2021年12月24日 星期五

curb, kicked to the curb, End Export Curbs, surcease, trammel, shoal, taut, get ahead of,

Indians have at times seemed fond of kicking their leaders to the curb. Prime ministers serve without term limits, but only seven have made it through a single full term. Does that mean voters are fickle?

South Korea Presses Japan to Quickly End Export Curbs
South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Japan should take ... Japan should carry out “more visible and sincere steps” to remove the ...




USA Today and other Gannett newspapers will be spun off into a stand-alone print company.
THE MEDIA EQUATION

Print Is Down, and Now Out

By DAVID CARR
The persistent financial demands of Wall Street have trumped the informational needs of Main Street. Print has become too much of a drag on earnings, so media companies are dividing back up and print is being kicked to the curb.

By PETER BAKER

In a widely anticipated speech, President Obama on Thursday said he would impose new curbs on the use of drone strikes, and he sought to renew his effort to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 



A former board member at Siemens said the company secretly financed a labor group to curb Germany's most powerful industrial union.



Quote:
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string." — Pelé


Curbing the Enthusiasm on Daily Multivitamins
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Experts are concerned about letting optimism about the potential benefits of nutritional supplements get ahead of the scientific evidence.



By ALAN COWELL and STEPHEN CASTLE 8:12 AM ET
LONDON — Lawmakers on Monday were said to have struck a compromise deal on new regulations for newspapers, potentially one of the strongest peacetime curbs on Britain’s press in three centuries.



kicked to the curb
To be fired from one's job in a demeaning manner.
I got kicked to the curb at Purdue Pharma because of OxyContin.


kick someone or something to the curb
phrase of kick
  1. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
    reject someone or something.

  2. "things get complicated for Alfie when he's kicked to the curb by his girlfriend"


taut

adj., taut·er, taut·est.
  1. Pulled or drawn tight; not slack. See synonyms at tight.
  2. Strained; tense: nerves taut with anxiety.
    1. Kept in trim shape; neat and tidy.
    2. Marked by the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something, such as language or detail: a taut movie script.
[Middle English tohte, distended, perhaps ultimately from Old English togian, to drag. See tow1.]

[形]
1 〈糸などが〉ぴんと張った（⇔slack）
The line came taut.
綱がぴんと張った.
2 〈表情・神経などが〉（…で）緊張した, 張りつめた((with ...))
My mother's face was taut.
母の顔は緊張でこわばっていた.
3 〈人が〉厳格な；〈人の体が〉引き締まった.
4 〈船などが〉整備された；〈映画・芝居・文章などが〉緊密な構成の, 引き締まった.
［中英語tought（古英語tēohan引く＋-t過去分詞語尾）＝引っ張られた. △TOW1, TUG, TIE］
taut・ly
[副]



curb (CONTROL)
verb [T]
to control or limit something that is not desirable:
The Government should act to curb tax evasion.

curb 
noun [C]
You must try to put a curb on your bad temper/spending habits.


curb
noun
  • 1a check or restraint on something:plans to introduce tougher curbs on insider dealing
  • 2 (also curb bit) a type of bit with a strap or chain attached which passes under a horse’s lower jaw, used as a check.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_bit
  • 3 North Americanvariant spelling of kerb.
  • 4 swelling on the back of a horse’s hock, caused by spraining a ligament.

verb

[with object]
  • restrain or keep in check:she promised she would curb her temper
  • restrain (a horse) by means of a curb: both men were instinctively curbing their horses

Origin:

late 15th century (denoting a strap fastened to the bit): from Old French courber 'bend, bow', from Latin curvare (see curve)

[名]
1 ((通例a 〜))制限, 抑制, 拘束(restraint)
put ［place］ a curb on ［upon］ ...
…を制限［抑制］する.
2 [C][U]((米))（歩道の）縁（石）, へり石
at the curb
歩道の縁に.
3 《建築》囲いの枠, 化粧ぶち, 縁（井戸の井げた・天窓の枠など）（((英))kerb）.
4 （馬の）大勒馬銜(だいろくばみ), 大くつわ(curb bit).
5 ((米))（株式の）場外取引市場
on the curb
場外取引市場で.
kick a person to the curb
〈人を〉お払い箱にする, 首にする.
━━[動](他)
1 〈権限・活動などを〉制限［抑制］する, 〈感情を〉抑える；〈人を〉おとなしくさせる
curb one's anger
怒りを抑える.
2 〈馬に〉大くつわをつける；…を大くつわで制御する.
3 〈歩道に〉縁石をつける, 縁石で補強する.
4 〈犬を〉（排泄(はいせつ)のために）道端［溝］へ連れていく.




sur·cease (sûrss, sr-ss)
tr. intr.v. sur·ceased, sur·ceas·ing, sur·ceas·es
To bring or come to an end; stop.
n.
Cessation.
[Middle English surcesen, variant (influenced by cesen, to cease) of sursesen, from Anglo-Norman surseser, from Old French surseoir, sursis-, to refrain, from Latin supersedre; see supersede.]



Source: William Shakespeare: « Macbeth » Act I. Scene VII
這"馬克白"中文近十本 現在抄錄呂健忠先生以詩體翻譯的 (台北:書林 1999 pp.124-25)

MACBETH. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly. If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all -here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come....

如果幹了就了結 那就該
快點幹才好:如果這一殺
可以一網打盡後患 伸手
捕勝數為他送終:只這麼一下
就大功告成一了百了--這裡
在這片時光之海的沙洲
不妨跳過來生.....


梁實秋

如果這事做成了就算完事 那麼這事是愈 快做成愈妙:如其此番暗殺能把後患一網打盡 於暗殺完成之時便算穩獲勝利: 如其只此一擊便可實現一生懷抱 我僅僅說這一生 在這時間之海的淺瀨上 --那麼我們寧可冒了死後的危險而不惜一試了 (註)



shoal1 (shōl) pronunciation
n.
  1. A shallow place in a body of water.
  2. A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.

v., shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals. v.intr.
To become shallow: The river shoals suddenly here from eight to two fathoms.

v.tr.
  1. To make shallow: The approach to the harbor was shoaled in the storm.
  2. To come or sail into a shallower part of.
adj.
Having little depth; shallow.

[Middle English shold, shallow, shallows, from Old English sceald, shallow.]

shoal2 (shōl) pronunciation
n.
  1. A large group; a crowd.
  2. A large school of fish or other marine animals.
intr.v., shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals.
To come together in large numbers; throng.

[Probably Middle Low German or Middle Dutch schōle.]


trammel

(trăm'əl) pronunciation

n. - 拘束, 束縛物, 阻礙物
v. tr. - 拘束, 束縛, 阻礙
日本語 (Japanese)
━━ n. 馬かせ ((調教用)); （普通pl.） 束縛, 拘束（物）; 魚［鳥］網 三重網（用以捕魚、鳥等之三層曳網，外面兩層為粗網，中間夾一層細網） ; （やかんなどをつるす）自在かぎ; （pl.） だ円コンパス.橢圓規
━━ vt. （〈英〉-ll-） 拘束する; 妨げる.

n.
  1. A shackle used to teach a horse to amble.
馬梏 am・ble ━━ n., vi. 【馬術】側対歩（で歩く） ((同じ側の両足を片側ずつ同時に上げて歩く緩歩)); 緩歩（する）; ぶらぶら歩く.
  1. Something that restricts activity, expression, or progress; a restraint.
〔常用複數〕束縛物；抑止物；障礙物： the trammels of custom. 習俗的束縛
Syn.: drag , hobble, curb, inhibition.

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  1. Editors discuss their frustrations in the age of refrigerator-magnet journalism.

    ...articles about kids and their dogs. Instead of standing up for the independence of the editorial process, exempt from every trammel and temptation, editors these days wrangle with marketing directors who say ''the product'' has to be ''more reader...
    April 14, 1997 - By Iver Peterson - Business - 884 words
trammel,
  1. A vertically set fishing net of three layers, consisting of a finely meshed net between two nets of coarse mesh.
  2. An instrument for describing ellipses.

  4. An instrument for gauging and adjusting parts of a machine; a tram.
  5. An arrangement of links and a hook in a fireplace for raising and lowering a kettle.
tr.v., -meled or -melled, -mel·ing or -mel·ling, -mels or -mels.
  1. To enmesh in or as if in a fishing net. See synonyms at hamper1.
  2. To hinder the activity or free movement of.
[Middle English tramale, a kind of net, from Old French tramail, from Late Latin trēmaculum : Latin trēs, three + Latin macula, mesh.]
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