sleeve, roll up one's sleeves, waistcoat, limp on/along

Philip Falcone is now left with limited options for LightSquared, which include selling his prized spectrum or limping along while slashing costs. Whatever the case, analysts say, his plan to deliver wireless access to up to 260 million consumers will not be realized anytime soon.

Are We Going to Roll Up Our Sleeves or Limp On?

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Our country faces a big choice right now. We can either have a hard decade or a bad century.

roll up one's sleeves,

Prepare to work, as in When he saw how much snow had fallen he simply rolled up his sleeves and went to find the shovel. This expression, alluding to turning one's sleeves upward to avoid getting them wet or dirty, is used both literally and more loosely, as in the example here.

背心,馬甲

照片上的馬甲和腰包看上去並沒有什麼特別之處。但實際上嵌入了下方照片所示的3軸加速度傳感器和利用人造衛星的姿態控制陀螺儀（3軸角速度傳感器），以及與其連動的某種安全裝備……



n.

1. A garment formerly worn by men under a doublet.
2. Chiefly British. A short, sleeveless, collarless garment worn especially over a shirt and often under a suit jacket; a vest.

waistcoated waist'coat'ed adj.
n. - 背心, 馬甲

A traditional waistcoat, to be worn with a two-piece suit or separate jacket and trousers

A traditional hand appliqued waistcoat in Ralli quilt design

A waistcoat (pronounced /ˈwɛskət/ or /ˈweɪstkoʊt/) , sometimes called a vest or a vestee in Canada and the US, is a sleeveless upper-body garment worn over a dress shirt and necktie (if applicable) and below a coat as a part of most men's formal wear, and as the third piece of the three-piece male business suit. Once a virtually mandatory article of men's clothing, it has become uncommon in contemporary dress in the English-speaking world, although it has returned to fashion as part of businesswear in Germany.

sleeve

 

音節

sleeve

発音

slíːv

レベル

大学入試程度

sleeveの変化形

sleeves (複数形) • sleeved (過去形) • sleeved (過去分詞) • sleeves (三人称単数現在)

sleeveの慣用句

laugh up one's sleeve, up one's sleeve, （全2件）

[名]

1 （衣服の）そで, たもと

roll up one's sleeves
腕まくりをする；仕事に取りかかる.

2 《機械》スリーブ：棒軸などをはめ込む金具.

3 レコードジャケット.唱片封套

 

 It’s not unusual for ECM to get art-world attention. There have been gallery shows of ECM covers in Western Europe, and there are two thick books devoted to the label’s visual language, “Sleeves of Desire” and “Windfall Light,” both edited by Lars Müller.

 

ECM受到藝術界的注目並不反常。在西歐曾有畫廊做過ECM封面展，對該廠牌的視覺語彙，已經有兩本大部頭專著：《慾望的封套》(Sleeves of Desire)和《風吹落的光》(Windfall Light)，都是由拉斯·穆勒(Lars Müller)編輯。

laugh up ［in］ one's sleeve

こっそり［心の中で］笑う.

up one's sleeve

ひそかに用意して

keep ［have］ an ace up one's sleeve
切札［奥の手］を用意している.

━━[動](他)

1 〈衣服に〉そで［たもと］をつける；…をそででふく.

2 《機械》…にスリーブをつける.

limp