2015年12月21日 星期一

punching ball, supercilious, adrenalin, most, tether, tetherball






"I'm really sorry I'm still a punching ball." Sepp Blatter responds to 8-year ‪#‎FIFA‬ ban bbc.in/1RzLmvM. Live updates: bbc.in/1QTBQSz

Mostly Mozart Festival 如何翻譯?
為什麼The band are mostly (= Most of them are) teenagers, I think.
其中MOSTLY 為副詞(adverb)?
MOST也可當副詞(Most Honorable),所以MOST和MOSTLY如何分?



「嚴氏所服膺頌說之約翰.穆勒嘗著《宗教三論》,詳闡自然之行乎其
素,夷然不屑人世所謂慈悲與公道(most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice),於第二義發揮幾無餘蘊,亦即王弼註意,嚴氏似未之讀也。」


Maybe it's payback for years of supercilious French sneering at the American wine industry. Or maybe Americans just need to lash out to pump themselves up with competitive energy, like football players pounding their lockers in an adrenalin-fueled frenzy. Any way you look at it, American wine partisans have got themselves a punching bag and they call it France.




".....最吸引我目光的竟是她寫到她是蘋果愛好者的那一段。她豔羨各個時期的蘋果電腦,覺得它們總是「美麗而靈敏」的。一旦遇見Mac同好,就會忍不住像「父母發孩子狂一樣」談論起來。
我也是個一見到蘋果,腎上腺素就上升的Mac迷。無法抗拒的原因,除了總是使人驚豔的設計以外,軟體界面的貼心與人性才是主因。黃碧雲用的那兩個字「靈敏」用得傳神。好像被賦予了生命。....."




In the late ’70s, Mrs. Huxley started Children: Our Ultimate Investment, a foundation concerned with the well-being of young people. Her other books include several self-help volumes, the best known of which is “You Are Not the Target” (Farrar, Straus, 1963), which has a foreword by her husband.
The book offers a set of what Mrs. Huxley called recipes for getting through life’s many difficulties. These include punching a tetherball, imagining one’s own funeral and dancing in the nude.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/books/19huxley.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



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tether Show phonetics
noun [C]
a rope or chain used to tie especially an animal to a post or other fixed place, usually so that it can move freely within a small area

tether Show phonetics
verb [T]

tethered Show phonetics
adjective

teth・er


  
━━ n., vt. (牛・馬の)つなぎ鎖[なわ](でつなぐ); 限界, 範囲.
 at the end of one's tether 万策尽きて, 窮して.
 beyond one's tether 力の及ばない所に, 権限外に.

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tetherball
A game of tetherball
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A game of tetherball
Tetherball is a game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a 10 ft (3 m), stationary metal pole, from which is hung a ball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to hit the ball one way; one clockwise, and one counterclockwise. The game ends when one player manages to wind the ball all the way around the pole so that it is stopped by the rope.
There is a version of this game called Swingball, where the two opposing players hold bats, and hit a tennis ball that is connected onto the rope. This is substantially different from Tetherball.
There is an alternate version called "pole", where many people can play. The object of the game is to not hit the pole with the ball. Hovever, you may hit the pole on a serve. You may swing the ball any way you like, but if you hit the pole with the ball, you are out. The last person standing wins.

supercilious 
adjective DISAPPROVING
behaving as if or showing that you think that you are better than other people, and that their opinions, beliefs or ideas are not important:
He spoke in a haughty, supercilious voice.


most Show phonetics
determiner, pronoun, adverb
1 the biggest number or amount of; more than anything or anyone else:
What's the most you've ever won at cards?
Which of you earns the most money?
He wanted to do the most good he could with the £200, so he gave it to charity.
The kids loved the fair, but they enjoyed the bumper cars most of all.

2 used to form the superlative of many adjectives and adverbs:
Joanne is the most intelligent person I know.
The department needs three more computers in order to work most effectively (= to work as effectively as possible).

3 almost all:
I don't eat meat, but I like most types of fish.
In this school, most of the children are from the Chinese community.

4 FORMAL very:
It was a most beautiful morning.

5 MAINLY US INFORMAL almost:
You'll find her in the bar most every evening about six o'clock.

-most Show phonetics
suffix
used to mean 'furthest':
John O'Groats is the northernmost part of the British mainland (= the part that is farther to the north than any other part).

mostly Show phonetics
adverb
In the smaller villages, it's mostly (= usually) very quiet at nights.
The band are mostly (= Most of them are) teenagers, I think.
pump (DEVICE)
pump sth up

腎上腺素
adrenalin Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action
Synonyms: epinephrine, epinephrin, adrenaline

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