高教授或許忽略“drive” 的“性”意。
Making Films with an Accent: Iranian Émigré Cinema
An Oratorio About Shanghai’s Jews Opens in China at a Difficult Time
“Émigré,” about Jews who fled Nazi Germany, debuts amid U.S.-China tensions and cultural rifts over the Israel-Hamas war. It comes to New York in February.
An Inspired Performance of Handel’s Neglected Favorite
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
“Theodora,” an oratorio about Christian martyrs that was unpopular
during Handel’s lifetime, got an enthusiastic reception Sunday at
Carnegie Hall.
Enigmatic Leader of Iran Backs Overture, for Now
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, is getting all the attention,
but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, remains the man behind
the curtain.
As Diplomacy Stalls, U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad
As Diplomacy Stalls, U.S. Refines Plan to Remove Assad
By ERIC SCHMITT and HELENE COOPER
Though it will not provide arms to the Syrian rebels, the U.S. is likely
to supply intelligence and communication aid to help forcibly bring
down the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Google+ has its pluses
By Melissa Bell,
Then there are reports from the inside: Google employees have had gripes. Two weeks ago, Google engineer Steve Yegge posted a long rant to what he thought was a Google employees “circle,” the term Google chose for private groups. But Yegge had accidently broadcasted to the public that Google+ was a “pathetic afterthought,” letting the whole world in on his concerns about his employer.
I can’t say that I’ve been a fan, either. When Google+ launched, I started checking on it as part of my job, but it felt like a chore.
But I was wrong. Steve Yegge was wrong. Tech writers were wrong. Four months after Google rolled out its social media site, Google+ deserves a closer look.
When Facebook introduced its latest changes, it did so in part to shore up its hold on its users, offering up more options to keep them on the site. But for many of the people who already use Facebook frequently, the noise has become overwhelming.
I had organized Facebook lists, hidden updates from friends who were keeping me up on baby’s every little development and figured out how to hide vacation photos from work colleagues. Then Facebook asked me to organize my lists all over again, identifying my family and work colleagues and deciding what my top interests are. Facebook grew up as a way just to connect people with their friends, but now it is trying to reorganize its users around their likes and dislikes, based on algorithmic guesswork. All this might be to its detriment.
Facebook investor and Napster co-founder Sean Parker said as much this month at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. “The glut of information that power users are overwhelmed with” will scare them away, he said. “The strategic threat to Facebook is that power users . . . have gone to Google+.”
By contrast, Google started out based on the ultimate system of organization: library catalogues. Google+ first asks users to determine which circles they want friends in. Many see this — and the fact that you need a Gmail address to join and find friends — as an obstacle. That’s the wrong way to look at it. Instead, think of the site not as a way to organize friends but as a way to organize interests, technology blogger Robert Scoble says.
“Google+ is for finding, and talking with, the people who are interested in the same thing you are,” Sbcoble wrote in a recent Google+ post defending the site.
Resting on the building blocks of a search engine, Google + allows that sort of discovery to happen. You can type any topic into its search engine and you’ll get a mix of links, photographs, videos and, yes, status updates from other users who’ve referenced the topic. You can then add those users to your circles.
The site also allows for deeper, more focused conversations to happen. Once you find those people who share your common interests, Google, which already gets an A+ in communication skills for Gmail and Gchat, created another stellar product in the Hangouts. These allow folks to gather in a private group to talk, in real time, about anything.
I realized that I might be missing out on these when one of my favorite newshound college friends told me that he spends most days logged into a hangout with our five other media-focused friends. His wife actually threatened to call the others in the group to get them to stop.
Although I won’t be giving up my Facebook account anytime soon — I do need a place to see my cousin’s baby’s photos after all — there are pluses to being social in a different way.
Pickett's Charge was repulsed on this date in 1863 on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Union troops, under General George Meade, triumphed over General Robert E. Lee's Confederate soldiers, in the bloodiest battle of America's Civil War. General George Pickett's division attacked the Union center at Cemetery Ridge.
émigré
/ˈɛmɪɡreɪ/
noun
- a person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons."Soviet émigrés and defectors"
repulse
tr.v., -pulsed, -puls·ing, -puls·es.
- To drive back; repel.
- To rebuff or reject with rudeness, coldness, or denial.
- Usage Problem. To cause repugnance or distaste in.
- The act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- Rejection; refusal.
USAGE NOTE A number of critics have maintained that repulse should only be used to mean “to drive away, spurn,” as in He rudely repulsed their overtures, and not to mean “to cause repulsion in,” as in Their hypocrisy repulsed me. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing tendency to use repulse in the latter sense. Reputable literary precedent exists for this usage, and given that the stigmatized use of repulse is parallel to the unexceptionable uses of repulsion and repulsive, the frequency of its appearance is not surprising. Still, writers who want to avoid repulse may choose repel, a synonym that is perfectly acceptable.
- [ripʌ'ls]
((形式))[動](他)
1 …を撃退する, 追い払う；…を断る, はねつける, 拒絶する
repulse the enemy
敵を撃退する
敵を撃退する
repulse an offer of friendship
友人の暖かい申し出を断る（▼この意味ではrepelは使えない）.
友人の暖かい申し出を断る（▼この意味ではrepelは使えない）.
2 …をうんざりさせる, いやにさせる, 不快にさせる.
━━[名][U][C]
1 追い払うこと；撃退されること.
2 拒絶, 拒否, 反駁(はんばく), 排撃, ひじ鉄.
［ラテン語repulsus （re-後ろへ＋pellere追う）追い返される. △REPEL］pulse
[名]
1 脈拍；（動脈・心臓の）一打ち
a regular ［an irregular］ pulse
整［不整］脈
整［不整］脈
feel ［take］ a person's pulse
脈診する
脈診する
one's pulse quickens ［races］
脈が早くなる.
脈が早くなる.
2 律動（音）, 律動的な振動［波動］.
3 一打ち, 一揺れ, 一うねり；（音楽や詩の）拍；アクセント.
4 《電気》パルス：電圧・電流などの瞬間的な変動.
5 心の躍動, 興奮；生気(vitality)
stir a person's pulse
人を興奮させる.
人を興奮させる.
6 意向, 気分, （世間一般の）傾向, 動向.
━━[動](自)
1 （…で）脈打つ((with ...))；（…中を）鼓動する((through ...)).
2 脈動［振動, 波動］する；《電気》脈動する.
━━(他)
1 …を律動的に送る((out, in)).
2 〈エンジンなどを〉律動的に動かす.
3 《電子工学》…をパルスにする；《通信》〈電磁波を〉パルスで変更する.
［ラテン語pulsus （pellere追いたてる＋-sus過去分詞語尾）. △PROPEL, COMPEL］
pulse ・less
[形]脈拍のない, こと切れた；生気のない.《中英對照讀新聞》Forget the girlfriends or wives, it’s the pushy mums who drive their sons to success 忘了女友、老婆吧，是積極進取的老媽驅使她們的兒子成功
Behind every great man there is a great woman. But it’s far more likely to be his pushy mother than his partner driving him on, according to scientists.
每個偉大男人的背後都有個偉大的女人。但那個在驅使著他的人，是他積極進取的媽媽的可能性，遠大於他的另一半，根據科學家說法。
pushy
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
Disagreeably aggressive or forward.
pushily push'i·ly adv.
pushiness push'i·ness n.Meaning #1: marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative
Synonyms: aggressive, enterprising, pushful, pushing
drive
v., drove (drōv), driv·en (drĭv'ən), driv·ing, drives. v.tr.
- To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; urge forward: drove the horses into the corral.
- To repulse or put to flight by force or influence: drove the attackers away; drove out any thought of failure.
- To guide, control, or direct (a vehicle).
- To convey or transport in a vehicle: drove the children to school.
- To traverse in a vehicle: drive the freeways to work.
- To supply the motive force or power to and cause to function: Steam drives the engine.
- To cause or sustain, as if by supplying force or power: "The current merger mania is apparently driven by an urge . . . to reduce risk or to exploit opportunities in a very rapidly changing business environment" (Peter Passell).
- To compel or force to work, often excessively: "Every serious dancer is driven by notions of perfection-perfect expressiveness, perfect technique" (Susan Sontag).
- To force into or from a particular act or state: Indecision drives me crazy.
- To force to go through or penetrate: drove the stake into the ground.
- To create or produce by penetrating forcibly: The nail drove a hole in the tire.
- To carry through vigorously to a conclusion: drove home his point; drive a hard bargain.
- Sports. To throw, strike, or cast (a ball, for example) hard or rapidly.
- Basketball. To move with the ball directly through: drove the lane and scored.
- Baseball. To cause (a run or runner) to be scored by batting. Often used with in.
- To chase (game) into the open or into traps or nets.
- To search (an area) for game in such a manner.
- To move along or advance quickly as if pushed by an impelling force.
- To rush, dash, or advance violently against an obstruction: The wind drove into my face.
- To operate a vehicle, such as a car.
- To go or be transported in a vehicle: drove to the supermarket.
- Sports. To hit, throw, or impel a ball or other missile forcibly.
- Basketball. To move directly to the basket with the ball.
- To make an effort to reach or achieve an objective; aim.
- The act of driving.
- A trip or journey in a vehicle.
- (Abbr. Dr.) A road for automobiles and other vehicles.
- The means or apparatus for transmitting motion or power to a machine or from one machine part to another.
- The position or operating condition of such a mechanism: "He put his car into drive and started home" (Charles Baxter).
- The means by which automotive power is applied to a roadway: four-wheel drive.
- The means or apparatus for controlling and directing an automobile: right-hand drive.
- Computer Science. A device that reads data from and often writes data onto a storage medium, such as a floppy disk.
- A strong organized effort to accomplish a purpose. See synonyms at campaign.
- Energy, push, or aggressiveness.
- Psychology. A strong motivating tendency or instinct related to self-preservation, reproduction, or aggression that prompts activity toward a particular end.
- A massive, sustained military offensive.
- Sports. The act of hitting, knocking, or thrusting a ball very swiftly.
- Sports. The stroke or thrust by which a ball is driven.
- Basketball. The act of moving with the ball directly to the basket.
- A rounding up and driving of cattle to new pastures or to market.
- A gathering and driving of logs down a river.
- The cattle or logs thus driven.
drive at
- To mean to do or say: I don't understand what you're driving at.
[Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan.]
drivability driv'a·bil'i·ty n.drivable driv'a·ble adj.
forcible[for・ci・ble]
- 発音記号[fɔ'ːrsəbl]
[形]
for・ci・bly
[副]
for・ci・ble・ness, fòr・ci・bíl・i・ty
[名]
sex drive
noun
- a person's urge to seek satisfaction of their sexual needs."I had no sex drive"
overture
Syllabification: (o·ver·ture)
Pronunciation: /ˈōvərCHər, -ˌCHo͝or/
Translate overture | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish noun
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense 'aperture'): from Old French, from Latin apertura 'aperture'oratorio 清唱劇
Line breaks: ora|torio
Pronunciation: /ˌɒrəˈtɔːrɪəʊ/
noun (plural oratorios)
Origin
Italian, from ecclesiastical Latin oratorium 'oratory', from the musical services held in the church of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Rome.- オラトリオ【(イタリア)oratorio】
- 《祈祷所(きとうしょ)の意》宗教的な題材をもとに、独唱・合唱・管弦楽から構成される大規模な楽曲。オペラとは異なり、演技を伴わない。ヘンデルの「メサイア」、ハイドンの「天地創造」などが有名。聖譚曲...
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