2024年4月20日星期六

re-enact, amateur, tunic, indigenous, confrere, an enactment of. The pieces of the $95 billion package were expected to pass, putting the legislation on track for enactment after a tortured journey through Congress.

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The pieces of the $95 billion package were expected to pass, putting the legislation on track for enactment after a tortured journey through Congress.

Presidential debates are an enactment of national democracy of which Americans should be proud. But they can forget that for now

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America's presidential debate was a national embarrassment

Incredible, beautiful and unsettling images of Good Friday celebrations from around the world

Good Friday photo highlights

A selection of the best photographs from Holy week celebrations including re-enactments, processions and services to mark Good Friday

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"I think you'll agree it's still absolutely beautiful, and inspires lots of wonderful ideas about the Australia of our future," she said.
Mr Howard designed the flag in the 1970s as a symbol of the indigenous land rights movement in Australia.

Australia has pledged 7.8 million US dollars this year to help save more than 100 indigenous languages which are in grave danger of dying out.
澳洲政府已承諾今年將提撥780萬美元，以協助保存100多種岌岌可危的本土語言。陳成良

In the streets of San Cristóbal de las Casas, the hill town in the middle of Chiapas’s central plateau, it’s a shiny layer of Kelly spread thickly across the facade of a Spanish colonial home. In the church of San Juan de Chamula, it’s the toasted green of pine needles strewn across the floor, and it’s the thin threads woven almost invisibly into the white wool tunics of indigenous Chamulan men.

re-enact

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verb

[with object]

1Act out (a past event): bombers were gathered together to re-enact the historic first air attack
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2 Bring (a law) into effect again when the original statute has been repealed or has expired: section 3 of the Act re-enacted the form of strict liability formerly found in the Dogs Act
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tunic

(tū'nĭk, tyū'-) pronunciation

amateur
adjective ━━ n., a. アマ（チュア）（の）; しろうと（の）, 道楽の.
1 taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job:
an amateur astronomer/boxer/historian
He was an amateur singer until the age of 40, when he turned professional.
Compare professional at profession.

2 relating to an activity, especially a sport, where the people taking part do not receive money:
amateur athletics

amateur
noun [C]
1 a person who takes part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job:
This tennis tournament is open to both amateurs and professionals.
Compare professional at profession.

2 DISAPPROVING someone who lacks skill in what they do:
I won't be giving them any more work - they're a bunch of amateurs.

amateurish
adjective DISAPPROVING
lacking skill, or showing a lack of skill:
Their website looks amateurish.

amateurishly
adverb DISAPPROVING

amateurishness
noun [U] DISAPPROVING

am・a・teur・ism　━━ n. しろうと芸; アマチュア資格.

indigenous

indigenous：形容詞，土生土長的（並非外來的）、在地的，如 This plant is indigenous to Taiwan.（這種植物是台灣土生土長的。）

adj.

Originating and living or occurring naturally in an area or environment. See synonyms at native.
Intrinsic; innate.

[From Latin indigena, a native. See indigen.]

indigenously in·dig'e·nous·ly adv.
indigenousness in·dig'e·nous·ness n.

n.

1. A loose-fitting garment, sleeved or sleeveless, extending to the knees and worn by men and women especially in ancient Greece and Rome.
2. A medieval surcoat.
1. A long, plain, close-fitting jacket, usually having a stiff high collar and worn as part of a uniform.
2. A long, plain, sleeved or sleeveless blouse.
3. A short pleated and belted dress worn by women for some sports.
Anatomy. A coat or layer enveloping an organ or part.
Botany. A loose membranous outer covering of a bulb or corm, as of the onion, tulip, or crocus.
See tunicle.

[Middle English tunik, from Old French tunique, from Latin tunica, of Phoenician origin; akin to Hebrew kuttōnet, kətōnet, from Central Semitic *kuttān, *kittān. See chiton.]

n. - 束腰外衣

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - チュニカ, チュニック, 被膜, 包膜, 軍服の上着, 診察衣, 婦人用上着

The thought certainly obsesses Burt Hecker, the narrator of Tod Wodicka’s first novel, “All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well,” a title whose length and repetitiveness don’t bode well for its contents. Burt, a medieval re-enactor whose fanatic refusal to live in the historical present has brought pain to the people around him, goes through life in a dirty tunic and a mead-induced stupor. He refuses to learn to drive, calling automobiles, somewhat witlessly, “time machines.” Now well into his 60s, he avoids all that is “OOP” — that is, “Out of Period.” His principal comfort is his amateur society, the Confraternity of Times Lost Regained, which sponsors medieval fairs, jousts and banquets.

Wikipedia article "Medieval reenactment".

A confraternity is normally a Roman Catholic or Orthodox organization of lay people created for the purpose of promoting special works of Christian charity or piety, and approved by the Church hierarchy.

CCD ：教理研究會： 1905 年為教宗碧嶽十世（ St. Pius X ）所創，以訓練教友講授要理為宗旨，特以未就讀教會學校的學童為服務物件。 1934 年在美國組成委員會，積極推動。 1962 年香港教區也正式成立。全文為 The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 。