2013年12月30日 星期一

parallel, linesman, undulating, wavy, bigotry

 
The Duck Dynasty Fiasco Says More About Our Bigotry Than Phil's
Why is our go-to political strategy for beating our opponents to silence them? Why do we dismiss, rather than engage them?


Ed Alcock for The New York Times
The Louvre's Islamic Art Wing exhibition space sits under a wavy golden canopy.

The Louvre
Some modern monuments are right under most tourists’ noses, in the city’s historic center. One of the newest is the Louvre’s Islamic Art Wing, which opened last September. The exhibition space, designed by the French architect Rudy Ricciotti and the Italian architect Mario Bellini, sits under an undulating golden canopy in the middle of the museum’s neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard.

Three charged over linesman death


A Japanese museum showcasing art created in countries on the 43rd parallel will sell off its 400-piece collection, including prints by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro, the owner said.
館方表示,一家展示在北緯43度通過的各國所創造的藝術品的日本美術館,將拋售包括達利與米羅的作品在內的400件館藏。


The Facebook-Microsoft Parallels: A computer prodigy drops out of Harvard and builds one of America's hottest companies. Goldman Sachs plays a key role in the eventual I.P.O. This isn't Mark Zuckerberg in 2011. It's Bill Gates in 1986.Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st Century.

《希臘羅馬名人傳》Plutarch (46-120)普魯塔克《道德論集 選》


  in American English, by analogy with switchback railways. In British English 'switchback' is more likely to refer to a heavily undulating road—a use extended from the rollercoaster and the other type of switchback railway.




 The final chapter is an exhortation to better governance, in which he examines corruption, ethnic bigotry, state failure and the steps Nigeria must take to rehabilitate itself. This prescriptive wish list reminds us of the gap between theory and practice in Nigerian politics; it makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern. But sadly, he's not writing a manifesto; instead, we have in There Was A Country an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation, which – unlike young "Dictionary" – has yet to fulfil its potential.




In "The Leopard," when the Prince is hunting near the fictional Donnafugata, really Santa Margherita, he looks out over the landscape and sees it "aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified when a change of wind had flung the waves into a frenzy."


bigotry

Syllabification: (big·ot·ry)
Pronunciation: /ˈbigətrē/
Translate bigotry | into French | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

  • bigoted attitudes; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself:the report reveals racism and right-wing bigotry

Origin:

late 17th century: from bigot, reinforced by French bigoterie

un・du・late

━━ v. 波立つ, 波動する[させる]; (地表など)起伏する[させる].
━━ a. 波状の.


linesman


音節
línes • man
発音
-mən
レベル
社会人必須
linesmanの変化形
linesmen (複数形)
[名](複-men)
1 《スポーツ》ラインズマン, 線審.
2 ((主に英))架線工事人(lineman).

parallel[par・al・lel]
 

  • レベル:大学入試程度
  • 発音記号[pǽrəlèl]

[形]
1
(1) 〈線・面などが〉(…に)平行な((to, with ...))
parallel lines
平行線
parallel parking
(歩道の縁石と平行の)縦列駐車
draw line AB parallel to CD
CDに平行な線分ABを引く
be in parallel with ...
…と平行である.
(2) ((形式))同方向[進路, 傾向, 性質]の, (…に)対応[相当, 一致]する, (…と)類似[同様]な((to ...))
a parallel instance to this one [=an instance parallel to this one
これと似た例.
2 《音楽》平行(進行)の;同主(名)調の.
3 《電気》並列(式, 接続)の
a parallel circuit
並列回路.
4 《コンピュータ》並列の.
5 《文法》並列の.
━━[副](…と)平行に((to, with ...)).
━━[名]
1 平行線[面];[U]平行.
2 《地学》緯(度)線(parallel of latitude)
the 38th parallel
38度線.
3 [U]類似, (…との)相似;[C]類似物, 類似点, (…に)対応[匹敵]するもの((to, with ...))
have some parallels with ...
…と似たところがある
draw a parallel with anotherbetween two things]
二者の間に類似性を認める.
4 [U]《電気》並列. ⇒SERIES[名]5
in parallel
並列(式)で.
5 《印刷》パラレル(‖):参照符号.
━━[動](〜ed, 〜・ing or((英))〜led, 〜・ling)(他)
1 〈2つの線・面などを〉平行させる;…と平行している, 平行に進む.
2 …に匹敵する人[もの]を見出す;…に匹敵[相当, 対応, 一致]する.
3 …を(…と)比較する((with ...)).
[ラテン語←ギリシャ語parállēlos (para-そばに+állēlosお互いの). △ALIEN

breach, unbreachable, freight, multiple pieces of information,


The Target Credit Card Breach: What You Should Know
40 million shoppers could be at risk for credit and debit card fraud


“Superman!” gasps Lois Lane, freshly scooped from beneath the nodding carbines of a South American firing squad. “Right!” says the boxy blue-and-red figure who holds her in his arms. “And still playing the role of gallant rescuer!” His mouth is set in a kind of grimace, but with dimples. Is he frowning? Tautly grinning? And what can he mean by “still playing the role”? This is only the second Superman comic ever, from July 1938, and already our hero — caped and airborne, with Lois coiled against his unbreachable bosom — is carrying a freight of super-irony.“超人!”剛從南美行刑場的卡賓槍下逃過一劫的洛伊斯·萊恩(Lois Lane)氣喘吁籲地喊道。 “是我!”穿著紅藍衣衫的壯漢把她攬在懷裡,肯定地回答道,“我還在扮演英勇的救世主角色!”他咧著嘴,似乎在做鬼臉,但露出了酒窩。他在皺眉嗎?還是在緊張地咧嘴笑?他說“還在扮演這個角色”,這又是什麼意思?這只是自1938年7月以來的第二部《超人》漫畫,但是我們的英雄——穿著披風,飛來飛去,將​​洛伊斯護在他堅實的胸前——已經開始蘊含著巨大的諷刺。

U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER 47 minutes ago
Intelligence officials believe Iran was the origin of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached American financial institutions.

Obama Slams Security Breach
Obama blamed the Northwest bombing attempt on security lapses, as it emerged that the U.S. had multiple pieces of information about the suspect.




breach
[名]1 [C][U](法律・義務・約束などの)違反, 不履行, 破棄 a breach of contract契約違反 a breach of confidence秘密漏洩(ろうえい) a b...
breach of promise
[U][C]《法律》契約違反, 約束不履行, (特に)婚約不履行.
breach of the peace
《法律》((通例単数形))(暴動・騒乱などによる)治安妨害(罪), 治安紊乱(びんらん)(罪).

breach

Syllabification: (breach)
Pronunciation: /brēCH/
Translate breach | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

  • 1an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct:a breach of confidence I sued for breach of contract
  • a break in relations:a sudden breach between father and son
  • 2a gap in a wall, barrier, or defense, especially one made by an attacking army.

verb

[with object]
  • 1make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defense):the river breached its bank
  • break or fail to observe (a law, agreement, or code of conduct).
  • 2 [no object] (of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water.

Phrases

breach of the peace

an act of violent or noisy behavior that causes a public disturbance and is considered a criminal offense.

breach of promise

the action of breaking a sworn assurance to do something, formerly especially to marry someone.

step into the breach

replace someone who is suddenly unable to do a job or task.

Origin:

Middle English: from Old French breche, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to break1

unbreachable

Syllabification: (un·breach·a·ble)
Pronunciation: /ˌənˈbrēCHəbəl/

Definition of unbreachable


adjective

not able to be breached or overcome:a virtually unbreachable position


freight

Syllabification: (freight)
Pronunciation: /frāt/
Translate freight | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of freight

noun

  • 1goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
  • the transport of goods by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.
  • a charge for transport by freight.
  • 2 (in full freight train) a train of freight cars:sugar and molasses moving by freight
  • 3a load or burden.

verb

[with object]
  • transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft:the metals had been freighted from the city [no object]:ships freighting to Dublin
  • (be freighted with) be laden or imbued with (something abstract):each word was freighted with anger

Derivatives



freighting


Pronunciation: /frātiNG/
noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'rental of a ship for transporting goods'): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht 'ship's cargo'. Compare with fraught




2013年12月27日 星期五

stereo-, stereoscopic, arthroscopic, calisthenics , meniscus, hook up

..., and the anthology Hooking Up (2000).


Thousands of people with a torn meniscus may be undergoing unnecessary arthroscopic surgery, according to a new study: http://nyti.ms/19rppL6

Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas

Like any other high school junior, Wynn Haimer has a few holes in his academic game. Graphs and equations, for instance: He gets the idea, fine — one is a linear representation of the other — but making those conversions is often a headache.

 meniscus

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半月板示意圖
滑液關節內的軟骨墊
半月板為一種新月形軟骨,見於一些滑液關節中。樞鈕關節中均包含半月板。半月板連接在關節囊上,有助於減少骨塊間的摩擦。膝中的半月板在激烈的活動中可能會受傷,必須切除半月板以防止關節卡住。


meniscus

Syllabification: (me·nis·cus)
Pronunciation: /məˈniskəs/

noun (plural menisci /-kē, -kī/ or meniscuses)

Physics
  • the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube.
  • [usually as modifier] Optics a lens that is convex on one side and concave on the other.
  • Anatomy a thin fibrous cartilage between the surfaces of some joints, e.g., the knee.

Origin:

late 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek mēniskos 'crescent', diminutive of mēnē 'moon'

arthroscopy 

音節
ar • thros • co • py
発音
ɑːrθrɑ'skəpi | -θrɔ's-
[名]関節鏡検査(法).
ar・thro・scop・ic〔rθrskpik | -skp-〕
[形]

stereo-


Definition of stereo-

combining form

  • relating to solid forms having three dimensions:stereography
  • relating to a three-dimensional effect, arrangement, etc.:stereochemistry stereophonic stereoscope

Origin:

from Greek stereos 'solid'

stereoscopic ster·e·os·co·py (stĕr'ē-ŏs'kə-pē, stîr'-) pronunciation

n.

  1. The viewing of objects as three-dimensional.
  2. The technique of making or using stereoscopes and stereoscopic slides.
stereoscopist ster'e·os'co·pist n.

calisthenics

n. pl. - 柔軟體操, 運動
n. - 柔軟體操, 運動

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 徒手体操法, 徒手体操

hook up
1. Assemble or wire a mechanism, as in Dick helped us hook up the stereo system. [1920s]
2. Connect a mechanism with a main source, as in The computer had not yet been hooked up to the mainframe. [1920s]
3. hook up with. Form a tie or association, as in She had hooked up with the wrong crowd. [Slang; mid-1900s]

asperity, monsignor/Msgr./Mgr., Monsig



Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia was convicted of covering up sexual abuse accusations against Edward V. Avery.
Philadelphia Monsignor's Conviction Overturned in Cover-Up of Sexual Abuse

By ERIK ECKHOLM and STEVEN YACCINO

The criminal conviction of Msgr. William J. Lynn was overturned by a Pennsylvania appeals court after the court rejected the argument that a child welfare law applied to employers. 


"A trap for tourists.Why," the bishop went on with asperity.


The performances too are spot-on with Keith Allen and Andy de Ia Tour catching the matching vulgarity of the two brothers, Lia Williams combining sexiness and asperity as the banker's trophy wife and Danny Dyer as the far-from-dumb waiter implying a world of eccentric otherness far beyond the comprehension of these self-absorbed diners.


trophy wife
n.
An attractive, young wife married to a usually older, affluent man.


monsignor It. ): (1) 蒙席:教宗頒賜有功神父的榮銜,通常可穿與主教近似之主教服裝。 (2) 主教:拉丁國家都用此稱呼。 Monsignor 縮寫方式甚多:英語通用者為 Msgr., Mgr. ,拉丁國家則用 Mons. 。法文稱作 monseigneur

 
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE By Graham Greene.

Monsignor[Mon・si・gnor]

  • 発音記号[mɑnsíːnjər | mɔn-]
[名](複〜s, -gno・ri 〔-njri〕)((時にm-))《カトリック》モンシニョール:大司教などに与えられる尊称(略:Mgr., Monsig.).


 
as·per·i·ty (ă-spĕr'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
    1. Roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate: the asperity of northern winters.
    2. Severity; rigor.
  1. A slight projection from a surface; a point or bump.
  2. Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability.
[Middle English asperite, from Old French asprete, from Latin asperitās, from asper, rough.]

asperity[as・per・i・ty]

  • 発音記号[əspérəti]
[名][U][C]((形式))
1 (音調・気質・態度などの)荒々しさ, とげとげしさ, じゃけん, 苛酷;((-ties))辛らつな言葉
with asperity
つっけんどんに.
2 ((しばしば-ties))つらさ, きびしさ, 困難
the asperities of the wintery world
冬のきびしさ.
3 (表面の)ざらざら, でこぼこ
the asperity of a leaf
葉の表面のざらざら.


intensity, radioactivity, carbon intensity, emission intensity



In 2013, exercise science taught us to pick up the pace.

“All these pieces add up to a nice picture but whether it is enough to overcome their radioactivity, that will be hard to tell,” Mr Lewis says.“这一切加起来看上去不错,但是否




intensity

Syllabification: (in·ten·si·ty)
Pronunciation: /inˈtensitē/
Translate intensity | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

noun (plural intensities)

  • 1 the quality of being intense:gazing into her face with disconcerting intensity the pain grew in intensity
  • an instance or degree of this:an intensity that frightened her
2 chiefly Physics the measurable amount of a property, such as force, brightness, or a magnetic field:hydrothermal processes of low intensity different light intensities

radioactivity比喻用法



An emission intensity is the average emission rate of a given pollutant from a given source relative to the intensity of a specific activity; for example grams of carbon dioxide released per megajoule of energy produced, or the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions produced to GDP. Emission intensities are used to derive estimates of air pollutant or greenhouse gas emissions based on the amount of fuel combusted, the number of animals in animal husbandry, on industrial production levels, distances traveled or similar activity data. Emission intensities may also be used to compare the environmental impact of different fuels or activities. The related terms emission factor and carbon intensity are often used interchangeably, but "factors" exclude aggregate activities such as GDP, and "carbon" excludes other pollutants.

emission
n.
  1. The act or an instance of emitting.
  2. Something emitted.
  3. A substance discharged into the air, especially by an internal combustion engine.
[Latin ēmissiō, ēmissiōn-, a sending out, from ēmissus, past participle of ēmittere, to send out. See emit.]

ra·di·o·ac·tiv·i·ty ('dē-ō-ăk-tĭv'ĭ-tē) pronunciation
n.
  1. Spontaneous emission of radiation, either directly from unstable atomic nuclei or as a consequence of a nuclear reaction.
  2. The radiation, including alpha particles, nucleons, electrons, and gamma rays, emitted by a radioactive substance.

2013年12月26日 星期四

jink, jinks,sling, baby sling, mudslinger



Joaquin Phoenix, as Theodore in
'Interactive' Gets a New Meaning

By ALEX HAWGOOD

The next generation in sex toys - in the vein of "Her," starring Joaquin Phoenix - is taking high-tech high jinks to a futuristic level, at warp speed.


WASHINGTON — Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.


As if we needed yet another indicator of economic collapse, note that the men who once chronicled financial high jinks have turned to baby sling strategy and sibling rivalry.


A "baby sling" is a piece of cloth that supports an infant or other small child from a carer's body. The use of a baby sling is called babywearing. [1]

Father wearing son in a ring sling made out of Guatemalan ikat cotton.


sling
n.
    1. A weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a stone is whirled and then let fly.
    2. A slingshot.
  1. A looped rope, strap, or chain for supporting, cradling, or hoisting something, especially:
    1. A strap of a shoe that fits over the heel.
    2. A strap used to carry a rifle over the shoulder.
    3. Nautical. A rope or chain that attaches to the mast and supports a yard.
    4. A band suspended from the neck to support an injured arm or hand.
  2. The act of hurling a missile.
tr.v., slung (slŭng), sling·ing, slings.
  1. To hurl with or as if with a sling.
  2. To place or carry in a sling.
  3. To move by means of a sling; raise or lower in a sling: sling cargo into a hold.
  4. To hang loosely or freely; let swing.
idiom:
slings and arrows
  1. Harshly critical comments.
[Middle English slinge.]
slinger sling'er n.

sling2 (slĭng) pronunciation
n.
A drink consisting of brandy, whiskey, or gin, sweetened and usually lemon-flavored.
[Origin unknown.]


jink
v., jinked, jink·ing, jinks. v.intr.
To make a quick, evasive turn: "He jinked every five seconds, and now brought his tank left again" (Tom Clancy).
v.tr.
To cause (a vehicle or an aircraft, for example) to make a quick, evasive turn.
n.
  1. A quick, evasive turn.
  2. jinks Rambunctious play; frolic. high jinks 運氣不佳的鬧劇
[Origin unknown.]

mudslinger
n.
One who makes malicious charges and otherwise attempts to discredit an opponent, as in a political campaign.

mudslinging mud'sling'ing n.

jaywalk, e foot fault, enforcement prompts venomous rage, infuriating

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"What it does is it inhibits the vitality of Los Angeles. When you go to New York, when you go to Chicago, when it's safe to cross the street, you just cross the street. You just do it."
NELSON ALGAZE, a Los Angeles architect who was born in Brooklyn, on a recent crackdown on jaywalking in downtown Los Angeles.
Tennis Rule Is Simple Enough, and Infuriating
The foot fault is tennis’s version of jaywalking, a penalty called so rarely it hardly seems wrong — and whose enforcement prompts venomous rage.

jaywalk

Syllabification: (jay·walk)
Pronunciation: /ˈjāˌwôk/
Translate jaywalk | into Spanish

verb

[no object] chiefly North American
  • cross or walk in the street or road unlawfully or without regard for approaching traffic.

Derivatives

jaywalker

noun

Origin:

early 20th century: from jay in the colloquial sense 'silly person' + walk

jaywalk
(JAY-wok)

verb intr.
To cross a street in a reckless manner, disregarding traffic rules.

Etymology
As with other birds, the name jaybird denotes a naive person or simpleton. Early last century, country folks visiting big cities were often oblivious of any approaching traffic when they were crossing streets. Eventually their nickname, jays, became associated with crossing a street illegally
Usage
"At stoplights, bicycles queue with a Tetris-like geometry, and the natives never jaywalk." — Stephen Metcalf; In the Tidy City of the World's Most Anxious Man: Soren Kierkegaard's Copenhagen; The New York Times; Apr 1, 2007.

2013年12月25日 星期三

force majeure, vis major, cargo shorts


At Christmas dinner, you meet your sister’s new boyfriend who is three months sober and wearing cargo shorts. What do you do?

 原本以為可以完美接軌的工作排程,因為第二者造成的不可抗力(force majeure)而形成一個窟窿。

 Cargo pants or cargo trousers, also sometimes called combat trousers (or combats) after their original military purpose,[1] are loosely cut pants originally designed for tough, outdoor activities, and whose design is distinguished by one or more cargo pockets. Cargo pants have become popular in urban areas as well, since they are convenient for carrying items during day trips on foot.

Pair of cargo pants


force majeure (fors ma-ZHOOR)

noun
1. An unforeseeable and uncontrollable event (for example, a war or a strike) that exempts a party from a contract.
2. Superior force.

Etymology
From French, literally superior force

A related term is vis major (Latin for superior force) that is used to refer to an act of God (for example, a flood or an earthquake) that excuses one from fulfilling a contract.

Usage
"During the half year to June, Sebuku produced 1.5 million tonnes of coal as record rain in the second quarter restrained mine production, and force majeure was declared." — Straights Wants Second Kalimantan Asset; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Sep 28, 2007.

2013年12月24日 星期二

dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn, windhover, kestre, lupping its game

Apple has been slower than competitors in bringing its hottest products to the world's most exciting market, but with the launch of its iPad tablet computer in China today, the company may finally be upping its China game.


    The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)
童元方著《一樣花開燧石之火》台北爾雅叢書,1996,頁219-227
有一翻譯 版本  分段有錯

windhover =kestrel隼


Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.
 
12. The Windhover
 
 
To Christ our Lord
 
 
I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
  dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
  Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,        5
  As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
  Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
 
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
  Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion        10
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
 
  No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
  Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
 
See Notes.



dauphin

Syllabification: (dau·phin)
Pronunciation: /ˈdôfin/

noun

historical
  • the eldest son of the king of France.

Origin:

French, from the family name of the lords of the Dauphiné (first used in this way in the 14th century), ultimately a nickname meaning 'dolphin'

dapple

Syllabification: (dap·ple)
Pronunciation: /ˈdapəl/

verb

[with object] (usually be dappled)
  • mark with spots or rounded patches:the floor was dappled with pale moonlight

noun

  • a patch or spot of color or light.
  • an animal whose coat is marked with patches or spots.

Origin:

late 16th century (earlier as an adjective): perhaps related to Old Norse depill 'spot'
up
v., upped, up·ping, ups. v.tr.
  1. To increase: upped their fees; upping our output.
  2. To raise to a higher level, especially to promote to a higher position.
  3. Nautical. To raise: up anchor; up sail.
v.intr.
  1. To get up; rise.
  2. Informal. To act suddenly or unexpectedly: "She upped and perjured her immortal soul" (Margery Allingham).

2013年12月23日 星期一

felony, drunk driving/drivers, labor violation, charge experts, open-minded about , rehabilitate



Northampton Journal

Partying Until Drunk and Disorderly in Britain

By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE

British officials are considering solutions as large numbers of British youths go out on the weekends to get thoroughly, blindingly and often violently drunk.


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New York Is Set for Strict Stand on D.W.I. Cases
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An agreement passed by the State Assembly would make driving drunk with a child in the vehicle a felony.
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Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other felonies that could end his political career.


Drunk driving is the act of operating and/or driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired. It is illegal in all jurisdictions within the U.S. The specific criminal offense is usually called driving under the influence [of alcohol and/or other drugs] (DUI), and in some states driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while impaired (OWI), or operating a vehicle under the influence (OVI). Such laws may also apply to boating or piloting aircraft. Vehicles can include farm machinery and horse-drawn carriages.

 alcohol ignition locks for drunk drivers,

Crime | 20.04.2011

Germany considers alcohol ignition locks for drunk drivers

The German government is considering introducing locks that prevent car engines from starting if the driver is intoxicated. Drunk drivers in Germany could keep their license if they agree to have the device installed.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition members have jointly proposed that the transport ministry test the use of so-called "alcohol locks," according to a report published on Wednesday in the daily Saarbrücker Zeitung.
According to the proposal, drunk-driving offenders would be allowed to keep their drivers licences if they agreed to have a lock system installed in their cars designed to prevent the engine from being started if traces of alcohol are detected on the driver's breath.
"We are open-minded about the voluntary use of alcohol locks," a spokeswoman for Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer said on Wednesday, adding that they could be "helpful to rehabilitate" offenders.
The spokeswoman went on to say, however, that the ministry was against compulsory installation of the devices, citing both moral and financial objections and adding that any wide-scale moves would have to be first cleared by the European Union.
Such legislation is already in place in the United States and Canada and has been considered by a number of European countries, including the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden.
Starting next year, drunk drivers in Sweden will be able to choose between having their license revoked and installing the alcohol ignition lock.
Stockholm began testing the scheme in 2008, with officials concluding that it contributed positively to the rehabilitation of repeat offenders and posed no greater danger to traffic safety.
Author: Gabriel Borrud (AP, dpa)
Editor: Nancy Isenson




felony
━━ n. 【法】重罪.
fe・lo・ni・ous  a. 【法】重罪の; 凶悪な.
felony
noun [C or U] UK OLD-FASHIONED OR US LEGAL
(an example of) serious crime which can be punished by one or more years in prison:
a felony charge
He was convicted of felony.

felon
noun [C] LEGAL
a person who is guilty of a serious crime

Perjury / amorous

take someone at their word,a retinue of words, abjure, personhood, exploit code

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I think the Russian problem is not just the president as a person. The problem is that our citizens, by a large majority, don't understand that their fate, they have to be responsible for it themselves."
MIKHAIL B. KHODORKOVSKY, a former billionaire who was released after 10 years in a Russian prison.

He said so many of Mr Cameron's own MPs had voted with Labour because they were now "unwilling to take him at his word".
Conservative rebel Douglas Carswell said: "There is not now going to be British military involvement in Syria, but that is a good thing, the system works."


Not that Bloom abjures these subsequent selves. There is much canon fodder in this new book, along with re­affirmed vows of fidelity to Shakespeare, “the founder” not only of modern literature but also, in Bloom’s expansive view, of modern personhood and its “infinite self-consciousness.”


第五十二回所選為一整段中的一長句,其全段文字如下:
Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him. I have observed it, in the course of my life, in numbers of men. It seems to me to be a general rule. In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle. We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannize over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.
密考伯先生這樣拘泥形式,堆砌字眼又大為自賞,
儘管遇到這種情形,說廢話多麼可笑,我得說這也不是他一個人特有的作風。我平生看到好多人有這種脾氣。好像 覺得這是通則。例如宣誓作證的人因為法律事項宣誓的時候,說一連串幾個漂亮字表逹一個意思,而大感快慰;就像他們說:他們完全嫌惡、憎厭、發誓棄絕,等等 的話;老式逐出教會的詛咒詞也是根據同樣的原則讀來有味的。我們談到文字的艱難近於殘酷,其實我們也喜歡對文字橫行霸道。愛有好多字供我們遇到盛大場面運 用。以為這樣才夠威風,聽起來像樣。就像我們對於隆重場面從僕的制服的意義並不重視,只要這些制服漂亮,只求穿的人多,我們對於字義或字是否必須要用的考 慮還在其次,只要有大批字用來炫耀就行了。正像個人賣弄僕從的制服會惹出麻煩,或者正像奴隸太多會起來反抗主人,我想我可以提起一個國家,如果用的字像僕 從如雲,就會有很多困難,還要惹出更多困難。
(書中此處有注,國家指英國)


2009

Microsoft to plug critical IE hole targeted by exploit code
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An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning "achievement", or "accomplishment") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerised). This frequently includes such things as violently gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack.

ret·i·nue (rĕt'n-ū', -yū') pronunciation
n.
The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person.

[Middle English retenue, from Old French, from feminine past participle of retenir, to retain. See retain.]

abjure
(ăb-jʊr') pronunciation
tr.v., -jured, -jur·ing, -jures.
  1. To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate: "For nearly 21 years after his resignation as Prime Minister in 1963, he abjured all titles, preferring to remain just plain 'Mr.'" (Time).
  2. To renounce under oath; forswear.
[Middle English abjuren, from Old French abjurer, from Latin abiūrāre : ab-, away; see ab-1 + iūrāre, to swear.]

[動](他)((形式))
1 …をきっぱりと[公式に]捨てる, 退ける
abjure one's mistakes
誤った考えをきっぱり捨てる.
2 …を誓って放棄する
abjure one's [an] oath
誓いを捨てる.
3 …を慎む, 控える.



take someone at their word

interpret a person’s words literally, especially by believing them or doing as they suggest: I take him at his word, for I cannot go to see for myself



take the words out of someone's mouth

say what someone else was about to say.



take someone's word (for it)

believe what someone says or writes without checking for oneself: I’m afraid you’ll just have to take our word for it