2015年7月31日 星期五

half-blood, to kowtow, dome, work in progress, genuflexion and prostration


The girl carried out the ritual prostration, historically performed before the Chinese Emperor, 10-20 times, saying “I know I did wrong, I’m sorry.”
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  The radical Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip has fired barrages of rockets at populated areas in Israel. But Israel's advanced 'Iron Dome' missile defense system has intercepted most of them.


He also criticised the US for imposing increased checks on US-bound flights but not on its own domestic services, saying the UK should stop "kowtowing" to US security demands.




Admittedly, that old dual-headed structure had been a work in progress: for the first 127 years of its life HSBC had no chief executive at all. But it had served the bank well enough since 1992, when the takeover of Midland in the UK meant HSBC had to kowtow to local rules.
无可否认,过去的双重领导结构一直处于日臻完善的过程中。在最初的127年历史中,汇丰根本没有行政总裁这个职位。但自1992年以来,这种结构在汇丰发挥了良好的效用。当时,汇丰为了收购英国的米德兰银行(Midland),不得不向当地法规低头。

上文 work in progress的翻譯是錯誤
此處似宜說成是試驗中的方式


work in progress
n., pl., works in progress.
A yet incomplete artistic, theatrical, or musical work, often made available for public viewing or listening.


To kowtow to

Meaning

To accept the authority of another; to act in a subservient manner.

Origin

To kowtow toI've understood the meaning of 'to kowtow to' for as long as I can remember but it is only recently that I came to wonder how the expression originated. 'Kowtow' (and, in case you've not come across it before, kowtow is pronounced to rhyme with 'cow' + 'how') is an odd word and, for no better reason than the sound of it, I thought it might have something to do with cows. Apparently not.
'Kowtow' sounds odd to our ears because it is a Chinese word. To kowtow is to kneel and touch the ground with the forehead as an act of worship or submission. The practice first came to the attention of the English-speaking world late in the 18th century, when westerners began to visit China. The word is an Anglicised version of the Chinese 'kētóu', which derives from 'kē' (knock')+ 'tóu' (head).
The British explorer Sir John Barrow was well placed to observe kowtowing at first hand. In 1792 he was appointed as an aide to Viscount Macartney, the British ambassador in Peking. Barrow subsequently wroteTravels in China, 1804, in which he was the first to explain kowtowing to the west:
The Chinese were determined they should be kept in the constant practice of the koo-too, or ceremony of genuflexion and prostration.
There were several degrees of kowtowing, depending on the difference in rank of the participants, the highest level requiring a full face down prostrate pose with arms held wide.
To kowtow toMacartney was given his £15,000 a year job as ambassador to head a trade mission to negotiate a deal between Britain and China. In 1793 he was presented to Emperor Qianlong, or 'son of heaven' as he preferred to be called, but the viscount pointedly refused to perform the obligatory kowtow. To the disbelief of the aghast Chinese court, Macartney would only go down on one knee, as he would to the British ruler. This event was recorded by the satirical cartoonist Gillray. Qianlong left in a huff, the trade mission was abandoned and Macartney was sacked.
Prices in the UK have increased about 500 times since 1793. Macartney might have felt that he had retained his dignity but, had he known it was going to cost him a £7.5 million a year job, he might have thought that a quick kowtow would have been prudent.

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prostrate 


音節
 
pros • trate
prostrateの変化形
 
prostrating (現在分詞) • prostrates (三人称単数現在)
  1. [動] 〔prɑ'streit | prɔstréit〕 (他)
  2. 1 ((~ -self))ひれ伏す,平伏する.
  3. 2 〈人などを〉(地面などに)横たえる;…を地面にたたきつける,倒す.
  4. 3 ((通例受身))((形式))〈人を〉屈服させる,めいらせる,〈人を〉衰弱させる
    • be prostrated with sorrow
    • 悲しみで打ちひしがれる.
  1. ━━[形] 〔prɑ'streit | prɔ's-〕
  2. 1 〈人などが〉(うつぶせに)倒れた;長々と横たわった;〈樹木などが〉打ち倒された.
  3. 2 ひれ伏した,平伏した.
  4. 3 打ちひしがれた;屈服した;疲れ果れた
  5. 4 《植物》〈植物・茎が〉地をはう,ほふく性の.
  1. [ラテン語prōstrātus (prō-前に+sternere広げる,伸ばす+-tus過去分詞語尾=前に身を投げる). △STRATUMSTREET

genuflect 


音節
 
gen • u • flect
 
発音
 
dʒénjuflèkt
genuflectの変化形
 
genuflecting (現在分詞) • genuflects (三人称単数現在)
  1. [動](自)
  2. 1 (敬意を表したり礼拝のために)片ひざを折る;うやうやしくひざまずく.
  3. 2 卑屈な態度をとる.
  1. gèn・u・fléc・tion
    • [名]
  1. gén・u・flèc・tor
    • [名]
  1. gèn・u・fléx・ion

 kowtow,
  • 〔káutáu〕

[動](自)
1 (旧中国式の)叩頭(こうとう)の礼を行う.
2 ((略式))(…に)へつらう((to ...)).
━━[名]叩頭の礼.



《哈利波特-混血王子的背叛》( Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

half-blood

━━ a., n. 腹違いの(兄・弟・姉・妹); =half-breed.
half-blooded a.half-blood; 混血の.


also n.
    1. The relationship existing between persons having only one parent in common.
    2. A person existing in such a relationship.
  1. Offensive. A person of mixed racial descent, especially a person of Native American and white parentage.
  2. A half-blooded domestic animal.

dome



発音
dóum
レベル
大学入試程度
domeの変化形
domes (複数形) • domed (過去形) • domed (過去分詞) • doming (現在分詞) • domes (三人称単数現在)
[名]
1 ドーム, 円蓋(えんがい);丸屋根[天井];方形屋根[天井];((the D-))(ロンドンの)Millennium Dome
the dome of the Capitol Building
米国議事堂のドーム.
2 半球形[丸天井形]の物[建物]
the dome of the sky
空.
3 《結晶》ドーム, 庇面(ひめん).
4 ((俗))(人の)頭, はげ頭.
5 ((古))壮麗な建物.
━━[動](他)
1 …にドームをつける.
2 …を半球形にする.
━━(自)半球形に隆起する[ふくれる].
[中フランス語←教会ラテン語domus(教会, 神の家)]
dome・lìke
[形]

faculty, impairment charge, in good company



Microsoft is also in good company. Google abandoned its foray into smartphones when it sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo last year. But it has written off just $378 million related to the $12.5 billion Motorola acquisition. Amazon wrote off an even more modest $170 million last October, acknowledging that its Fire phone was a flop.





雖然鄂蘭一生曾在諸多大學中講課,但她從不認為自己是個學者。她始終秉持自己是思想者。縈繞在她的思想體系中,尤其關注思考的本質與目的:思考對政治倫理的影響、對善惡之間的潛質、以及人類意識的共同基礎。在其著作《心智生命》2 (The Life of the Mind)中,鄂蘭區分了「在獨處下進行的思考」及「與別人構成『思想對話』的思考」。在這兩者之下,不同的觀點與立場,以鄂蘭的話說,都是「內在對話或與別人一起思考的『表現』」,因為思考不但影響著自己的內省,也對外影響著別人:「根自於共同的經驗中,不是少數的特權,而是每個人日常的官能。」思考是尋常的,而它聯結了我們跟自己,也聯結了我們跟別人。 - See more at: http://www.philomedium.com/report/79152#sthash.JFnfMR2I.dpuf






The chief executive of Sony recently announced that the company would take a $1.7 billion impairment charge on the value of its mobile-phone unit, because of lowered expectations for sales of smartphones. For the first time since 1958, when Sony was first listed, the firm will not pay a dividend this year http://econ.st/1swzQjC




Impairment Charges: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly


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[動](他)((形式))…を悪くする;〈能力などを〉減じる,弱める,〈機能などを〉害する,損なう. ⇒SPOIL[類語]


impaired hearing

難聴


impair one's health through overwork

過労で健康を害する.


━━[名][U]((古))損傷,減損.


[中フランス語←ラテン語impēiōrāre (im-強意の接頭辞+pēiorより悪い+-āre不定詞語尾=より悪くする)]




impairment Line breaks: im¦pair|ment
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛːm(ə)nt /

NOUN [MASS NOUN]


The state or fact of being impaired, especially in a specified faculty:a degree of physical or mental impairment[COUNT NOUN]: a speech impairment
facultyLine breaks: fac|ulty
Pronunciation: /ˈfak(ə)lti/


Definition of faculty in English:
noun (plural faculties)
1An inherent mental or physical power:her critical facultiesthe faculty of sight
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1.1An aptitude for doing something:his faculty for taking the initiative
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2A group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge:the Faculty of Artsthe law faculty
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2.1[IN SINGULAR] The teaching or research staff of agroup of university departments, or (NorthAmerican ) of a university or college, viewed as a body:there were then no tenured women on the faculty
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2.2dated The members of a particular profession, especially medicine, considered collectively.
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3A licence or authorization from a Church authority:the vicar introduced certain ornaments without thenecessary faculty to do so


Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latinfacultas, from facilis 'easy', from facere 'make, do'.

[名](複 -ties)
1 [C][U](…に対する実務の)(先天的・後天的)能力,才能,手腕((for, of ...))
great faculty for arithmetic
すぐれた算数の才能
have the faculty of making friends quickly
すぐに友人を作る才がある.
▼芸術的な才能には通例talent, giftを用いる.
2 ((しばしば-ties))(精神・身体の)機能,能力
exercise one's mental faculties
知能を働かせる
be in full possession of all one's faculties
すべての機能が順調である
lose one's faculties
頭脳が働かなくなる
develop one's critical faculties
批判力を養う.
3
(1)(大学の)学部
the faculty of medicine
医学部
the four faculties
(中世の大学の)四学部(DivinityLawMedicine, Arts).
(2)((集合的))((複数・単数扱い))((米))学部教授団(▼時に学生も含める);((米))(学校の)教員組織;((主に米))(大学・学校の)教職員.
4 (知的職業の)同業者団体;((the F-))((英略式))医者仲間
the legal faculty
弁護士団.
5 (国家・上司などから得た)権限,特権;《教会》(聖職者が告白を聞く)権能,特別権限.
[中フランス語←ラテン語facultāt(facul容易に+-TY2)能力. △FACILE

2015年7月28日 星期二

introverted, ambivert, sign, tweak, Taurus, Sagittarius, extrovert,

人子的來臨 
  1. 因為那時必有大災難,是從宇宙開始,直到如今從未有過的,將來也不會再有;
  2. 並且那些時日如不縮短,凡有血肉的,都不會得救;但為了那些被選的,那些時日,必將縮短。
  3. 那時,若有人對你們說:看,默西亞--彌賽亞---在這裏,或說在那裏! 你們不要相信,
  4. 因為將有假默西亞和假先知興起,行大奇蹟和異蹟,以致如果可能,連被選的人也要被欺騙。
In Matthew 24 Jesus states:
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. [Matthew 24:21, 24 NKJV]

In the world of the yakuza, the infamous custom of cutting off fingers is well known. If a member causes problems to his yakuza group, he cuts off his finger and presents it to the group in a sign of penance.




We’re all a little shy. Adulthood forces us out of our introversion, and there’s a sweetness to that: http://bit.ly/1ytfw55


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"Why did you burn the Constitution and become an emperor?" Stephen Colbert asked President Obama.
WASHINGTON -- Talk show host Stephen Colbert mocked President Obama Monday for making a special contribution to the nation's jobs picture. "I'll give it to you. You've employed a lot of people," Colbert said.
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Christmas edition archive: The great Austrian astronomer Johannes Kepler, the man who showed that planets move round the sun in ellipses, not circles, thought that the Star of Bethlehem was probably a nova or a supernova, a star brilliantly blowing up. There are many theories about what it was that foretold the birth of Christ. Here's another http://econ.st/1bSGYB9

Le Philosophe in NoHo is among the wave of restaurants opened by younger chefs who are tweaking formal French fare.
Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times

Fluent in French, Colloquially

French restaurants have spread in New York recently, most of them bistros. But their American chefs have been more likely to tweak than adhere to French tradition.


“Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I’m buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs,” he said. “I’m certainly introverted.”
「只有埋頭在代碼里,在一些項目里,修改設計的時候,我才感覺最有收穫,最投入,」他說,「我的確內向。」



After Paris and Moscow, Deng went back to China, and before long had ceased being “a cheerful, fun-loving extrovert.”從莫斯卡回國之後不久,他就不再是一位“快樂的、愛玩鬧的、開朗的”小夥子了。




Don't Call Introverted 內向 Children 'Shy'
By Susan Cain
Society rewards extroverts, but quiet types have a hidden strength all their own

Lindsey Vonn Makes Fun of Tiger Woods Too!

By Sean Gregory / Whistler
After taking the downhill gold medal in a historic run, Lindsey Vonn joins the rest of the country in tweaking Tiger Woods. Why just being herself may make her a star


For many weeks I had been tweaking fetchmail rather incrementally while feeling like the interface design was serviceable but grubby—inelegant and with too many exiguous options hanging out all over. The options to dump fetched mail to a mailbox file or standard output particularly bothered me, but I couldn't figure out why.


The personality traits of extroversion and introversion fall on a spectrum, and most of experts’ focus has been on the two ends. Now they're beginning to look at the group in the middle: The "ambiverts."
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 sign
[名]
1 (…の)表れ,きざし,兆候((of ..., that節));《医学》徴候
as a sign of respect
尊敬のしるしに
subjective sign
自覚徴候
a sign of the times
時勢の表れ[反映]
there are signs that ...
…というきざしがある
She gave no sign of fear.
こわがっているようすは見せなかった.
2 ((しばしば否定文))こん跡,形跡
There was no sign of disaster.
災害の形跡はなかった.
3 身ぶり,手まね,合図;(…せよという)合図((to do))
by signs
身ぶりで
talk in [by] signs
手まねで話す
make a sign of the cross
十字を切る
Give him the sign to leave.
あいつに立ち去れと合図しろ.
4 標示,標識;看板
road sign
道路標識
signs and their messages
看板とそこに書かれている文句.
5 符号;(音楽などの)記号
sharp [a flat] sign
シャープ[フラット]記号.
6 (十二宮の)星座(a sign of the zodiac)
What's your sign?
何座ですか.
7 (神の)しるし,奇跡((of ...)).
8 ((通例~s))((米))(野生動物の)通ったあと,足跡.
━━[動](他)
1 〈手紙・書類に〉署名する;〈名前を〉署名する
a signed article
署名記事
sign a check [a treaty]
小切手[条約]に署名する
since the VOA charter was signed into law
VOA憲章が大統領の署名によって制定されて以来
signed and sealed
署名捺印した(⇒成句).
2 …とサインして契約する;[V[名]to do]〈人を〉(契約書に署名させて)雇う
sign on [uptwo new players
新しい2人の選手と契約する.
3 [III[名]/that節]…を身ぶり[手まね]で知らせる;[V[名]to do/III[名][副])]〈人に〉(…するよう)合図する((for ...)). ⇒(自)2
He signed his disagreement. [=He signed that he disagreed.]
不賛成を身ぶりで示した
He signed me for a fast ball.
速球のサインを出した.
4 …を十字を切って祝福する.
━━(自)
1 [I[副])](同意・債務・受領などのしるしとして)(…に)署名する((for ...))
sign for a registered special delivery letter
書留速達便に受領の署名をする.
2 [I[副])/II to do]身ぶり[手まね]をする;(人に)(…せよと)合図する((to, for ...))
He kept signing for fast balls.
速球のサインばかり出し続けた.
3 (…と)契約する,契約書に署名して雇われる((for, with ...))
The player signed with another team when his option came up.
その選手は選択権の期限が切れると他のチームと契約した.
be signed and sealed/be signed, sealed and delivered
〈合意・条約・法案などが〉手続を完了する.
sign ... away [over]/sign away [over] ...
文書に署名して〈権利・財産などを〉処分する[譲り渡す,売り渡す].
sign in
(自)到着の署名をする.
━━(他)
[sign ... in/sign in ...]
署名して〈非会員を〉入会させる.
sign off
(1)契約などを破棄する;(署名して手紙を)終える.
(2)((略式))(一日が終わって)放送を終了する.
(3)((米俗))話をやめる,黙る.
sign off on ...
((米俗))…を承認する.
sign on
(自)
(1)(契約書などに基づいて)雇われる,入社する;入隊する;((英))失業者として登録する.
(2)《ラジオ》《テレビ》(一日の)放送開始を告げる,放送を始める.
━━(他)


extrovert
《心理学》[名]外向性の[社交的な]人, 外向型の(⇔introvert).━━[形]外向性[型]の.[ドイツ語Extravert←(ラテン語exta-外を+verter向く). △VERTEX...
extroverted
[形]外向的な, 社交的な.




introvert

Line breaks: intro|vert

Definition of introvert in English:

NOUN

Pronunciation: /ˈɪntrəvəːt /
1shyreticent person.
1.1 Psychology A person predominantly concernedwith their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things. Compare with extrovert.
ADJECTIVE
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntrəvəːt /

another term for introverted.

Origin
mid 17th century (as a verb in the general sense 'turn one's thoughts inwards (in spiritual contemplation')): frommodern Latin introvertere, from intro- 'to the inside' +vertere 'to turn'. Its use as a term in psychology dates from the early 20th century.


Sagittarius
() is the ninth astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert 外向) sign.

Taurus
[名]
1 《天文》いて(射手)座(the Archer).
2 《占星術》
(1) 人馬宮, 射手座:黄道の第九宮.
(2) 人馬宮[射手座]生まれの人. ⇒ZODIAC(図)
-ri・an
[名][形]人馬宮[射手座]生まれの人(の).


Sign of the Bull
Sign of the Bull
If you were born on April 21, what sign are you? Those born on April 21 — or any time from April 20/21 to May 20/21 — are born under the second sign of the zodiac, or Taurus. With their ruling planet Venus, Taurus can be dichotomous: they are known to be extremely sociable, but at the same time are thought to be stand-offish and distant. Seen as persistent and constant, they can also be viewed as stubborn and inflexible. Taurus are described as independent but shy, sensitive but often unwilling to share their inner feelings, loath to change but willing to be loyal and strong followers. Of course, astrology is a science that has its share of skeptics. Many believe that the alignment of the stars and planets has no bearing at all on one's personality, and that you can't predict the future by reading the constellations.
Quote:
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical." Arthur C. Clarke

tweak Show phonetics
noun [C]tr.v., tweaked, tweak·ing, tweaks.
  1. To pinch, pluck, or twist sharply.
  2. To adjust; fine-tune.
  3. To make fun of; tease.
n.
  1. A sharp, twisting pinch.
  2. A teasing remark or action; a joke.
[Probably variant of dialectal twick, from Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian.]
tweaky tweak'y adj.

━━ n., vt. ひとひねり(する); ぐいと引く(こと); 〔俗〕 【コンピュータ】(機器・プログラムを)微調整する(こと).








tweak

Pronunciation: /twiːk/

Definition of tweak
verb



[with object]
  • 1 twist or pull (something) sharply:he tweaked the boy’s ear
  • 2 informal improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it:engineers tweak the car’s operating systems during the race

noun

  • 1 a sharp twist or pull: an affectionate tweak
  • 2  informal a fine adjustment to a mechanism or system: no tweaks were required
Derivatives
tweaker
noun

Origin:

early 17th century: probably an alteration of dialect twick 'pull sharply'; related to twitch