2020年9月8日 星期二

elide, valium, dosage, slips and falls, Spurs Fights Over Insurance Policies




Sometimes we don’t know who is missing from a photo or why—only that someone has been elided. We are lucky even to know that there is something we don’t know.


NEWYORKER.COM
The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear
Sometimes we don’t know who is missing fr




Policies meant for slips and falls won’t cover the Covid-19 threat.




BLOOMBERG.COM

Coronavirus Hits Weddings, Spurs Fights Over Insurance Policies

Its display of biblical artefacts is impressive. But the Museum of the Bible tends to elide biblical stories with historical fact in a way that makes many scholars uncomfortable


The Borowitz Report: “What we have found is that a single dosage before the briefing and as much as a double dosage after the briefing do much to alleviate the most acute suffering,” Dr. Fauci said.


Brace Yourselves, German Zoo Announces New Polar Bear Twins
Germany's supply of valium is being increased after news that not one but
two new polar bear cubs were born at the Nuremberg animal park on
Wednesday, Nov. 26.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evzr4yI44va89pI0


 Phenotypes associated with such mutations are most often recessive. Exceptions are when the organism is haploid, or when the reduced dosage of a normal gene product is not enough for a normal phenotype (this is called haploinsufficiency)


DEBRA STRIGNANO, whose mentally retarded daughter Katie experienced serious side effects after staff members in a New York state group home tripled her dosage of antipsychotic medications.



elide
verb T ]
   PHONETICS   specialized
UK 
 /iˈlaɪd/ US 
 /iˈlaɪd/


to not pronounce a particular sound in a word
省略(詞的部分)發音
The "t" of "acts" is often elided if someone is speaking quickly.說話快的時候,人們常常省略「acts」中的「t」音。
It is crucial to observe that the apparent reduction of complexity through credit ratings both conveys information and elides it.
In fact the thirty-four chords, in conjunction with the theatrical absence, can be used to elide or avoid all the opera's critical questions.
These examples are from the Cambridge English Corpus and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
dosage
   formal
UK 
 /ˈdəʊ.sɪdʒ/ US 
 /ˈdoʊ.sɪdʒ/

the amount of medicine that you should take at one time:
"What's the dosage?" "One spoonful three times a day."
Do not exceed the recommended dosage.

Val・i・um



━━ n.pl. ~, ~s) 【商標】バリウム ((精神安定剤)).

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