When Leaning in Doesn’t Pay Off
By SCOTT SCHIEMAN, MARKUS SCHAFER and MITCHELL McIVOR
Women don’t get as much satisfaction from the trappings of power as men do.
Poorer Nations Reject a Target on Emission Cut
By PETER BAKER
The lack of consensus on cuts in heat-trapping gases at the Group of 8 talks underscored the divisions between developed and developing nations.
Back then, dreaming was more than a way of passing the time. If “The Gang’s All Here” was created as a wartime diversion, “Dames” fits the bill for escapism in hard times. (Both, unfortunately, qualify for the present.) Just as Berkeley detached cinematic dance from its proscenium trappings, he also liberated the viewer from reality.
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To fill the bill
means that it is good enough or it is just the perfect thing.
fill/fit the bill
to be exactly what is needed in a particular situation:
That box will fill the bill nicely.
proscenium
n., pl. -ni·ums or -ni·a (-nē-ə).
- The area of a modern theater that is located between the curtain and the orchestra.
- The stage of an ancient theater, located between the background and the orchestra.
- A proscenium arch.
[Latin proscēnium, from Greek proskēnion : pro-, before; see pro–2 + skēnē, buildings at the back of the stage.]
A proscenium is the area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening. A proscenium arch is the arch over this area.
proscenium
- pro • sce • ni • um
- 発音
- prousíːniəm
- prosceniumの変化形
- prosceniums (複数形)
[名]（複-ni・a 〔-ni
〕）
〕）
1 （幕の前の）前舞台.
2 （古代劇場の）舞台.
trap
n.
- A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.
- A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.
- A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult: fell into poverty's trap.
- A device for sealing a passage against the escape of gases, especially a U-shaped or S-shaped bend in a drainpipe that prevents the return flow of sewer gas by means of a water barrier.
- Sports.
- A device that hurls clay pigeons into the air in trapshooting.
- A land hazard or bunker on a golf course; a sand trap.
- traps A measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster.
- Baseball. See web (sense 10).
- Sports.
- A defensive strategy or play, as in basketball or hockey, in which two or more defenders converge on an offensive player shortly after the player gains possession of the ball or puck.
- The act of trapping a soccer ball.
- Football. A running play in which the ball carrier advances through a hole in the defensive line created by allowing a defensive lineman to penetrate the backfield.
- A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- A trapdoor.
- traps Music. Percussion instruments, such as snare drums and cymbals, especially in a jazz band.
- Slang. The human mouth.
v., trapped, trap·ping, traps. v.tr.
- To catch in a trap; ensnare. See synonyms at catch.
- To prevent from escaping or getting free: was trapped in the locked attic.
- To deceive or trick by mans of a scheme or plan.
- To seal off (gases) by a trap.
- To furnish with traps or a trap.
- Sports.
- To catch (a ball) immediately after it has hit the ground.
- To gain control of (a moving soccer ball) by allowing it to hit and bounce off a part of the body other than the arm or hand.
- To set traps for game.
- To engage in trapping furbearing animals.
[Middle English, from Old English træppe.]
trappings
Pronunciation: /ˈtrapɪŋz/
Translate trappings | into Italian | into Spanish
noun
Origin:
late Middle English: derivative of trap2
trap・pings
━━ n.pl. 装飾, 装身具; 馬飾り.
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