2015年2月28日 星期六

way (adv.) line of business or way of life

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adverb

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1At or to a considerable distance or extentfar (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis):his understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off targetmy grandchildren are way ahead of others their age
1.1[AS SUBMODIFIER] chiefly North American Much:I was cycling way too fast

1.2[USUALLY AS SUBMODIFIER] US Extremely; really (used for emphasis):the guys behind the bar were way cool

A person’s line of business or way of life:I’m in the insurance racket14 職業,商売,専門,専攻,好きな道,得手
It's out of my line.
それは私の専門外だ
What line are you in?
どんな関係のお仕事ですか.
6 ((通例~s))輪郭,外形;顔だち;輪郭線,描線
That car has nice lines.
その車のラインはすばらしい.
7 進行方向,道筋;((しばしば~s))(行動・手順・政策などの)方向,方針,趣旨,構想
line of inquiry
調査方針
line of argument
議論の進め方,説得方法
be on the right lines
考え方としては正しい
The party line is liberal.
その党の政策はリベラルだ.
(lines) A manner of doing or thinking about something:you can’t run a business on these linesthe superintendent was thinking along the samelines

2015年2月27日 星期五

get a word in edgeways. feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?’


“‘Do you think’, said Candide, ‘that men have always massacred each other the way they do now? that they’ve always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands? that they’ve always been feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?’
‘Do you think’, said Martin, ‘that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they find them?’” – Voltaire, ‘Candide’



“I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. You know, with Angel, he sits there and listens and I get the feeling he understands everything. But with Charley, I always felt he was just waiting to get a word in edgewise. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of Of Mice and Men, I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.”
—John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902.


edgewaysLine breaks: edge|ways
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdʒweɪz/

(US edgewiseˈɛdʒwʌɪz)

Definition of edgeways in English:

adverb

With the edge uppermost or towards the viewer:an electric fan is quieter heard edgeways on than from in front or behind

Phrases


get a word in edgeways

1
[USUALLY WITH NEGATIVE] Contribute to a conversation with difficulty because the other speaker talks incessantly:give him a bit of limelight and away he goes—no oneelse can get a word in edgeways

2015年2月26日 星期四

spigot, thick, As thick as thieves

“Once you open up that spigot of public shaming, you don’t know what can come out, and you can’t turn it off.”
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spigot
水龍頭
: a device that controls the flow of liquid from a large container
especially : an outdoor faucet

thick


 音節
thick
発音
θík
レベル
大学入試程度
thickの慣用句
thick as herrings, thick as two short planks, thick on the ground, (全4件)
[形](〜・er, 〜・est)
1 厚い(⇔thin);((数量名詞のあとに用いて))…の厚みのある
a thick wall
厚い壁
a pillar two feet thick
厚さ2フィートの柱
How thick is the timber
その木材の厚さはどのくらいですか.
2 太い, 〈文字・線などが〉肉太の;ずんぐりした;〈人が〉体のがっしりした;((俗))グラマーな, いい体をした(curvaceous)
a thick neckpipe
太い首[パイプ]
a thick typeline
肉太の活字[線].
3 〈群衆などが〉ぎっしり詰まった, 密集した, 〈森林などが〉おい茂った, 密生した;〈髪が〉濃い;(…で)一杯の, 満ちた((with ...))
thick hair
濃い髪
the thickest part of the jungle
ジャングルの最もおい茂った所
a street thick with people
人で込み合った通り
a field thick with wild flowers
野生の花が一面に咲いている野原
The fish were thick in the streams.
どの川にも魚がうようよいた.
4 〈天気・空気などが〉(霧・もや・煙などで)どんよりした, うっとうしい((with ...));〈煙・霧などが〉濃密な;〈やみ・夜が〉深い
a thick fog
濃霧
thick shadows[silence
深いやみ[静寂]
thick weather
うっとうしい天気
The air was thick with tobacco smoke.
空気はタバコの煙でむっとしていた.
5 ひっきりなしの
a thick shower of blows
げんこつの雨.
6 〈皮膚が〉分厚い;張りやつやのない.
7 〈言葉のなまりなどが〉強い, 目立つ
have a thick Spanish accent
ひどいスペインなまりがある.
8 〈声・音が〉しわがれた, かすれた;〈発音などが〉明瞭(めいりょう)でない
thick speech
はっきりしない話し方
His tongue was getting thick.
彼の舌はもつれてきた.
9 〈液体が〉濃い, どろどろした;濁った
thick stew
濃いシチュー(▼「濃いコーヒー」はstrong coffee).
10 ((略式))(…と)親密な, 仲のよい((with ...))

As thick as thieves

be (as) thick as (two) thieves
やけに仲がいい.
Close friends with; sharing confidences.
11 ((英略式))〈頭・人が〉鈍い, のろまな;(…の)感覚が鈍い((of ...))
have a thick head
頭が鈍い
He was too thick to catch her anger.
鈍感で彼女の怒りに気づかなかった.
12 ((a bit, a little, too, ratherなどのあとで))((叙述))((英古風))(…には)ひどすぎる, 度を越した, やりきれない, 我慢のならない((on ...))
This is a little thick.
これはちょっとひどい
It's rather thick on me having to do all his work.
彼の仕事を全部やらなければならないなんてあんまりだ.
(as) thick as herrings
ひどく密集して.
(as) thick as two short planks
((英略式))どうしようもないばかで.
thick on the ground
掃いて捨てるほどある[いる].
━━[副]
1 厚く;太く;濃く, 濃厚に
spread butter thick
バターを厚く塗る.
2 密集して, 込み合って;ぎっしり詰まって;おびただしく, たくさん, しきりに, ひっきりなしに
sow seeds[a field] thick
種子を密にまく
Their questions came thick and fast.
彼らの質問は矢つぎばやで数も多かった.
3 はっきり発音しないで, 不明瞭に, だみ声で
talk thick
不明瞭に[だみ声で]話す.
━━[名]((通例the 〜))
1 最も太い[厚い]部分
the thick of one's palm
てのひらの最も厚い部分.
2 (群衆・物などの)最も密な部分;(やみなどの)最も深い部分;(活動などの)最も激しい場所[時, 段階など], 真っただ中, たけなわ;(物語などの)核心部
in the thick of night
真夜中に.
through thick and thin
どんな困難があっても, いかなるときも.

stamp, coining it in, Coin a phrase, stamp out/ judiciary/ arbitration/ parallel,

Britain’s Royal Mint is the world’s leading exporter of circulating currency, with about 15% of the available market. In the three months leading up to the Greek election in January, sales of the mint’s sovereign gold coins went up. Worth about £200 ($310) each, these coins have become a popular investment for Greeks who worry that their currency might plunge in value or disappear altogether http://econ.st/1DoCrnJ

An ancient institution at home in the modern world
ECON.ST

North Korea’s leadership

Kim Jong Un stamps his own style on his fantasy kingdom
Muslim arbitration in Germany

Mediating disputes is an age-old tradition in the Arab world, which is also
practiced in Germany. But experts warn of the danger of a parallel, Muslim
judiciary.



UBS's move to boost its capital base underlines its continuing struggles to return to profitability even as its competitors are minting money.
Bribing for a living in Romania

The European Commission this week issued a report in which it urged Romania
and Bulgaria to stamp out corruption and reform the judiciary.

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譬如說它提到的quoin
  1. 房子的一外角;隅石
  2. 楔形石;楔子
本文附圖解釋為 Figure 14: A quoin key tightening a quoin.
壓緊或放鬆緊版的楔子之鑰

Coin a phrase
Meaning
Create a new phrase.
Origin
'To coin a phrase' is now rarely used with its original 'invent a new phrase' meaning but is almost always used ironically to introduce a banal or clichéd sentiment. This usage began in the mid 20th century. For example, in Francis Brett Young's novel Mr. Lucton's Freedom, 1940:
"It takes all sorts to make a world, to coin a phrase."
Coining, in the sense of creating, derives from the coining of money by stamping metal with a die. Coins - also variously spelled coynes, coigns, coignes or quoins - were the blank, usually circular, disks from which money was minted. This usage derived from an earlier 14th century meaning of coin, which meant wedge. The wedge-shaped dies which were used to stamp the blanks were called coins and the metal blanks and the subsequent 'coined' money took their name from them.
Coining later began to be associated with inventiveness in language. In the 16th century the 'coining' of words and phrases was often referred to. By that time the monetary coinage was often debased or counterfeit and the coining of words was often associated with spurious linguistic inventions. For example, in George Puttenham's The arte of English poesie, 1589:
"Young schollers not halfe well studied... will seeme to coigne fine wordes out of the Latin."
Shakespeare, the greatest coiner of them all, also referred to the coining of language in -->Coriolanus, 1607:
"So shall my Lungs Coine words till their decay."
coin a phraseQuoin has been retained as the name of the wedge-shaped keystones or corner blocks of buildings. Printers also use the term as the name for the expandable wedges that are used to hold lines of type in place in a press. This has provoked some to suggest that 'coin a phrase' derives from the process of quoining (wedging) phrases in a printing press. That is not so. 'Quoin a phrase' is recorded nowhere and 'coining' meant 'creating' from before the invention of printing in 1440. Co-incidentally, printing does provide us with a genuine derivation that links printing with linguistic banality - cliché. This derives from the French cliquer, from the clicking sound of the stamp used to make metal typefaces.
'Coin a phrase' itself arises much later than the invention of printing - the 19th century in fact. The earliest use of the term that I have found is in the Wisconsin newspaper The Southport American, July 1848:
"Had we to find... a name which should at once convey the enthusiasm of our feelings towards her, we would coin a phrase combining the extreme of admiration and horror and term her the Angel of Assassination."

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stamp out
Extinguish or destroy, as in The government stamped out the rebellion in a brutal way, or The police were determined to stamp out drug dealers. This metaphoric expression alludes to extinguishing a fire by trampling on it. [Mid-1800s]



stamp[stamp]

  • レベル:最重要
  • 発音記号[stǽmp]
[名]
1 切手;ハガキの印面
a sheet of stamps
切手シート.
2 印紙, (納付)証紙.
4 公印, 保証印, 検印, 刻印;スタンプ
the stamp of the maker
製造業者の証印.
5 押し[打ち]型, ダイス(die);版木;型押し機, 刻印機.
6 押し型などでつけた模様[記号].
7 ((通例a [the] 〜))((形式))しるし, こん跡, 特徴, 特質
bear the stamp of ...
…の特徴をもつ
leave one's stamp on ...
…に足跡を残す.
8 ((通例a [the] 〜))((形式))(人・物の)性格;種類;タイプ
a man of honest stamp
正直な人.
9 領収の証明, 料金支払いの指示;((英話))国民保険料.
10 (足を)踏みつける[鳴らす]こと.
━━[動](他)
1 〈地面・床などを〉踏みつける, 踏みしめる;〈足を〉踏みおろす
stamp the floor
床を踏み鳴らす
stamp one's foot with impatience
いらいらしてじだんだを踏む.
2 …を踏みにじる, 踏み消す[つぶす]((out, on));…を押しつぶす, 粉砕する;[III[名][副]/V[名][形]]…を踏んで(…に)する
stamp out a cigar
葉巻を踏み消す
stamp the leaves flat
葉を踏みつぶす
stamp ... to bits
…を粉々に打ちくだく.
3 〈反乱などを〉鎮圧する;〈感情などを〉抑える;〈犯罪・病気などを〉撲滅する((out)).
4 [stamp A with B/stamp B on [onto] A]
(1) 〈A(物)にB(印など)を〉(証明・認可・所有などを示すために)押す
stamp the papers with the proper seals of approval
書類に公式の認可印を押す
He stamped his name on all his books.
自分の本のすべてに印を押した
The package is stamped “handle with care. ”
包みには「取り扱い注意」とスタンプが押されている.
(2) 〈A(物)にB(模様・記号など)を〉刻印する;((比喩))〈A(心など)にB(印象など)を〉刻む(▼連語関係によってはin, intoも用いる)
stamp oneself on ...[=stamp one's presence on ...]
…に影響を与える;…に足跡を残す
a face stamped with grief
悲しみの刻み込まれた顔
The bloody battle was stamped vividly on our memories.
その凄惨(せいさん)な戦闘は私たちの記憶に生々しく刻み込まれていた.
5 〈手紙・封筒に〉切手をはる;〈書類に〉印紙をはる
a stamped addressed envelope
((英))切手をはり宛名を書いた封書(略:s.a.e.)
Remember to stamp the letter before you mail it.
投函(とうかん)する前に手紙に切手をはるのを忘れないように.
6V[名]as[名][[形]]]〈人が〉(…であることを)示す, 特徴づける
This stamps him as a coward.
このことは彼がおく病者であることを示している.
7 …を(型に合わせて)打ち抜く, 押し切る((out))
stamp out a car body
車体を打ち抜く.
━━(自)
1 (力を込めて)踏みつける((on));足を踏み鳴らす, じだんだ踏む
stamp with rage
怒って足を踏み鳴らす.
2 ドタドタと歩く((along;into ...)).
3 ((略式))(提案などを)つぶす, 却下する((on ...)).
 


coinLine breaks: coin
Pronunciation: /kɔɪn/ 

Definition of coin in English:

noun

1A flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money:she opened her purse and took out a coingold and silver coins
1.1[MASS NOUN] Money in the form of coins:large amounts of coin and precious metal
1.2(coins) One of the suits in some tarot packs,corresponding to pentacles in others.

verb

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1Make (coins) by stamping metal:guineas and half-guineas were coined
1.1Make (metal) into coins.
1.2British informal Earn a lot of (money) quickly and easily:the company was coining it in at the rate of £90 a second
2Invent (a new word or phrase):he coined the term ‘desktop publishing

Origin

Middle English: from Old French coin 'wedge, corner, die', coigner 'to mint', from Latin cuneus 'wedge'. The original sense was 'cornerstone', later 'angle or wedge'(senses now spelled quoin); in late Middle English the term denoted a die for stamping money, or a piece of money produced by such a die.