2016年9月28日 星期三

waylay, captive, shoring, reshoring, ultra rich


Exotic pets don’t come for cheap, yet there’s a surging demand for captive wildlife.

Is buying a tiger a rite of passage for the ultra rich?
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CARRIED AWAY is a selection of Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's seventeen personal favorites stories chosen by the author from across her career.
"Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you."
--from "Runaway" (2004)


He led off, however, with a call for a reshoring of manufacturing jobs seemingly calculated to cost him The Economist's endorsement. Granted, annoying The Economist is, almost definitionally, good politics.


reshoringA temporary vertical support for forms or a completed structure, placed after the original shoring support has been removed.

For Iranians Waylaid by Pirates, U.S. to the Rescue

In a high-seas operation mixing diplomacy, drama and Middle Eastern politics, American sailors boarded the mother ship of Somali pirates and freed 13 Iranian hostages who had been captive since November.

Quantitative trading driven by computers has become highly popular for its reliable returns. But in late July and early August, "quant" portfolios, including one that manages some of Morgan Stanley's money, took heavy losses. (Video)


The Captive Mind by C. Milosz

captive
noun [C]
a person or animal whose ability to move or act freely is limited by being in an enclosed space; a prisoner, especially a person held by the enemy during a war:
When the town was recaptured, we found soldiers who had been captives for several years.

captive 
adjective
captive soldierscaptive audience noun [C]
a group of people who listen to or watch someone or something because they can not leave

captivity
noun [U]
when a person or animal is kept somewhere and is not allowed to leave:
All the hostages, when released from captivity, looked remarkably fit and well.
Animals bred in captivity would probably not survive if they were released into the wild.

shoring

  • 発音記号[ʃɔ'ːriŋ]
[名][U]支柱(で支えること).

waylay[way・lay]

[動](-laid, 〜・ing)(他)〈人・車などを〉待ち伏せ[襲撃]する;〈人を〉待ち受けて話しかける.

('') pronunciation

tr.v., -laid (-lād'), -lay·ing, -lays.
  1. To lie in wait for and attack from ambush. See synonyms at ambush.
  2. To accost or intercept unexpectedly.
waylayer way'lay'er n.



waylay 

Pronunciation: /weɪˈleɪ/ 



VERB (past and past participle waylaid)

[WITH OBJECT]
Stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way:he waylaid me on the stairs


Derivatives



waylayer

NOUN

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