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BY MATTHEW LARKING
Threatening the precarious peace of everyday life are unforeseen incidents, disease and emotional turbulence. Such are the narrative threads running through "Song to Life, Struggles of the Soul" at Wacoal Studyhall Kyoto.
Rush hour in China’s most dangerous village is lethal
Drug Research in China Falls Under a Cloud
By KATIE THOMAS
Glaxo's problems in China may not just be about its sales practices. They may also concern its research.
Karen Miranda
New Swarms Keep City’s Bee Officer Busy
By EMILY S. RUEB
Black swarms of overcrowded, homeless honeybees, like these on West
135th Street, have proliferated this season in New York City, possibly
because of the mild weather.
Google's deal to buy Motorola Mobility will likely put more pressure on an already struggling Nokia. But there could be a silver lining.
Germany's Nazi history is clouded by myths.
譬如說 cloud of theories and interpretations....
是很多的理論和詮釋 不是 理論雲冉冉昇起 (p.7)
ABREAST OF THE MARKET
Epic Stock Rally Finding Few Fans
U.S.
stocks are near their highest level in almost five years. But market
participants are skeptical, pointing to economic clouds and doubts about
whether expectations for fresh monetary stimulus.
Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley
By BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Entrepreneurs and investors believe the question is when, not if, the country’s cradle of innovation will be hurt.
The high flyers at the Paris Air Show
There have been worrying times too for the aviation industry. The Air
France plane crash over the Atlantic and the worldwide recession have cast
a pall over the usually glamorous Paris Air Show underway this week outside
the French capital.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew15e4I44va89pI1
Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley
By BRAD STONE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Entrepreneurs and investors believe the question is when, not if, the country’s cradle of innovation will be hurt.
The high flyers at the Paris Air Show
There have been worrying times too for the aviation industry. The Air
France plane crash over the Atlantic and the worldwide recession have cast
a pall over the usually glamorous Paris Air Show underway this week outside
the French capital.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew15e4I44va89pI1
under a cloud
under suspicion or discredited: he left under something of a cloud, accused of misappropriating funds
noun
1 [C] a thick dark cloud of smoke:
Palls of smoke obscured our view.
2 [S] a negative atmosphere:
The bad news cast a pall over the evening.
A pall of embarrassment descended on the room.
cloud[名]
1 [C][U]雲
a sea of clouds
雲海
雲海
Every cloud has a silver lining.
((ことわざ)) どんな雲も裏は銀色に光っている；どんな悪い事にもよい面がある.
((ことわざ)) どんな雲も裏は銀色に光っている；どんな悪い事にもよい面がある.
2 雲状のもの, もうもうとしたもの（ほこり・煙など）；（…の）煙((of ...))
a cloud of steam
もうもうと立ちこめる蒸気
もうもうと立ちこめる蒸気
clouds of sand
もうもうたる砂煙.
もうもうたる砂煙.
3 （…の）大群, 集団((of ...))
a cloud of mosquitos
蚊の大群
蚊の大群
in clouds
大群で［を作って］.
大群で［を作って］.
4 （鏡・大理石などの）曇り, きず；((古))斑点(はんてん).
5 暗くする［曇らせる］もの；憂愁, 暗影, かげり, 気配
a cloud on the horizon
幸福な状態を曇らせるもの
幸福な状態を曇らせるもの
a cloud over one's happiness
幸福にさした一抹(いちまつ)の影
幸福にさした一抹(いちまつ)の影
cast a cloud
暗雲を投げかける.
暗雲を投げかける.
6 （女性用の）軽い肩掛け.
floating on (the) clouds
((俗))むなしい夢を抱いて.
in the clouds
(1) 空高く.
(2) 〈人が〉ぼんやりして；空想にふけって
with one's head in the clouds
夢みたいなことを考えて.
(3) 〈計画などが〉実際的でない, 実行不可能な.
夢みたいなことを考えて.
on cloud nine
((略式))とても幸福で, 有頂天の.
under a cloud
((略式))恥をさらして；（悪事をしたと）疑われて；憂うつで.
━━[動](他)
1 …を雲でおおう, 曇らせる((up))
The steam clouded up the windows.
蒸気で窓が曇った.
蒸気で窓が曇った.
2 …に暗い影を投げかける；〈名声などを〉かげらす；〈人に〉嫌疑をかける, 恥辱を与える
cloud a person's good reputation
人の評判を傷つける.
人の評判を傷つける.
3 ［III[名]（[副]）］…を暗くする；…を（…で）陰気にする, 憂うつにさせる((with ...))；〈悩み・怒りなどが〉〈顔に〉表れる
Her face was clouded with despair.
彼女の顔は失望で曇っていた.
彼女の顔は失望で曇っていた.
4 〈問題などを〉あいまいにする；…を混乱させる；〈頭などを〉鈍らせる
My judgment was clouded by my feelings.
判断力は感情のために鈍った.
判断力は感情のために鈍った.
5 〈物の〉表面を別の色でまだらにする
clouded amber ［marble］
雲模様入り琥珀(こはく)［大理石］.
雲模様入り琥珀(こはく)［大理石］.
6 〈液体を〉白濁させる.
━━(自)
1 〈空・窓などが〉曇る((over, up)).
2 〈顔が〉（苦悩・心配で）曇る, 暗くなる((over)).
3 〈液体が〉白濁する.
［古英語clūd（岩, 岡）. 雲は積み重なると岩山に見える. △CLOD］
n.
- A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
- A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
- A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.
- Something that darkens or fills with gloom.
- A dark region or blemish, as on a polished stone.
- Something that obscures.
- Suspicion or a charge affecting a reputation.
- A collection of charged particles: an electron cloud.
v., cloud·ed, cloud·ing, clouds. v.tr.
- To cover with or as if with clouds: Mist clouded the hills.
- To make gloomy or troubled.
- To obscure: cloud the issues.
- To cast aspersions on; sully: Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.
To become cloudy or overcast: The sky clouded over.
idiom:
in the clouds
- Imaginary; unreal; fanciful.
- Impractical.
[Middle English, hill, cloud, from Old English clūd, rock, hill.]
cloudless cloud'less adj.
silver lining
A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in the common English-language idiom "Every cloud has a silver lining."[2]烏雲後的光
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Origin
The origin of the phrase is traced to John Milton's 'Comus' (1634) with the lines,| “ | Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?[3] | ” |
Real-world use
Cloud seeding to increase precipitation (rain or snow) often uses silver iodide as cloud condensation, which has led to the use of the expression "every cloud has a silver lining" within that industry.every cloud has a silver lining
lining
swarm noun
verb
swarm[swarm1]
- 発音記号[swɔ'ːrm][名]
1 （巣分かれする）ミツバチの群れ；（巣箱の）ミツバチの一群, 群蜂(ぐんぽう).
3 《生物》遊走子群.
━━[動](自)
1 〈ミツバチが〉巣分かれする；《生物》群飛［群遊］する.
2 〈人・車などが〉多数で［群れをなして］動く；〈人・動物などが〉（場所・人に）群がる, あふれる((over, around, through ...))
3 〈場所が〉（人・動物などで）いっぱいになる((with ...)).
━━(他)((受身))〈場所が〉（…で）いっぱいになる((with ...)).
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