2016年5月31日 星期二

parkour, freerunning, scaffold, unfinished

 

The Houses of Parliament clock, often popularly referred to as Big Ben, first began keeping time ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1859! In 1846 a competition was held to decide who should build this new clock, and the clockmaker Edward John Dent was appointed. The clock was installed in the Clock Tower in April 1859. At first, it wouldn't work as the cast-iron minute hands were too heavy. Once they were replaced by lighter copper hands, it successfully began keeping time. Find out more about the history of Big Ben at the website of the UK’s Parliamenthttp://ow.ly/Ev7v300E0qH
This print from 1858 depicts the new Houses of Parliament with the clock tower still unfinished and scaffolding around the tophttp://ow.ly/NeRwM


Afghan youth practice their parkour skills in front of the ruins of Darul Aman Palace in Kabul. AFP Photo: Wakil Kohsar


Photo: A Gazan parkour team practiced in a cemetery on the outskirts of their refugee camp in Khan Younis. The walls show damage from past skirmishes with Israelis.

“I really felt like I needed to find another way to tell a story, not only just to make sense of it for myself but to make sense of it for how I’m going to present it to my children as well, since this is going to be their home too,” said Tanya Habjouqa, who lives in East Jerusalem with her husband, a Palestinian lawyer with Israeli citizenship, and their two children.

More on Lens: http://nyti.ms/1ei8ZSh

Photo by Tanya Habjouqa



A War Abroad Ignites a Battle at Home
By A. O. SCOTT
“Brothers” is in some ways less a movie about war than a movie that uses war as a scaffolding for domestic melodrama.


scaffold
n.

  1. A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.
  2. A raised wooden framework or platform.
  3. A platform used in the execution of condemned prisoners, as by hanging or beheading.
tr.v., -fold·ed, -fold·ing, -folds.
  1. To provide or support with a raised framework or platform.
  2. To place on a raised framework or platform.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin scaffaldus, of Old French origin.]
街頭極限運動「跑酷」不久前在倫敦舉行世界大賽,共有全球17個國家的27名跑酷好手參加,他們使出渾身解數,配合音樂節奏,做出各式各樣高難度的翻騰跳躍奔跑動作,最後由21歲的英國人謝夫奪得冠軍。 跑酷(freerunning,又名parkour)80年代興起於法國巴黎,2002年開始在 ...


Le Parkour或稱Parkour,有時簡寫為PK,是一種極限運動,以日常生活的環境(城市)為運動的場所。
目前有多種中文譯法,如跑酷暴酷城市疾走位移的藝術l'art du déplacement)。
這個運動是由法國大衛·貝爾(David Belle)所創立的。它能使人通過敏捷的運動來增強身心對緊急情況的應變能力。
パルクール(Parkour)とは、特別な道具を使うことなく効率的に障害物を越えることを目的としたフランス発祥のエクストリームスポーツである。ただし、パルクールを芸術パフォーマンスアート、「移動するための技術」とする考え方もあり、確固とした定義はされていない。なお、本項ではパルクールから派生したフリーランニング(Free running)についても記述する。
English
Wikipedia article "Parkour".


The physical discipline of parkour, in which participants jump, vault and climb over obstacles in a fluid manner, has been given a boost by a scene in the James Bond film Casino Royale:
"Particularly cool is the manic, nimble Parkour sequence where Bond hunts a traceur ('free runner' Sebastien Foucan) bouncing and leaping off walls, balconies, and scaffolding through the streets of Madagascar like a human ping-pong ball."

パルクール 【(フランス) parkour】


自分の体のみを用いて,素早い移動・跳躍・登攀(とうはん)などを行うパフォーマンス。またそのような芸術やスポーツ。主に都市にある人工物(塀・壁・建物・手摺(す)りなど)を障害物として用いる。PK。
〔フランスで発祥〕


parkour

Pronunciation: /pɑːˈkʊə/
(also parcour)
noun
[mass noun]
  • the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area, typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing.

Origin:

early 21st century: French, alteration of parcours 'route, course'

misallocation, overspend, be wont to do sth

CHINA RISKS MISALLOCATION IN AIRPORT PROJECTS, STUDY SAYS
By Raphael Minder in Hong Kong 2009-03-30 麦肯锡:中国机场建设投资可能错配

China risks misallocating investment by overspending on airport projects in poorer western provinces and skimping on allocations to some fast-growing coastal provinces in its $70bn plan to expand capacity until 2013, according to a study by McKinsey, the consultancy.
Of the 97 greenfield airport projects planned by Beijing until 2020, McKinsey categorises only 20 to 30 as offering “attractive” investment opportunities by addressing expected capacity shortfalls.
Other projects support political aims to spread development inland ahead of actual demand.


Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe is facing growing pressure to resign over allegations that he used public funds for personal expenses, adding new obstacles to the city’s efforts to get ready for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe has denied allegations that some spending he reported as political—including purchases of traditional paintings and books he wrote himself—was actually personal, but it isn’t quieting the political uproar.
ON.WSJ.COM|由 JUN HONGO 上傳


AND what would Marjorie Deane, the backbone of The Economist’s financial coverage from 1947 to 1989, have made of all this? Up until a few weeks before her death at 94 on October 2nd, she was wont to greet visitors with, “What about this bank recapitalisation then? What does Paul Volcker think?”


wont Show phonetics
noun FORMAL
as is someone's wont in the way that someone usually does:
She arrived an hour late, as is her wont.

wont Show phonetics
adjective FORMAL
be wont to do sth to often do something:
The previous city council was wont to overspend.
They spent much of the time reminiscing about the war, as old soldiers are wont to do.

wonted Show phonetics
adjective [before noun] FORMAL
usual:
He replied sharply, and without his wonted courtesy.

tepid, stoke, ember, room temperature, rumor-stoked environment


The congestion is because of a surge in oil imports from a group of privately owned refiners—dubbed “teapots” because of their small size compared with giant state-owned companies, such as China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, PetroChina Co., and China National Offshore Oil Corp.—that is shaking up China’s oil industry and stoking global markets.



If Merkel closes the borders to refugees, her critics’ legal argument may be a good excuse
Of all the people stoking the pressure on Germany’s chancellor, the most…
ECON.ST

In Talk Show Tour, Jeb Bush Promotes Book on Immigration and Replies to Critics

By JACKIE CALMES
The former Florida governor stoked speculation about his presidential ambitions by appearing on all of the Sunday morning talk shows to sell his new book on immigration.


 Fed Stokes Politics—In Hong Kong
If one result of the Fed's latest easing program is a flood of hot money into Hong Kong's property market, then calls will grow louder for the city's government to meaningfully curb rising home prices.


Spain Region Seeks Cash, Stoking Fear
Catalonia, Spain's most indebted region, said it will ask for $6.27 billion in financial assistance from the Spanish government's liquidity program, as it struggles to pay for basic services. 

Dictator's Death Stokes Fears
U.S. officials aggressively lobbied China, Russia and Japan and suspended a food-aid plan for North Korea following the death of the country's leader.


Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive

By ASHLEE VANCE
European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: Can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?

Downturn in the U.K. Stokes Fears Over Lloyds
Lloyds Banking could be pushed closer to nationalization if the U.K. economy continues to sour.


“The hot drink provided immediate and sustained relief from symptoms of runny nose, cough, sneezing, sore throat, chilliness and tiredness,” they reported, “whereas the same drink at room temperature only provided relief from symptoms of runny nose, cough and sneezing.”


Indonesian Papua

More religions, more trouble

Jul 17th 2008 | JAKARTA
From The Economist print edition

Microsoft Kicks Off Seinfeld Campaign By Nick Wingfield
SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. kicked off a major new advertising campaign to rejuvenate its Windows brand, which has been battered in recent years in commercials by rival Apple Inc. and tepid reviews of the latest version of its operating system for personal computers, Windows Vista.

Radical Muslim and Christian groups stoke the embers of Papua’s conflict

Apple's Outlook Disappoints

By NICK WINGFIELD
Apple Inc.'s shares sank after the company issued a tepid outlook, stoking worries that sales of its gadgets may suffer from a weakening economy.

Retailers reported tepid February sales, sapped by cooler temperatures, a Northeast blizzard and promotions the previous month.
Pompous old men who spend their retirements complaining will no longer be able to send their soup back for being a tad on the tepid side because the machines in Mack’s Frankfurt restaurant won’t listen and will give even less of a toss than a clock-watching teenager earning minimum wage.

A key test for Carrefour could come during Chinese festivals at the beginning of May, when the chain has announced it will slash prices for a holiday promotion. "I won't come, no matter how big a sale this will be, if Carrefour donated money to the Dalai Lama," said another Baishiqaio shopper who identified herself as Ms. Wang. The company says it has made no such gifts, but in the rumor-stoked environment surrounding the Beijing Olympics, it may need more than a sale to sway shoppers.



Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's Search, Portal, and Advertising business, confirmed the purchase in a statement, following months of rumors that they were in merger talks. Financial terms were not disclosed.


Quotes:

"We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." - John Tudor




Indonesian Papua
More religions, more trouble
Jul 17th 2008 | JAKARTA
From The Economist print edition
Radical Muslim and Christian groups stoke the embers of Papua’s conflict

ember
noun [C usually plural] ━━ n. (pl.) 燃えさし, 余燼(よじん); 余韻.
a piece of wood or coal, etc. which continues to burn after a fire has no more flames:
We sat by the glowing/dying embers of the fire.

rumor

('mər) pronunciation
n.n. - 謠言, 傳聞, 傳說
v. tr. - 謠傳
  1. A piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth.
  2. Unverified information received from another; hearsay.
tr.v., -mored, -mor·ing, -mors.
To spread or tell by rumor.
[Middle English rumour, from Old French, from Latin rūmor.]
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tepid

adjective
1 (of liquid) not very warm

2 describes a reaction which is not enthusiastic:
I got a tepid response to my suggestion that we should start work earlier.


stoke
verb [I or T] (ALSO stoke up)
1 to add fuel to a large enclosed fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat:
Once the fire had been stoked up, the room began to get warm.

2 to encourage bad ideas or feelings in a lot of people:
He's been accused of stoking up racial hatred in the region.
Rumours of an emergency meeting of the finance ministers stoked the atmosphere of crisis.

stoke[stoke]

  • レベル:社会人必須
  • 発音記号[stóuk]

[動](他)
1 (燃料を補給して)〈火を〉かき立てる, 〈炉などに〉(燃料を)補給する((up/with ...));〈炉・ストーブなどの)火の番をする;〈欲求などを〉かき立てる((up)).
2 …にうんと食べさせる((up)).
━━(自)
1 火をかき立てる;火[炉]の番をする;かまたき[火夫]をする((up)).
2 (…を)たらふく食べる, (…で)腹ごしらえをする((up/on, with ...)).



temperature 
noun
1 [C or U] the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body:
Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius.
There has been a sudden rise in temperature over the past few days (= The weather has become warmer).
The doctor examined him and took his temperature (= measured it).

2 [U] If you say that the temperature in a particular situation is rising, you mean that it is likely to become violent because people have become angry:
The temperature of the discussion started to rise as each side added its own arguments.

2016年5月30日 星期一

male chauvinism, clear up for good chauvinist

"Let me clear up for good one bit of chauvinist nonsense."

Between good child care and infuriating male chauvinism, French working women have both the best and the worst of it


It is quite the same as having it all.
ECON.ST



chauvinism

音節
  
chau • vin • ism
  
発音
  
ʃóuvənìzm
  1. [名詞]
  2. 1 熱狂[盲目]的愛国主義[心];(特定の主義・集団への)熱狂的忠誠,ショービニスム. cf. JINGOISM
  3. 2 熱狂的性差別主義 cf. MALE CHAUVINISMFEMALE CHAUVINISM
  4. [語源]
    1870

clear sth up (PROBLEM) phrasal verb [M]
to give or find an explanation for something, or to deal with a problem or argument:
They never cleared up the mystery of the missing money.
After twenty years, the case has finally been cleared up.

chauvinism
noun [U] DISAPPROVING ━━ n. 狂信的愛国心, 盲目的排外思想; 自尊主義; 性差別主義(的態度).
1 the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important:
The war stimulated an intense national chauvinism.

2 (ALSO male chauvinism) the belief that women are naturally less important, intelligent or able than men

chauvinist
noun [C] DISAPPROVING
She called him a (male) chauvinist because of his insistence on calling all women 'girls'.

chauvinist
adjective (ALSO chauvinistic) DISAPPROVING
The crowd was enthusiastically singing chauvinistic patriotic songs.
It is a deeply chauvinist community where the few women who have jobs are ridiculed.


for good

Also, for good and all. Permanently, forever. For example, I'm moving to Europe for good. [1500s] Also see for keeps.

abdicate, GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek,簡稱Gimo, spinster, fieldbook, field day, circumstantial evidence, met their demise

On a hot August day in 1892, someone took an axe and brutally murdered Andrew and Abby Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts. Circumstantial evidence pointed a finger of guilt at Andrew's 32-year-old daughter Lizzie; some ten months later, she was brought to trial for the crime. The national press had a field day with the story of the spinster schoolteacher and the particularly heinous way her father and stepmother met their demise. The defense rested largely on the issue of reasonable doubt. No one could explain how Lizzie could have accomplished the murders without splattering herself with blood, or how she could clean herself up so quickly. On this date in 1893, the jury found Lizzie Borden innocent of the axe murders of her father and stepmother.

Quote:
"Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her mother forty whacks./When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one."nursery rhyme

The fifth discipline fieldbook: Strategies and tools for building a learning organization


PM Senge, A Kleiner, C Roberts, BJ Smith - 1994 - Currency



 讀此書封面,可學些英文,蔣介石(戰區)三軍統帥 (GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek,簡稱Gimo)稱要退位(讓權 abdicate)給其大兒子.....

generalissimo 

Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɛn(ə)rəˈlɪsɪməʊ/ 

NOUN (plural generalissimos)

The commander of a combined military force consisting of army, navy, and air force units.

Origin

Early 17th century: Italian, 'having greatest authority', superlative of generale (see general).

abdicate 

Pronunciation: /ˈabdɪkeɪt/ 

VERB

1[NO OBJECT] (Of a monarch) renounce one’s throne:in 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated as German emperor[WITH OBJECT]: Ferdinand abdicated the throne in favour of the emperor’s brother
2[WITH OBJECT] Fail to fulfil or undertake (a responsibility or duty):the government was accused of abdicating its responsibility

Derivatives

abdicator

NOUN

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin abdicat- 'renounced', from the verb abdicare, from ab- 'away, from' + dicare 'declare'.
  1. [自動詞] 〈王などが〉退位する;〈会長などが〉辞任する;(責任などを正式に)放棄する((from ...))
  1. ━━ [他動詞] 〈王位・権限・義務などを〉(自発的または正式に)捨てる,放棄する,退く
  2. [語源]
    1541.<ラテン語 abdictus (abdicre「宣言して放棄する」の過去分詞=abAB-1+dicre 宣言する)

demise 

Pronunciation: /dɪˈmʌɪz/ 


NOUN

[IN SINGULAR]
1A person’s death:Mr Grisenthwaite’s tragic demise
1.1The end or failure of an enterprise or institution:the demise of industry
2[MASS NOUN] Law Conveyance or transfer of property or a title by will or lease.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT] Law
1Convey or grant (an estate) by will or lease:the manor and the mill were demised for twenty-one-year terms(as adjective demisedthe demised property

Origin

Late Middle English (as a legal term): from Anglo-Norman French, past participle (used as a noun) of Old French desmettre 'dismiss', (in reflexive) 'abdicate', based on Latin dimittere (seedismiss).



field
━━ n. 野原; (pl.) 畑; 広場; (広々とした)表面; 産地; (ある用途・目的のための)場所; 戦場; 戦い; (トラック内の)競技場; 球場; 【野・クリケット】グラウンド; 【野】(the 〜) (内)外野; 【野・クリケット】(the 〜) ((単複両扱い)) 守備側; (野外)競技; 全競技者; 【競馬】(人気馬以外の)全出場馬; (活動・研究の)分野; (the 〜) 現場; 【物】場, 界; (絵などの)(下)地; 【光】視野; 【テレビ】映像面; 【コンピュータ】フィールド, 欄 ((レコードを構成するファイルの最小構成単位)).
fair field and no favor 公明正大(な勝負).
hold the field 陣地を守る.
in the field 競技に参加して; 守備について; 戦場[現地]で; 実地に.
play the field いろいろな仕事に手を出す; 〔話〕 多くの異性とデートする.
take the field 戦闘[競技]を開始する; 出陣する.
━━ v. (野手が球を)さばく, (野手として)守備する; (質問などを)うまくさばく; 配置する; 動員する.
Field and Stream 『フィールド アンド ストリーム』 ((主に狩猟や釣りを扱う米国のアウトドア雑誌)).
field artillery 【軍】((集合的)) 野砲.
field book (測量家などの)野外手帳.
field coil 【電磁】界磁コイル.
field corn 飼料用トウモロコシ.
field day 【軍】野外演習日; 運動会; (生物学などの)野外研究[採集]日; すばらしいことのある日.A review or an exercise, especially in maneuvering.
field-effect transistor 【電子工】電界効果(型)トランジスター ((略 FET)).
field emission 【物】電界放出[放射].
field-emission microscope 【化】電界放射顕微鏡 ((略 FEM)).
field engineer 【コンピュータ】フィールド・エンジニア.
field・er
 ━━ n. 【野】野手; =outfielder; 【クリケット】=fieldsman.
field event フィールド競技[種目].
field glass (普通pl.) 双眼鏡.
field goal 【球技】フィールドゴール.
field grade 【軍】佐官級.
field gun 野砲.
field hand 農場労働者.
field hockey フィールドホッケー.
field hospital 野戦病院.
field house 競技場付属の建物.
field・ing ━━ n. 【野】フィールディング; 【コンピュータ】(文字の)配置.
field-ion microscope 【電子工】電界イオン顕微鏡 ((略 FIM)).
field magnet 【電磁】界磁(石).
field marker 【コンピュータ】フィールド・マーカー.
field marshal 陸軍元帥.
field mouse 野ネズミ.
field name 【コンピュータ】欄名, フィールド名.
field officer 【陸軍】佐官級の将校.
field of view 【コンピュータ】視界.
field of vision 視界.
field・piece ━━ n. 野砲.
field separator 【コンピュータ】(Fortranで)欄区切り, フィールド・セパレータ.
fields・man 【クリケット】野手.
field sports 野外スポーツ.
field test 実地試験.
field-test n., vt. 実地試験(をする).
field trip 実地研修[授業].
field warehousing 現場倉庫制.
field width 【コンピュータ】(Fortranで)欄の幅.
field・work 【軍】野堡(やほ); 野外作業[研究], 現地調査, フィールドワーク.
field・worker 野外研究者; 現地調査員.


 Definition of spinster
Pronunciation: /ˈspinstər/



noun

derogatory
  • an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.

Derivatives




spinsterhood


Pronunciation: /-ˌho͝od/
noun



spinsterish

adjective