This helped the region carve a niche by tapping the underserved islamic market , while deepening capital markets in the gulf , which fancies itself as the safe haven from the globe 's economic storm .
Those of us who carried pocket knives for sharpening pencils ( most of us ) might also carve out rings and spirals when we were bored . We had nothing on these guys though .
我们当中一些口袋里装着削笔刀的(大多数)会在无聊时在铅笔上刻圈子和螺纹,但却从来没雕过这些。
Decades later , he remembered this as a moment of humiliation and shame asking the greatest artist of his generation to carve a snowman !
几十年后,他还沉浸在那一刻的屈辱和羞愧之中居然叫当下最伟大的艺术家去雕刻雪人!
All around the world , river networks carve fractal patterns in the land that persist long after the rivers have moved on ( see picture ) .
在世界上,持续了很长时间的对陆地上河道网雕刻分形学模式仍然在向前进展(见图)。
A procession of novice monks in pink satin and red lipstick was being carried on the shoulders of dowdy attendants through the temple 's grounds . They filed past tables where a competition was taking place to carve watermelons into the most elaborate shapes .
To attract settlers , understandably reluctant to leave portugal , to the new realms , the landowners had the authority to carve up their territory into huge estates , some of which were larger than entire provinces back in the motherland .
Unlike modern buttons with their iconic four-square holes , the shank style left the button 's face totally free : a tiny blank canvas one could cover , carve , polish , or paint with luxurious abandon .