2020年6月8日 星期一

keeper, gatekeeper, timepiece, timekeeper, oleander. deathwatch, frail, housekeeper, brothel keeper


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Neil Aspinall, keeper of the Beatles' secrets, died on March 24th, aged 66



A provocative, multileveled ``meditation'' on Emperor Hirohito's 1989 death, raising dark questions about Japan's war guilt in the context of its triumphant prosperity today. As the child of a Japanese woman and an American soldier, Field (East Asian Studies/Univ. of Chicago) tells a story of postwar Japan inextricably linked to her own. She grew up in Tokyo, in her grandmother's house, ``finally'' leaving after high school to join her father in the US. In August 1988, Field returned to Tokyo for a yearlong stay. From her grandmother's oleander-filled, walled garden, she observed a driven, repressive ``democracy'' held in a deathwatch for its emperor. This ``frail embodiment of the war,'' whose funeral becomes a ``celebration of the successes of Japanese capitalism,'' Field sees as both promoter and symbol of Japan's ``national amnesia.'' The economic miracle has come at astronomical cost: ``In the society [the Japanese] are growing into,'' she writes, ``the most significant and only reliable freedom is the freedom to buy ever more refined commodities.'' Backing into her powerful points as she shifts between personal and global issues, Field structures her narrative around the stories of three ``resisters'': a supermarket owner who burns the ``Rising Sun'' flag; a widow who sues to stop the state from making her late husband a Shinto deity; and the mayor of Nagasaki, who publicly calls the emperor responsible for the war--for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for the Battle of Okinawa. The horror the Japanese refuse to remember is here most powerfully conveyed by eyewitness accounts of ``babies' cries...stilled'' by Japanese troops hiding from the ``bloodless'' American invasion. An intelligent, informed, deeply felt interrogation of Japan that offers a rare insider-outsider point of view while implicitly questioning America's influence on this rich but troubled country. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.




2004/6/26 讀昆布《布魯姆日百年─談一位被遺忘的守護者》後,決定參考些資料作'keeper'的詞目。我雖然主要參考辭典和網頁

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=43371&dict=CALD
http://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/word/keeper
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=keeper
其實,遠不只這些。數字標碼各家網頁不同,可當沒見到。謝昆布兄(我倆沒見過面)。

keeper
noun
  • 1a person who manages or looks after something or someone: I can’t stop him—I’m his wife, not his keeper
  • a custodian of a museum or gallery collection: [as title]:he was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum
  • an animal attendant employed in a zoo.
  • short for gamekeeper.
  • 3a plain ring worn to preserve a hole in a pierced ear lobe; a sleeper.
  • a ring worn to keep a more valuable one on the finger.
  • a bar of soft iron placed across the poles of a horseshoe magnet to maintain its strength.
  • 4 [with adjective] a food or drink that remains in a specified condition if stored:hazelnuts are good keepers
  • 5a fish large enough to be kept when caught: these lakes consistently give up healthy, pound-size keepers
  • informal a person or thing that is valuable and to be cherished:this disc is a keeper and one that belongs on every serious DVD collector’s shelf if he’s a good communicator and a great listener, he’s a keeper
  • 6 American Football a play in which the quarterback receives the ball from the centre and runs with it.



Derivatives


keepership

noun
keeper noun [C]
1 a person who takes care of animals or is in charge of valuable objects, a building, etc:
1. 【人】 看守人,值班人,看守,守衛 /One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
anything; as,例: the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of
a gate, etc.; the keeper of attached property; hence, one
who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
a zoo keeper (動物園的)飼養員
a lighthouse-keeper

Towards the end of his life (he died last year), Walker invited Stephen Koppel, an assistant keeper at the British Museum, to look at his collection. Koppel was impressed. As far as the people at the prints and drawings department knew, there was no comparable modern print collection in Britain. In due course, Walker wrote to ask whether the department would like him to leave them some of his works in his will.
(取材One day his prints did come
Alexander Walker's British Museum bequest shows how good collectors work, writes James Fenton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1245745,00.html)

The Lord is thy keeper. --Ps. cxxi. 6.
詩 篇 Psalms 121:5 [hb5] 保護你的是耶和華.耶和華在你右邊蔭庇你。
[kjv] The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
[bbe] The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.


「這本書的書名《My Brother's Keeper─James Joyce's Early Years》,直接源於聖經,但故事卻是反面的例證。那是聖經中頭一對兄弟:該隱和亞伯的悲劇故事,該隱因為敬拜神的事遷怒他的兄弟,把亞伯殺了,神來找該隱談話,問他弟弟哪去了,但當時該隱不但沒有悔意,還相當傲慢,他頂了一句話:「Am I my brother's keeper?」〈我豈是看守我兄弟的?〉」(昆布:布魯姆日百年─談一位被遺忘的守護者 時間:2004-06-26 http://www.ylib.com/class/talkout/TalkShow.asp?object=req&no=654))

The Bible
創 世 紀 Genesis4:8
[hb5] 該隱與他兄弟亞伯說話、二人正在田間、該隱起來打他兄弟亞伯、把他殺了。
[kjv] And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
[bbe] And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.
4:9 [hb5] 耶和華對該隱說、你兄弟亞伯在哪裏.他說、我不知道、我豈是看守我兄弟的嗎。
[kjv] And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
[bbe] And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 [hb5] 耶和華說、你作了甚麼事呢、你兄弟的血、有聲音從地裏向我哀告。
http://www.ccim.org/cgi-user/bible/ob?version=hb5&version=kjv&version=bbe&book=gen&chapter=4

2. 【informal (日常用語) a thing woth keeping】
《例句》 They were deciding which drawings are questionable and which are keepers.


4. 【人】 監護人
《例句》 {Keeper of the privy seal} (styled also lord privy seal), a
high officer of state, through whose hands pass all
charters, pardons, etc., before they come to the great
seal. He is a privy councillor, and was formerly called
{clerk of the privy seal}. [Eng.]

{Keeper of the great seal}, a high officer of state, who has
custody of the great seal. The office i





timepiece
n.
An instrument, such as a clock or watch, that measures, registers, or records time.


Synonym: timekeeper

n.
One who records time, as:
Sports. One who keeps track of elapsed time in a sporting event.
One who keeps records of the hours worked by employees.
A device for keeping time; a timepiece.timekeeping time'keep'ing adj.


frail

  • 発音記号[fréil]

[形]
1 〈人・体が〉虚弱な, ひ弱な. ⇒WEAK[類語]
2 〈陶器などが〉もろい;〈幸福などが〉はかない, 一時の;〈根拠が〉(…するには)薄弱な((for ...)).
3 〈人が〉意志薄弱な, 誘惑にもろい.
━━[名]((米俗))女(の子).
━━[動](他)((米方言))〈人を〉打ちのめす.
[古フランス語frail←ラテン語fragilis. △FRAGILE
frail・ly
[副]
frail・ness
[名]


  oleander

  • 発音記号[óuliæ`ndər | ]

[名]《植物》セイヨウキョウチクトウ(夾竹桃).

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