police detail, angular details, wet nurse/ dry nurse, particular

Decades of Savile abuse revealed
Police detail 50 years of abuse by presenter Jimmy Savile, whose victims included a boy aged eight and patients in 13 hospitals and a


Mr. Robb builds his histories from small piles of angular details. The section on Napoleon begins by observing “the army of wet nurses who left their babies at home and went to sell their breast milk in the capital.” During an account of one policeman’s search for a criminal who is also a hunchback, Mr. Robb can’t help noting the difficulties: “there were something in the region of 6,135 hunchbacks in Paris.” Once Zola discovered cameras, he writes, he tended to “behave as though he was always about to be photographed.”

OBAMA: Look, Dick, you’ve called me out on various particulars. And I have no problem with that. That’s politics. You thought Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should not be tried in New York City, and that’s fine.


particular
n.

1. An individual item, fact, or detail: correct in every particular. See synonyms at item.
2. An item or detail of information or news. Often used in the plural: The police refused to divulge the particulars of the case.
3. A separate case or an individual thing or instance, especially one that can be distinguished from a larger category or class. Often used in the plural: "What particulars were ambushed behind these generalizations?" (Aldous Huxley).

angular
(ăng'gyə-lər)
adj.

1. Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
2. Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
3. Bony and lean; gaunt: an angular face.
4. Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward: an angular gait.
5. Rigid, stiff, and unyielding in character or disposition: "the cold, angular brand of materialism" (David K. Willis).

[Latin angulāris, from angulus, angle.]

1 かどのある, とがった

angular pieces of rock
かど張った岩［石］.

2 かどの；角度で測った

angular acceleration
角加速度

angular perspective
二点遠近法.

3 〈人・体が〉骨張った；やせこけた.

4 〈態度などが〉ぎごちない

angular politeness
ぎごちない丁寧さ.

angularly an'gu·lar·ly adv.
angularness an'gu·lar·ness n.

wét nùrse[wét nùrse]

n.

1. A woman who suckles another woman's child.
2. One who treats another with excessive care or solicitude.

1 甘やかす人.

2 ((古))乳母(うば). ⇒DRY NURSE 1

dry nurse

1 授乳しない育児婦. ⇒WET NURSE 1

2 おせっかいな人.

3 ((略式))（未経験な上役の）補佐役.

drý-nùrse

[動](他)〈幼児を〉dry nurseとして育てる；…におせっかいをやく；〈経験の浅い上役を〉補佐する.

A nurse employed to care for but not breast-feed an infant.

police

音節po・lice 発音記号/pəlíːs/音声を聞く

【名詞】

[集合的に; 複数扱い; しばしば the police]

1

警察; 警官(隊) 《★この語義の複数形はない; 「一人の警察官」をいう時には policeman，policewoman を用いる》.

用例

harbor [marine] police 水上警察.

2

治安[保安](隊) 《★この語義の複数形はない》.

用例

the military police 憲兵隊.

【動詞】 【他動詞】

1

〈…に〉警察を置く，〈…を〉(警察力などで)警備する; 〈…の〉治安を維持する.

用例

The zone was policed by United Nations forces. その地域は国連軍によって治安を維持された.

2

〈…を〉管理する，監視する.

用例

police the new regulations 新条例を(正しく施行されるように)監視する.

［ラテン語「都市を統治すること」の意; ギリシャの都市国家「ポリス」(pólis) から］

解説

(1) 米国の警官は地方自治体の管轄下にある. 英米ともに交番はない. 警官への呼び掛けは officer を用いる.        detail    【動詞】 【他動詞】 1 a 〔+目的語(+前置詞+(代)名詞)〕〔特定の任務のために〕〈兵・小部隊を〉分遣する 〔for，on，to〕. 用例 detail three soldiers for sentry duty [on special service] 3名の兵士を歩哨勤務のため[特別任務で]分遣する. b 〔+目的語+to do〕〈兵・小部隊を〉〈…するために〉分遣する. 用例 Three soldiers were detailed to guard the gate. 3名の兵士が門の警備に分遣された. 2 〔+目的語(+to+(代)名詞)〕〈…を〉〔人に〕詳しく述べる. 用例 detail a plan (to a person) (人に)計画を詳細に話す. ［フランス語「細かく切る」の意 (DE‐+tailler 「切る，刈り込む」)］