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Glimmers from the rest of the world.

glimmer,

(glĭm'ər)
n.

1. A dim or intermittent flicker or flash of light.
2. A faint manifestation or indication; a trace: a glimmer of understanding.

intr.v., -mered, -mer·ing, -mers.

1. To emit a dim, intermittent light: "The ocean glimmered on her left like an iridescent pewter bowl" (Elizabeth Adler). See synonyms at flash.
2. To be reflected in dim, intermittent flashes: "Starlight glimmered on rusty metal" (David Drake).
3. To appear faintly or indistinctly: Hope still glimmered in our minds.

[Middle English glimeren, to glitter, glimmer.]

• [glímər]
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[名]

1 ちらちらする光；かすかな［ぼんやりした］光, 微光. ▼gleamより弱くしかもちらちら動く光.

2 わずかなきざし

a glimmer of understanding
かすかな理解.

3 少量；（…の）気味((of ...))

not a glimmer
全然, ちっとも.

━━[動](自)

1 ちらちら［ぴかぴか］光る；かすかに光る, 微光を放つ. ⇒SHINE[類語]

2 ぼんやりと現れる, かすかに見える.

gladsome
(GLAD-suhm)

adjective
Causing or showing joy.

Etymology
From Old English gloed. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine) that is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera

Usage
"The gladsome light of Jurisprudence." — Edward Coke; The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; 1628; quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations. (© Wordsmith.org)

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Amor fati is a Latin phrase coined by Nietzsche loosely translating to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good. That is, one feels that everything that happens is destiny's way of reaching its ultimate purpose, and so should be considered good. Moreover, it is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life. It is almost identical to the Jewish concept of Gam Zeh Letovah (this too is for the best - גם זה לטובה).

The phrase is used repeatedly in Nietzsche's writings and is representative of the general outlook on life he articulates in section 276 of The Gay Science, which reads,

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Quote from "Why I Am So Clever" in Ecce Homo, section 10^[1]:

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

See also

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Destiny
• Eternal Return
• Stoicism
• Fatalism

References

1. ^ Basic Writings of Nietzsche. trans. and ed. by Walter Kaufmann. 1967. p. 714.

pewter[pew・ter]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[pjúːtər]
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[名]

1 [U]白目(しろめ), ピューター（錫(すず)の合金）；((集合的))白目製器物.

2 ((英俗))銀（貨）；優勝杯；賞金.

━━[形]白目製の.

pew・ter・er

[名]白目製器具職人.

(pyū'tər)
n.

1. Any of numerous silver-gray alloys of tin with various amounts of antimony, copper, and sometimes lead, used widely for fine kitchen utensils and tableware.
2. Pewter articles considered as a group.

[Middle English pewtre, from Old French peutre, from Vulgar Latin *peltrum.]

pewter pew'ter adj.

arsenic

[名] 〔rsnik〕 [U]ヒ素（記号：As）.━━[形] 〔rsénik〕 （特に五価の）ヒ素の arsenic acidヒ酸.［ペルシア語zarnīk（金色の）］含砷

arsenical

[形]ヒ素の；ヒ素を含む.━━[名]（殺虫剤・薬品などの）ヒ素剤, ヒ素化合物.