2015年9月4日 星期五

in the round, round-the-clock, confiscate, commandeer, float, alphabet soup,



in the round
phrase of round
  1. 1.
    (of sculpture) standing free with all sides shown, rather than carved in relief against a ground.
  2. 2.
    (of a theatrical performance) with the audience placed on at least three sides of the stage.


MoMA The Museum of Modern Art 分享了 1 條連結
WSJ goes inside the installation process of the Museum of Modern Art‘s fall blockbuster ‘Picasso Sculpture’—the largest exhibition of the artist’s three-dimensional work in nearly a half-century.
WSJ.COM|由 SUSAN DELSON 上傳



The Chicago Tribune published a five-part investigation in December that revealed shocking abuses at roughly 50 residential treatment centres in Illinois financed by the the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). According to the findings, hundreds of state wards are violently attacked and sexually abused each year at these centres, which are meant to offer round-the-clock supervision and therapyhttp://econ.st/1DKM5Ub

Facebook Grabs for Your Phone. What Gives?

By DAVID POGUE
With a set of apps for Android phones, Facebook is commandeering the home page. And the ads are coming soon.

China's one-child policy
Perils of motherhood Even when the laws are obeyed, the results are perverse (509)


Chinese City Confiscates iPads As Trademark Fight Continues


Apple's battle over the rights to use the 'iPad' name in China entered a new phase after dozens of iPads were confiscated from retailers in a northern Chinese city.


round (oraround)the clock

Definition of round or around the clock in English:

All day and all night:I’ve got a team working around the clock[AS ADJECTIVE]: round-the-clock surveillance

confiscate 沒收

confiscate[con・fis・cate]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[kɑ'nfəskèit | kɔ'nfis-]
[動](他)
1 〈財産などを〉(罰として)(…から)没収[押収]する, 徴発する((from ...)).
2 …を(職権で)差し押さえる, …を(暫定的に)取り上げる, 押収する.
━━[形]没収[押収]した, 取り上げた.
[ラテン語confiscātus (con-完全に+fiscusかばん+-ATE1=かばんの中へとり込む)]
còn・fis・cá・tion
[名]
cón・fis・cà・tor
[名]没収[徴発]者.
con・fis・ca・to・ry〔knfísktri | -tri〕
[形]没収[押収]の.

The round-the-clock effort has consumed an alphabet soup of federal regulators and criminal investigators, with lawyers sleeping at open desks and each agency commandeering a different conference room at the firm's offices. But as authorities comb through some 38,000 customer accounts, they are growing more suspicious about what went wrong at MF Global, the commodities powerhouse once run by Jon S. Corzine, the former Democratic governor of New Jersey.



There were parties organised on the principle that the food should reflect the character of the person invited. The black-tempered Humphry House was served a black meal, black pudding, burned toast, black coffee, black olives; the budding poet Stephen Spender was severved alphabet soup.(p.48)

羅妍莉譯本:…… 全是黑色的飯食:血腸、焦麵包、黑咖啡和黑橄欖:
嶄露頭角的詩人Stephen Spender 的則是字母湯。(p.60)
高毅 高煜譯本:…….上一套黑色的食品,如黑布丁、烤焦的土司、黑咖啡和黑橄欖:呆頭呆腦的的詩人Stephen Spender 就吃字母湯(alphabet soup)。(p.71)

兩翻譯本都無注解。」

【HC;主人BERLIN「配合其人的特性備餐,陰鬱的(black temper/mood)Humphry House:黑布丁、烤成"焦炭"的麵包、黑咖啡……一餐都是黑的,「黑餐」也!」;剛出到走紅的詩人Stephen Spender,給「字母湯」】
alphabet soup 〔米話〕 略語や頭字語がいっぱいの文章.

【這應用可以參考許多jargon-happy之學者作品,
譬如說:早稻田大學 伊藤 嘉博 (著) 『品質コストマネジメント~品質管理と原価管理の融合』,中央経済社, 1999年.。

我們看它索引就可以知道其琳琅滿目…….】

查網路包括google.print 的應用例(以# 表示):

#ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets.

#Your health plan, whether it's an HMO or PPO or some other alphabet-soup plan,may publish a directory of providers in the plan.
#The Alphabet Soup of Strategic Management 29 The Need for an Overview For a manager wanting to do something to become a better manager—or even an ...

It also describes the implications of this alphabet soup for the area of
competence-based strategy. Since this is a rather long argument,
# From Anger to Zion: An Alphabet of Faith by G Porter Taylor, Porter Taylor - Religion - 2004

Page 45 - E 45 Our world is alphabet soup, and many of the letters aren't even in our alphabet.So, how are we to take seriously the promise we make at baptism "to spread by word and example the Good News of God in Christ"...

# Most observers still give hmos and the "alphabet soup" of related medical care organizations (mcos) credit for cutting substantial costs from the system ...

******* 再查一下hyperdictionary收的Webster's 1913 Dictionary 之"alphabet"

Definition: \Al"pha*bet\, n. [L. alphabetum, fr. Gr. ? + ?, the
first two Greek letters; Heb. [=a]leph and beth: cf. F.alphabet.]
1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order;
the series of letters or signs which form the elements of
written language.

2. The simplest rudiments; elements.

The very alphabet of our law. --Macaulay.


Taxpayers May Help Float Ark Encounter
Taxpayer dollars may be commandeered for the Kentucky creationist theme park because of its tourism potential.


float
To arrange for (a loan).
commandeer
[動](他)1 〈人を〉(軍務に)徴集する;〈私有物を〉(軍用・公用に)徴発する.2 ((略式))〈他人の物を〉かってに取り上げる, 奪い取る.

commandeer

(kŏm'ən-dîr')



tr.v., -deered, -deer·ing, -deers.
To force into military service.
To seize for military use; confiscate.
To take arbitrarily or by force. See synonyms at appropriate.


Definition ofcommandeer



verb

[with object]
  • officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes:telegraph and telephone lines were commandeered by the generals
  • take possession of (something) without authority:he hoisted himself onto a table, commandeering it as a speaker’s platform
  • enlist (someone) to help in a task, typically against the person’s will:he commandeered the men to find a table

Origin:

early 19th century: from Afrikaans kommandeer, from Dutch commanderen, from French commander 'to command' (see command)



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