the main ideas and important details with a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange

Some students mark new vocabulary in a different color.

Second, read a whole paragraph before you mark anything

Usually you will mark about 10% of a passage.

For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange

Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you don't understand something and before an exam.

Instead, you just need to review your marks and you can save a lot of time

Make as few marks as possible.

Marking a book is a useful skill, but it's important to do it right.

Third, decide on your own system for marking

What suggestion does the speaker give about marking a textbook?

Choose one's own system of marking

By reviewing only the marked parts.

A youth with a distinguishing mark on his face.

All right, did he have any other distinguishing marks?

"What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here," he says.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint on you as a person.

In 1816, Careme began a culinary journey which would forever mark his place as history's first top chef.

In an effort to understand the matter further, I spoke with doctors Mark Beckhoff a researcher and former professor of animal behavior.

Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

Self-made billionaires in Beijing, tech innovators in Silicon Valley, pioneering justices in Ghana—in these and countless other areas, women are leaving their mark.

The independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan (工匠) or specialist and a real seeker after truth," Einstein wrote in 1944.

By marking down the unit price.

Mark is not fit to take charge of the Student Union.

Mark is the best candidate for the post of chairman

W : Mark is the best candidate for chairman of the student's union , isn't he ?

It won't be easy for Mark to win the election

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.