2016年5月1日 星期日

lilo, soliloquy, ageless, timeless

Vogue's first ever 100-year-old model proves style is ageless

She stars in Vogue's special centenary issue
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Guardian culture

Straddling a lilo, folded round a TV stand ... Polly Penrose shoots herself in difficult positions, revealing the weight of expectation on other women

Throughout history, borders have caused unfathomable bloodshed, ageless feuds and decades-old legal disputes, which makes plans for a friendly exchange of land between the Netherlands and Belgium all the more remarkable.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)《英倫獨語》(2003)

gnome
[fr. Gk. gnome, thought, judgement, opinion]
a short pithy statement of a general truth; a proverb, maxim, aphorism, or apophthegm
[fr. L. gnomus]
1) an ageless and often deformed dwarf who lives in the earth and usu. guards treasure



ageless 

Pronunciation: /ˈeɪdʒləs/ 


ADJECTIVE

1Not ageing or appearing to age.
1.1Lasting for a long time or forever:the town retains an ageless charm

timeless 

Pronunciation: /ˈtʌɪmləs/ 

ADJECTIVE

Not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion:antiques add to the timeless atmosphere of the dining room

lilo,

Etymology[edit]

From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "LI-LO" (perhaps from lie low).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lilo ‎(plural lilos)
  1. An inflatable air mattress.
soliloquy
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a speech in a play which the character speaks to him- or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters:n., pl. -quies.
    1. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
    2. A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
  1. The act of speaking to oneself.
[Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone + Latin loquī, to speak.]


Hamlet's soliloquy 'To be or not to be'

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