“There is need for something else besides athleticism and sport,” he said. “We want the presence of national genius, the collaboration of the Muses, the cult of beauty, all the display pertaining to the strong symbolism incarnate in the past by the Olympic Games and which must continue to be represented in our modern times.”
「除了運動能力和運動之外，還需要其他東西，」他說。 “我們希望民族天才的存在、繆斯女神的合作、對美的崇拜，以及所有與過去奧運會所體現的強烈象徵意義相關的展示，這些都必須在我們的現代繼續得到體現。”
"Athleisure": It's a thing, and it's making its way to the office.
The latest buzzword in fashion is “athleisure,” one of those made-up terms that are so ridiculously nonsensical as to be perfectly descriptive. That is, designers and retailers are obsessed with clothes that fit a somewhat broad category of being appropriate for either athletic or leisure pursuits, or both. We’re talking about anything from designer leggings of the Lululemon variety to cashmere sweats to layering pieces to absurdly fancy (and expensive) gym clothes. This is a topic I explored in depth in the Look Smart column of the August issue of InStyle (on newsstands now) and took note of the trend of retailers opening new sport and athleisure stores—including Without Walls from Urban Outfitters and Lou & Grey, the popular loungewear collection from Loft—in recent months.
It would be silly to suggest that a couple of hours of walking around gave me miraculous insight into a poem like “Peter Quince at the Clavier” — yet I did come to understand something simple but crucial about Stevens. What moved me about the walk, in the end, was that he had chosen to walk at all. In a car-mad country that prides itself in being perpetually in motion, the poet made a clear and conscious decision to stop, to slow down, to burrow into his imagination. And walking had opened his eyes and ears to a place that was full of surprises. As Stevens himself put it in a poem:
“It is like a region full of intonings./It is Hartford seen in a purple light.”
The athletic shoe giant Reebok claims you can. The new EasyTone walking shoe, a provocative new marketing campaign says, leaves leg and buttock muscles better toned than regular walking shoes.
Consumers are buying it — literally. Officials from Reebok, a unit of Adidas, say the EasyTone is the company’s most successful new product in at least five years.
Firm Body, No Workout Required?
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Muscle-activating shoes claim to tone legs and buttocks while you walk. But do they bring results you can see?
tone
v., toned, ton·ing, tones. v.tr.- To give a particular tone or inflection to.
- To soften or change the color of (a painting or photographic negative, for example).
- To sound monotonously; intone.
- To make firmer or stronger. Often used with up: exercises that tone up the body.
- To assume a particular color quality.
- To harmonize in color.
in·tone
verb \in-ˈtōn\
in·tonedin·ton·ing
Definition of INTONE
transitive verb
: to utter in musical or prolonged tones : recite in singing tones or in a monotone
intransitive verb
: to utter something in singing tones or in monotone
— in·ton·er noun
See Examples of INTONE
- “Coming soon to a theater near you,” the announcer intoned.
- <“The day is begun,” the narrator intoned>
Origin of INTONE
Middle French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonare, from Latin in- + tonus tone
First Known Use: 1513
burrow
burrow
Definition of BURROW
: a hole or excavation in the ground made by an animal (as a rabbit) for shelter and habitation
Examples of BURROW
burrow to have its babies>
Pronunciation: /aθˈlɛtɪk
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