2016年9月23日 星期五

embedded, parchment, put something to bed


Is “fewer than one in five” or “less than one in five” grammatically correct?


Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution – a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part – through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
Barack Obama’s Speech on Race


put something to bed

PHRASE

informal 
  • 1Make a newspaper or book ready for press.
    ‘the newspaper will often be put to bed the day before the publication date’
    1. ‘I hope that puts to bed all the nonsense’
      ‘the university debate needs putting to bed’
      ‘one theatre season has been put to bed and another is just springing to life’
  • 1.1Deal with conclusively.

embed (-dd-), US ALSO imbed (-dd-)
verb [T]
to fix something firmly into a substance
━━ vt. (-dd-) 埋める, 埋蔵する; はめ込む ((with)); (心に)深く留める.
embedded command 【コンピュータ】埋め込み指令.
embedded computer 【コンピュータ】=embedded system.
embedded program 【コンピュータ】組み込みプログラム.
embedded system 【コンピュータ】組み込みシステム.


embedded, US ALSO imbedded Show phonetics
adjective
1 fixed into the surface of something:
The thorn was embedded in her thumb.

2 If an emotion, attitude, etc. is embedded in someone or something, it is a very strong or important part of them:
A sense of guilt was deeply embedded in my conscience.

parchment
noun
━━ n. 羊皮紙(類似の紙), 羊皮紙の文書[写本], (模造羊皮紙の)証書, 卒業証書.
1 [U] the thin dried skin of some animals which was used in the past for writing on, or a high quality paper made to look like this, or a document written on either of these materials:
ancient parchment
He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.

2 [C] a document written on parchment:
A framed parchment hung on the wall.




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