2013年1月31日 星期四

saver, lifesaver, Canine Lifeguards Hit Italy's Beaches

 

Food alone isn’t the cure for badly malnourished children, who are prone to infections.
Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Food alone isn’t the cure for badly malnourished children, who are prone to infections.
Cheap antibiotics given with nutritional treatment could save tens of thousands of lives a year, researchers found.

 

Canine Lifeguards Hit Italy's Beaches

By Jeff Israely / Pula
This summer, a new breed of hero is protecting swimmers at Italy's beaches -- dogs trained to spot, and then save, people who are drowning





saver

 
音節
sav • er
発音
séivər
レベル
社会人必須
saverの変化形
savers (複数形)
[名]
1 ((主に複合語))節約するもの[装置]
a labor-saver
省力機械.
2 貯蓄家;節約家
a regular saver
積み立て貯金[預金]者.
3 格安の物;((英))割引切符.
4 救助者, 救済者, 救い主.

2013年1月30日 星期三

libero, cycle, spick and span, Sexagenary Cycle

ELSEWHERE in the developing world, towns grow before the infrastructure is quite ready to support them. Things are different in Shenzhen, China’s original Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a stone’s throw from Hong Kong.

The subway station at Qianhai bay, on the city’s west coast, is spick and span, with a full complement of signs, announcements and billboards, including one for a performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, sponsored by Classy Kiss milk. But only one exit is open. And it surfaces in the middle of a wasteland of dirt, scrub and puddles. It is, surely, the best connected nowhere anywhere.

《惡之華》中所謂莎巴伽詩篇 ( The Sabatier Cycle ) ,包括從第四十首到第四十八首的〈永遠一樣〉、〈她的一切〉、〈今晚你說什麼……〉、〈活火炬〉、〈恩賜〉、〈告白〉、〈心靈的黎明〉、〈夕暮的諧調〉、 〈香水瓶〉,以及第六十二首〈憂愁與放浪〉等。

cycle[cy・cle]

  • レベル:大学入試程度
  • 発音記号[sáikl]
[名]
1 周期, 循環期, 一巡, 一回り
a business cycle
景気循環
the cycle of decay and regrowth of vegetation
植物の腐朽と再生の循環
in a thirty-year cycle
30年の周期で
complete the cycle of changes
(昆虫などが)変態周期を完了する.
2 長年月, 一時代.
3 (の…)1団, 1群((of ...));(同一主題・同一人物を巡る)作品群
the Arthurian cycle
アーサー王伝説群.
4 自転車(bicycle);三輪車(tricycle);オートバイ(motorcycle).
5 《物理学》サイクル;サイクル毎秒.
6 《数学》サイクル, 巡回置換.
7 《コンピュータ》サイクル:コンピュータが1回の処理を完了するのに必要な最小の時間間隔.
━━[動](自)
1 自転車[三輪車, オートバイ]に乗る[で旅行する].
2 循環する, 反復する, 回帰する.
[後ラテン語←ギリシャ語kýklos(円). △CYCLONE, CYCLOPS

自由人_百度百科

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社会发展的趋势是实现人的全面而自由的发展,社会以自由人联合体为基本组织原则。另外在足球领域中,自由人(libero, 亦使用过freeman),又被称作进攻型清 ...

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People:
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Spick and span

Meaning

Entirely new - fresh or unused.

Origin

The noun spick has various meanings, or rather it had various meanings, as it is now rarely used outside of spick and span. These include: a side of bacon, a floret of lavender, a nail or spike, a thatching spar.
Likewise span has/had several meanings, including: the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, a measure of butter, a fetter or chain, a chip of wood (as the Norse word spann-nyr).
Just from those meanings, and there are more, we could generate sixteen possible combinations to form spick and span. It isn't clear which, if any, of those words were used when coining the phrase. Some clue might come from the fact that the phrase is very old and was originally spick and span-new. This is cited in Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, 1579:
"They were all in goodly gilt armours, and brave purple cassocks apon them, spicke, and spanne newe."
The alliteration in the phrase suggests the possibility that that one of the two words alluded to cleanliness and freshness and that the other just followed along. Which one is most associated with the qualities of spick and span? The suggestions most frequently made are that spick is a variant of spike or nail. In the 16th century nails were made of iron and soon tarnished. It is quite plausible that new nails would have become synonymous with cleanliness. We have the phrase as neat as a new pin, which has just that meaning. The old Dutch word spikspeldernieuw refers to newly made ships. The OED suggests that this is the origin of spick, although they offer no reason for that belief and none of the early citations of the phrase refer to shipping. As for span, chips of wood also display the same fresh, sharp-edged qualities and seem to be a plausible source for the use of the word here.
Note: the word spoon, which was originally a wooden item, derives from spon - a variant of span. It has been suggested that the early American term for a knife and fork was spike and spon and that this relates to keeping clean by using utensils rather than fingers. That takes no account of the use of the phrase prior to the colonization of America by English-speaking people though.
Spicke, and spanne newe later migrated into simply spick and span which is first found in Samuel Pepys' Diary, 1665:
"My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes."
All in all, the derivation of the term isn't clear and our best efforts to explain it so far are little more than informed guesses.
spick and spanMany American readers will know Spic and Span as the cleaning product marketed by Prestige Brands Inc. This has the strapline 'The Complete Home Cleaner', so, next time you want to clean a complete home you know what to use.
The use of spic in that product name is just an alternative spelling of spick. This has no connection to spic as used for the offensive term for Spanish-speaking American residents, also called spiggoties or spigs. That term originated in the early 20th-century and is cited in Harry Franck's Zone Policeman, 1913:
"It was my first entrance into the land of the panameños, technically known on the Zone as 'Spigoties', and familiarly, with a tinge of despite, as 'Spigs'."

sexagenary

 
音節
sex • ag • e • nar • y
発音
seksǽdʒənèri | -nəri
[形]
1 60の, 60に関する, 60ずつの, 60単位の.
━━[名]=sexagenarian.


The Chinese sexagenary cycle (Chinese: 六十花甲; pinyin: liùshí huājiǎ), also known as the Stems-and-Branches (Chinese: 干支; pinyin: gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms used for recording days or years.[1] It appears, as a means of recording days, in the first Chinese written texts, the Shang dynasty oracle bones from the late second millennium BC. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century B.C.[2] The cycle, and variations on it, have been an important part of historical calendrical systems in other, Chinese-influenced Asian states, notably those of Japan, Korea and Vietnam. This traditional method of numbering days and years no longer has any significant role in modern Chinese time keeping or the official calendar. However, the sexagenary cycle continues to have a role in contemporary Chinese astrology and fortune telling.[citation needed]

西藏叫饒迴藏族歷法

 藏历第四轮饶回(公元1207至1266年)间,萨迦八思巴大师东行至此弘扬佛法;第五轮饶回(公元1267至1326年)间,大元帝师雄努桑盖到此拓展仙洞 ...


2013年1月28日 星期一

tit,teat, mamma, mammary, "a milk cow with 310 million tits."


2010  President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released an outlined plan to tackle the nation's fiscal problems Wednesday, but the New York Times' Paul Krugman says the commission's claims to bipartisanship are paper-thin. Krugman faults the panel's Democratic co-chairman, Erskine Bowles, for harboring small-government sympathies while noting that his Republican counterpart has described Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits."



tit

n.
  1. A titmouse.
  2. Any of various small, similar or related birds.
adj. New England & Upstate New York
Small; undersized.

[Short for TITMOUSE. Adj., Middle English tit-, as in titmose, titmouse. See titmouse.]
REGIONAL NOTE Tit is an old Germanic word for "small" and is used in various northern European languages to refer to small objects, animals, or people, especially girls-for example, titta is a Norwegian dialect word for "little girl." The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit. A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men." Tit and titman are still used in New England, mostly by farmers to refer to the runt of a litter of pigs.

tit2 (tĭt) pronunciation
n.
  1. Vulgar Slang. A woman's breast.
  2. A teat.
[Middle English, from Old English titt.]
[名]
1 ((卑))((〜s))乳房, おっぱい;乳首(teat).
2 ((英俗))(機械操作用)ボタン.
3 ((英俗))ばか者.
get on a person's tit(s)
((英俗))〈人を〉いらいらさせる.


teat
[名]1 (動物の雌の)乳首(▼人の乳首はnipple);((主に英))(ほ乳瓶の)乳首(((米))nipple).2 乳首状の物.
 
mamma
[名]=mama.
mamma
[名]1 (複-mae 〔-mi〕)《解剖学・動物学》哺乳(ほにゅう)器官, 乳房.2 (複 〜)((複数扱い))《気象》乳房雲.
mammal
[名]哺乳(ほにゅう)動物.mam・mal・lìke[形]
Mammalia
[名]哺乳(ほにゅう)類, 哺乳綱.Mam・ma・li・an[形][名]
mammary
[形]((限定))《解剖学・動物学》乳房の;乳腺(せん)の;乳房状の the mammary gland乳腺.
 

tit-tyrant

Agile Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes agilis) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Anairetes
Reichenbach, 1850 Species
8, see text


tit
(tĭt) pronunciation
n.
  1. A titmouse.
  2. Any of various small, similar or related birds.
adj. New England & Upstate New York
Small; undersized.

[Short for TITMOUSE. Adj., Middle English tit-, as in titmose, titmouse. See titmouse.]
REGIONAL NOTE Tit is an old Germanic word for "small" and is used in various northern European languages to refer to small objects, animals, or people, especially girls-for example, titta is a Norwegian dialect word for "little girl." The word is most common in American English in combinations that denote various small birds, such as the titmouse or tomtit. A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation "a race of tit-men." Tit and titman are still used in New England, mostly by farmers to refer to the runt of a litter of pigs.





wolf, scarf or force down, steak tartare

The waitress brought his filet mignon and steak frites at the same time. Mr. Kobayashi ate slowly, for him. He did not wolf, scarf or force down the food on his plates. He said he preferred the filet mignon, but he finished the steak frites first.
He ate five French fries in one bite, but they were small ones.
Someone at the other end of the table passed along half of an uneaten portion of steak tartare. He ate that, too.
Then it was time for dessert.
“I don’t know if I’m full or not,” he said before ordering the chocolate cake — with ice cream on top.

Food


scarf3 (skärf) pronunciation
tr.v. Slang, scarfed, scarf·ing, scarfs.
To eat or drink voraciously; devour: "Americans scarf down 50 million hot dogs on an average summer day" (George F. Will).


2013年1月20日 星期日

brush, brush aside, brushfire?/ A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Handball
German handballers beat Montenegro

Germany's handball team has brushed Montenegro aside by a score of 29-21.
Coach Martin Heuberger's team did the damage with seven unanswered goals
early in the second half. Germany face France next.


A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Meaning

It's better to have a lesser but certain advantage than the possibility of a greater one that may come to nothing.

Origin

bird in handThis proverb refers back to mediaeval falconry where a bird in the hand (the falcon) was a valuable asset and certainly worth more than two in the bush (the prey).
The first citation of the expression in print in its currently used form is found in John Ray's A Hand-book of Proverbs, 1670, in which he lists it as:
A [also 'one'] bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
By how long the phrase predates Ray's publishing isn't clear, as variants of it were known for centuries before 1670. The earliest English version of the proverb is from the Bible and was translated into English in Wycliffe's version in 1382, although Latin texts have it from the 13th century:
Ecclesiastes IX - A living dog is better than a dead lion.

Quote:
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."Samuel Adams



Passengers tell of their brush with death aboard BA Boeing 777
18/01/2008 15:07:30
Passengers gave vivid descriptions of the seconds before near-disaster aboard the Boeing 777 that crash landed at Heathrow. Jason Johnson said: "We came in very, very fast. Once it landed, it spun 90 degrees. I felt like I was in a washing machine

After brush with extinction, cuckoo clocks are back

Ten years ago it was thought the famous Black Forest cuckoo clocks would
disappear - sales plummeted and several old clockmakers went broke. Now,
new features and modern designs have e


brush


[名]
1 ブラシ, はけ
a paint brush
絵筆.
2 ブラシ[はけ]をかけること;絵筆を使うこと;((the 〜))画法, 画技
the brush of Manet [=Manet's brush]
マネの画法
give one's hat a brush
帽子にブラシをかける(▼手などでほこりを落とす場合にも用いる).
3 (…との)小衝突, 小ぜり合い((with ...))
a brush with the police [the law]
警察とのごたごた.
4 (乗馬での)疾走, 疾駆;スピード競走.
5 《電気》(発電機・電動機の)ブラシ, 刷子(さっし);ブラシ放電(brush discharge).
6 (動物, 特にキツネの)ふさふさした尾;房状のもの;(男の帽子の)房飾り;穀粒の先の毛.
7 軽く触れること, かすること
get the brush from ...
…に触れる.
8 ((米俗))すげない拒絶(brush-off)
give ... the brush
…を袖にする, ふる
get the brush
はねつけられる.
at a brush
一挙に.
have a brush with death
あやうく命を落としかける.
━━[動](他)
1III[名]/V[名][形]]…にブラシをかける, を(はけで)こする, 掃く, 塗る;〈歯・床などを〉磨く, 掃いて[磨いて](…の状態に)する
brush one's hair
髪にブラシをかける
brush one's teeth clean
歯をきれいに磨く
brushed denim
けば立て加工のデニム.
2 …を軽くかすめる, かする, とすれ合う.
3 …を(ブラシ・手などで)払いのける, のほこり[どろ]を払う((away, off))
brush away the dust
ほこりを払う.
━━(自)
1 歯を磨く
Brush after every meal.
毎食後歯を磨きなさい.
2 髪にブラシをかける.
3 (…を)かすめて通る((against, across, over ...));(…に)すれすれに通る((past, by, through ...)).
4 疾走する, 突進する.
brush ... aside [away]/brush aside [away] ...
(1) …を払いのける, はねのける, 払い落とす. ⇒(他)3
(2) 〈困難・反対などを〉無視する, 軽くあしらう.
brush ... down/brush down ...
〈服などの〉ほこりを手[ブラシ]で払う.
brush off
(自)(ブラシで)とれる, 落ちる.
━━(他)
[brush ... off/brush off ...]
(1) ⇒(他)3
(2) ((略式))〈提案などを〉無視する, 拒否する;〈人と〉関係を断つ, 〈人を〉はねつける.
brush over ...
(自)〈問題などを〉軽く扱う.
━━(他)
[brush ... over/brush over ...]
(1) …をざっと塗る.
(2) …に丹念にブラシをかける.
brush round
((米略式))活動する.
brush ... up/brush up ...
(1) ブラシなどで…に磨きをかける((on ...)).
(2) 〈忘れかけた外国語・知識などを〉磨き直す, 復習する
I must brush up (on) my English.
英語をやり直さなくてはならない.
(3) 〈人の〉身繕いをする.
brush (up) against ...
(1) ⇒(自)3
(2) 〈問題などに〉ぶつかる.
brush・a・ble
[形]
brush・er
[名]
brush・less
[形]



brush
An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.n.
    1. A device consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, or painting.
    2. The act of using this device.
  1. A light touch in passing; a graze.
  2. An instance of contact with something undesirable or dangerous: a brush with the law; a brush with death.
  3. A bushy tail: the brush of a fox.
  4. A sliding connection completing a circuit between a fixed and a moving conductor.
  5. A snub; a brushoff.

v., brushed, brush·ing, brush·es. v.tr.
    1. To clean, polish, or groom with a brush.
    2. To apply with or as if with motions of a brush.
    3. To remove with or as if with motions of a brush.
  1. To dismiss abruptly or curtly: brushed the matter aside; brushed an old friend off.
  2. To touch lightly in passing; graze against.
v.intr.
  1. To use or apply a brush.
  2. To move past something so as to touch it lightly.
phrasal verbs:
brush back Baseball.
  1. To force (a batter) to move away from the plate by throwing an inside pitch.
brush up
  1. To refresh one's memory.
  2. To renew a skill.
[Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, brush. See brush2.]
brusher brush'er n.
brushy brush'y adj.
SYNONYMS brush, flick, glance, graze, shave, skim. These verbs mean to make light contact with something in passing: Her arm brushed mine. I flicked the paper with my finger. The arrow glanced off the tree. The knife blade grazed the countertop. A taxi shaved the curb. The oar skims the pond's surface.

brush2 (brŭsh) pronunciation
n.
    1. A dense growth of bushes or shrubs.
    2. Land covered by such a growth.
  1. Cut or broken branches.
[Middle English brusshe, from Old French brosse, brushwood, from Vulgar Latin *bruscia, perhaps from Latin bruscum, knot on a maple.]
brushy brush'y adj.

━━ n. ブラシ, はけ; 画筆; (キツネなどの)尾; (ブラシ・毛筆での)ひとなで; 擦過; (小さい)けんか; 〔米〕 (折り取った)小枝, しば; やぶ; 未開拓地; 【コンピュータ】ブラシ ((コンピュータグラフィクスで影づけなどをする機能)).
at a brush 一挙に.
━━ vt. はけでこする; 払い落とす, 払って落ちる; (こすって)みがく; かする ((against)); 疾走する.
brush against …といざこざを起こす.
brush aside [away] 払いのける; 無視する.
brush down (ブラシ・手で)…からほこり[汚れ]を払い落とす.
brush off 素っ気なく拒絶する, 冷たくあしらう.
brush over 軽く彩色する.
brush up ブラシをかける; みがきをかける, (学問など)やり直す.
brush up on …をやりなおす.
brush border 【細胞】刷子[毛]縁 ((動物の上皮細胞の表面膜にある繊維構造)).
brush discharge 【電気】ブラシ放電 ((ブラシ状の放電)).
brushed ━━ a. けばを立てた, 起毛した.
brushfire ━━ n., a. (低木林の)山火事; 小競り合い(の).
brush-off (そっけない)拒絶; 解雇.
brush-up 〔英〕 身づくろい; (勉強などを)やり直して磨きをかけること.
brush・wood やぶ; しば, そだ.
brush・work 筆づかい, 画法.
brush・y ━━ a. ブラシのような; やぶに覆われた.


hurdle, big leagues, bulked-up, bowler hat, the bulk of


 the bulk of

The second complaint concerns the market for electronic payment systems in China, which is dominated by a single domestic firm, China Union Pay.
The US says its providers are being excluded from the bulk of this market



 Oracle's Deals Hurdle H-P's
While H-P has consistently destroyed shareholder value with its acquisitions, Oracle has consistently created value, thanks to its price discipline and to its integration skills.

BAE-EADS Must Hurdle Berlin Wall
Germany faces a complicated calculus as it decides whether to endorse the merger of the two aerospace-defense firms.

Interactive Interactive Graphic
Lolo Jones, Cleared for Takeoff
London will be Jones’s second trip to the Olympics in the 100-meter hurdles. Take a look at how she does it.

Hurdles for a Bulked-Up Barclays
Barclays' daring purchase of Lehman assets was meant to signal that the British were coming to the big leagues of investment banking. A year later, Barclays still faces a long road.



If you want to feel like a member of a private city club without going through the social hurdles, this is a good place to hang your bowler hat. Rooms start at £90, about $136.



bowler hat
Meaning #1: a hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim; worn by some British businessmen
Synonyms: bowler, derby, plug hat

The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby (US) or billycock,[1] is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.[2]


Bowler hat 1916


bulk
n.
  1. Size, mass, or volume, especially when very large.
    1. A distinct mass or portion of matter, especially a large one: the dark bulk of buildings against the sky.
    2. The body of a human, especially when large or muscular.
  2. The major portion or greater part: “The great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful” (Bertrand Russell).
  3. See fiber (sense 6).
  4. Thickness of paper or cardboard in relation to weight.
  5. A ship's cargo.

v., bulked, bulk·ing, bulks. v.intr.
  1. To be or appear to be massive in terms of size, volume, or importance; loom: Safety considerations bulked large during development of the new spacecraft.
  2. To grow or increase in size or importance.
  3. To cohere or form a mass: Certain paper bulks well.
v.tr.
  1. To cause to swell or expand.
  2. To cause to cohere or form a mass.
adj.
Being large in mass, quantity, or volume: a bulk buy; a bulk mailing.
phrasal verb:

bulk up
  1. To gain weight by gaining muscle: dietary supplements that helped the weightlifters bulk up.
hurdle
[名]1 (競技用の)ハードル, 障害物.2 ((the 〜s))((単数扱い))ハードル競走.3 障害.4 ((主に英))移動式編み垣.clear a hurdleハードルをクリアする;障害を...

[名]
1 (競技用の)ハードル, 障害物.
2 ((the 〜s))((単数扱い))ハードル競走.
3 障害.
4 ((主に英))移動式編み垣.
clear a hurdle
ハードルをクリアする;障害を乗り越える.
━━[動](他)
1 〈ハードルなどを〉とび越す.
2 〈困難・難問などを〉克服する.
3 …を編み垣で作る[囲む].
━━(自)ハードルをとび越す;ハードル競走をする.

hurdle race
ハードル競走.

2013年1月19日 星期六

science, -age, equipage, sewerman, wordnik, elderly

 

  Tough Flu Season in U.S., Especially for the Elderly

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The season has been particularly bad for older people, but appears to have peaked, with reports of new cases declining in most of the nation.

 

science, 科學 到" サイエンス"

science

('əns) pronunciation
n.
    1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
    2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
    3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
  1. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
  2. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
  3. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
  4. Science Christian Science.
[Middle English, knowledge, learning, from Old French, from Latin scientia, from sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know.]





[名][U][C]
1 科学, 学問(の一分野), …学
an exact science [exact sciences]
精密科学
the applied sciences
応用科学
cultural science
人文科学
historical [moral, linguistic] science
歴史[道徳, 言語]学
the science of ethics
倫理学.
2 [U]自然科学;(学科としての)理科
a man of science
科学者.
3 [U](科学的)知識;(一般的に)体系的知識;[C]特殊な学問の分野
occult sciences
(中世の)幽玄術;秘学.
4 [U](競技などの科学的知識に基づいた)技術, わざ, 術.
have ... down to a science
…についての知識[技能]が完ぺきである.
[中フランス語←ラテン語scientia(scīre知る+-ENCE=知ること). △CONSCIENCE

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サイエンス


sewer


 
音節
sew • er1
発音
súːər | sjúə
レベル
社会人必須
sewerの変化形
sewers (複数形) • sewers (三人称単数現在)
(▼発音注意)[名]下水管, 下水渠(きょ).
━━[動](他)…に下水設備を設ける.
-age

suff.
    1. Collection; mass: sewerage.
    2. Amount: footage.
  1. Relationship; connection: parentage.
  2. Condition; state: vagabondage.
    1. An action: blockage.
    2. Result of an action: breakage.
  3. Residence or place of: vicarage.
  4. Charge or fee: cartage.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *-āticum, abstract n. suff., from Latin -āticum, n. and adj. suff..]
((名詞をつくる))「行為」「状態・地位」「集合」「料金」「場所」:marriage, leakage, peonage, cartage.



sewerman
  1. n. A man who works in sewers.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A man who works in a sewer.

倫敦「江南風」:聖誕火雞肥油別亂倒
BBC中文網
倫敦泰晤士水廠(Thames Water)污水清潔工拍了一段「江南風」式樣的歌舞,盡顯藝術天賦和創造力、想像力,以及敬業精神。 他們把自己的作品取名「陰溝工人風」(sewermen style),主題是提醒市民,聖誕新年,各家難免烤雞烤鴨烤火雞,但千萬記住,肥油倒進 ...




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 . Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. His arrival produced no stir in the town, and was accompanied by no particular incident, beyond that a couple of peasants who happened to be standing at the door of a dramshop exchanged a few comments with reference to the equipage rather than to the individual who was seated in it. "Look at that carriage," one of them said to the other. "Think you it will be going as far as Moscow?" "I think it will," replied his companion. "But not as far as Kazan, eh?" "No, not as far as Kazan."

equipage
[ékwəpidʒ]
[名]
1 (従者つきの4輪)馬車;馬車と供ぞろえ.
2 (船・軍隊・探検隊の)装備, 装具, 用具一式(equipment).
3 ((古風))家庭用品(一式)
a tea equipage
茶器一そろい.
4 (一そろいの)身の回り品(装身具・化粧品セットなど). ▼特定の目的に必要な用具一式をいう.

categorically,asseverate, on call, all-singing, all-dancing













































asseverate Pronunciation
 《中英對照讀新聞》How smartphones are adding TWO HOURS to our working day 智慧手機讓人每天加班兩小時
◎陳成良
Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think.
擁有智慧手機也許不像你想的那麼明智。
They may let you surf the internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are…but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems.
它們可以讓你隨處上網、聽音樂、拍照片……但似乎也可能讓你變成工作狂。
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.
一項研究顯示,藉由讓你能隨時收發電郵,這種花俏的手機會讓你每天的工作時間延長多達兩個小時。
Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.
研究人員發現,由於可以隨時用手機回應電郵,英國人每年的工作時間平均增加了460小時。
The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.
科技產品零售商Pixmania所做的這項研究顯示,英國人平均每天工作9到10小時,但又額外多了兩個小時用來收發工作郵件或者打工作電話。
More than 90 percent of office workers have an email-enabled phone, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day.
超過90%的職員有可以收發電郵的手機,3分之1的人每天查看電郵20次以上。
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails, and even those without a smartphone check emails on their home computer.
近10分之1的職員承認每天日常工作時間外,最多還要花3個小時來查看工作電郵,就連沒有智慧手機的員工也用家中的電腦查看。
Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours.
有些員工承認,他們幾乎全天24小時待命,其中9成受訪者表示要在正常工作時間外收發電郵和接打工作電話。

新聞辭典
workaholic:複合詞,由work加上字尾holic組成,指工作狂。 同類詞彙如︰alcoholic(愛喝酒的人);chocoholic(嗜吃巧克力的人)。
all-singing all-dancing:片語,時髦先進且功能繁多的;花俏、華而不實的。用法如:the executive’s new all-singing, all-dancing website(行政部門異常花俏的新網站)。
on call:隨叫隨到,引申為隨時待命的意思。



(verb) State categorically.
Synonyms:assert, maintain
Usage:They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass.



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categorically
also cat·e·gor·ic (-ĭk)
adj.
  1. Being without exception or qualification; absolute. See synonyms at explicit.
    1. Of or relating to a category or categories.
    2. According to or using categories: a categorical arrangement of specimens.
categorically cat'e·gor'i·cal·ly adv.
categoricalness cat'e·gor'i·cal·ness n.

dissatisfied, malcontent, tercel, acquirement


... years. Back in 1996, I took my 1985 Toyota Tercel in to a Toyota dealership at 60,000 miles to have the timing belt replaced. They ...

acquirement Pronunciation (noun) An ability that has been acquired by training.
Synonyms:skill, accomplishment, attainment, acquisition
Usage:They were consequently much dissatisfied, and ready for any employment in which their talents and acquirements might be turned to better account.



tercel
(TUR-sel)

noun
The male of a hawk, especially of the peregrine falcon or a goshawk.

Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French tercuel, from Vulgar Latin tertiolus, diminutive of Latin tertius (third). Ultimately from Indo-European root trei- (three) that's also the source of such words as three, testify (to be the third person), triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13)

Why the sense of third in the word for a male hawk? It's either from the belief that the third egg produced a male, or from the fact that the male of hawk is one-third smaller than the female. Spelling variants: tiercel, tercelet.

Usage
"Adam was a 2-year-old tercel Hubbard had been working with for more than a year. The bird was acquired from a federally licensed breeder for $1,000." — Rich Landers; Falconer Puzzled by Loss of Bird; Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington); Jan 10, 1999.

"On this occasion the tercel flew off after a pigeon, and though the bird was fitted with a tracking device, it disappeared." — William Shaw; Bird on a Wire; The Observer (London, UK); Apr 13, 2003.
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  • British football: We won, so let's make it worse

    A tale of globalisation and its malcontents



     Or, dissatisfied with their pay, many senior professors start companies on the side, said Weng Cuifen, a National University of Singapore researcher who studies Chinese university education. “They spend their time on second jobs, making money.”
malcontent
noun [C] LITERARY
a person who is not satisfied with the way things are, and who complains a lot and is unreasonable and difficult to deal with

mal·con·tent (măl'kən-tĕnt') pronunciation

adj.

Dissatisfied with existing conditions.

n.
  1. A chronically dissatisfied person.
  2. One who rebels against the established system: "immature malcontents who have long since sold out to conformity" (John M. Wilson).

Reformation,The Radical Reformation/Anabaptist, Mennonite

The Radical Reformation was a 16th century response to what was believed to be both the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and the expanding Magisterial Protestant movement led by Martin Luther and many others. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland, the Radical Reformation birthed many radical Protestant groups throughout Europe. The term covers both radical reformers like Thomas Müntzer, Andreas Karlstadt, groups like the Zwickau prophets and anabaptist groups like the Hutterites and the Mennonites.
Although the proportion of the European population rebelling against Catholic, Lutheran and Zwinglian churches was tiny, the literature on the Radical Reformation is vast, partly as a result of the proliferation of the Radical Reformation teachings in the United States.[1]
英荷反對:Anabaptist :重洗(禮)派;再洗派(教徒): 1524 年在德國倡行的基督新教派之一,主張只有成人始得受洗;凡自幼受洗者皆須再受洗。

Reformation, the Protestant :宗教改革;改教運動:十六世紀的西歐信友,對宗教生活的反感而導致的宗教改革。發起者是馬丁.路德 Martin Luther 1483-1546 ),原為天主教思定會會士,因不滿當時教會之某些故步自封作風,於 1517 年提出「九十五論題 Ninety-Five Theses 」,與教會分道揚鑣;是為基督教更正宗(或稱耶穌教、誓反教 Protestants )之開始。當時天主教斥之為拒絕基督徒真理之行動;然而痛定思痛之餘,在特利騰大公會議( 1545-1563 )中也適時激發了內部的改革而得以復蘇。
Reformed Church :改革教會;革新教會;改革宗:指十六世紀宗教改革時所產生的教會。


OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Eat Like a Mennonite

By FLORENCE WILLIAMS
An extreme regime can help you avoid some common chemicals, but so could meaningful regulations.


門諾會Mennonite)是由門諾·西門Menno Simons)創立的宗教團體。2006年時,該教會於全球約有150萬名信徒[1]

[編輯]興起

重浸派16世紀後半期以前,有一些激進份子太過於狂熱,而使的重浸派的聲譽大大的受到了影響,影響之深甚至差點使重浸派變得無翻身之日,不過有一位荷蘭宗教改革家門諾·西門起身帶領著重浸派以溫和的方式,在16世紀後半期興起。[2]



èxoskéleton, plummet, fret, tumbling, pointer, pot (marijuana)

Robert Woo, a paraplegic who is taking physical therapy at Mount Sinai Medical Center, is having some success undergoing therapy with a bionic device that helps him stand and walk.
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

On His Feet, With the Aid of an Exoskeleton

Robert Woo is walking, nearly four years after seven tons of plummeting steel at a Manhattan construction site brought into doubt whether he would ever do so again.



 

Dow Plummets as Global Investors Fret


Worrisome economic news sends international markets tumbling.



Nonetheless, the story is one sign that while much of the rest of the world frets about Chinese cyberspying abroad, China is increasingly alarmed about the threat that the Internet poses to its security and political stability.


Japan emperor turns 75, frets over economy, health
Reuters - USA
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Emperor Akihito, who turned 75 on Tuesday and is nearing his 20th anniversary on the throne, expressed his concern ...



China frets at US risk after Fannie/Freddie bailout
guardian.co.uk - UK
BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The US Treasury's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is good news in the short term for China, the biggest holder of the ...



Teen Alcohol Use Plummets, But Pot on the Rise


Survey shows high school students are experimenting with marijuana at rates not seen since the 1970s.





It is obvious Goldman, and Wall Street more generally, has a public relations problem that increasingly is threatening business -- and bonus season is coming up. In a Week in Review piece, The Times's Graham Bowley turns to some top spin masters to get pointers on how the financial industry can make the unloved Masters of the Universe lovable again.

pointer
n.
  1. One that directs, indicates, or points.
  2. A scale indicator on a watch, balance, or other measuring instrument.
  3. A long tapered stick for indicating objects, as on a chart or blackboard.
  4. Any of a breed of hunting dogs that points game, typically having a smooth, short-haired coat that is usually white with black or brownish spots.
    1. A piece of advice; a suggestion.
    2. A piece of indicative information: interest rates and other pointers in the economic forecast.
  5. Computer Science. A variable that holds the address of a core storage location.
  6. Computer Science. A symbol appearing on a display screen in a GUI that lets the user select a command by clicking with a pointing device or pressing the enter key when the pointer symbol is positioned on the appropriate button or icon.
  7. Either of the two stars in the Big Dipper that are aligned so as to point to Polaris.

fret (WORRY) Show phonetics
verb [I] -tt-
to be anxious or worried:
Don't fret - I'm sure he's OK.
She spent the day fretting about/over what she'd said to Nicky.

fretful Show phonetics
adjective
By midnight the children were tired and fretful (= complaining a lot because they were unhappy).

fretfully Show phonetics
adverb ━━ n. (弦楽器の)こま.


fret (MUSIC) Show phonetics
noun [C]
any of the small raised metal bars across the long thin part of a stringed musical instrument such as a guitar, that show you where to put your fingers on the strings in order to produce different notes

fretted Show phonetics
adjective
Guitars and lutes are fretted musical instruments.
vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
  1. 使苦惱;使煩躁;使發愁
  2. 她總有一天會愁死的。
  3. 侵蝕;腐蝕;使磨損;蛀蝕
  4. 金屬被酸腐蝕。
  5. (經侵蝕而)形成(通道)
  6. 使(水面)起波紋
  7. 微風吹皺水面。
vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)
  1. 苦惱;煩躁;發愁[(+about/at/for/over)]
  2. 為這個問題發愁是無濟於事的。
  3. 被腐蝕;被磨損
  4. 侵蝕成通道
  5. (水面)起波紋
n. (名詞 noun)
  1. 【口】苦惱;煩躁;擔憂[the S]
  2. 只要我們一遲到,她就焦慮不安。
  3. 侵蝕;腐蝕
  4. 腐蝕處;磨損處

fret2顯示/隱藏例句

    KK: []
    DJ: []
    n. (名詞 noun)
    1. 【建】萬字浮雕,回紋飾[C]
    vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)
    1. 用萬字浮雕裝飾(天花板等);用回紋裝飾

    fret3顯示/隱藏例句

    KK: []
    DJ: []
    n. (名詞 noun)
    1. (吉他等弦樂器指板上定音的)品,檔子[C]



    fret1



    --> ━━ v. (-tt-) 食込む, すりへらす; 腐食する; いら立たせる[立つ] ((at)); 波立たせる[立つ].
    fret and fume ぷりぷり怒る.
    fret oneself いらいらする.
    ━━ n. いら立ち, 苦悩.
    fret・ful ━━ a. いらいらした; 気難しい.
    fret・ful・ly ad.
    fret・ful・ness n.

    fret2


    -->
    ━━ n., vt. (-tt-) 雷文(らいもん)[さや形](で飾る).
    fret saw 糸のこ.
    fret・work 雷文飾り[細工]; 透かし彫り; 明暗のまだら模様.




    plummet[plum・met]

    • レベル:社会人必須
    • 発音記号[plʌ'mit]
    [名]
    1 (釣り糸などの)おもり, 下げ振り, 垂球;下げ振り定規(plumb rule).
    2 重荷, 重圧物.
    ━━[動](自)垂直に落ちる[飛び込む]((down));急に下がる.

    èxoskéleton[èxo・skéleton]

    [名]《動物》外骨格(甲殻類の外殻など)(⇔endoskeleton).

    (ĕk'sō-skĕl'ĭ-tn) pronunciation
    n.
    A hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection or support for an organism.

    exoskeletal ex'o·skel'e·tal (-ĭ-tl) adj.