Downton Abbey returned to record ratings in the US, Doctor Who is packing convention centres, and British actors like Jonny Lee Miller, Damian Lewis and Tom Mison are popping up all over American-made TV. Ken Tucker explains why Americans have such great affection for entertainment from across the pond.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140127-american-tvs-british-invasion
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There’s Good Money in Cheap Chic
By ERIC WILSON 6:13 PM ET
More than a decade after Target popularized mass-retail lines by high-end designers, the pairings have become a reliable business. Above, Donatella Versace for H&M.
Peasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners
to save themselves - and the forest - from trouble, but the financing
mechanism is coming under fire.
Overheard
Is Bordeaux a good pairing for mooncake? Collectors, particularly in Asia, have paid record-breaking sums for fine wines over the past couple of years. But market turmoil threatens to put a cork in soaring prices for all sorts of alternative investments.
The next clue on the future of wine prices could come with an Asian festival in early September, according to Gary Boom, founder of wine merchant and investment tracker Bordeaux Index. The celebration is marked by the consumption of round pastry mooncakes filled with lotus-seed paste and a salted duck egg, as well as the exchange of generous gifts, including, in recent years, expensive bottles of Bordeaux.
For the wine-investment industry, "the festival will, as usual, be the most illuminating indicator of [second-half 2011] activity," notes Mr. Boom. And if the prices don't pick up, investors can always wash down their duck eggs with a decent red.
Banks Don't Bank on Their Euro Peers
Banks Don't Bank on Their Euro Peers
If
banks don't trust each other, why should an investor? That was a
troubling question for U.S. banks back in 2007 and 2008, and it is again
pertinent as Europe founders.
She set out to analyze the omissions. By examining a random sample of 10
percent of the words in the four-volume Burchfield supplement and
comparing those entries with those in the 1933 supplement, she concluded
that Dr. Burchfield deleted 17 percent of words that she broadly
categorized as borrowed from regional dialects of English or coming from
another language. Among his favorite targets were American words that
had crept into the dictionary, like frog-pond and seed-cake, and other
foreign-sounding words like danchi (Bengali for a tropical shrub) and
boviander (from British Guiana for people of mixed race who live on
river banks).
她開始分析這些刪略的內容。她從伯奇菲爾德編纂的四卷附錄中隨機抽取10%的詞條與1933年版本的附錄進行對比，之後得出結論，伯奇菲爾德刪除了
17%她大致歸類為從英語方言或是其他語言來的詞。他刪除最多的，是慢慢被收入詞典的美國詞，比如“frog-pond”（青蛙池塘）和“seed-
cake”（一種加入植物籽實烘焙的麵包）以及其他一些聽起來像外語的詞，比如“danchi”（孟加拉語，熱帶灌木叢）以及“boviander”（英
屬幾內亞語，指濱河而居的混血人種）。
The Boston Common Frog Pond
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The Boston Common Frog Pond is nestled in the heart of America's oldest public park. The Frog Pond is a special jewel of the City of Boston offering a place to ...pertinent[per・ti・nent]
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- 発音記号[pə'ːrtənənt]
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━━[名]((通例〜s))((英))付属物.
-nence, -nen・cy
[名]
per・ti・nent・ly
[副]
- founder
- [名]創設［創始, 設立］者；基金寄付者；（風習などの）元祖, 開祖 a founder member((英))設立関係者（((米))founding ［charter］ member）.
- founder[found・er2]
- 発音記号[fáundər]
[動](自)((形式))
1 〈船が〉浸水して沈む.
2 〈事業・計画などが〉失敗する, 破たんする；〈人が〉ひどい目にあう.
3 〈建物が〉倒壊する；〈土地が〉陥没［沈下］する.
4 〈馬が〉馬蹄(ばてい)炎にかかる.
━━(他)
1 〈船を〉浸水沈没させる
2 〈馬を〉（馬蹄炎で）倒れさす.
━━[名][U][C]《獣病理》（胸筋萎縮(いしゅく)性）馬蹄炎.under fire
Criticized or held responsible, as in The landlord is under fire for not repairing the roof. This expression originally referred to being within range of enemy guns; its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.
pond
Syllabification: pond
Pronunciation: /pänd
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