2021年6月5日 星期六

profound, feed (PUT), surrender, bear down on sb/sth, musicianship, profoundly disabled children.


To Keep Their Son Alive, They Sleep in Shifts. And Hope a Nurse Shows Up.

To Keep Their Son Alive, They Sleep in Shifts. And Hope a Nurse Shows Up.

By Ted Alcorn and Brittainy Newman

A nursing shortage — driven by the pandemic — has made life miserable for parents with profoundly disabled children. “What if I’m so exhausted that I make a mistake?”



Central Africa is too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive—or so researchers thought. Bones from thousands of years ago found in present-day Cameroon have yielded enough DNA for scientists to analyze. Children’s skeletons yield genomes more than 3000 years old



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DNA from child burials reveals ‘profoundly different’ human landscape in ancient Africa
Scientists find a link between low intelligence and acceptance of 'pseudo-profound bulls***'
A new scientific study has found that those who are receptive to pseudo-profound, intellectual-sounding 'bulls***' are less intelligent, less reflective, and more likely to be believe in conspiracy theories, the paranormal and alternative medicine.
PhD candidate Gordon Pennycook and a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, tested hundreds of particiapants to make the link, detailing their findings in a paper entitled 'On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bulls***', which mentions the word 'bulls***' exactly 200 times (surely some sort of record).









In America almost 40 million people—one eighth of its population—live in poverty. Why does one of the richest countries in the world have so many people living in profound need? https://econ.st/36lIOuR

'Change Is Coming,' McCain Says
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona completed a long and often improbable journey to the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night, offering himself as an "imperfect servant" who will never surrender in his fight to change Washington and the country.
(By Robert W Barnes, The Washington Post)
Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19 Billion
Wireless companies bid more than $19 billion for radio spectrum license rights, which are being surrendered as broadcasters aim to convert to digital television in 2009.
WASHINGTON — The government announced on Tuesday that it had closed the most lucrative government auction in history as wireless companies bid more than $19 billion for the rights to radio spectrum licenses.

Hurricane Ike Bears Down on Texas Coastline

Forecasters said flooding from the mammoth storm could be high enough to cover many houses on Galveston Island


profound
adjective
UK 
 /prəˈfaʊnd/ US 
 
/prəˈfaʊnd/

profound adjective (EXTREME)

C2
felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way
強烈的;深沉的;極度的
His mother's death when he was aged six had a very profound effect on him.他六歲時母親的過世對他的影響很大。
The invention of the contraceptive pill brought about profound changes in the lives of women.避孕藥的發明為女性的生活帶來了重大變化。
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.那兩行詩貼切表達了失去親人的深切悲痛。
My grandfather has a profound mistrust of anything new or foreign.我祖父對任何新生或外來事物有一種根深柢固的不信任。
There was a note of profound irritation in his voice.他的語氣中帶有強烈惱怒。

profound adjective (SHOWING UNDERSTANDING)

造詣深的;思想深邃的
profound truths/wisdom深奧的真理/博大的智慧
The review that I read said that it was "a thoughtful and profound film".我看過的評論說它是一部「有創意、有深度的電影」。
"Dying is easy - it's living that's the problem." "That was very profound of you, Steven."「死很容易——活下去才是難題。」「史蒂文,你的話真深奧!」

feed (PUT), profound musicianship

THE 59-year-old pianist Mitsuko Uchida — born near Tokyo, trained in Vienna and long resident in London — is, in more ways than one, a musician’s musician. Her performances and Philips recordings of Classical and Romantic standards — especially works by MozartBeethoven and Schubert — have consistently fed a reputation for elegant and profound musicianship.


feed (PUT)
verb fedfed
1 [I or T; usually + adverb or preposition] to supply something to a person or thing, or put something into a machine or system, especially in a regular or continuous way:
The vegetables are fed into the machine at this end.
The images are fed over satellite networks to broadcasters throughout the world.
[+ two objects] A member of the princess's staff had been feeding the newspaper information/feeding information to the newspaper.
Several small streams feed into (= join) the river near here.

2 [T] to put fuel on or inside something that burns, to keep it burning:
Remember to feed the fire while I'm out.

feed
noun [C]
the part of a machine through which it is supplied with fuel or with something else that it needs:
the car's oil feed
the printer's paper feed

feeder adjective [before noun]
describes something that leads to or supplies a larger thing of the same type:
a feeder road
a feeder schoolprofound (SHOWING UNDERSTANDING)

musician
noun [C] ━━ n. 音楽家; 作曲家; 音楽通; 楽士.
someone who is skilled in playing music, usually as their job:
The concert features dancers, singers and musicians of all nationalities.

musicianship

noun [U]
a person's skill in playing a musical instrument or singing:
The sheer musicianship of this young woman is breathtaking.

bear down on sb/sth phrasal verb
to move in a threatening way towards someone or something:
I looked up to see the car bearing down on me, out of control.

surrender

(sə-rĕn'dər) pronunciation
v.tr.
  1. To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
  2. To give up in favor of another.
  3. To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
  4. To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.
  5. To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.
  6. Law. To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.

sur・ren・der

--> ━━ vt. 引渡す ((to)); 放棄する; ((~ oneselfで)) (身を)任せる, (習慣などに)ふける.
━━ vi. 降服する, 屈する ((to)).
surrender (oneself) to 降服する; ふける ((to)); 自首する.
━━ n. 引渡し; 放棄; 降服; 自首; (保険の)解約.
surrender value (保険の)中途解約払い戻し額.

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