2020年1月6日 星期一

【#逐字學英文國際日報】89: padded, pad something out, thinning wedding schedules, bucolic, patchwork, cash cow, cash pile, a padded cell



Many Las Vegas chapels now offer a range of non-binding ceremonies to pad out thinning wedding schedules
A much-mythologised institution hits the skids

ECONOMIST.COM
The decline of Las Vegas weddings






Some key numbers described in the manuscript were apparently padded. Using those cooked-up figures, Suzuki was able to convince undecided leaders that Japan could secure the logistical supplies needed to wage war against the U.S., said Atsushi Moriyama, associate professor at the University of Shizuoka, noting this argument helped persuade Japan to embark on a hopeless fight.


 

 

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"If I knew the story of every individual who went through here, I would probably be in a padded cell."
WILLIAM ZWICHAROWSKI, the Dover Port Mortuary branch chief, who prepares the remains of United States military personnel for burial.



Media Companies See Cash Cow in Education
Apple said it would pay a dividend to shareholders and buy back up to $10 billion in stock, heeding calls for the technology heavyweight to deploy its massive cash pile.




IN EARLY autumn a pilgrimage of sorts takes place in Japan. People ride the bullet train from Tokyo, pass through a long tunnel in the mountains west of the capital and emerge in Niigata, one of the richest rice-growing regions in the country. They travel to see the harvest, which takes place as the leaves on the trees are turning red and the chestnuts start to fall. But it is not as bucolic as it could be, because Japan’s love of rice is matched only by its attachment to concrete. On one mountain, where you look out over a breathtaking patchwork of ripe paddy fields, an observation tower looms over the valley like Godzilla.





pad

━━[動](〜・ded, 〜・ding)(他)
1 〈物に〉当て[詰め]物をする, 〈入れ物に〉いっぱい詰める, 〈衣類に〉パッドを入れる((out))
a padded cell
壁にクッションを張った安全保護室(▼精神病患者用など)
a man padded with flesh
((比喩))肉づきのよい男.
2 〈文章・演説などを〉引き延ばす((out));〈経費・人員などを〉水増しする, 〈帳簿・名簿などに〉水増しして記入する.
pad out
((米俗))寝る.

tr.v. pad·dedpad·dingpads
1. To line or stuff with soft material.
2. To lengthen or increase, especially with extraneous or false information: pad a lecture with jokes; pad an expense account.





pad

Pronunciation: /pad/


Definition of pad

noun

  • 1a thick piece of soft material, typically used to protect or shape something, or to absorb liquid:a pad of cotton wool
  • a protective guard worn by a sports player to protect a part of the body: cricket pads
  • 2the fleshy underpart of an animal’s foot or of a human finger: a dog’s pads will bleed profusely if cut
  • 3a number of sheets of blank paper fastened together at one edge, used for writing or drawing: she sketched something on a big white pad
  • 4 a flat-topped structure or area used for helicopter take-off and landing or for rocket-launching: an office building with a helicopter pad
  • 5 informal a person’s home:the police raided my pad
  • 6 Electronics a flat area on a track of a printed circuit or on the edge of an integrated circuit to which wires or component leads can be attached to make an electrical connection.

verb (pads, padding, padded)

[with object]
  • 1 (often as adjective padded) fill or cover (something) with a soft material in order to protect or shape it or to make it more comfortable:a padded envelope
  • 2 (pad something out) lengthen a speech or piece of writing with unnecessary material: don’t pad out your answer to make it seem impressive

If you pad out a speech or piece of writing, you add unnecessary words or information to make it longer or to hide the fact that you are not saying anything very important.

  • 3 North American defraud by adding false items to (an expenses claim or bill): padded expenses for government work reaped billions of dollars for the Mafia
  • 4 [no object] (pad up) put on protective pads in order to play a sport, especially cricket: at the age of 90, he still pads up ready to bat
  • Cricket (of a batsman) deliberately use one’s pads to block a ball: Childs fooled the youngster into padding up to a ball which didn’t spin away

Origin:

mid 16th century (in the sense 'bundle of straw to lie on'): the senses may not be of common origin; the meaning 'underpart of an animal's foot' is perhaps related to Low German pad 'sole of the foot'; the history remains obscure

patch·work (păch'wûrk') pronunciation
n.
  1. Needlework consisting of varicolored patches of material sewn together, as in a quilt.
  2. A collection of miscellaneous or incongruous parts; a jumble.



bu·col·ic
(byū-kĭk) pronunciation

adj.

1. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See synonyms at rural.
2. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.

n.

1. A pastoral poem.
2. A farmer or shepherd; a rustic.

[Latin būcolicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow + -kolos, herdsman.]
bucolically bu·col'i·cal·ly adv.


cásh còw[cásh còw]
((略式))もうかる商品[事業, 部門], ドル箱, 金のなる木.





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