Laure
Prouvost edged out Tino Sehgal, the gamblers' favourite, to win this
year's Turner prize for contemporary art, which honours a British artist
under 50 for work that was exhibited in the past year. Besides the
£25,000 ($42,000) prize, this should earn her quite a bit more attention
for her subtle and somewhat batty work http://econ.st/IKXOsb
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Unlocked: Part Two
At a Halfway House, Bedlam Reigns
By SAM DOLNICK
The Bo Robinson center in New Jersey is as big as a prison and is
intended to help inmates re-enter society, but drugs, gangs and sexual
abuse are rife behind its walls.
There have been several attempts over the years to associate the term 'batty' with various people called Batty or Battie, notably the 18th century physician William Battie. He was a governor of the Bethlem Hospital, a.k.a. Bedlam, and physician to St Luke's Hospital for Lunaticks, where he wrote A Treatise on Madness. Despite those illustrious credentials, it was bats rather than Battie that caused scatterbrained people to be called 'batty'.
Video Flap Jolts Campaign
The
Romney campaign faced fresh scrutiny as more video surfaced from a
private fundraiser. The GOP presidential nominee sought to turn the
uproar into a debate about the role of government.
eidos (EYE-dos, AY-)
plural eide (EYE-dee, AY-day)
noun: The formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, ideas, etc.
Etymology
From Greek eidos (form, idea), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, wit, and eidetic. Earliest recorded use: 1936.
"Picture, if you will, honey, the eidos of repulsive: plaid upholstered chairs, with ruffled skirts, all hideously brown and yellow." — Christopher Coe; Such Times; Penguin Books; 1994.
repulsive
plural eide (EYE-dee, AY-day)
noun: The formal sum of a culture, its intellectual character, ideas, etc.
Etymology
From Greek eidos (form, idea), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise, wit, and eidetic. Earliest recorded use: 1936.
"Picture, if you will, honey, the eidos of repulsive: plaid upholstered chairs, with ruffled skirts, all hideously brown and yellow." — Christopher Coe; Such Times; Penguin Books; 1994.
repulsive
[形]
1 嫌悪を感じさせる, 胸の悪くなる
I found him repulsive.
彼がいやなやつだと感じた.
彼がいやなやつだと感じた.
2 寄せつけない, けんもほろろの, よそよそしい, 冷淡な.
3 《物理学》反発する.
re・pul・sive・ly
[副]不快なほどひどく.flap[flap]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[flǽp]
[動]（〜ped, 〜・ping）(自)
2 〈翼が〉羽ばたく；〈鳥が〉羽ばたいて飛び回る((about, around))；飛び去る((away, off)). ⇒FLY1[類語]
3 ［I（[副]）］（…を）ぴしゃりとたたく((at ...)).
4 〈帽子のへりなどが〉たれ下がる.
5 ((英略式))取り乱す, 興奮する.
6 〈人が〉体を伏せる((down)).
7 ［I[副]］（…を）（心配げに）話す；（…の）むだ話をする((about ...)).
━━(他)
1 〈翼・旗・腕などを〉上下に［ばたばた, 揺れ］動かす, はためかす.
2 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈平たいもので〉（…を）ぴしゃりと打つ［たたく］((at ...))；((略式))…をぱたっと投げる［たたむ, 締める］
━━[名]
1 （一方を留めて）たれ下がった物, （ポケット・封筒の）たれぶた, （テーブルの）たれ板, （帽子の）たれ縁；（魚の）えらぶた；（キノコの）開いたかさ；（弁の）舌；折り戸［シャッター］の片方；（本の）カバーの折り込み部分.
2 ((〜s))((米俗))（人の）耳；（動物の）たれ耳.
5 《外科》皮膚［組織］弁.
6 《航空》下げ翼, フラップ.
7 《音声学》弾き音.uproar[up・roar]発音記号[ʌ'prɔ`ːr]
uproarious[up・roar・i・ous]
- 発音記号[ʌprɔ'ːriəs]
[形]((文))((通例限定))
1 〈行為などが〉騒々しい；〈音などが〉たいへん大きい；やかましい；〈集会・人が〉ざわめく, 大騒ぎをする
up・roar・i・ous・ly
[副]
up・roar・i・ous・ness
[名]bedlam (BED-luhm)
noun: A scene of wild uproar and confusion.
Etymology
Alteration of the name Bethlehem, a hospital for the insane in London.
Notes
The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, now known as Bethlem Royal Hospital, is the oldest hospital for treating the mentally ill. The treatment was not always what's considered the norm today. At one time the "sane" used to go see the "insane" as if in a zoo -- there was an admission ticket. The William Hogarth painting of the Bedlam on the right shows fashionable ladies visiting the hospital to amuse themselves by gawking at the patients.
See the art of the hospital inmates at The Bethlem Gallery.
Usage
"As estimates of the Haitian death toll topped 100,000 Friday, government officials here scrambled to reach more than 1,400 Canadians who are still unaccounted for amidst the rubble and bedlam in that country." — Les Whittington; 1,415 Canadians Missing; Toronto Star (Canada); Jan 16, 2010.
bedlam[bed・lam]
- 発音記号[bédləm]
[名]
2 ((古))精神科病院；((B-))Londonのベツレヘム精神科病院.
Jack ［Tom］ o'Bedlam
((古))狂人（を装う人）.rife[rife]
- 発音記号[ráif]
[形]((叙述))((形式))〈好ましくない物・事が〉はびこって, 広まって；〈場所が〉（好ましくない物・事で）いっぱいである, 満ち満ちている((with ...)). ▼主にbeまたはgrow, waxと共に用いる
Violence is rife in the slums. ［＝The slums are rife with violence. ］
スラムでは暴力ざたがしょっちゅう起きている.
スラムでは暴力ざたがしょっちゅう起きている.
batty1
Syllabification: (bat·ty)
Pronunciation: /ˈbatē/
Translate batty | into German | into Italian adjective (battier, battiest)
informalDerivatives
Origin:
early 20th century: from bat2 + -y1. Compare with batsscatterbrain
Syllabification: (scat·ter·brain)
Pronunciation: /ˈskatərˌbrān/
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